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It's the first lockdown week in the United States and the markets are going wild. Here's what happened in crypto.

The search engine developer downloaded monero mining scripts onto 200 of Baidu's servers.

The central bank is in favor of digital securities, but maintains cryptocurrencies shouldn't be allowed in Russia.

Bakkt raised $300 million from its parent firm ICE, as well as Microsoft's M12, Pantera and a number of other funds.

How did we get in this mess? How do we get out of it? What will the post-coronavirus world look like? First in an occasional series.

Transfer agent Vertalo will tokenize 22 different private securities on Tezos after a new partnership with DealBox.

By the end of 2019, at least $128 million in bitcoin had been paid to ransomware hackers. That's not good optics for a payment system.

A longtime feature of stock exchanges, circuit breakers throw sand in the gears of a plummeting market like last week’s. Should crypto adopt them?

The Fed's cutting of interest rates to zero has done little to calm the markets.

The woman fraudulently obtained credit card numbers in order to buy $62,000 in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies

Companies looking to raise funds via security token offerings (STOs) might soon get some relief from regulatory burdens in the U.S.

Bitcoin miners spent $500M+ over the past six months preparing for May’s “halving”. Last week’s price crash means they may wait longer for the payoff.

Effectively, this is “QE4,” the fourth major round of quantitative easing by the American central bank since the global financial crisis a little more than a decade ago.

“As of five minutes ago, everyone who needed to post collateral has,” Genesis CEO Michael Moro said Friday afternoon.

So many people were trying to use the Ethereum blockchain during Thursday’s market meltdown that many applications simply stopped working as intended.

Bitcoin has recovered slightly from Thursday’s brutal selloff as global financial markets creep back into the green.

Bitcoin fell 40 percent this week from coronavirus shocks, but it's still seen as a safe haven in the Middle East.

Attuned to meltdowns, crypto companies reacted quickly to the coronavirus threat.

Massive and novel government intervention in markets is now a foregone conclusion, but what happens to bitcoin as the dust settles?

MakerDAO is not pursuing its emergency shutdown option although the amount of uncollateralized dai continues to grow.

Data on the flow of funds into exchanges suggests big investors were preparing to dump bitcoin on the market five days before Thursday’s price rout.

What the heck just happened? We make sense of last night on CoinDesk's Markets Daily Podcast.

State-imposed quarantines and policies set to work-from-home are boosting bitcoin-based shopping.

Singapore-based Coinpip said it has "suspended operations" while it looks at becoming licensed under new AML rules.

Consensus 2020 will be a virtual experience, bringing together the entire community.