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House Votes to Erase SEC Crypto Policy While President Biden Vows Veto
The House of Representatives voted in favor of a resolution to oppose the SEC's crypto accounting policy, Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 121, as President Biden defends it.
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Crypto Markets Under Pressure as $2B Worth of Altcoin Token Unlocks and $11B Bitcoin Distribution Loom
Bitcoin was lower by 2.5% to $61,500 late Wednesday, with solana and bitcoin cash each down more than 7%.
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Robinhood's Q1 Crypto Trading Volume Surged 224% as SEC Action Looms
Shares in the popular trading platform were higher by 7% after the company topped first quarter revenue and earnings estimates.
Nearly All FTX Creditors Will Get 118% of Their Funds Back in Cash, Estate Says in New Plan
The new reorganization plan must first be approved by a Delaware bankruptcy court.
Key Bitcoin Indicator Points to Period of Calm in Crypto Market
BTC's volatility risk premium (VRP) has collapsed in a sign of a market trending towards stability, where future uncertainties are less of a concern.
Restaking Is Hot in Ethereum and Entering Solana. Should We Worry?
The Lehman Brothers-driven global financial crisis of 2008 showed the danger of spreading money around too much.
It's Not a Token Offering, It's a 'Node Sale': Sophon Blockchain Raises $60M
The blockchain project's founders aren't even publicly named, but they've enjoyed remarkable success in fundraising, partly thanks to this increasingly popular fundraising met...
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Consensus 2024
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MoMA’s Madeleine Pierpont: NFTs Are Already Part of Art History
“Yes, there has been a hyper-financialization in the NFT space, but money is not a dirty word in art,” says the Consensus 2024 speaker.
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Allison Duettmann: How Blockchains Can Make AI Safer
The CEO of the Foresight Institute, a speaker at Consensus 2024, says there are three key areas where cryptographic technologies can improve artificial intelligence systems.
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Runes | A Degenerate Casino on the Bitcoin Blockchain Creative
Runes and Ordinals ‘Artist’ Creator, Casey Rodarmor has just invented two of the most dramatically impactful protocols in the blockchain industry's history and embraces crypto...
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‘AI-Agents Will Do Crypto Transactions’: Arif Khan on the Future of Crypto-AI
Alethea CEO Arif Khan, a speaker on the AI Stage at Consensus 2024, says we’ll soon be automating large parts of lives including paying bills and responding to emails.
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‘It's Modding, But on Steroids’: Mark Long on the Future of Web3 Gaming
Shrapnel, a blockchain-infused first-person shooter game, is expected to be released in 2025. Its creator gives a preview to Jeff Wilser ahead of his appearance at Consensus 2...
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Texas Takedown: Nic Carter and David Hoffman Square Off for Karate Combat at Consensus
The influencers, representing Bitcoin and Ethereum, will enter the pit at the Consensus festival May 30, 2024. Fyre Festival’s Billy McFarland is also on the fight card.
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Crypto Markets Under Pressure as $2B Worth of Altcoin Token Unlocks and $11B Bitcoin Distribution Loom
Bitcoin was lower by 2.5% to $61,500 late Wednesday, with solana and bitcoin cash each down more than 7%.
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Robinhood's Q1 Crypto Trading Volume Surged 224% as SEC Action Looms
Shares in the popular trading platform were higher by 7% after the company topped first quarter revenue and earnings estimates.
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Protocol Village: Omni Launches Open-Source EVM Framework 'Octane' With Sub-Second Finality
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of May 2-8.
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Policy
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House Votes to Erase SEC Crypto Policy While President Biden Vows Veto
The House of Representatives voted in favor of a resolution to oppose the SEC's crypto accounting policy, Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 121, as President Biden defends it.
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UK Minister Says Government Only Has Time to Implement Stablecoin, Staking Legislation
Economic Secretary Bim Afolami said that the government could put through stablecoin and staking legislation in the coming weeks but will outline what more is coming later.
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U.S. Financial Industry to Explore Sharing Ledger Technology for Multiasset Transactions
The New York Innovation Center of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York will act as a technical observer.
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The Crypto Lawsuit State of Play
The industry is virtually flooding the courts with requests for clarity.
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Indonesia Regulator Forms Crypto Committee to Monitor Industry's Operation, Compliance
The committee was established by the Commodity Futures Trading Supervisory Agency, known as Bappebti, because crypto is considered a commodity in Indonesia.
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Nearly All FTX Creditors Will Get 118% of Their Funds Back in Cash, Estate Says in New Plan
The new reorganization plan must first be approved by a Delaware bankruptcy court.