First Mover Americas: Ether Outperforms Bitcoin; CME BTC Futures Hit a Huge Discount to Spot Prices
Price Point: Ether is up 2% on the day, continuing to outperform bitcoin. Data from Arcane Research shows that...
Anomalous Ether Futures Pricing Condition Is Likely to Revert After the Merge
Ether (ETH) proponents would like all price indicators to flash bullish signals as Ethereum's long-pending upgrade, dubbed "the Merge,"...
Ethereum Proof-of-Work Forks: Gift or Grift?
Ethereum is finally set to embark on its long-awaited transition to proof-of-stake. With this major update slated to happen...
First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Trades Sideways, Investors Await Any Fed Interest Rate Signals; IMF Sees Growing Link Between Crypto and Asian Stocks
Good morning. Here’s what’s happening: Prices: Bitcoin and ether rise, but the wait for Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's next...
Crypto Winter ‘Could Be Over’ as Investors Add to Positions, Says Market Analyst
There’s a chance crypto winter could be over, Edward Moya, senior market analyst at foreign exchange Oanda, told CoinDesk...
Market Wrap: Crypto Assets Rise Following Soft Home Sales in July
Price Action Crypto Assets Rose Following Soft Home Sales in July Most crypto assets ended the day higher on...
As Censorship on Ethereum Begins, Could This Open-Sourced Code Help Counter It?
Flashbots, the team of developers behind MEV-Boost, a critical piece of software for the next phase of Ethereum, has...
Latin American Crypto Firm Ripio Launches Prepaid Crypto Card in Brazil
Latin American crypto company Ripio has started rolling out a prepaid debit card in Brazil that allows payments to...
Exchange Giant CME’s Bitcoin Futures Just Hit a Huge Discount to Spot Prices
Bitcoin (BTC) futures at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, one of the world’s biggest derivatives markets, just traded at the...
Solana-based Projects Team Up to Make Cross-Chain Messaging Standard
A group of Solana-based protocols are pushing to streamline crypto communications through open sourced standards that proponents hope will...
Crypto Banks Are One Step Closer to Reality Under New Fed Guidance
The U.S. Federal Reserve published guidance detailing how crypto banks can secure master account access, something several of these...
Blockchain Company Mural, Founded by Palantir Alums, Raises $5.6M
Blockchain startup Mural, founded by alumni of publicly-traded data analytics software company Palantir Technologies (PLTR), has raised $5.6 ...
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Price Falls as Markets Await Fed Chair Powell’s Comments
Price Action BTC Trims Price Ahead of Economic Summit; Macroeconomic Uncertainty Bitcoin (BTC) sold off mildly in Monday trading,...
Why Decentralization Cultivates Community
Max Good, senior index research analyst at CoinDesk Indices, contributed to writing this report. Introduction In December 2021, CoinDesk...
A Primer on the Digitization Sector in DACS
Acknowledgement We thank our former intern, Zad Mahana, for his expertise and assistance in all aspects of our work...
FTX Could Buy BlockFi for Only $15M – or a Lot More If Crypto Lender Hits Big Goals
As cryptocurrency lenders crumbled earlier this year, billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried swooped in several times as a backstop. His actions...