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Arkham Intelligence has started a bounty marketplace that will let people buy and sell on-chain cryptocurrency data. Dubbed the Arkham Intel Exchange, the marketplace will will feature a native token (ARKM) that is designed to "deanonymize the blockchain." "The Hash" panel weighs in on the latest developments.

10 jul 2023

Coinbase acknowledged the possibility that federal securities laws would apply to its listings years ago, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) claimed in a new filing Friday. "The Hash" panel discusses the SEC's latest response ahead of a hearing currently scheduled for July 13 in the District Court for the Southern District of New York.

10 jul 2023

Crypto firm Gemini sued Digital Currency Group last week, alleging the industry conglomerate and its founder Barry Silbert committed "fraud" through DCG subsidiary Genesis, which held funds for Gemini tied to the latter company's Earn program. Hodder Law Firm Managing Partner Sasha Hodder discusses the key takeaways. Plus, what to make of Twitter threatening to sue Facebook parent company Meta over the Threads app. CoinDesk and Genesis are both owned by DCG.

10 jul 2023

Sasha Hodder, founder and managing partner of Hodder Law Firm, addresses Twitter's threat of legal action against Facebook parent company Meta. "If it's true that these people went over there and took their trade secrets that they learned for years at Twitter, and then handed it over to Facebook and built this program using the same source code, certainly there would be some remedies available Elon, under various trade secret laws," Hodder said.

10 jul 2023

Opimas LLC CEO and founder Octavio Marenzi shares his reaction to BlackRock filing for a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) with Coinbase as their partner in the surveillance-sharing agreements. "They've identified a custodian for the assets that the SEC itself has said is operating illegally...I don't quite see how BlackRock makes this happen," Marenzi said.

10 jul 2023

The SEC argued in a new filing last Friday that Coinbase acknowledged the possibility that federal securities laws would apply to its listings years ago. CoinDesk Managing Editor of Global Policy and Regulation Nikhilesh De breaks down the regulator's arguments and Coinbase's previous public filings.

10 jul 2023

Shardeum recently raised $5.4 million in strategic funding. The layer 1 blockchain was co-created by Nischal Shetty, who is also the co-founder of WazirX, India's largest crypto exchange by trading volume. Shardeum Chief Growth Officer Kelsey McGuire discusses the raise, how Shardeum stands out from the competition, and the state of U.S. crypto regulation.

10 jul 2023

Bitcoin is holding steady above $30,000 as PPI data from China suggests the global liquidity-tightening cycle that kicked off early last year and roiled risk assets including crypto is nearing its end. This comes as the Fed has raised rates by more than 500 basis points to the 5%-5.25% range since March 2022. Opimas LLC CEO and founder Octavio Marenzi shares his crypto markets analysis and outlook.

10 jul 2023

“CoinDesk Daily” host Jennifer Sanasie discusses the hottest stories in crypto, including Digital Currency Group's comments after Gemini announced its lawsuit against the industry conglomerate. DCG is the parent company of CoinDesk. A new JPMorgan report explains why the SEC's approval of a spot bitcoin ETF will not be a game changer. And, an update on when the much-awaited layer 2 blockchain Shibarium is expected to go live.

7 jul 2023

Despite a recent increase in bitcoin whales, large BTC holders remain reluctant to move assets on to centralized exchanges, according to data from Glassnode. Bitcoin whales, and whales moving assets on to exchanges have taken separate paths, as large investors seem wary of moving their assets out of cold storage. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie presents "The Chart of The Day."

7 jul 2023