CRYPTO

Authored by Gareth Jenkinson via CoinTelegraph.com,

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has publicly announced the company’s intent to support “pro-crypto’ candidates during the 2024 United States election season.

The company is among a group to have pledged a total of $78 million to support the Fairshake political action committee (PAC).

Fairshake announced that prominent industry firms and players had contributed to a significant “war chest” to back candidates who (more…)

While crypto markets have historically been dominated by unregulated trading venues and retail investor activity, Goldman Sachs' Crypto team note that 2023 has shown just how much the market structure and participation have evolved and become institutionalized.

Following 2022's 'events' – including the Terra-UST depeg and a string of high-profile bankruptcies – this year, we saw a growth of regulated, centrally-cleared derivative venues including Coinbase Derivatives, (more…)

Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com,

“If I disappear, make sure this gets out.”

That’s what Mark Miller, a young student at Yale, told his closest friends.

He knew what he was sitting on had revolutionary potential and that powerful people had disappeared others for much less.

Miller was steadfast. He wanted to get this information out, even if it was over his dead body.

In 1977, a group of brilliant researchers at MIT made an astonishing (more…)