CoinDesk Crypto

As in many financial markets, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have seen their value plunge so far this year. A handful of projects like Terra have imploded before our very eyes. This sequence of events has led many investors and onlookers to question whether there's a viable f

As the crypto space develops, we at VanEck regularly create resources to try to educate investors about the growing economy around digital assets and cryptocurrencies. To aid your learning, we have created this guide to lead you through our crypto education resources.

If you're reading this, you probably know that investors can buy NFTs in the hopes that they appreciate in value and then sell them at a profit. You probably also know that artists and other creators...

To bring an end to the crypto winter and for the crypto sector, and America, to thrive for the long term, crypto must rise to the challenge posed by its fervent critics. These critics are actively working to undermine our viability.The market cap of the cryptocurrency sector has

Investors eyeballing the crypto market should consider Chainlink if they want a platform with real-world applications.

There’s an old media saying that you need three examples to make a trend. Well, at least two prominent Ethereum-based platforms are designing new stablecoins – a situation that speaks to the importance of those assets and the innovation that competition drives within

“After Andy Warhol died, his work was not worth anything,” says Les Borsai, co-founder of Wave Financial, a $1 billion-plus crypto asset manager, citing the American painter as an example of how patient art collectors can make money over time.

UPDATE (Aug. 1, 17:11 UTC): Clarifies headline and fixes transcript to reflect that it was not the addition of know-your-customer (KYC) identity checks, but rather the anti-money-laundering (AML) measure of removing sanctioned accounts in part because they hadn't gone through KYC

Three leading members of Binance’s compliance team opened up about what it takes to deal with fraud, money laundering, terrorist financing and bad press for the world’s largest crypto exchange.Reuters recently published a series of investigative reports on Binance and

I promised Twitter I would write about proof-of-stake and proof-of-work for this newsletter, but my computer (which kept restarting uncontrollably for a couple of days) and my immune system (which gave into a rhinovirus that deposited wet cement into my head) had other ideas.Sinc

This week, São Paulo, one of Brazil's most important soccer teams, announced the acquisition of Giuliano Galoppo, a player from Argentinian mid-table club Banfield.Nothing unusual there. Players transfer all the time. What made it a special occasion was that money was tran

While there are literally thousands of cryptocurrencies, when it comes to the big dogs, there are really only two: Bitcoin and Ethereum. Bitcoin is the original crypto, created in 2009, and Ethereum...

The sell-off in the crypto market hasn’t really spilled over into the broader financial system, according to Antonio Garcia Pascual, deputy chief of the global market analysis division at the International Monetary Fund.The crypto industry’s total market cap fell to a

This week saw big moves from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. First, the regulator declared several digital assets “securities” in the course of lobbing insider-trading allegations at an employee of crypto exchange Coinbase. The SEC then opened an investig

Whether it be scalping, fraudulent tickets or illicit reselling, the legacy ticketing system has its fair share of issues. This is hardly surprising from an industry that has scarcely innovated beyond digital barcodes over the past decade.This op-ed is part of CoinDesk's "Sports

As the latest cryptocurrency hype-cycle peaked in 2021, two exchanges that had grown rapidly in just a few years decided to put their names on pro sports stadiums. FTX secured naming rights to the Miami Heat basketball team’s stadium in March 2021 in a reported $135 million

Cryptocurrency is a key differentiator when it comes to what Web3 organizations can offer to potential employees.

Despite the downturn in the crypto markets where once high-flying companies are going bankrupt, and the pockets of individual retail participants are hurting, more professional athletes are converting their salaries into bitcoin (BTC).This past week, Brazilian UFC fighter Luana P

In recent years, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have soared in popularity -- and it doesn't look like the momentum will be dying down anytime soon. NFT artists potentially can make some cash (or...

To say that the momentum was electric would be an understatement. Just two weeks from conceiving the idea, we would sell 9090 membership NFTs at a total gross revenue of more than $10 million and build a community of more than 40,000 across all social channels. Collectively, we a