With the ink still drying on its Binance action, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Rostin Behnam reiterated Tuesday that he believes ether is a commodity – a potentially controversial assertion that seems to counter what his counterpart at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has contended.

“This is a big deal,” Timothy Massad told CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover” regarding the agency’s action against the largest crypto exchange in the world.

The Financial Services and Markets Act amendment, which would enable the new rules, will soon be discussed in Parliament.

The index, which measures the current sentiment in the crypto market, reached its highest point since 2021 last week hitting a rating of 68.

Blockchain Capital led the round for the solution that allows Ethereum stakers to reuse those tokens.

Formula 1 team Williams Racing signed U.S. crypto exchange Kraken as a sponsor after losing one of its most prominent drivers, Nicholas Latifi, who reportedly earned the team a large amount of sponsorship fees.

The newly announced startup will help developers launch Optimism-based applications.

The APT43 group steals crypto to fund operations and launders it through cloud mining services.

Controversial rules unveiled last year would discourage banks from holding assets such as bitcoin that are deemed risky

The CFTC on Monday filed suit against the crypto exchange and its CEO Changpeng Zhao.

Only the pool for borrowing and lending SOL tokens would be impacted by the proposed changes.

The release comes in the days after competitors, Polygon and Matter Labs, came out with their own zkEVMs.

A superseeding indictment was unveiled on Wednesday.

AllianceBlock, a blockchain-agnostic platform, has signed a deal with business data provider Crunchbase to import traditional finance data into the DeFi ecosystem.

Cyril Mathew previously led business development teams at Stripe and Coinbase.

Some analysts say Binance’s recent decision to include other stablecoins in its zero-fee trading program could have contributed to lesser dependence on BUSD.

The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for March 28, 2023. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

Crypto rules form part of a money-laundering overhaul supported by the European Parliament Committees

Low liquidity means wave of buy or sell orders can have an outsized impact on bitcoin's market price.

The association has received sponsorship from crypto investment firm Geometry Research and StarkWare Industries – the software company behind StarkNet, a layer 2 Ethereum zero-knowledge rollup scaling solution.

The new legislation, which will be put to vote on Tuesday, is set to impose new restrictions on transactions from self-hosted wallets.

The FTX founder will be given a new phone without internet access and a laptop with limited functionality.

The network is the final testnet before a mainnet deployment in April as part of a broader revival plan for EOS.

The crypto exchange will look to safeguard its dominant international business, which is its cash cow, the report said.

The attacker sent over 7,000 ether to Euler Tuesday and seemingly apologized for their actions in a transaction message.

The U.S. Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) accuses XRP of being an unregistered security in a court case that’s expected to be completed soon.

Fifty people have lost their jobs as Disney disbands its next-generation storytelling and consumer experiences unit as part a company-wide staff reduction.

Are bitcoin traders shrugging off the CFTC's action against Binance? Or is there just not enough liquidity to go around?

In a blog post, Changpeng Zhao wrote that the company did not agree with the characterization of many of the issues, and touted the exchange’s compliance technology. He also wrote that he had only two Binance accounts.

A federal judge paused Voyager's efforts to sell its assets to Binance.US in response to the U.S. government's filing for an emergency stay.

Initially proposed in April 2022, the Royal Mint's plans for an NFT are not moving forward “at this time” but the proposal will remain under review.

The company will distribute more than $100,000 in loan repayment refunds through its servicer to former clients, pending bankruptcy court approval.