Wallets


Analyses

What Will Be the Next Target of the SEC's Enforcement Regime?

Troutman Pepper lawyers predict that crypto wallets and TradFi firms could face the agency's wrath.

(Photo courtesy of the Securities and Exchange Commission)

Finance

Coinbase Paves Way for Big Institutions to Do More With Web3, DeFi, NFTs

“We're seeing corporations who want to participate on-chain in some way,” Coinbase’s Kevin Johnson told CoinDesk TV. “But they need a safe way to do that.”

Coinbase (COIN) reports fourth quarter earnings on Thursday and is expected to post strong numbers as trading volume picked up in the last few months of the year. (Piggybank/Unsplash)

Technologies

StarkWare Restores Crypto Access for Delinquent Wallet Updaters, After Complaints on X

After users complained on X, StarkWare walked back on a move in which it implemented an upgrade that made users' funds inaccessible.

StarkWare co-founders President Eli Ben-Sasson and CEO Uri Kolodny (StarkWare)

Finance

Ledger Continues to Defend Recovery System, Says It's Always 'Technically' Possible to Extract Users' Keys

"Technically speaking it is and always has been possible to write firmware that facilitates key extraction. You have always trusted Ledger not to deploy such firmware whether you knew it or not," Ledger said earlier on a now-deleted tweet.

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Finance

Decentralized Wallet Developer Odsy Network Raises $7.5M at $250M Valuation

The funding round was led by Blockchange Ventures and included participation from Rubik Ventures, Node Capital and FalconX among others.

Odsy Foundation founders (l-r): Yehonatan Cohen Scaly, David Lachmish, Omer Sadika, Sean Lee. (Odsy Foundation)

Finance

Mastercard Launches Crypto Credential Service for Cross-Border Transfers

The set of verification standards uses technology from CipherTrace, the well-known blockchain analytics platform Mastercard agreed to acquire in late 2021.

Raj Dhamodharan, Head of Crypto and Blockchain, Mastercard (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

This AI Chatbot Plugs Into Your Crypto Wallet

MarginFi's Omni chatbot is intended to merge two tech world "next big things."

marginFi banner (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Technologies

Cardano Developer IOG Releases Lace Wallet, Boosting ADA Ecosystem

Users can stake ADA tokens directly from Lace to contribute to the security of the Cardano network and receive rewards for their participation.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Analyses

Bitcoin Ordinals Custody Solutions Would Be Better if They Embraced Bitcoiner Values

The perfect Ordinals wallet should (1) integrate Ordinals support without requiring a full node, (2) be easy to use for the average collector, (3) follow Bitcoin's great cultural tradition of embracing self-custody and trustless transacting.

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Technologies

Crypto Wallet Firm Dfns Says ‘Magic Links’ Have Critical Vulnerability

Affected services say they were given barely any notice before Dfns published its blog post detailing the so-called zero day.

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