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This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily newsletter, putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day. (CoinDesk) Bitcoin (BTC) sank below $58,000 during Read More

The Elliptic2 dataset is orders of magnitude bigger than the one used when the team began using machine learning to detect money laundering with bitcoin back in 2019. The research made use of 122,000 groups of connected Read More

Real-world asset (RWA) tokenization firm Securitize has closed a $47 million funding round led by the world’s largest asset manager BlackRock (BLK). The round also included investments from Hamilton Lane (HLNE), ParaFi Capital and Tradeweb Read More

Author Michael Lewis tends to take a very charitable stance regarding Sam Bankman-Fried despite his recent conviction, which led to a 25-year prison sentence. Following publication last year of “Going Infinite,” Lewis’ book about the Read More

Bitcoin could target $50K-$52K on the downside, Standard Chartered said. The bank said bitcoin is now trading below the average spot ETF purchase price of $58K. Risk assets like crypto are feeling the pinch Read More

Tick, tock, next block. Bitcoin works like clockwork as they say. Approximately every 10 minutes a new block of transactions is timestamped into the public ledger. Obviously, time plays an important role in Bitcoin’s protocol. Read More

ETFs bring awareness but are less effective than private funds as an ETH investment vehicle. With the recent approval, launch and success of spot bitcoin ETFs, all eyes have turned to the possibility of spot Read More

Rootstock’s new plan to bring programmability to Bitcoin could unfold over the next 12 months. The project could lead to the development of layer-2 networks atop Bitcoin without requiring any major changes to the blockchain’Read More

EigenLayer, the Ethereum “restaking” project that quickly shot to the top ranks of the DeFi leaderboards thanks to so-called airdrop farmers, finally acknowledged plans to launch its own EIGEN token. The terms of the planned Read More