The digitization of money, and the movement to decentralized finance, begs the question: What happens to financial institutions, central banks and central banking policy? The banking system itself may seemingly be upended by stablecoins, cryptocurrencies and the prospect of digital dollars. The landscape is still...
Everyone seems to have their own digital asset these days — from Elon Musk’s favorite meme token, Dogecoin, to the newly “minted” Trump Coin. If there’s an inside joke or an influencer obsession in play, odds are someone’s slapping a blockchain on it en route...
New York State’s financial watchdog has updated its rules for listing/delisting virtual currency. The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) on Wednesday (Nov. 15) issued guidance that enhances requirements for listing and listing virtual currencies regulated by the department. According to a department news...
Although some reports trace their origins back five or even 10 years, the actual non-fungible token, or NFT, craze is really a “2021 thing” meaning the explosive growth in prices and players and the general availability of these digital assets is less than a year...
February 15, 2019
There was a time when JPMorgan Chase (JPMC) CEO Jamie Dimon didn’t have much in the way of positive things to say about bitcoin. “The currency isn’t going to work,” the executive said. “You can’t have a business where people can invent a currency out of thin air and think that people who are buying it are […]
January 07, 2026
Solana Mobile will reportedly launch its SKR token, which is designed to serve as the governance and incentive layer for the company’s ecosystem, on Jan. 21. This ecosystem is centered on Solana Mobile’s Seeker smartphone and a decentralized app store, and SKR will be used by token holders to stake to a group tasked with […]
November 15, 2023
New York State’s financial watchdog has updated its rules for listing/delisting virtual currency. The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) on Wednesday (Nov. 15) issued guidance that enhances requirements...
June 29, 2020
Balancer Pool suffered a complicated attack that took advantage of a technicality in its system, Coindesk reported. The identity of the attacker is still reportedly not known, and the hacker...
February 06, 2020
Hester Peirce, a financial regulator at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), said that tech startups may be able to raise money using digital tokens under current law, but...