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Bitcoin's Bull Run Has Plenty of Steam Left, These Indicators Suggest
Key indicators tracking Bitcoin's blockchain activity, miner flows, and the 200-day moving average suggest bitcoin is far from being overvalued and could continue to rally in...
Total Value of Cardano DeFi Ecosystem Nears $450M Amid Layer 1 Push; ADA Rockets 17%
The total value locked (TVL) of all Cardano-based tokens jumped to over $440 million late earlier this week, crossing the previous peak of $330 million set in April.
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JPMorgan Is Cautious About Crypto Markets Into 2024
Ether is expected to outperform bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies next year due to the Ethereum blockchain’s EIP-4844 upgrade, the report said.
Global Banking Regulator Proposes Changes to Criteria That Give Stablecoins Preferential Risk Treatment
The Basel Committee for Banking Supervision wants to tighten requirements that allow stablecoins to qualify as less risky than unbacked cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.
ARK Sells $42.6M Coinbase Shares as COIN Hits 20-Month High
The firm has sold over $150 million worth of stake in COIN since Dec. 5.
CFTC Pushes FTX-Inspired Rule to Protect Customers' Money
Commissioners took a step toward requiring derivatives clearing organizations, a key type of middleman in the industry, to keep their customers' money segregated from their ow...
Ethereum's Buterin Floats Prospect of Taking Some Layer-2 Functions Back on Main Chain
Vitalik Buterin, a member of the Ethereum Foundation's executive board, once pushed "layer-2" networks as a way to provide faster and cheaper transactions. Now he's got ideas...
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How Binance Will Open All Its Activity to the U.S. Government
Experts Dorothy DeWitt and Michael Dawson discuss the implications, challenges, and potential outcomes of Binance's compliance monitorship.
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OpenAI is Now Closed and Jamie Dimon Continues his Familiar Critique of Crypto
Market reactions, regulatory realities, political perspectives, and AI's rise in a comprehensive overview with a focus on Bitcoin's price reaching over 44,000.
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Protocol Village: COTI Layer-1 Blockchain to Become Ethereum Layer-2 Network
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Dec 7-Dec. 13, with live updates throughout.
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Ethereum's Whispered Woes and Crypto's Influencers—For Better or Worse?
A censorship issue plagues blockchains, notably within the Ethereum network, where 72% of blocks are crafted by validators filtering transactions linked to a sanctioned progra...
Protocol Village: ARPA's Random Number Generator Launches on Base
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Nov. 23-29, with live updates throughout.
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Featured Story | Bitcoin and the Changing Definition of 'Safety'
When supposedly safe investments like bonds and stocks underperform, what does that mean for our view of apparently risky investments like bitcoin? Noelle Acheson offers her t...
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JPMorgan Is Cautious About Crypto Markets Into 2024
Ether is expected to outperform bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies next year due to the Ethereum blockchain’s EIP-4844 upgrade, the report said.
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Crypto Exchange CoinList Settles OFAC's Russian Sanctions Allegations for $1.2M
CoinList did not detect users who claimed to be from non-embargoed countries, but provided addresses in Crimea, OFAC said.
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Cronos, Partner of Crypto.com, to Start Layer 2 Network With Matter Labs
The new "Cronos zkEVM chain" is launching initially as a test network, based on Matter Labs’ software tools, which can be used to spin up new layer 2 and layer 3 “hyperchains”...
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Global Banking Regulator Proposes Changes to Criteria That Give Stablecoins Preferential Risk Treatment
The Basel Committee for Banking Supervision wants to tighten requirements that allow stablecoins to qualify as less risky than unbacked cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.
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Crypto Exchange CoinList Settles OFAC's Russian Sanctions Allegations for $1.2M
CoinList did not detect users who claimed to be from non-embargoed countries, but provided addresses in Crimea, OFAC said.
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In Search of the Elusive Crypto Voter
Next year will see a presidential election. What's crypto's role?
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FTX Bankruptcy Judge Takes Step to Shorten Timeline for Customers' Recoveries
FTX victims are closer to getting their money back from the exchange after a federal judge put an end to a time-consuming dispute that has halted the exchange's bankruptcy cas...
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CFTC Pushes FTX-Inspired Rule to Protect Customers' Money
Commissioners took a step toward requiring derivatives clearing organizations, a key type of middleman in the industry, to keep their customers' money segregated from their ow...
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Anonymous Crypto Interests Bombard Key Senator Sherrod Brown With Political Ads
New crypto advocacy group Cedar Innovation Foundation is running digital ads in Brown's Ohio to persuade him to buck SEC Chair Gary Gensler, but Cedar won't say who's behind i...