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Samsung is expanding its presence in the virtual world with the opening of its first store in the metaverse and Smart TVs that can trade NFTs.

Eleven staffers of Aragon One and one from the Aragon Association have announced their resignations Thursday due to an apparent lack of financial transparency. Get the Latest from CoinDesk Sign up for our newsletters Learn More By signing up, you will receive emails about CoinDesk products and you agree to ourterms & conditionsandprivacy policy Sign Up

Monday, December 21, 2020 Virtual Currencies as Commodities In recent years, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or the Commission) has taken a role as one of the regulators of cryptocurrency in the United States. In this article, we review the CFTC’s regulatory and enforcement approach in this space. In December 2014, the CFTC stated that virtual currencies are encompassed under the definition of a “commodity” in the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA), and thus subjec...

‘Happy Staking’: Ethereum Core’s Danny Ryan on 2.0 in 2021 It’s finally here (kind of). Ethereum 2.0, which has been in development since Barack Obama lived in the White House, has nailed its most important milestone to date: completion of phase 0 and the launch of the Beacon Chain. (If these words are all gobbledygook, CoinDesk’s William Foxley provides a good timeline of ETH 2.0’s journey.) And who’s actually doing the work of making this happen? By analogy, NASA’s race to put...