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Algorand is an up-and-coming blockchain project. The platform's performance looks volatile in the short term, but a patient investor could see a strong ROI.

In mid-July, Verified Market Reports stated that the global NFT market had reached nearly $11.32 billion and was on pace to top $232 billion by 2030. With that much money changing hands, one thing is...

Ethereum miner Chandler Guo is reiterating his push for Ethereum to undergo a "hard fork" once it become a proof-of-stake blockchain next month in a software update known as the Merge.Guo told CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover” program on Friday that he has helped orga

Certainty is always better than uncertainty, and the European crypto industry is in luck—the powers that be have reached a preliminary agreement on the crypto playbook.

If you know anything about crypto and also read the news, I’m sure you’ve read about crypto mining. And if you’ve read about crypto-mining, you’ve read about how Bitcoin depends on proof-of-work (which is so so so terrible for the environment) and about ho

Although cryptocurrency is decentralized, you'll need a way to trade and store your tokens. There are dozens of apps available to do the job, but how do you choose from so many options? This guide...

Monero, the popular privacy-focused cryptocurrency protocol, is preparing for a major network upgrade this weekend (targeted for Saturday, August 13). Monero, whose native token is monero (XMR), is an open-source project that launched in 2014 as “Bitmonero.” It claims

Monero, the popular privacy-focused cryptocurrency protocol, is preparing for a major network upgrade this weekend (targeted for Saturday, August 13). Monero, whose native token is monero (XMR), is an open-source project that launched in 2014 as “Bitmonero.” It claims

Shiba inu might have seen a faltering in its price recently, but it has managed to attract investors. Discover if shiba inu crypto is worth the investment.

The decentralized finance (DeFi) space has become synonymous with yields that seem crazy next to their traditional-investment counterparts.

Should Tim Cook of Apple be thrown in jail for manufacturing a phone that’s used by criminals to plan heists? Should the CEO of Boeing be punished for building the planes that hijackers flew into the World Trade Center? Is the inventor of the pressure cooker criminally resp

The metaverse is a virtual space that could see huge growth in 2022. Find out here which metaverse coins are the best ones to buy.

Mainstream banking must embrace Web3 technology as part of the growing wave of technological innovations aiming to solve traditional challenges, including the current climate crisis. 

ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm covering trends in the global ETFs/ETPs ecosystem, reported today that Crypto ETFs and ETPs listed globally gathered net inflows of US$227 million during July, bringing year-to-date net inflows to US$727 million

What a week huh? Tornado Cash got sanctioned, hedge funds might soon have to report their crypto holdings and we haven’t even had a chance to look at the latest push to give the CFTC spot market oversight.You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter looking a

Asked for his views on cryptocurrencies, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler likes to quote the poet James Whitcomb Riley, who wrote, “When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.”

There are a number of factors to consider when choosing where to store the private keys for your Ether (ETH) — the native asset of the Ethereum blockchain.

On one side, we are seeing decentralized finance (DeFi) pushing beyond crypto to make a real-world impact. Simultaneously, traditional capital markets (TradFi) are drifting towards crypto as more and more assets are tokenized.

The decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem should prepare itself for a more adversarial relationship with regulators, warned Rune Christensen, founder of MakerDAO, the decentralized autonomous organization behind the DAI stablecoin.Christensen told CoinDesk TV on Thursday the U.S

When the crypto community discusses DeFi (decentralized finance), the term is often pigeonholed to finance.What was once a space for creatives, engineers and tinkerers has instead become a battleground for venture capital firms and hedge funds who use DeFi to take on unprecedente