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Crypto-friendly Silvergate Bank has made its first hire from the hardcore bitcoin community to support an ambitious roadmap for its business serving digital currency clients. Benjamin Richman, formerly director of business development and partnerships at bitcoin tech startup Blockstream,...

The founder of one of crypto’s most buzzed-about projects discusses the origins of Gitcoin, controversy and why open source funding needs to evolve. Ever since announcing its fourth round of grants, Gitcoin has been a major subject of...

Square Crypto, the payment company's bitcoin-focused wing, is building a "Lightning Development Kit" for wallet and app developers to more easily build on the layer-2 solution.Announced Tuesday, the new kit includes an API, language tools, demo apps and...

Paxos announced Tuesday a new feature allowing customers to automatically wire transfer funds from their bank accounts into either Paxos Standard or Binance USD stablecoins. Conversely, any PAX or BUSD sent to the designated address will be automatically...

The Swiss government has attempted to strike a more conciliatory tone on the Facebook-led Libra project, weeks after the country's now-departed president called the project a failure. A government memo, seen by Bloomberg, emphasizes that the country's regulators...

A regulated European startup plans to bring fiat currency transactions onto the Algorand blockchain.Iceland-based Monerium, which has a European Economic Area (EEA) e-money license, has entered into a non-exclusive partnership with Algorand. Announced Tuesday, the deal will see...

Noelle Acheson is CoinDesk’s Director of Research and producer of CoinDesk’s Institutional Crypto newsletter. These opinions are her own. Let’s talk about containers – not the massive cargo ships that cross oceans, but vessels such as bottles, boxes...

Co-founder Ketuan “Micree” Zhan was stripped of his director role at not only Beijing Bitmain Technology, but the cryptocurrency miner maker's parent entity, BitMain Technologies Holding Company, corporate records show.A filing of the Cayman Islands–incorporated holding company, submitted...

China-based RenrenBit, a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency lending and wallet startup, has disclosed it took $600,000 in net income from revenue of $2.3 million in 2019.The startup, founded by well-known Chinese over-the-counter trader Zhao Dong, who's also an investor in...

Bitcoin mining firm Argo Blockchain says it took 10 times more revenue in 2019 than in the previous year.In a press release posted on the London Stock Exchange website on Monday, Argo said, for its first full year...