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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission used its first insider-trading case Thursday to formally declare nine digital tokens as “securities“ in its ongoing practice of defining its crypto oversight through enforcement actions.The federal securities regulator filed

“Trying to find a bottom is impossible,” says John Patrick Lee, a cryptocurrency analyst at VanEck, echoing views from a slew of market pundits struggling to decipher whether the latest market rally is a sign of capitulation or just a bear market bounce.

A digital land plot is exactly what it sounds like: a space of land available for sale in the virtual world. Digital lands have rapidly evolved from spaces for gamers to places where people can...

In October 2021, crypto industry watchers scratched their heads as a collection of venture capital firms bet millions of dollars on reNFT, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that helped...

Cryptocurrency, including Bitcoin, is experiencing a slump in step with the stock market and other investments. Industry experts are calling this bear market for cryptocurrency a crypto winter. But...

Many countries are far ahead of the United States in developing central bank digital currencies (CBDC), and that may be for good reason, according to one financial institutions expert.Josh Lipsky, senior director at think tank Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center, told Co

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.

Now-insolvent crypto broker Celsius Network operated in a hectic, chaotic and disorganized manner, according to one former employee.Timothy Cradle, the platform’s previous compliance and financial crimes director, told CoinDesk TV “of sloppiness and mismanagement&rdqu

One of money’s key functions is working as a unit of account, which takes at least relative stability vis-a-vis the products and services being traded in a given economy.

The Chief Financial Officer of Circle Internet Financial, Jeremy Fox-Green, earlier this week reaffirmed the cryptocurrency financial services firm’s plan to go public later this year. On the one hand, this isn’t news: Circle’s plans were first announced in June

Tell me if you’ve heard this story before. A vast new market opens up, and an investment and credit boom soon follows. Real wealth is created alongside a speculative excess. Banks spring up all over to extend credit to market participants.New financial instruments are creat

If you intend to take advantage of the low prices of this bear market to begin investing, you might be wondering how XRP coins may fare in the future.

I dislike conferences. I’m awkward, almost comically introverted and pathologically incapable of striking up a conversation with strangers (sober). It’s an ordeal. My recent decision to attend ETHBarcelona overrode these factors because my intuition told me this was a

If you're interested in NFTs, you probably know that collectors use them to authenticate ownership of artwork and other collectibles on the blockchain. But that's not all they can do. See Our List:...

Last week, the news that Ethereum’s long-awaited transition to proof-of-stake might finally come in September evoked as many “I’ll believe it when I see it” jeers as it did cheers.But not everything on Ethereum is behind schedule. EthCC, a major Ethereum c

Ether (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, is up 45% over the week, outpacing most other assets you can bet on. There might be an easy explanation here:Traders are turning bullish as Ethereum’s cadre of developers near the end of a multiyear, hyper-compli

The markets may be down, but it’s important to remember that some of crypto’s most exciting innovations took hold during bear markets, from Bitcoin itself in the wake of the financial crisis to Ethereum to DeFi and NFTs. 

Whether you know a lot about cryptocurrencies or not, you've probably heard about bitcoin. You may have even heard about Ethereum, Litecoin or Bitcoin Cash.

In return for an investor’s deposit, they receive rewards in the form of tokens and token shares. Given the current economic environment of high inflation and low interest rates, crypto staking provides a needed tool for generating passive income and returns.

If you're interested in NFTs but you don't need crypto, you might be surprised to learn that you actually do need crypto. Crypto is the currency of the NFT world -- they both exist on the same...