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Eun Young Choi, head of crypto enforcement at the Department of Justice (DOJ), has promised a crackdown on illicit behavior on trading platforms, according to the Financial Times. CoinDesk Managing Editor for Global Policy and Regulation Nikhilesh De discusses the agency's approach to crypto regulation in the U.S.

May 15, 2023

As part of our "CoinDesk Turns 10" series looking back at seminal stories from crypto history, Slock.it founder and corpus.ventures CEO Christoph Jentzsch joins "First Mover" to discuss how The DAO hack in 2016 impacted the Ethereum network and the broader crypto industry as a whole.

May 15, 2023

Bitcoin (BTC) is climbing back above $27,000 after crypto exchange Binance announced that it would cease operations in Canada, citing the challenging regulatory environment. Tom Dunleavy of Dunleavy Investment Research discusses his crypto markets analysis and outlook.

May 15, 2023

Blockchain and smart-contract platform Chia Network recently submitted a confidential draft registration to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering (IPO). Chia Network CEO and President Gene Hoffman discusses plans to go public amid the current macroeconomic environment.

May 12, 2023

The crypto market saw $2.3 billion in meme coin trading volume last week – a six-fold rise from the preceding week's $387 million to the highest since May 2021, according to blockchain observer James Tolan's Dune analytics-based tracker. "Meme coins... they get a lot of mainstream media headlines," Bitwise Crypto Analyst Ryan Rasmussen said, "[but] they aren't really doing a whole lot to move the needle on user adoption to onboard those next 100 million users."

May 12, 2023

CoinDesk's Bitcoin Trend Indicator (BTI), which measures the directional momentum and strength in bitcoin's price, flipped from bullish to neutral on Thursday. "It's important to look at the Bitcoin Trend Indicator," Bitwise Crypto Analyst Ryan Rasmussen said, "but it's more important to look under the hood at [bitcoin's] fundamentals."

May 12, 2023

House Financial Services Committee chairman Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) accused the SEC of stonewalling questions on digital assets and threatened another hearing. Meanwhile, Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon is set to be released from Montenegro jail on supervised bail as his trial on document forgery charges continues, a court notice from Friday shows. CoinDesk's Managing Editor for Global Policy and Regulation, Nikhilesh De, shares the latest developments in crypto regulation.

May 12, 2023

Threshold Network is now working with the cross-chain token protocol Wormhole in an effort that aims to allow the easy movement of a tokenized representation of bitcoin to twenty blockchain ecosystems. Wormhole Foundation Head of Operations Dan Reecer joins the conversation.

May 12, 2023

Chia Network CEO and President Gene Hoffman joins "First Mover" to discuss the state of Web3 gaming and the current landscape for how the traditional gaming industry views Web3 technology. Plus, the latest on the blockchain and smart-contract platform's registration to the SEC for a proposed initial public offering (IPO).

May 12, 2023

Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon is set to be released from Montenegro jail on supervised bail as his trial on document forgery charges continues, a court notice from Friday shows. CoinDesk's Managing Editor for Global Policy and Regulation, Nikhilesh De, breaks down the latest developments.

May 12, 2023