Category: Breaking

The funding round included contributions from Polychain Capital and the venture arm of crypto exchange and CoinDesk parent company Bullish.

Ether spot ETFs could attract as much as $3 billion of net inflows this year, the report said.

New York’s top financial regulator has issued new guidance which requires cryptocurrency service providers to collect relevant data to assess whether they are resolving customer service requests and complaints in a timely and fair manner, it announced Thursday.

A $25 million donation from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) hit the campaign coffers of the industry’s U.S. political action committee (PAC), according to a Thursday announcement from the firm, putting the amount raised by some of crypto’s biggest names at about $136 million and potentially elevating the sector to the upper echelon of campaign donors.

A lot has changed since Bitcoin’s release 15 years ago. Many other distributed database networks have been created, each with its own functionality and potential use cases.

Wood says the filings in support of ether ETFs were not approved in a regular way.

Despite the crypto industry’s high-profile recent wins in Congress, major legislation faces a massive practical roadblock in the Senate, U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) acknowledged Wednesday, saying that chamber will want its own say in a big crypto bill, leaving little time in the waning congressional session.

We took a spin through some of the side events and preparations taking place Tuesday ahead of CoinDesk’s annual conference, which starts Wednesday in Austin.

The financial industry veteran discusses ETFs, tokenization and future banking blockchain opportunities at Consensus 2024.

“The report determines that illicit actors can use NFTs to launder proceeds from predicate crimes,” the Treasury said.