War of Words Over zkEVMs Might Portend Long Struggle to Tech Maturity
As Polygon and Matter Labs race to bring their zkEVMs to market, both will need to make compromises in...
BlackRock Starts Metaverse-Themed ETF Despite Waning Investor Interest
Meta, Apple and Nvidia are top holdings for the exchange-traded fund.
Crypto Wallet Startup Den Gets $2.8M in Seed Funding Led by IDEO CoLab Ventures
The Den co-founders, the duo behind the viral hit ConstitutionDAO, says solving coordination issues is the biggest challenge for...
Crypto Long & Short: Washington Plays Tennis With Crypto
If digital asset regulation is drifting into partisan waters, that’s bad for all involved.
Crypto Markets Analysis: Bitcoin, Ether Exchange Balances Take Divergent Paths
Investors have begun sending bitcoin to exchanges while continuing to remove ether.
Crypto Analysts Scramble to Explain Bitcoin’s Pause Near $25K
Bitcoin is struggling to establish a foothold above $25,000, a level that capped the August 2022 price bounce.
Custodia Bank Renews Push for Fed ‘Master Account’ After Rejection
The Federal Reserve and Kansas City Fed rejected Custodia's applications for membership and a master account last month.
Former CFTC Chairman: SEC Was ‘Absolutely Right’ to Sue Terraform Labs, Do Kwon
Timothy Massad, now a research fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, said U.S. bank regulators have the ability...
Bitcoin NFTs Challenge the Blockchain’s Largest Use Case: Money
The Bitcoin community has been abuzz with conversations around how Ordinal Inscriptions could signal a technical improvement to NFTs....
Crypto Has an Incest Problem
Court filings reveal complex interlocking relations between major crypto firms – with implications for the ecosystem’s resilience, and for...
Calm Before the Storm: Is UK’s Financial Watchdog Gearing Up for Enforcement Action?
The Financial Conduct Authority has largely been silent while its U.S. counterparts have been busy cracking down on crypto...
Crypto Theft Rose in 2022 as Scams, Ransomware Bounty Fell: Chainalysis
2022 became a year of crypto thefts, but illicit transactions still account only for a meager share of all...
Bankman-Fried $250M Bond Is a ‘Joke,’ Claims Securities Lawyer
“MetaLawMan” James Murphy says that in 30 years of experience he has “never seen anything this lenient in a...
Bankman-Fried Remains Out on Bond, but Judge Warns ‘Revocation’ Proceedings Possible in Future
Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan warned Sam Bankman-Fried that he could hold a hearing to revoke the FTX founder’s bond...
State of Crypto: Interpreting the Paxos-Binance Tea Leaves
NYDFS forced Paxos to stop issuing Binance USD. The SEC has said BUSD may be a security. Stay with...
FDIC Tells Crypto Exchange CEX.IO to Stop Claiming US Dollars Held in Its Wallets Are Insured
The agency issued a cease-and-desist letter on Wednesday.