May 2020

Mass adoption is on everyone’s mind. Here are the shows at Consensus: Distributed you’ll want to catch on crypto going mainstream.

Brian Brooks, now a US banking regulator, said creating a federal license for crypto startups might make more sense than subjecting them to 50 different state money transmitter approvals.

Binance US has launched an OTC trading portal for major orders above $10,000

Zcash-inspired privacy tools are coming to Bitcoin’s Lightning Network and many other blockchain ecosystems, creating a shared cryptocurrency privacy layer.

Ethereum’s founder says the network’s big upgrade is on track to launch in July, bringing proof of stake and new scalability features to the network.

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said there may be “too much privacy” associated with government-issued cash, noting the prevalence of money laundering and its widespread use for storing and moving the proceeds from corruption.

ErisX is launching physically settled ether futures contracts, it announced Monday.

Crypto.com has gathered a record-breaking $360 million worth of insurance to cover the potential loss of coins stored in special offline vaults.

Gavin Wood, an original co-founder of Ethereum, took a few good swipes at the second-largest cryptocurrency he helped create at Consensus: Distributed.

“We’re watching the birthing of a store of value, and whether that succeeds or not only time will tell,” he told CNBC.