Category: Blockchain

The new mechanism on Starknet means that anyone holding more than 20,000 STRK will be able to stake on the network, from the fourth quarter of this year.

The case was brought by Fabrizio D’Aloia, who said he was the victim of a cryptocurrency scam, and relates mainly to crypto exchange Bitkub, named as one of seven defendants including two unidentified people and Binance, the largest crypto exchange by volume traded. The case against Binance was settled, according to the filing.

The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for Sept. 13, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

The new purchases was made at an average price of $60,408 per token, Executive Chairman Michael Saylor said in an X post on Friday morning, boosting the company’s holdings to 244,800 BTC. MicroStrategy’s cost basis for those holdings is $9.45 billion, or an average price of $38,585 per bitcoin. At the current price just under…

A recent token heist at Compound DAO revealed the weakness of current DAO governance voting. There is a better way, say Andrés Fábrega, Jay Yu, Amy Zhao, and Ari Juels.

While it remains up in the air about whether the Federal Reserve will cut its benchmark lending rate by 25 or 50 basis points next week, it’s a certainty the U.S. central bank will embark on its first easing cycle since 2019. In this, the Fed will be joining other major Western central banks –…

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Kalshi, which won a significant victory in court last week when a federal judge ruled its political prediction markets should be allowed to trade in the U.S., said the CFTC wouldn’t suffer any major harm if its new contracts were allowed to trade during the appeal process, but the company would “suffer substantial – indeed,…

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Please note that our privacy policy, terms of use, cookies, and do not sell my personal information has been updated. CoinDesk is an award-winning media outlet that covers the cryptocurrency industry. Its journalists abide by a strict set of editorial policies. In November 2023, CoinDesk was acquired by the Bullish group, owner of Bullish, a…