The first woman to gain more than a million YouTube subscribers is now going all-in on bitcoin to promote financial freedom to her loyal fanbase. “I kind of view bitcoin as similar to YouTube, which…

Privacy Startup Nym Will Pay You in Bitcoin…
Nym now allows bitcoin transactions and has an incentive program for people running its nodes. It is also enabling plugins that will allow users to plug in wallets and applications to run their traffic through…

Structural Issues May Be Causing BitMEX’s Low Bitcoin…
BitMEX may be one of the largest crypto derivatives platforms, but it offers the lowest return on bitcoin “cash and carry” trades. Currently, the return offered by Seychelles-based BitMEX on a three-month basis is 2.71%…

Crypto Investors Have Ignored Three Straight 51% Attacks…
Despite three “51% attacks” in a month, Ethereum Classic’s price has demonstrated strong resilience. Though down a bit for the past month, its persistence may indicate that security is not a top priority for investors…

DeFi Flippening Comes to Exchanges as Uniswap Topples…
Trading volumes are surging on Uniswap and other so-called decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges, challenging established venues like Coinbase while driving up fees and congestion on the Ethereum blockchain. Uniswap, a semi-automated platform for matching…

Signature Bank Gave Dozens More PPP Loans to…
Signature Bank extended dozens more loans under the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to cryptocurrency businesses than was previously reported. Around $20 million of the $1.9 billion in PPP loans the bank extended was given…

Mr. Powell, If You Want Higher Inflation, Give…
Frances Coppola, a CoinDesk columnist, is a freelance writer and speaker on banking, finance and economics. Her book “The Case for People’s Quantitative Easing” explains how modern money creation and quantitative easing work, and advocates…

Fed Chair Powell’s Flexible Inflation Views Were Already…
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell did not raise many eyebrows Thursday morning when he announced the U.S. central bank would encourage some periods of inflation above its 2% target in certain circumstances to boost the…

Binance’s Bitcoin ‘Bid-Ask Spreads’ Tighten as Cryptocurrency Markets…
Getting in and out of a large bitcoin trade on cryptocurrency exchanges like Binance or BitMEX isn’t costing as much as it used to. That might be a healthy sign that digital-asset markets are maturing. …

YouTube’s Whac-a-Mole Approach to Crypto Scam Ads Remains…
YouTube has long struggled with disinformation, misleading content and outright scams on its site. Despite lawsuits and Google’s own ad policies, cryptocurrency scam ads are still making it through the gates and circulating for days. …

Bakkt Futures Volume Up on Institutional Trading; Its…
Growing institutional interest is helping to drive a recent spike in volume on Bakkt, according to its president, Adam White. But the U.S.-regulated crypto derivatives exchange is holding out hope its dormant options platform will…

Commentary: Fed Chair Jerome Powell Details Inflation Target…
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell explains the U.S. central bank’s economic approach, including how it will address its previous 2% inflation goal over the next decade. CoinDesk’s First Mover Editor, Bradley Keoun, has already laid…

ConsenSys Acquires JPMorgan’s Quorum Blockchain
Quorum, the enterprise blockchain platform developed by mega-bank JPMorgan Chase, is being acquired by ConsenSys, the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Ethereum venture studio. Additionally, JPMorgan has made an undisclosed strategic investment in ConsenSys, the companies said in…

ConsenSys Acquires JP Morgan’s Quorum Blockchain
Quorum, the enterprise blockchain platform developed by mega-bank JPMorgan Chase, is being acquired by ConsenSys, the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Ethereum venture studio. Additionally, JPMorgan has made an undisclosed strategic investment in ConsenSys, the companies said in…

No Collateral Required: How Aave Brought Unsecured Borrowing…
Unsecured borrowing has come to decentralized finance (DeFi). Aave, a DeFi money market that allows users to earn interest on cryptocurrency and borrow against it, introduced credit delegation in early July. This service allows someone…

Bitcoin Has Lost Its Way: Here’s How to…
Rachel-Rose O’Leary is a cryptocurrency writer and trainee C++ developer at PolyTech. Currently a contributor to CoinDesk and the Defiant newsletter, she has written about cryptocurrency since 2015. She holds an MA in digital art…

Stablecoin Demand May Drop if Traders Abandon Bitcoin…
Institutional demand for stablecoins may cool because yield on “carry trades” has been cut in half since Monday. The annualized rolling one-month futures basis shot as high as 28% at the start of the week…

Blockchain Bites: Hashrates Drop, Bitcoiners Hodl and an…
Floods are dampening bitcoin mining hashrates, Ethereum Classic may be thrown off its most popular exchange and bitcoin is moving off exchanges. You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup of the most pivotal stories in blockchain…

OKEx Mulls ETC Delisting After Losses From Two…
OKEx has confirmed a loss of approximately $5.6 million in Ethereum Classic (ETC) from two recent 51% attacks and is considering removing ETC from its exchanges. Yet, as the cryptocurrency exchange with the highest trading…

Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin on DeFi and DeFi on…
More bitcoins were tokenized than mined this Sunday, decentralized finance is coming to the Bitcoin system and a former Prudential Securities CEO thinks crypto is a safe bet. You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup of the most…

Litecoin Gets Bullish Speculation, at Last, as Upgrade…
The cryptocurrency litecoin is often referred to as the silver to bitcoin’s gold. This year, litecoin investors might have been better off staying in the analog world: While bitcoin has gained twice as much as…

Blockchain Bites: Coinbase’s Loans, Ethereum’s Fees, YAM’s Bug
Ethereum users are paying through the nose while miners profit. Coinbase is offering bitcoin-backed loans and nearly a quarter of the Tor Network may be compromised by a crypto-loving scammer. You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily…

First Mover: Ethereum Faces Inflation Problem as Gas…
Congestion is building on the Ethereum blockchain, the second-largest blockchain, thanks to the recent popularity of dollar-linked “stablecoins” and “decentralized finance” applications like Compound. And now fees to process transactions, which escalate when congestion is high…

First Mover: How a DeFi Trader Made an…
In digital-asset markets, stablecoins like tether and USDC are supposed to represent $1 of value. But their prices often fluctuate on the pubescent trading platforms of decentralized finance, or DeFi. So cryptocurrency traders are now…

How Much Ether Is Out There? Ethereum Developers…
Ethereum and Bitcoin advocates have engaged in spirited Twitter exchange since Friday to answer an ostensibly simple question: What’s the total supply of ether? It’s not quite clear where the question originated. But providing one…

Some Traders Now Taking Bets Ether Will Break…
Deribit has started listing ether (ETH) options with strikes above $1,000, and some traders are now betting the cryptocurrency will reach that price by year’s end. Over 3,470 contracts – worth $1.3 million – of…

First Mover: After Falling 65% This Year in…
Imagine a future where bitcoin has taken over from the U.S. dollar as the world’s de facto reserve currency. Assuming bitcoin’s notorious price volatility continued to that day, major currencies would be considered volatile assets.…

First Mover: Bitcoin Hits $12K as Trump Orders…
Bitcoin climbed above $12,000 early Monday, before dipping once more, as traders weighed U.S. President Donald Trump’s move to provide emergency aid amid new signs that the labor market recovery is stalling. The oldest and largest…

First Mover: Kyber CEO Predicts 2020 Transactions at…
The fast-growing realm of decentralized finance, known as DeFi, has produced some of the year’s richest returns for cryptocurrency investors, from Compound’s COMP tokens to Chainlink’s LINK. So it may come as little surprise that the…

First Mover: Bitcoin Rises More in One Day…
Bitcoin prices surged 5% on Wednesday, outpacing stocks and gold amid calls for more government stimulus, as the economic toll of the coronavirus mounts. The oldest and largest cryptocurrency rose to $11,755. The price is…

China’s Open Source Development Has Lessons for the…
Lex Sokolin, a CoinDesk columnist, is Global Fintech co-head at ConsenSys, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based blockchain software company. The following is adapted from his Fintech Blueprint newsletter. The news cycle is obsessed with a global technology competition between…

First Mover: As Fed Nears Inflation Rubicon, Analysts…
The Federal Reserve appears ready to pursue yet another untested strategy that could ultimately boost inflation – and possibly prices for bitcoin. The Fed is “preparing to effectively abandon its strategy of pre-emptively lifting interest rates to…

Blockchain Bites: Hedge Fund Down, Banana Bets and…
Another crypto hedge fund is winding down, Huobi launched a new unit to invest in DeFi and the Twitter hacker is reportedly a bitcoin millionaire. You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup of the most pivotal…

First Mover: Chainlink’s Soaring Token Shows Lucrative ‘Oracle’…
Chainlink’s LINK tokens have quadrupled in price this year to become one of the biggest success stories this year in cryptocurrency markets. The project’s market capitalization, now the 12th highest among all digital assets at…

Ethereum 2.0: Closer Than Ever, Still Plenty of…
“Though now evolved in many ways,” Gavin Wood wrote in Ethereum’s 2015 yellow paper, “the key functionality of a blockchain with a Turing-complete language and an effectively unlimited inter-transaction storage capability remains unchanged.” Five years…

Audius Rallies EDM Artists, Crypto VCs to Back…
Music is back on the blockchain. Audius, a streaming service that connects music fans directly with artists, has raised $3.1 million in a strategic round co-led by Multicoin Capital and Blockchange Ventures, with participation from…

First Mover: Sleepy Fed Meeting Belies Tense Economic…
After a two-day closed-door meeting this week, the Federal Reserve issued a six-paragraph statement on Wednesday and held an hour-long press conference. None of that was news, of course, and neither was anything else emanating…

Why DeFi on Ethereum Is Like Algorithmic Trading…
Mona El Isa would never go back to traditional finance. The former Goldman Sachs vice president developed the Melon protocol, a vehicle for creating Ethereum-based hedge funds without having to spend the tens of thousands…

First Mover: The Dollar Drop May Have Helped…
As the U.S. dollar’s value slides, prices are suddenly rising for just about everything priced in dollars. That includes bitcoin, which shot up some 13% on Monday for its biggest gain in almost three months. Prices…

First Mover: Bitcoin at Last Passes $10K, But…
Bitcoin has at last broken convincingly above the all-important $10,000 mark, but why has it struggled so much in recent months when gold has soared to an all-time high? Earlier this year, digital-asset investors were…

CoinDesk’s Twitter Hack Proved the Media Can’t Rely…
A rundown from one of CoinDesk’s editorial Slack channels during an action-packed hour on Wednesday last week reads like a high-pace drama. It tells the tale of a news team going through a process of…

First Mover: Ethereum a Victim of Its Own…
Rising congestion on the Ethereum blockchain has driven up transaction fees tenfold this year to the highest since early 2018. That’s pressuring the network’s developers to speed up crucial upgrades, while possibly creating an opening…

Open Interest in Ether Options Jumps to New…
Investor interest in ether options is stronger than ever, possibly due to excitement surrounding Ethereum’s long-awaited protocol change, dubbed ETH 2.0. Data from major exchanges – Deribit and OKEx – shows that open interest in…

Is Crypto Fintech? It Depends Who You Ask
Leah Callon-Butler, a CoinDesk columnist, is the director of Emfarsis, a consulting firm focused on the role of technology in advancing economic development in Asia. This comes across as a fairly benign question to most…

Bitcoin Futures Trading Volume Slips to 3-Month Low…
Trading activity in bitcoin futures listed on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has cooled notably as the leading cryptocurrency languishes in the price doldrums. Daily trading volume fell to $87 million (via 1,895 contracts) on…

First Mover: Bitcoin Miners Find Upgrade Financing Aplenty,…
Even as bitcoin prices languish below $10,000, North American cryptocurrency mining companies are tapping into a flurry of fresh financing from investors to pay for new equipment upgrades, bolstering the blockchain network’s resilience and reducing…

Twitter Hacker Is a BitMEX Trader, On-Chain Data…
None of the roughly 13 bitcoin (BTC) acquired through Wednesday’s Twitter hack have been laundered, according to chain analysis conducted by Samourai Wallet. But whoever it was is deep into the cryptocurrency space, with the…

Twitter Hack Used Bitcoin to Cash In: Here’s…
Someone hacked Twitter Wednesday – and they used bitcoin to capitalize on it. Bitcoin is an alternative money system based on the value of censorship resistance. In other words, Bitcoin was built from the ground…

Bitcoin Has American Mindshare but Few Users
J.P. Koning, a CoinDesk columnist, worked as an equity researcher at a Canadian brokerage firm and is a financial writer at a large Canadian bank. He runs the popular Moneyness blog. The Federal Reserve’s annual…

First Mover: UK Economy Setback Renews Questions of…
Bitcoin was born in early 2009, in the aftermath of a financial crisis, but until this year it had never actually been through one. Here’s how that played out: Bitcoin plunged in March as the coronavirus…

Bitcoin Volatility Metrics Are Like November 2018 All…
Bitcoin’s ongoing low-volatility range play is reminiscent of the price doldrums observed ahead of a sudden 40% price crash in the second half of November 2018. This time, however, the price squeeze may end with…

2020: The Year Ethereum Stayed Home
This is a weird year for everyone and everything, but it’s a particularly weird year for Ethereum. Why? The second-largest blockchain by market cap and the largest by contributing developers has always been known for…

First Mover: Twelve-Fold Gains for Aave’s LEND Token…
There’s one thing that all investors like: doubling, tripling, or even quadrupling their money. How about a 12-fold increase? That’s what traders have reaped this year from the decentralized lender Aave’s LEND token, up about…

Blockchain Bites: Coinbase’s Untraditional Investor Day and the…
Coinbase will host its first investor day, New York State prosecutors won a jurisdictional dispute involving Bitfinex and a protocol arms race is unfolding in Latin America. Here’s the story: You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup…

The Federal Reserve’s Declining Balance Sheet Is Bearish…
The U.S. Federal Reserve’s balance sheet is contracting, but despite popular opinion, that’s not necessarily bad news for bitcoin. The central bank’s balance sheet declined by $88 billion to $6.97 trillion (-1.5%) in the week…

I’m a Syrian Refugee. This Is How Bitcoin…
Tey Elrjula is a tech entrepreneur, a refugee and the author of “The Invisible Son,” now available for pre-sale. Bitcoin is good for whatever you need. I’ve used it to order pizza and to build…

Bitcoin Option Traders Bet on Bullish Move Following…
While bitcoin has gained 3% so far this week, the overall trading environment remains dull with volatility hovering at multi-year lows. Ten-day realized volatility, a historical metric, is now at just 20%, the lowest level…

Introducing the CoinDesk 20: The Assets That Matter…
Which cryptocurrencies matter most to the market? That question gets tougher to answer every day as new digital assets join the thousands already traded. Those looking to figure out which ones are the most important…

Introducing the CoinDesk 20
Which cryptocurrencies matter most to the market? That question gets tougher to answer every day as new digital assets join the thousands already traded. Those looking to figure out which ones are the most important…

As Gold Hits 9-Year High, Bitcoin Eyes Price…
Bitcoin is looking to leap key resistance alongside a strong rally in gold. The top cryptocurrency by market value is trading around $9,300 at press time, according to CoinDesk’s Bitcoin Price Index. That’s close to…

First Mover: With Trading Volumes Slumping, Are There…
Bitcoin’s notorious volatility has practically disappeared during the most-recent phase of the coronavirus-induced economic crisis – and that’s now taking a toll on trading volumes at cryptocurrency exchanges around the world. For more than two…

Market Wrap: With Low Volatility, Traders Seem to…
Over the past month, while market action has been relatively quiet, crypto traders have punched the buy button when bitcoin’s price drops below $9,000. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $9,208 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m.…

DeFi Driving Chainlink’s Link Token to Record Highs
Chainlink’s link token jumped to record highs on Monday, far surpassing bitcoin’s returns since the start of 2020. The ever-increasing use of Chainlink’s price oracles in decentralized finance (DeFi) is driving the cryptocurrency higher, according…

Ethereum Activity Metric Hits Highest Level in 2…
Levels of activity on Ethereum have peaked to their highest in two years, going by one metric. The seven-day moving average of the number of active ether addresses rose to 405,014 on Friday – a…

Ethereum Activity Metric Hits Highest Level for 2…
Levels of activity on Ethereum have peaked to their highest in two years, going by one metric. The seven-day moving average of the number of active ether addresses rose to 405,014 on Friday – a…

First Mover: Even Bank of America Acknowledges China…
China’s push to roll out a digital version of its yuan isn’t likely to end the U.S. dollar’s century-long reign as the dominant currency for international payments and central-bank reserves. But it could make a…

Weed Out the Soviet-Era Ponzi Scheme Eating Ethereum
Lex Sokolin, a CoinDesk columnist, is Global Fintech co-head at ConsenSys, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based blockchain software company. The following is adapted from his Fintech Blueprint newsletter. We have a beautiful Ethereum garden. In it, we grow cash…

Market Wrap: As Stocks Rally, Bitcoin Trades Above…
A rising tide in equities is lifting all boats – including in the bitcoin market. Bitcoin (BTC) is trading around $9,295 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET), gaining 2.7% over the previous 24 hours.…

Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Is Vulnerable to ‘Looting’: New…
Savvy attackers might be able to “loot” bitcoin from others by way of the Lightning Network if users aren’t careful, a new cybersecurity report warns. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem computer scientists Jona Harris and…

Cardano at One-Year High on Shelley Upgrade
Cardano (ADA) continues to skyrocket. The eighth-largest cryptocurrency by market value jumped to $0.1021 on Saturday to hit its highest price level since June 2019. It has rallied by a staggering 170% in the second…

Blockchain Bites: E-Gold Claims, Arca’s New Fund and…
Arca, a Los Angeles-based money manager, launched an innovative new fund on Ethereum, while our columnists look at Generation Z’s impact on investing and a DeFi future where bitcoin and Ethereum work together. Here’s the…

First Mover: As Bitcoiners Watch Dollar, Deutsche Bank…
Bitcoiners, already rocked by this year’s coronavirus-inflicted turbulence, face a fresh source of volatility as the market heads into the second half of 2020: the U.S. presidential election. According to Deutsche Bank, Germany’s biggest lender, a reelection…

First Mover: As Bitcoiners Watch Dollar, Deutsche Sees…
Bitcoiners, already rocked by this year’s coronavirus-inflicted turbulence, face a fresh source of volatility as the market heads into the second half of 2020: the U.S. presidential elections. According to Deutsche Bank, Germany’s biggest lender, a reelection…

Search For Yield Drives Ether’s Put-Call Ratio to…
Investors’ search for yield has pushed a widely tracked ether options market metric to its highest level in 12 months. The put-call open interest ratio, which measures the number of put options open relative to…

Bitcoin’s Price Correlation With S&P 500 Hits Record…
Ever since its inception, bitcoin has been dubbed “digital gold,” given it is durable, fungible, divisible and scarce like the precious metal. However, while gold has a strong track record of rallying in times of…

First Mover: Crypto.com Says User Growth Coming From…
Credit-card lender Crypto.com has boosted the number of total users by at least 50% in the past two months to 3 million, according to CEO Kris Marszalek. The company’s chief disclosed the increase in response to questions…

First Mover: Crypto.com Says User Growth Coming From…
Credit-card lender Crypto.com has boosted its total users by at least 50% in the past two months to 3 million, according to CEO Kris Marszalek. The company’s chief disclosed the increase in response to questions from First…

First Mover: Crypto.com’s Chain Token Dominated Markets in…
Credit-card lender and wallet provider Crypto.com’s Chain (CRO) token surged 33% in June, dominating digital-asset markets as bitcoin, ether and XRP from Ripple all declined. The CRO token’s gains made it the top performer during…

Market Wrap: Crypto Market Eerily Quiet as Bitcoin…
Quiet is the best word to describe the bitcoin market. Tuesday’s trading stayed within the same price range maintained over the past several weeks, with bitcoin remaining inside a tight $200 range for much of…

Why the Stock-to-Flow Bitcoin Valuation Model Is Wrong
Nico Cordeiro is the chief investment officer and fund manager at Strix Leviathan. He oversees quantitative research, strategy development, risk management and portfolio allocation. A longer version of this post can be found here. The…

First Mover: Bitwise Calls $50K Bitcoin Price When…
Bitcoin has traded in an ever-tightening range for two months, and digital-market analysts say a new wave of coronavirus cases and emergency measures could provoke the largest cryptocurrency by market cap out of the doldrums. The backdrop…

Bitcoin Still Up 27% This Year Despite Dismal…
Bitcoin (BTC) is still outperforming the top traditional financial assets so far in 2020 – even after a dour performance this month. At time of writing (10:00 UTC), bitcoin is trading around $9,170, representing a…

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Traders Expect Big Move as…
Bitcoin opened the week still stuck in a price range just above $9,000 Monday, moving less than 0.2% from Friday’s close as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET), according to Bitstamp. At 00:00 UTC on…

Bitcoin Facing Greater Price Volatility Than Ether in…
Bitcoin may seem to be more volatile than traditional assets but in crypto markets it is considered relatively stable compared to alternative cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin (BTC) is the biggest cryptocurrency by market value. Not only is…

First Mover: The Return of the Bitcoin Retail…
Since the end of 2017, the assumed trajectory was that well-heeled financial institutions would take the reins from retail investors, becoming the main driving force and primary investor class in crypto. But a report out last week…

How the Crypto Community Helped Us Raise $110,000…
When asked to dig deep for a good cause, the crypto community obliges – eventually. On May 11, the first day of this year’s Consensus: Distributed conference and of our month-long #NYBWGives fundraising campaign for…

A Key Thesis for Bitcoin’s Long-Term Bull Market…
A popular narrative argues that the massive stimulus programs from the Federal Reserve, launched to counter a coronavirus-induced recession, could hyperinflate the economy and fuel a major rally in bitcoin. However, that bullish theory, which…

First Mover: In the Cryptocurrency Markets, No Two…
In the cryptocurrency markets, no two exchanges are alike. Even in major crypto exchanges, trading U.S. dollars for bitcoin can have fairly different order sizes and spreads, according to data compiled by aggregator CryptoCompare. Average…

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Tests $9K as Market Struggles…
Higher-than-normal selling volume pushed bitcoin down in early trading Thursday before managing to recover. Bitcoin (BTC) was trading around $9,297 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET), slipping just 0.18% over the previous 24 hours. …

Blockchain Bites: Rethinking Libra, Craig Wright and Something…
Top financial authorities are rethinking what a “basket-backed” stablecoin means for monetary sovereignty. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) issued a new report claiming stablecoin initiatives like Libra haven’t driven central banks to explore CBDCs,…

First Mover: What’s Going On With Bitcoin Derivatives?
There’s a strange trend in crypto derivatives right now: volumes have dropped precipitously, just as open interest has boomed. What’s going on? Since the May 11 halving event, trading volumes in crypto futures has fallen…

Bitcoin Still On Track for Quarterly Gains After…
Bitcoin looks set to end its three-quarter losing run despite having dropped to $9,000 earlier on Thursday. At 03:35 UTC, the leading cryptocurrency by market cap printed a low of $9,002, extending Wednesday’s 3.5% decline,…

Market Wrap: A Sea of Red Across Markets…
Bitcoin started the week with a bullish run, but it has now given back all of those gains. Bitcoin (BTC) was trading around $9,296 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET), slipping 3.5% over the…

How to Spot a Crypto Scam
You’ve seen it before: A site that promises instant returns on your small crypto investment. It looks legitimate with all the happy customer testimonials, FOMO-inducing promises and easy-to-use dashboards that look like so many other…

Bitcoin Options Market Faces Record $1 Billion Expiry…
Bitcoin’s (BTC) derivatives continue to grow despite light spot trading over the past two months. The cryptocurrency’s options market is on its way to a record $1 billion monthly expiry this Friday. At press time, there…

First Mover: Bitcoin’s Recent Stability May Come From…
Few investors ever get into bitcoin hoping for stability, but over the past eight or so weeks that’s pretty much what they’ve got. Since the start of May, bitcoin’s price has rarely strayed outside its…

FTX Is Building Lots of Sophisticated Markets Few…
Cryptocurrency exchange FTX has launched eight unique index futures and volatility markets in less than 12 months. But enticing sophisticated traders to use these novel products has proved challenging. At the time of publication, Antigua…

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Trading Flat, Holding at $9.6K
After a quick rally on Monday, bitcoin remains in bullish territory although trading was flat Tuesday. Bitcoin (BTC) was trading around $9646 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET), gaining 1% over the previous 24…

Status Keycard Now Works With Android Mobile Devices
The Status Keycard now works with Android smartphones to make mobile apps more secure. Status, the Ethereum-based messaging company, has expanded the use case for its Keycard, a hardware wallet first announced in February 2019.…