Coinbase has filed a draft registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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Robinhood has agreed to settle charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to a Thursday statement.
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Quick Take
- A number of crypto firms are aiming to launch debit and credit cards in the U.S. next year.
- That’s likely to cause tax-related headaches.
Bitcoin’s Wikipedia page drew most traffic since January as prices broke all-time highs on Wednesday
Visitors appear to have flocked to Bitcoin’s Wikipedia page on Wednesday as the price of the cryptocurrency broke well above $20,000.
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Indexing protocol The Graph has launched its mainnet, enabling developers to more easily find and use public data to build decentralized applications.
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Shipments for bulk pre-orders of Bitmain’s flagship bitcoin ASIC miners are already lined up to Q3 2021 even as Bitmain boosts rig prices by as much as 20%
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Crypto and blockchain-focused venture capital firm IDEO CoLab has unveiled an incubator program for decentralized finance (DeFi) startups.
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The Ethereum 2.0 or Eth2 staking contract continues to attract deposits. The contract now holds more than $1 billion worth of ether (ETH).
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Quick Take
- As bitcoin crosses $20,000, crypto rewards programs are paying off for first movers
- Cash App bitcoin rewards, and other crypto card rewards programs have the potential to onboard millions of new users into the crypto ecosystem
Quick Take
- Stablecoins built on the seigniorage shares model consist of (at least) two tokens — a stablecoin and an investment token
- The investment token is designed with properties that incentivize the stablecoin to approach its desired value peg (e.g. $1)
- Algorithmic stablecoins have interesting properties, such as no requirement for collateral, but it’s unclear how such systems will perform under duress
