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The President's Working Group is requesting standardized registration requirements for stablecoins.

The Block's Frank Chaparro chats with DJ Alesso and Lin Dai, CEO of OneOf

NYDIG, the New York-based crypto firm, is set to acquire British payments startup Bottlepay.

The Block's Frank Chaparro chats with Robinhood Crypto COO Christine Brown.

Are ILOs going to be the next big thing in lawsuit finance?

Coinbase has rebooted its internal lobbying program and signed a number of new contracts with K Street firms amid recent regulatory strife.

On this episode of The Scoop, founder Ari Rubenstein and founder & CEO Ryan Sheftel joined host Frank Chaparro to discuss the launch of their new crypto firm, called Radkl. Radkl, which was born out of trading firm and New York Stock Exchange market maker GTS, is a new digital asset trading business. GTS currently […]

“For us it’s almost like having a store on 5th avenue”. Atari is gearing up to celebrate its 50th anniversary, and appropriately enough the company is kicking off its half-century birthday not in the physical world, but in the metaverse. Specifically, it is hoping to capitalize off of the “land” it owns in virtual worlds […]

2021 is proving to be a bumper year for ransomware, but may also be witnessing an improvement in reporting practices.

At its core, Coinbase's proposal looks a lot like an attempt to short-circuit the SEC's authority in crypto.

The Block Research was commissioned by Forte to create “Blockchain-Based Gaming: A Primer” which provides a comprehensive introduction to how blockchain technology is being employed in video gaming experiences.

Binance Angels recovered the equivalent of 98,000 USDC on behalf of a user who transferred their funds to the wrong network address. Learn about the BNB Pioneer Program, an initiative designed to help users recover funds in emergency cases like Damien’s, and the different scenarios in which users are eligible to recover lost funds. 

  Sygnum is one of the few cryptocurrency banks operating in Europe.   On this episode of The Scoop, Mathias Imbach Co-Founder and Group CEO of Sygnum joined host Frank Chaparro to discuss the country’s crypto ecosystem and how large wealth channels are opening up to bitcoin and other digital assets. “Nowadays, the conversation goes […]

  “We are heavily moving into DeFi.”  Pantera Capital, the longest operating US-based bitcoin investment firm, now manages $5 billion worth of assets. But when it comes to decentralized finance, Pantera’s Franklin Bi still sees the space as undervalued. “As long as we’re still looking at the fundamentals and drawing out what the multiples are […]

Venezuela is revamping its currency with fewer zeroes as it continues to see rampant inflation. Meanwhile, stablecoin interest remains high.

Women at Revolut, the $33 billion British neobank, are paid 69p for every £1 earned by their male employees in the United Kingdom.

Noah Davis, associate vice president and head of digital sales at Christie's, joins The Scoop podcast to chat about the auction house's growing NFT footprint.

A body formed to steer the development of Metaplex, an open-source platform for building NFT storefronts, has named former Citadel and Google executive Adam Jeffries as CEO, according to a press release.

  Okcoin, which was founded in 2013, is doing something different in a crowded field of crypto exchanges: it’s going to allow clients to denominate trades in bitcoin in units of satoshi, rather than BTC.  On this episode of The Scoop, Okcoin CEO Hong Fang joined host Frank Chaparro for a discussion on Okcoin’s rapid […]