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One potential way of measuring the actual size of the cryptocurrency industry might be in square footage. It sounds bizarre but this mostly synthetic, digital asset class actually has a growing footprint.The New York Times published an article on how “The Crypto Bros Are Sn

Robin Schmidt is Supermassive.one. He's also the head of multimedia at The Defiant, where he churns out some of the highest quality videos documenting the emergence of "decentralized finance." He's defiant. An artist. And a muckraker. Today he fills out CoinDesk's version of the

Exciting, risky and widely misunderstood, cryptocurrency has been the investment story of the last decade. But, with their fortunes falling in 2022, are Bitcoin and all of the digital tokens that came...

Some investors and financial advisers were taken aback in recent weeks as one of the oldest and most trusted digital asset exchanges and custody providers announced that it might not be as secure as they had once assumed.On top of announcing a major earnings miss, Coinbase warned

Survival of the fittest – the old adage is playing out for crypto miners this year as a sell-off in the broader market is squeezing out some companies in the overcrowded industry.In digital asset mining, particularly for bitcoin, competition has increased greatly in recent

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...

Why are banks not diving headfirst into crypto and decentralized finance?

Exciting, risky and widely misunderstood, cryptocurrency has been the investment story of the last decade. But, with their fortunes falling in 2022, are Bitcoin and all of the digital tokens that came...

The algorithm powering the Waves protocol’s neutrino USD (USDN) stablecoin needs to be adjusted in the wake of two recent depeggings from the U.S. dollar, founder Sasha Ivanov said Wednesday. “We have to work on the algorithm,” Ivanov said on CoinDesk TV’s

In the wake of a more than 50% price drawdown in major cryptocurrencies and the collapse of some huge financial experiments, public sentiment on crypto has done a predictable 180 degree turn. It happens every few years: A crypto price bubble draws in a new wave of speculators, ma

Markets were little changed in May even though all the major indices made new 52-week lows during the month.

Gone are the days when art had to be on paper or another physical medium. Now you can buy NFT art online.

Binance Labs, the venture capital and incubation arm of Binance, recently announced the closing of a new $500 million investment fund -- one that will invest in projects which can extend the use cases...

Polygon (MATIC) is aimed at making transactions cheaper and faster, offering a way to connect blockchain networks compatible with Ethereum. See if you should invest.

DAVOS, Switzerland — Thailand has been working on a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC), with an initial pilot planned for the second quarter of 2022, but the pilot was postponed to the fourth quarter of this year.The pilot, or trial of the retail CBDC, which is des

How could a “stablecoin” become so unstable? To answer that question, we need to cover what a stablecoin is, why they even exist in the first place, how they work, and then finally, what exactly happened here. We'll end with general guidance for investors

The Proust Questionnaire – an old-style magazine format popular in the French novelist's day – asks a series of personal, philosophical and prosaic questions that, in theory, present a side of a person not often seen. Here, Ayesha Kiani, chief operating officer of dig

Reaching Net Zero by 2050 will require a herculean effort.

If living in near-constant agitation wasn't enough to fray every cryptocurrency holders' last nerve, the fractious activity in May must have surely done the trick. Fortunately, there is some good news...

A little fewer than one in four people invest in cryptocurrency, according to a new study from GOBankingRates that surveyed more than 1,000 American adults. Among the more than three-quarters who...