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Updated Jan 12, 2021 at 3:52 p.m. UTC Anchorage Hires Celsius’ Asaf Iram as Head of Risk Digital asset custodian Anchorage has nabbed a trade operations veteran from Celsius Network to manage the risks facing its $4 billion crypto vault. The new hire, Asaf Iram, said he will “connect the dots” among Anchorage’s financing, lending, custody and staking businesses as the leadership team’s first “Head of Risk.” He told CoinDesk his focus will be on ensuring Anchorage’s customers feel safe about their assets, explaining to them the risks of deploying those assets across different l...

Total Cryptocurrency Market Value Hits Record $1 Trillion Cryptocurrency total market value Updated Jan 7, 2021 at 3:40 p.m. UTC Total Cryptocurrency Market Value Hits Record $1 Trillion The total value of all cryptocurrencies passed $1 trillion Wednesday for the first time ever, per CoinGecko‘s index of 6,124 assets. At its prior peak in late 2017, the market’s total capitalization was just above $760 billion, according to TradingView. Bitcoin represents roughly 69% of the market’s value, according to Messari. Traders aren’t surprised by the market’s soaring value. Subscribe to,...

Updated Dec 24, 2020 at 1:51 a.m. UTC Ethereum Developer Virgil Griffith Will Likely Face Trial Next September The U.S. government intends to argue that Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith helped North Koreans better understand how crypto could be used to bypass financial sanctions on the nation. Griffith, who was arrested in November 2019 on charges of conspiracy to assist North Korea (DPRK) in using cryptocurrency for its own benefit, is seeking to have the case against him dismissed. While U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel, of the Southern District of New York, made a handful of rulings o...

Updated Dec 22, 2020 at 5:24 p.m. UTC Abandon ShipChain! Logistics Startup Torpedoed by SEC Over $27M Unregistered ICO Supply chain startup ShipChain is taking on water fast. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ordered ShipChain to cease and desist operations Monday and pay a $2.05 million penalty for violating securities laws in 2017. ShipChain, which had raised $27.6 million through its SHIP token initial coin offering (ICO), agreed to the penalty and quickly settled the suit. “The penalty represents substantially all of ShipChain’s net assets,” according to the order. ShipCh...

Updated Dec 24, 2020 at 2:01 a.m. UTC The Blockchain NFT Wars Are Here It’s been a big year for blockchain, highlighted by Eth 2.0, the rise, fall and resurrection of decentralized finance (DeFi) and the real steps towards adoption by institutions like PayPal. But the steady rise of the humble non-fungible token (NFT) has been the real hidden hero. NFTs are little bits of code that extend the fundamental innovation of hard-capped supply, self-custody and censorship-resistance to all digital assets, not just to money. This is vital. NFTs enable any unique asset or item to be tracked and tr...