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Non-fungible tokens are all the rage right now. But where are investors buying these assets? With the ever-growing popularity of NFTs, numerous marketplaces online have sprung up -- selling everything...

Play-to-earn (P2E) crypto games are emerging as a popular blockchain application that is likely to bring a high risk for scams and money laundering, especially once the crypto winter thaws.Although P2E crypto tokens, like a lot of the crypto ecosystem, have lost much of their val

Ethereum is the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. But what will it be worth in the future?

At its height, Voyager Digital boasted 3.5 million users (roughly what Coinbase boasted in 2015) and $5.9 billion in assets, comparable to a small regional bank or respectable wealth management firm.Ninety-seven percent of Voyager’s clients stored less than $10,000 on the p

Suing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to learn why the regulator rejected Bitwise's bitcoin exchange-traded fund filing is a possibility, according to Chief Compliance Officer Katherine Dowling.Dowling told CoinDesk TV's "All About Bitcoin" program the company h

In 2022, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) gained the spotlight as the broad cryptocurrency market suffered carnage because of the shocking collapse of the stablecoin TerraUSD and several centralized crypto lenders defaulting and filing for bankruptcy. 

The vast majority of crypto providers have no regulatory support, according to Sultan Meghji, the former chief innovation officer (CIO) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.Meghji, now a professor at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering with a focus on arti

Cryptocurrencies have gone from being a nascent investment to entering the conversation among investors as a legitimate allocation in their portfolios.

The first known non-fungible token was a short video clip minted on May 3, 2014. Since then, NFTs have grown rapidly from amusing trifles to serious stores of value. See Our List: 100 Most Influential...

Why is Bitcoin halving so important? When is the next Bitcoin halving event scheduled to take place? And what do cryptocurrency experts expect when Bitcoin halves again?

Solana is a blockchain network created in 2017 by Anatoly Yakovenko and Greg Fitzgerald. But what will it be worth in the future?

Gustavo Petro, guerrilla, economist, politician and winner of Colombia’s most recent presidential election in a minor upset, has campaigned on a platform of furthering his country’s economic independence from the United States.

Regardless of personal views, it has grown near impossible not to take notice of non-fungible tokens (NFT). Even with recent slowdowns, total NFT sales volume could top $90 billion by the end of this year (after seeing a record $40 billion in 2021). That success has brought a new

It's no secret that understanding the traditional finance world is challenging. Unfortunately, making sense of decentralized finance (DeFi) is even harder. Decentralized finance is a growing collection of financial tools built on top of the blockchain – a digital ledge

Digital assets, such as cryptocurrencies, traveled the long road to investability in a short time.

Sam Bankman-Fried founded the cryptocurrency and derivatives exchange FTX in 2019, and it quickly has become the sixth-largest exchange by volume, boasting a $3.5 billion valuation. In 2021, he was...

In the past several years, most people have undoubtedly heard of cryptocurrency even if they haven't dipped their toes in the investment waters. Now that the prices of Bitcoin, Ethereum and other...

The crypto economy has no track record for rallying out of a bear market and going bullish again, but plenty of experts think 2024 could be the year that cryptocurrency, specifically Bitcoin, goes on...

Cardano (ADA) is a cryptocurrency currently worth under $0.50 per coin, down from an all-time high of $3.10 last summer. The coin has a market cap of roughly $15.78 billion as of July 2022. Despite...

Bitcoin (BTC) is fundamentally a good idea that has been spoiled by too much cheap money and speculative interest, according to Rockefeller International Managing Director and Chairman Ruchir Sharma.Sharma, a former emerging markets investor at banking giant Morgan Stanley (MS) a