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Finance

Hedera’s Token Price Spikes Prematurely After Google Joins the Network's Governing Council

The cloud services arm of the Silicon Valley tech giant becomes the 11th member to join the council, but has no plans to further endorse the network.

Google Cloud developer advocate Allen Day speaks at Invest: Asia 2019. (Photo via CoinDesk archives)

Policy

US Intelligence Officials Are Funding Research on Dollar-Crushing 'Black Swan' Events

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence wants to sponsor a post-doc researcher to study what would happen if the U.S. dollar lost its status as the world’s reserve currency.

RESEARCH ME: The Office of the Director of National Intelligence wants to learn more about "black swan" events that would sink the U.S. dollar. (Image via Shutterstock)

Finance

Bitcoin Lender BlockFi Raises $30M in Series B Led by Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures

Having Hong Kong-based HashKey as an investor will help BlockFi expand into Singapore later this year, said CEO Zac Prince.

Peter Thiel image via CoinDesk archives

Tech

ConsenSys Project Launches 'Proof-of-Use' Network to Discourage Speculation

The Activate network requires tokens to reach maturity within three years of the first token sale.

SKALE CEO Jack O'Holleran. (Courtesy photo)

Finance

Custody Provider Vo1t Partners With IBM to Offer Customers More Secure Transactions

The partnership with IBM Hyper Protect ensures clients’ keys are safe even if Vo1t’s data centers are compromised.

Bitcoin miners are attractive partners to build AI data centers: Bernstein. (Shutterstock)

Finance

Prime Trust to Arrange Banking for Customers of BlockQuake Crypto Exchange

The exchange will use Prime Trust for compliance checks as well as custody for fiat and cold storage for crypto.

BlockQuake CEO Antonio Brasse (right) talks with BlockQuake Partner Sam Hyun. (Courtesy photo)

Markets

ErisX Hires Capital Markets Veteran as Chief Risk Officer

Vindhu Singh is the firm’s first chief risk officer, and will report to Head of Eris Clearing Liz James.

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Policy

Germany's BaFin Clarifies Licensing Process for Foreign Crypto Custodians

In its latest guidance released in January, the regulator said firms already custodying digital assets for Germans would not be penalized for not having a license. Instead, they’d be grandfathered into the same protection that crypto custody firms based in Germany already have under the new law.

BaFin, Germany, regulator

Finance

Few Banks Will Touch Crypto Firms, but Silvergate Wants to Touch Bitcoin Itself

Silvergate made its name providing fiat banking services for crypto businesses. Now, CEO Alan Lane wants the bank to handle digital assets themselves.

Silvergate Bank CEO Alan Lane (right) speaks on a panel in New York. (Photo via CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Coinbase Hires Google VP as Chief Product Officer

Surojit Chatterjee becomes Coinbase’s first chief product officer since the departure of Jeremy Henrickson in December 2018.

Coinbase Chief Product Officer Surojit Chatterjee (left) poses with CEO Brian Armstrong. (Courtesy photo)