Sitemap - 2019 - The Block

Facebook is reportedly talking to crypto exchanges about listing its coin | Casa is dramatically shifting its business, and it’s kicking off with two new products

Coin Metrics raises $1.9M to bring crypto data to institutions | A former ConsenSys exec has raised for a fund that’ll squeeze more alpha out of Ether

Coinbase responds to its controversial acquisition of blockchain intelligence platform Neutrino | MyEtherWallet COO: We won’t just be a wallet in the future

XRP set to trade on Coinbase | Suspected wash trading rife at major exchanges, per study

Pantera CEO: This crypto winter is different than any we've seen before | CasperLabs confirms Vlad Zamfir as lead architect

A European exchange giant is gearing up to jump on the crypto futures bandwagon | A price war is heating up in the crypto market, and 2 exchanges are leading the charge

KuCoin’s leaked ‘volume-boosting’ offers draw accusations of wash trading | Confirmed! New Samsung Galaxy device will offer private key storage

Elon Musk thinks paper money is going away and crypto will take its place | The derivatives market is heating up in crypto, and Binance might be the next firm to jump in

Introducing The Block Genesis | Wall Street analysts throw cold water on J.P.Morgan’s ‘cryptocurrency’

Taking control: What happens to your crypto after you die? | Rehypothecation: BTC’s path to becoming king of collateral

JPMorgan launches its own cryptocurrency; the first for a major U.S. bank | ‘They asked us for $3 million’: an inside look into getting listed on a crypto exchange

Ethereum sidechain solution SKALE Labs releases DevNet | ASIC chip technology is renewable energy’s future

A California asset manager has come up with a clever way to include bitcoin in an ETF | Jack Dorsey: Cash App Lightning Network integration not an ‘if’ but a ‘when’

QuadrigaCX likely lacked any ETH cold wallets, per report | Mapping out the non-fungible token ecosystem

Binance moves away from Ethereum as it prepares to launch DEX | Facebook spoke to Basis, Algorand and Keybase about possible acquisitions

Binance brought in $446 million in profits in 2018 despite the bear market | Abra launches new stock trading service that turns your $BTC into $FB | The Block’s list of crypto research tools

Dharma raises $7 million to decentralize a fast-growing corner of the crypto market | A startup is launching a solution that protects users from exchange hacks

Ian Balina: A shadow of a made man | Facebook acquires its first blockchain startup | Shares for crypto exchange Circle are being offered at a massive discount

Mapping out Blockstream | Arms dealer turns out to be the FBI | IBM puts literal oranges on the blockchain

Money 2.0 Stuff: Stake My Token for 1000% Yields

Binance opens the fiat floodgates, accepting credit card payments for crypto | Video shows Kik CEO discussing ICO pre-sale: “It will become super valuable”

Zcash Company CEO: I don’t see Grin and Beam as competition | Genesis Capital has originated over $1 billion in crypto loans even as the bear market reigns

BlockFi scores new funding from Coinbase Ventures, sets sights on international expansion | Fidelity is reportedly aiming to launch its bitcoin custody business in March | Media company Cheddar partners with Brave to unlock premium content for free

Money Stuff 2.0: Saint Livingston, the ‘utility token’ martyr

Wall Street veteran Jamie Selway departs Blockchain.com as institutional wave fails to materialize | Monero’s Riccardo Spagni: “Financial privacy is a basic human right” | An interview with Circle’s Jeremy Allaire

Robinhood has slashed the percentage of orders it sends to Citadel Securities as competition among HFTs heats up | Short strategy helped Multicoin Capital post solid 2018 results

Samsung Galaxy S10 images show embedded cryptocurrency wallet | Bitcoin post-issuance: an existential threat | Robinhood Crypto coming to New York after firm nabs coveted BitLicense

Money Stuff 2.0: Maybe Augur can be a thing now | Cboe withdraws VanEck Bitcoin ETF, but the asset manager is not giving up hope

Coinbase expands OTC and institutional trading services into Asia and Europe | Bank for International Settlements argues Bitcoin ‘is not sustainable without block rewards’

Mapping out Coinbase’s acquisitions and investments | Blockchain is eyeing a stablecoin partnership it says could ‘shift the market’

Special Edition - Money 2.0 Stuff: Upgrading Blockchains Is Like Cleaning a Pig

Lightning Network’s Infrastructural Build Out | Block by Block: Crypto Lending | Core Ethereum devs push Constantinople upgrade out 6 weeks; ProgPoW decision put on hold

Ethereum cofounder Joe Lubin joins board of crypto exchange ErisX | Handshake is attempting to make the Internet more open

Crypto exchange CEO says traders shouldn’t hold their breath for ether futures | A Constantinople postponement postmortem | BitGo announces partnership that puts it up against the largest crypto exchanges

The growth of the Lightning Network has been remarkable. But there’s a catch. | Mapping out Sybil Resistance Mechanisms | How The Block works

Vlad Zamfir is joining a VC-backed startup racing to launch the Casper upgrade ahead of Ethereum | Constantinople: who, what, where, how?

Despite Core Dev consensus, ‘Proposition ProgPow’ faces community concerns | Segwit adoption tapers off after rapid early growth

Bitwise files to list bitcoin ETF on NYSE Arca | The Burden of Infura | Veil wants to make decentralized financial products frictionless for mainstream users

The inside story of the Coinbase crypto OG and Wall Street guard power struggle | Analysis of cryptocurrency exchange wallets shows holdings are decreasing

MimbleWimble: History, Technology, and the Mining Industry | Bitcoin bulls are storming Wall Street’s crypto trading desks

Hiking trips, plan Bs, and finding the human behind the tech: how Consensys Ventures’ chief seeks out her next success ​ | New crypto exchange looks to lure traders with Tether futures

Stablecoin projects are paying rebates to traders, and it caused a big headache for Paxos | Mapping out Ethereum’s Developer Ecosystem | Correlation between cryptocurrency prices sharply increased in 2018

Tokens for Tesla: Exchange launching next week will trade US shares in crypto | Binance will have ‘at least one new token launch every month’ on its redesigned token platform

Block by Block: Supply Chain | Galaxy Digital spikes 23% after Novogratz increases his stake in the floundering crypto firm | Fred Wilson says crypto markets are near bottom

Bakkt has made 3 new hires — here’s who’s working on the $182.5M crypto project | Here comes the New Year! Please stop irresponsibly predicting cryptocurrency prices!