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“Voyager has made various representations online, including its website, mobile app, and social media accounts, stating or suggesting that: (1) Voyager itself is FDIC-insured; (2) customers who invested with the Voyager cryptocurrency platform would receive FDIC insurance coverage for all funds provided to, held by, on, or with Voyager; and (3) the FDIC would insure

Bitcoin was recently trading at about $22,900, up over 8% for the past 24 hours. The largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization has mostly lingered between $21,000 and $23,000 for much of the past 10 days. Ether was recently changing hands just above $1,600, up more than 15% over the same period. Other major cryptos spent

Not all signs pointed downward. As CoinDesk Senior Markets Reporter Omkar Godbole reported, Bitcoin’s Monday plunge came even as Chicago Board of Options Exchange’s volatility index (VIX), a measure known as Wall Street’s fear gauge, slipped to 22.41 in early Asian hours, its lowest level since April 21, indicating calm ahead of the Fed decision.

He calls it the “Outerverse”: A platform where hikers, bikers, runners, skiers – outdoor-doers the world over – can earn rewards for tracking their real-life activity atop crypto rails. Skiers, for example, could unlock chances at a heli-skiing expedition, Zoom calls with famous photographers, perhaps Warren Miller movie tickets  – definitely non-fungible tokens (NFT) –

“There’s going to be virtually no sell pressure when the Merge happens. Everyone who’s staking is locked up, everyone remaining with their money in stETH is holding until it repegs, anyone who had their money on Voyager or Celsius is locked in bankruptcy proceedings for 5-10yrs,” crypto commenter Ethereum Jesus tweeted, referring to the bankruptcy

There is another reason crypto might be preferable for Russians willing to help Ukrainians, said Vlad, a volunteer for Ethos, a fund created by Russian expats that helps refugees rent apartments in Armenia and gives away things like medicine and hygiene products. Ethos is raising money in bitcoin, ether, tron, BNB and USDT. According to

“The environment in the current crypto ecosystem vastly differs from the heyday of ICOs in 2018,” Singapore-based Danny Chong, co-founder of DeFi protocol Tranchess, told CoinDesk. “Market maturity has driven the need to establish stronger technological foundations to be laid which have enabled exchanges and DeFi protocols to provide a variety of products, with lending,

The document, which was filed to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of New York, shows that Celsius holds $4.3 billion of assets and $5.5 billion of liabilities. In its list of assets, Celsius claimed it has about $600 million in its CEL token. However, the company noted in the filing the total

On Wednesday, the U.S. Labor Department is scheduled to release June’s consumer price index figure. The data is likely to show the cost of living rose 1.1% month-on-month, bringing the annualized figure to a new four-decade high of 8.8%. The CPI stood at 8.6% in May. The core inflation, which strips out the volatile food

On-chain data shows that a wallet linked to Celsius repaid the remaining $41.2 million of the loan in DAI, the Maker protocol’s stablecoin. That prompted the Maker protocol to release 21,962 wrapped bitcoins (WBTC), a bitcoin equivalent token of the Ethereum blockchain, which was pledged as collateral of the loan. That works out to about

This is especially true if they can leverage this with investors to juice a funding round. At one time, China was home to nearly 35,000 blockchain companies, according to publicly available corporate registration data. Of course many were firms jumping in by adding blockchain to their name to access development subsidies, as well as out-and-out

“Bitcoin price action remains weak, with some volatility seen on both sides, which is typical in pauses between trend continuations,” Joe DiPasquale, CEO of crypto asset manager BitBull Capital, wrote in an email to CoinDesk. “Currently, we expect BTC to see more downside action but we are also keenly watching the market’s reactions to assess

While Three Arrows Capital used its tens of billions of dollars of assets under management to invest in new projects and take large market positions, it also operated an over-the-counter trading desk called Tai Ping Shan (TPS) Capital. The entity was once described on LinkedIn as “the official OTC desk of Three Arrows Capital,” according

“This is a place where common sense has a really important role to play. You’ve got a situation now in which you have certain kinds of exchange traded funds, one that is focused on bitcoin futures, and the SEC has approved that, the SEC is given it the seal of approval,” he said. “In order

Sunny Aggarwal, the co-founder of the Cosmos-based Osmosis exchange, explained to CoinDesk, “Almost every rollup platform right now is all single operator – whether it’s Arbitrum, Optimism or StarkWare.” In other words, one company or computer, rather than a distributed network of node operators, is responsible for bundling up the transactions that eventually get passed

“Compass Mining was created to make mining easy and accessible,” said the statement. “The company recognizes that there have been multiple setbacks and disappointments that have detracted from that objective. Through this restructuring, the company is wholly focused on regaining the goodwill of the company’s stakeholders and the community, as well as delivering on the

According to Yusko, the FTX credit line proposal had a catch for BlockFi’s existing shareholders: It gave FTX the option to buy BlockFi “at essentially zero price.” If FTX were to exercise said option, it would effectively wipe out all of BlockFi’s existing equity shareholders, including management and employees with stock options, as well as

Goldman Sachs appears to be gauging interest and soliciting commitments from Web3 crypto funds, funds specializing in distressed assets and traditional financial institutions with ample cash on hand, according to a person familiar with the situation. The assets, most likely cryptocurrencies having to be sold on the cheap, would then likely be managed by participants

In contrast with exchanges Coinbase and Gemini, the derivatives platform plans to increase its staff. Bitget, a Singapore-based crypto derivatives exchange, plans to double its workforce over the next six months, just as other crypto firms are cutting back. The exchange plans to reach 1,000 employees by the end of the year, it said in

Aspen Creek Digital will also host miners from Galaxy Digital at its new data center in western Colorado. Despite the bear market for crypto, Aspen Creek Digital Corp., a new bitcoin miner, has started mining at a six-megawatts solar-powered facility in the western part of Colorado.Aspen Creek was founded in January, and its mining operation