Circle Gets $25M From DCG to Drive USDC Mainstream
USDC backer Circle is teaming with Genesis Trading in a $25 million deal aimed at pushing the stablecoin to the fintech masses.
USDC backer Circle is teaming with Genesis Trading in a $25 million deal aimed at pushing the stablecoin to the fintech masses.
It didn't really matter to bitcoin traders that the Federal Reserve's meeting this week was so anticlimactic. The real action is ongoing – in the form of more money injections.
Distributed data storage network Bluzelle will begin the launch of its mainnet on Aug. 8, the company said Thursday.
In an attempt to slow its cash burn rate, tZERO slashed headcount and asked senior staff to take equity as it prepares for a new raise.
Chinese police have arrested 27 leaders and 82 others suspected of operating the Ponzi scheme.
Known as Project Harbour, the initiative will use distributed ledger technology as a register for a bond marketplace.
It's alive! Cardano has successfully hard forked to its major upgrade, Shelley, which introduced proof-of-stake to the network.
MakerDAO's Rune Christensen, Compound's Robert Leshner and Uniswap's Hayden Adams discussed the state of the $3.8 billion DeFi market.
The DAO attack was a foundational episode in Ethereum history. On Tuesday, CoinDesk Live gathered a handful of blockchain veterans to look back.
Originally postponed due to the pandemic, EQUOS.io is still set to be the first crypto exchange on the Nasdaq.
Scammers are forging CoinDesk newsletters in phishing emails. Here’s how to spot them and protect yourself.
The cryptocurrency markets are finally heating up in July.
Online censorship and surveillance will persist as long as local fiat currencies are the only way to pay for telecommunication services.
August 2019 was the last time this many bitcoin addresses were in profit.
Implementing transaction batching and SegWit could have saved bitcoin companies and users $500 million in fees – if they'd just use the technology.
The Federal Reserve said Wednesday it would hold benchmark U.S. interest rates close to zero and continue buying Treasury bonds to support the coronavirus-devastated economy.
The program applies to customers residing in the U.S., U.K., The Netherlands, Spain, France and Australia.
A Microsoft cybersecurity report found that in Asia-Pacific, Sri Lanka has the highest rate of encounter with such attacks, with neighboring India in second place.
Liquidity mining is coming to PoS blockchains, Ledger was breached and why bitcoin's rally has legs.
Aave will transfer ownership of the protocol to a “genesis governance” built and approved by LEND token holders. It will also swap LEND tokens for AAVE.
The Tuesday memo does not give a specific reason for the bitcoin mining ban but broadly cited security concerns.
CoinDesk has discovered Binance Australia is operated by InvestbyBit, a company that shares directors with tourist crypto payments provider, TravelbyBit.
The publicly traded firm has bought hundreds of rigs from mining hardware rivals MicroBT and Bitmain.
Bitcoin's role as a communications and associative network - not just a financial network - means it deserves constitutional protection.
The Microsoft-backed IWA sustainability group is building a tokenization standard that aims to bring transparency to carbon accounting.
Bitcoin's rally looks overstretched, according to a technical indicator, but short-term price consolidation looks more likely than a drop, say analysts.
As the dollar faces a diluted world status, cryptocurrencies like ether and bitcoin are soaring, with a popular sentiment index now registering "greed."
The comments mark a shift in priority for Japan as it seeks to counter the economic threat from regional rival China.
DeFi's surge has created an interesting dynamic: Traditional fund managers are beginning to experiment with what decentralization has to offer.
Formed in 2017, the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance helped large corporates and tech providers experiment with blockchain.