Coinbase reportedly plans to continue its “elevated policy spend” through the U.S. presidential election and beyond. Beyond the U.S. election, the cryptocurrency exchange will continue its policy spend as it faces issues in other parts of the world, Coinbase Chief Financial Officer Alesia Haas said Wednesday...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the unsealing of an indictment Wednesday (May 15) charging two brothers with crimes resulting from an alleged “cutting-edge scheme” in which they stole $25 million worth of cryptocurrency from the ethereum blockchain. Anton Peraire-Bueno, 24, of Boston, and James Peraire-Bueno, 28, of...
The Ethereum Foundation, a Swiss nonprofit at the heart of the Ethereum ecosystem, is reportedly under investigation by an undisclosed “state authority.” The investigation was disclosed Feb. 26 on the group’s GitHub repository, CoinDesk reported Wednesday (March 20). A commit on the Ethereum Foundation’s GitHub repository, showing a change made...
Solana’s cryptocurrency, SOL, which experienced a 94% decline in 2022, has reportedly made a comeback, attracting the attention of digital asset investors. The SOL token has surged in price by almost 800% since December 2022, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Dec. 21). One of the key reasons for Solana’s...
November 09, 2022
Whether you’re talking about remittances sent home by migrant workers or other larger sums moving from one country to another, cross-border payments are the part of finance that crypto companies believe they can most easily and effectively disrupt. However, Jim Nguyen, CEO and co-founder of global payments FinTech Six Clovers, is not one of them […]
September 15, 2022
The new, greener, and eventually far faster Ethereum 2.0 is here. At 2:43 a.m. on Thursday (Sept. 15), the second-largest crypto blockchain, and arguably the most important, switched to a...
August 08, 2022
Next month, the Ethereum blockchain is scheduled to make the long-awaited switch to a much more environmentally-friendly Ethereum 2.0, which will in turn set the stage for a vast scalability...
April 05, 2022
It’s tempting to take the U.K.’s announcement that it’s going to mint an NFT to signal the launch of new crypto policy as a sign that nonfungible tokens aren’t cool...
November 13, 2024
The PayPal USD (PYUSD) stablecoin now uses LayerZero’s Omnichain Fungible Token (OFT) Standard to enable transfers between the blockchain networks Ethereum and Solana. This integration enables fast, secure and cost-effective transactions for both users and businesses, the companies said in a Tuesday (Nov. 12) press release. “We believe that PYUSD holders will welcome the flexibility and convenience offered by LayerZero,” Jose Fernandez da […]
September 04, 2024
Coinbase reportedly plans to continue its “elevated policy spend” through the U.S. presidential election and beyond. Beyond the U.S. election, the cryptocurrency exchange will continue its policy spend as it...
May 15, 2024
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the unsealing of an indictment Wednesday (May 15) charging two brothers with crimes resulting from an alleged “cutting-edge scheme” in which they stole $25 million worth of...
March 20, 2024
The Ethereum Foundation, a Swiss nonprofit at the heart of the Ethereum ecosystem, is reportedly under investigation by an undisclosed “state authority.” The investigation was disclosed Feb. 26 on the group’s...
