On Tuesday, he once again faced questions about a public blog post he’d signed cryptographically to prove he was Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto that experts have since debunked.Source
Excitement was high about one month ago, when TradFi once again got the regulatory go-ahead to launch an entirely new investment vehicle for crypto. The process of bringing to the U.S. market a spot bitcoin ETF took more than a decade, but on Jan. 11, 10 such products finally began trading. It’s been a hell of a ride since.Source
The three crypto companies have together raised a total of $2 billion.Source
The CPI reading reduced expectations for interest-rate cuts in the next months, weighing on risk assets such as crypto.Source
Ripple struck a deal to acquire Standard Custody & Trust Co., the company said Tuesday, in order to secure a New York trust charter in an ongoing expansion of its U.S. regulatory licensing.Source
The new token type claims to solve some of the drawbacks with ERC-404s, an experimental standard that launched last week – to such popularity that it’s already driven up congestion on the Ethereum blockchain.Source
The company has onboarded institutional investors such as Pantera Capital, DeFiance Capital, Keyrock and Flare Network to its MPC wallet, and secured over $3 billion in blockchain transaction volume.Source
Bringing Coinbase Pay into the Ledger Live app is supposed to benefit Ledger users, making it easier to receive their crypto purchases from Coinbase directly on their Ledger hardware wallet, without any additional fees.Source
The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for Feb. 13, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.Source