Blockchain


Policy

Malaysia Weighs Introduction of Crypto, Blockchain Legislation

The country's prime minister held discussions with Abu Dhabi's government and crypto exchange Binance to formulate how to move forward.

The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia ( Patrick Langwallner / Unsplash)

Finance

Chainalysis Buys Israeli Fraud Detection Startup Alterya for $150M

Alterya's AI driven fraud models have "substantial opportunities in the traditional market."

Chainalysis at Consensus 2019

Markets

Altcoin Market Could Heat Up This Week With $3B Token Unlock Schedule, ONDO Leads the Charge

On Jan. 18, Ondo Finance will free up 1.94 billion ONDO tokens, equating to over 130% of the token's circulating supply.

Token unlocks worth $3 billion loom. (stevepb/Pixabay)

Tech

Deutsche Bank's L2 Blockchain to Be 'Public and Permissioned,' Says Tech Partner

The banking giant is building a rollup on Ethereum using ZKsync technology developed by Matter Labs.

Deutsche Bank

Opinion

Crypto for Advisors: AI + Blockchain + Crypto

Blockchain is the key to unlocking a scalable, ethical, and user-focused AI economy, addressing critical barriers like resource demands, ethical concerns, and proof of humanhood.

AI agent tokens has garnered significant mindshare among crypto traders, growing into a multibillion dollar asset class. (Getty Images/Unsplash)

Tech

The Protocol: Bitcoin Gets a DEX, Union Labs Gets $12M

Also: Justin Drake on Ethereum's Beam Chain … and Solana

Ethereum Abstract Crystal

Markets

Institutions Go All In on Crypto: Sygnum Survey Reveals 57% Respondents Plan to Boost Allocations

A notable 65% of the survey respondents are bullish long-term, with 63% mulling more allocation to digital assets in the next three to six months.

stone columns in front of a building

Tech

Protocol Village: Pulse, Web3 Health Tech Startup, Closes $1.8M Pre-Seed Round

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Nov. 7-13.

Protocol Village is CoinDesk's living column chronicling blockchain tech project updates (CoinDesk)

Tech

The Protocol: Reinvent Ethererum, and Just Don't Break Bitcoin

In founding editor Bradley Keoun's last issue of The Protocol, CoinDesk's weekly newsletter devoted to blockchain technology, we're covering Trump's DOGE whistle and the slew of announcements from the big Ethereum conference Devcon in Bangkok.

Will Foxley opens OP_NEXT (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

Bitcoin Developers Working With StarkWare, Blockstream Claim Breakthrough on New Features

The prestigious team of developers say that the new method for adding "covenants," while still in need of refinement, could bring greater programmability to the Bitcoin blockchain without requiring a notoriously difficult-to-pass upgrade known as a soft fork.

Figure from the just-published paper (Heilman, Kolobov, Levy, Poelstra)