Former public policy attorney Keiko Yoshino writes about why she started paying attention to crypto, particularly the regulatory missteps.Read More

EUL tokens jumped 47% on the transfer of tokens.Read More

While capital flowed into bitcoin amid a period of uncertainty, the cryptocurrency’s fractured liquidity arguably played the largest role in its surge.Read More

U.K. lobbying groups and lawmakers have been complaining that crypto clients can’t find a bank and are faced with restrictions, so they are calling the government to act.Read More

Coinbase’s former CTO, among others, has predicted that bitcoin will reach $1 million as the dollar fades, but these doomsayers are ignoring other historical precedents.Read More

In an email to CoinDesk’s Nikhilesh De, Amazon appeared to confirm that digital tokens, an NFT gallery and resale opportunities are coming to the site.Read More

The decentralized autonomous organization’s token holders are voting to diversify $2 million of its treasury’s assets amid a turbulent crypto market.Read More

But the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization is still up about 16% in March. Ether dropped below $1,800.Read More

The NFT marketplace has teamed up with Yield Guild Games, Game7 and Fenix Games to bring Web3 games mainstream.Read More

Someone is trying to cash out bitcoin from an exchange that has been inactive since the U.S. shut it down in 2017.Read More

Lawyers asked the court for an early stage summary judgment, to ring-fence FTX assets frozen in the accounts of non-U.S. customers.Read More

The Federal Reserve Board argued that Custodia Bank’s proposed business model was “inconsistent” with approval in an order explaining its denial of the Wyoming-based crypto bank’s application for membership.Read More

BlockFi filed for bankruptcy in the wake of FTX’s collapse.Read More

Lisa Braganca says the Terraform Labs founder and his team knowingly reached out to U.S. investors, despite being based in Singapore.Read More

Despite U.S. efforts to sanction Tornado Cash and other crypto privacy tools, Aztec says it shut down its Ethereum zero-knowledge tools for “commercial” reasons.Read More

Based on the precedent set by many crypto projects, including this week’s example with Arbitrum’s airdrop of its ARB token, the speculation over a possible zkSync airdrop isn’t totally unfounded.Read More

The biggest threat from the banking crisis triggered by this month’s collapse of Silicon Valley Bank might not lie in the potential for depositors to lose their savings but in the censorship power that massive banks are now accumulating as customers move their money.Read More

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Ashley Rindsberg – a speaker at CoinDesk’s Consensus festival – argues that the New York Times has a track-record of dangerous misreporting. Is “DeMe” the answer to what skews to the media?Read More

U.S. accounting standards may be overhauled to specifically factor in crypto accounting, establishing a fair-value approach that would demand certain digital assets be measured at what they’d go for in the markets, according to a change proposed this week by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB).Read More

NFTs continued to grow beyond their humble Ethereum roots this week, with Magic Eden becoming the first major NFT marketplace to offer Bitcoin-based collectibles on its platform. Web3 gaming was also in the spotlight, as Sony filed a patent that could make NFTs transferable between different games and consoles. Meanwhile, blockchains Immutable and Polygon announced a major partnership aimed at making it easier for developers and game studios to jump into Web3.Read More

Less than a year after Three Arrows Capital imploded along with $2.5 billion of its clients’ money, the hedge fund’s founders Su Zhu and Kyle Davies are back on the scene with what appears, to their credit, to be an impressive bankruptcy exchange, but is it too soon?Read More

DeFi protocols have been hackers’ favorite targets since 2021. Now they’re preying on NFT projects too, a blockchain intelligence firm says.Read More

Terraform Labs founder Kwon was arrested in Montenegro on Thursday for document forgery.Read More

After launching ZkSync Era for developers-only last month, the project took the additional step Friday of opening it to general users. The latest push comes just days ahead of Polygon’s planned rollout on Monday of its own “zero knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine.”Read More

Treasury curve suggests the widely-anticipated U.S. economic recession is near. Historically, the signal has brought pain to risk assets.Read More

Nasdaq announced its intentions last September as it looked to respond to the demand from institutional crypto investors.Read More

Integration into Arbitrum’s wider DeFi system could provide some new impetus for bullish sentiment for ARB tokens, one exchange executive said.Read More

The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for March 24, 2023. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.Read More

The bill will strip technology innovations such as software programming, coding, apps and Artificial Intelligence development from tax obligations on income, property, capital gains and import tariffs, Bukele said in the tweet.Read More

When Animoca initially unveiled its plans for the fund last November, its target was $2 billion. This was then cut in half to $1 billion in January.Read More

Bitcoin slightly dipped as Binance spot trading was suspended.Read More

The next main catalyst for the sector is the reward halving in early 2024, the report said.Read More

The tokenization of vehicle titles could enable fractionalized vehicle ownership, the report said.Read More

The payment was due on March 23 and was required to fund working capital.Read More

Stablecoin trading volumes have increased following the run of bank collapses in the U.S., the report said.Read More

The United Arab Emirates expects to complete the first phase of its central bank digital currency strategy over the next 12 to 15 months.Read More

Yields on liquidity pools are paying out as much as 800% annualized as users rush to claim ARB tokens.Read More

Coinbase shares tumbled 16% Thursday, after the company disclosed late Wednesday it had received a Wells Notice from the Securities and Exchange Commission.Read More

Some Binance employees and volunteers shared tips on forging bank documents, falsifying addresses or hiding the country of origin to get a Binance debit card, CNBC reported, citing Chinese-language chatroom messages it translated.Read More

ALSO: CoinDesk’s market analyst writes that a decrease in the number of bitcoin addresses with a balance of more than 1,000 bitcoins suggests that large, institutional investors are reluctant to add to their coffers.Read More

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s notice to Coinbase (COIN) that it’s likely to be accused of breaking securities laws could foreshadow an agency effort to break the back of the crypto sector as it now operates, but it also may finally force court rulings that define how the industry can move forward.Read More

“We’re bound by the will of the order flow providers,” the pseudonymous CEO Hazard said on a community governance call.Read More

Federal prosecutors in New York charged Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon with fraud hours after he was arrested by police in Montenegro.Read More

Arbitrum’s token airdrop started off in a frenzy that broke multiple websites, and yet more than 428 million ARB tokens are left to be claimed.Read More

Bitcoin jumped above $28,800 earlier Thursday before retreating. Ether rose above $1,850, its highest level since August.Read More

FTX Ventures invested $101 million in Mysten Labs just months before Sam Bankman-Fried’s empire collapsed. Now, Mysten is buying back the stake (and Sui token warrants) for $96 million through bankruptcy court.Read More

Should the government agency follow through with its Wells notice, the outcome could lead to more rules of the road for crypto, Brett Quick, head of government affairs at the global alliance firm, said.Read More

Pedro Palandrani of Global X discusses where KKR, Starbucks and others are going with the tokenization movement.Read More

Bitcoin can be viewed as protection from inept central banks (and, yes, a tool for speculation, too).Read More