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| Nov 14, 2025 | Nearly One in Four Adults in Asia-Pacific - Around 535m People - Use Digital Assets, Driven by Stablecoins and Remittances, New Consensus Report Finds | HONG KONG and NEW YORK, Nov. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The APAC Digital Asset Adoption 2025: Stablecoins, Tokenization & Integration report, which surveyed more than 4,000 adults, finds that nearly one in four adults (24.3%) across the r... |
| Jun 16, 2022 | CleanSpark Takes Advantage of Bear Market to Acquire Mining Rig Contracts | CleanSpark (CLSK), is taking advantage of the bear market and falling prices for bitcoin mining rigs by buying existing purchase contracts from another miner for 1,800 Antminer S19 XP computers.
The Las Vegas-based, sustainable bitcoin mine... |
| Jun 6, 2022 | How Crypto Can Do Good for the World | Human society in the 21st century is faced with numerous global-scale challenges and systemic risks. These challenges include climate change, misinformation, an insecure digital infrastructure and a lack of economic prosperity. And while so... |
| Jun 6, 2022 | Previewing the Regulatory Panels at Consensus 2022
Austin party
Biden’s rule
Elsewhere:
Outside CoinDesk: | We’ll be in Austin, Texas this week for CoinDesk’s Consensus 2022. Regulators and lawmakers will be out in force to discuss how they’re approaching the rapidly growing cryptocurrency sector.
You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsle... |
| Jun 6, 2022 | Consensus Festival Guide: Creator Summit, NFTs and Music | Consensus has been a singular event each year for the cryptocurrency and blockchain community to gather – physically or virtually – to exchange big ideas. Now, for the first time since 2019, Consensus is live and in person, taking its Big T... |
| Jun 5, 2022 | The Meme Economy | Cryptocurrency is a meme.
Currency has always been structured around fundamentals, whether it be precious metals, governmental powers or advantage in commerce. The reduction of major currencies to untethered fiat currencies has brought abou... |
| Jun 5, 2022 | The Intelligent Crypto Thesis
The path towards intelligence in crypto
AI-ML is influencing crypto, but crypto can also contribute to AI-ML
From digitization-automation to intelligence | “Software is eating the world” has become one of the iconic phrases of the last decade of the software industry. Quoted in 2011 by software legend and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, it synthesized the idea that companies that operated ... |
| Jun 4, 2022 | Forecasting, Prediction Markets and the Age of Better Information
What are prediction markets?
Prediction markets today
Prediction markets tomorrow | Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin
The human brain evolved to forecast.
Born into a world o... |
| Jun 4, 2022 | The Coming InDAOstrial Revolution | The invention of the joint-stock corporation in the 1600s was transformative for human organizing. Providing a structure for jointly working toward economic growth, corporations drove the subsequent Industrial Revolution and fundamentally s... |
| Jun 2, 2022 | Consensus Festival Guide: The Future of Crypto Regulation | The collapse of an algorithmic stablecoin has dominated headlines in recent weeks, and will continue to be a key focus for regulators for some time to come. Current and former regulators as well as policy and legal experts will discuss the ... |
| Jun 1, 2022 | Consensus 2022 Visitor Guide: CBDCs and Public Money | The 2022 Consensus festival will attract speakers leading the global conversation on all things crypto, including how CBDCs – central bank digital currencies – could potentially change money as we know it.
A handful of small countries – the... |
| May 27, 2022 | Thoughts From Davos
The badgeless
Consensus 2022
Biden’s rule
Elsewhere:
Outside CoinDesk: | Former Bank of England Governor Mark Carney ditched me for Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio as European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde walked past in the Congress Centre at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davo... |
| May 27, 2022 | Consensus 2022 Visitor Guide: Inside the DAOs | Getting down with DAOs
The 2022 Consensus festival is a showcase of all that crypto has to offer, including how decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), a corporate governance structure built around crypto, are changing the organizati... |
| May 9, 2022 |
New to Crypto? Get Up to Speed Fast With CoinDesk’s Crypto Unlocked Webinars | There’s never been a better time to educate yourself about the cryptocurrency space as major institutions continue to fraternize with the space, countries around the world are issuing their own state-backed digital currencies and popular mo... |
| Dec 29, 2021 | Why I Decided to Spend New Year’s Eve in the Metaverse | In “Snowcrash,” the groundbreaking novel in which he coined the term “metaverse,” Neal Stephenson writes, “See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places.”
With this holiday se... |
| Dec 2, 2021 | Goldman Sachs Sees Crypto Options Markets as ‘Next Big Step’ for Institutional Adoption | Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street heavyweight, says the next major development for cryptocurrencies will be more liquid options markets as more traditional financial firms pile into the rapidly growing asset class.
“We are seeing a lot of dema... |
| Jun 24, 2021 | PayPal will allow users to withdraw crypto funds into third-party wallets | PayPal Holdings is now allowing users to withdraw cryptocurrencies to third-party wallets, CoinDesk reported.
For now, users cannot move cryptocurrencies out of the platform.
The new feature announced Wednesday also applies to Venmo, PayPal... |
| May 27, 2021 | Compliance Exec: Crypto Too Slow to Adopt Anti-Laundering Rules Ahead of FATF Review | The world’s governments are about to get a report card on their progress combating financial crime in the cryptocurrency arena, and at least one compliance executive expects a poor grade.
Next month the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a... |
| May 26, 2021 | Valid Points: The Risks and Rewards of Sharding | Today is the third day of Consensus 2021, CoinDesk’s largest event of the year.
Complete with educational panels, workshops, keynotes, fireside chats, and networking experiences, Consensus assembles the best and brightest of the crypto indu... |
| May 26, 2021 | Lawrence Summers on Inflation: Fed ‘Will Only Remove the Punch Bowl After It Sees People Staggering Around Drunk’ | On the campaign trails in 2020, Joe Biden sought advice on the economy from neoliberal icon Lawrence Summers. Since he took office, the U.S. president is getting a lot more advice from Summers, albeit unsolicited and quite publicly.
Few of ... |
| May 26, 2021 | PayPal will allow users to withdraw crypto funds into third-party wallets | PayPal Holdings is now allowing users to withdraw cryptocurrencies to third-party wallets, CoinDesk reported.
For now, users cannot move cryptocurrencies out of the platform.
The new feature announced Wednesday also applies to Venmo, PayPal... |
| May 26, 2021 | PayPal Will Let Customers Withdraw Crypto, Exec Says | Global payments giant PayPal plans to let users withdraw cryptocurrency to third-party wallets, its blockchain lead said.
Speaking Wednesday at CoinDesk’s Consensus 2021 conference, Jose Fernandez da Ponte told moderator Jeff John Roberts t... |
| May 25, 2021 | Artists Who Now Make a Living Because of NFTs | Squirterer, a 24-year-old Filipina fine artist based in Davao, Mindanao, the Philippines’ southernmost group of islands, has earned 100% of her income in crypto since 2018.
Between making, minting and selling her creations via non-fungible ... |
| May 25, 2021 | DeFi Is Rising in Chicago | Chicago’s DeFi scene is thriving, and it has New York to thank.
That was the message from Colleen Sullivan, co-founder and CEO of Chicago-based venture capital firm CMT Digital, who spoke during a panel exploring the state of the crypto ind... |
| May 24, 2021 | Marty Bent: Bitcoiners Must Fight for Energy Narrative | “There's no energy problem. Bitcoin is the energy solution,” said Marty Bent, co-founder of Great American Mining and host of "Tales from the Crypt" podcast, to end the panel on “Reframing Bitcoin's Energy: ESG, Time Preference an... |
| May 24, 2021 | Rocky Mountain Institute Proposes Protocol to Track Climate Emissions | The world must accelerate toward climate progress, which will require supply chain decarbonization. The message from the international community of policy makers and climate scientists is clear: More action is needed now and throughout this... |
| Accessing the Data Driving DeFi | DeFi is one of the most exciting investment innovations since hedge funds emerged in the 1980s, with their promise of uncorrelated, absolute returns – what became known as “alpha.” The inner workings of hedge funds initially seemed inscruta... |