Category: Breaking

The U.S. recession fears were partly responsible for the early August slide in stocks and cryptocurrencies.

The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for Aug. 19, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

Nigeria’s Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) plans to bring a bill for taxing the crypto industry to parliament by September, news outlet Punch Nigeria reported on Saturday.

Crypto think tank Coin Center will get another shot at suing the U.S. Treasury Department over what it says is an “unconstitutional” amendment to the tax code that would require Americans to disclose the details of certain crypto transactions to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

The acquisition of ETC Group’s $1 billion in assets under management takes Bitwise’s AUM above $4.5 billion.

UNI falls 5.8% while NEAR loses 2’8% in mixed performance for CoinDesk 20’s top assets.

Perpetuals trading hub Drift protocol is adding a Polymarket-style prediction market – with some DeFi twists.

Fabric Cryptography, a startup focused on hardware, has raised $33 million in a Series A fundraising round co-led by Blockchain…

The cypro scams amounted to about 9% of the total fake investment platforms taken down in the first year of its investment scam disruption program.

Allnodes, Figment and Galaxy Digital are among the finality providers.