In an interview at the Paris Blockchain Week Summit, NEAR Foundation CEO Marieke Flament shared insights on institutional investments, regulation and DAOs. Cointelegraph’s Joseph Hall interviewed Marieke Flament, the CEO of NEAR Foundation at the Paris Blockchain Week Sumit (PWBS) last week, discussing a range of topics such as the struggle by institutional investors to...Continue Reading

How a blogger who buys €500 of Bitcoin every month since 2017 plans to retire early, and the lessons he learned along the way. Motivations for buying Bitcoin (BTC) are numerous: a hedge against inflation, financial independence or even hopes for a Lamborghini and life in the sun.  For “Mr. ERB,” a keen blogger and...Continue Reading

Whales may be indecisive about accumulating, but bulls are getting vocal with their Bitcoin price targets. Bitcoin (BTC) regained fresh ground on April 21 after bears failed to gain control of short-term price action overnight. BTC/USD 1-day candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Trader: Holding $42,300 could open up path to $50,000 Data from Cointelegraph Markets...Continue Reading

Concentrated liquidity has become the latest trend in the DeFi world with several projects shifting to the new liquidity model on various blockchains. Decentralized exchange (DEX) protocols have become a key part of the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem where liquidity and liquidity providers play a pivotal role in keeping the vastly growing space moving. While...Continue Reading

“There was a tremendous amount of interest activity experimentation happening in the (crypto) space, but not a tremendous amount of adoption from real use cases,” said Zinder. Alex Zinder, a capital markets veteran who jumped on the blockchain train last year, attended the Paris Blockchain Week Summit, where he sat down with Cointelegraph to discuss...Continue Reading

The reported discussion between the two CEOs of the company happened in March last month, at a time when FTX requested CFTC to eliminate the role of brokers in product offerings. Goldman Sachs is reportedly pursuing an alliance with one of the top cryptocurrency exchanges FTX. The chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs David Solomon...Continue Reading

There are a few ways for regulators to limit the usage of noncustodial wallets, but there is no way to ban it completely, SatoshiLabs CFO said. As regulators grow increasingly concerned about investors moving their cryptocurrency out of centralized exchanges, one industry exec has assessed the probability of a potential ban of noncustodial wallets. Stepan...Continue Reading

Storm clouds are slowly fading for Grayscale and its embattled Bitcoin institutional investment product, while frustration with U.S. regulators continues to mount. Things are looking up for the United States’ largest institutional Bitcoin (BTC) product by asset holdings as pressure mounts on regulators. Data from on-chain monitoring resource Coinglass confirms that as of April 21,...Continue Reading

Binance CEO previously said that crypto exchanges must comply with sanctions in a similar way to traditional financial institutions. Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, is adopting major restrictions on users in Russia following the European Union’s fifth package of sanctions against Russia. Binance officially announced Thursday new limitations for Russian nationals or...Continue Reading

Crypto investors from the United States realized nearly $47 billion in gains during 2021, outpacing the UK by a factor of six. Crypto investors from the United States realized crypto gains nearly six times higher in total than the UK, the second highest country in terms of realized gains.  According to a report by Chainalysis,...Continue Reading