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Nasdaq’s TradeTalks Global Markets Reporter, Jill Malandrino, spoke with Tony Sio, Head of Market Place Regulatory Technology at Nasdaq, to discuss surveillance trends for 2022.

Decentralized finance (DeFi) soared in 2021. The total value locked in DeFi protocols, measured as the aggregate amount of digital assets locked across all DeFi smart contracts, grew roughly 13 times in the year, reaching an all-time-high of $260 billion.But virtually all that ac

With another relatively quiet day on the economic and earnings front, the market will continue to focus on the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war and its implications.

Last week, crypto users in Venezuela and certain other jurisdictions were blocked from accessing MetaMask and, ultimately, the Ethereum blockchain.The core issue ended up being with Infura, a crypto software and API provider that plays one of the largest roles in providing infras

Bitcoin led a rally in cryptocurrencies on Wednesday after what appeared to be a prematurely published U.S. Treasury statement allayed market worries about a sudden tightening of U.S. rules around digital assets.

Someone recently told me that decentralized autonomous organizations, more commonly known as DAOs, have so far led to more philosophizing than building. At the most basic level, a DAO is just a way to organize people toward a collective aim. They’re often called “inte

Where are the sanctions-evading crypto use cases? Surely by this point we’d see something around that, right?You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter looking at the intersection of cryptocurrency and government. Click here to sign up for future editions.

Me llamo Erich García Cruz y soy un programador de 35 años. No tengo cuenta bancaria ni PayPal; tampoco uso tarjeta de crédito o débito Mastercard o Visa. Más de 60 bancos y plataformas de pago me han rechazado.¿La razón? Nac&iacut

My name is Erich Garcia Cruz and I am a 35-year-old programmer. I don't have a bank account or PayPal, and I don't use a Mastercard or Visa credit or debit card. More than 60 banks and payment platforms have rejected me.Why? Because I was born and currently live in Cuba, a countr

Although it’s the buzzword on everyone’s lips, the concept of the elusive metaverse remains largely incomprehensible to most of the general public.

The White House reportedly will soon issue an executive order directing agencies across the federal government to conduct a risk analysis and, ultimately, a coordinated approach to digital assets as a matter of national security.Adam Zarazinski is CEO of Inca Digital, a digital a

Among crypto’s hottest trends is GameFi, which brings Web 3’s advantages to gaming. Web 3’s meaning varies by individual but reflects rising demand among people who are spending more time and money in meta worlds to own their virtual assets, free from the interf

Despite the accelerating expansion of the crypto community into the mainstream, the skeptics and the uninformed have continued to liken investing in crypto to gambling - implying that it is high-risk and without skill compared to investing in traditional assets.

Last month, Twitter sleuths uncovered a cache of homophobic and transphobic posts from Brantly Millegan, director of the Ethereum Name Service Foundation (ENS), roiling the crypto community.“Homosexual acts are evil. Transgenderism doesn’t exist. Abortion is murder. C

With Bitcoin (BTC) steadily growing in notoriety, the four main generations in the United States — baby boomers, Generation X, millennials and Generation Z (zoomers) — have all embraced it in nuanced and interesting ways. 

Why are interest rates on dollar-pegged stablecoins so much higher than interest rates on actual dollars? You’d think that a stablecoin worth a dollar would command the same interest rate as a dollar, namely zero. But a quick search of lending rates on stablecoins reveals r

If the last 12 months in cryptocurrency has taught us anything, it's that people really like owning a piece of code that proves they overpaid for a JPEG file. And it's not just about monkey pictures either. Soon NFTs (non-fungible tokens) will be used to trade music rights, real

NFTs are here to stay, because the possibilities and the opportunities of NFTs are boundless and go beyond collectibles and celebrities’ tweets or photos. The future of NFTs lies in business and economic applications.

Cryptocurrency has been shockingly central to the unfolding invasion of Ukraine, where news this morning finds Russian forces capturing a crucial nuclear power plant and other objectives.Some have wondered whether crypto might be useful for evading the devastating sanctions being

In years hence, when we look back on how cryptocurrencies became integrated into the global economy, this week may be viewed as a turning point.For one, there was the unprecedented phenomenon of a besieged European government crowdfunding armament procurement with donations from