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Coinbase – one of the largest and most popular digital currency exchanges in the world – is teaming up with investing giant BlackRock to give its customers the opportunity to trade digital assets. Coinbase and BlackRock Join Hands Joseph Chalom – global head of strategic ecosystem partnerships at BlackRock – explained in a recent interview: Our institutional clients are increasingly interested in gaining exposure to digital asset markets and are focused on how to...

Binance.US – the American division of Binance, arguably the largest and most popular digital currency exchange in the world – has removed the Amp token given that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) views the asset as a potential security. Binance does not want to get in the middle of what could be a huge legal fight and is apparently removing the token from its listings altogether. Binance Says “No” To Amp Listing There is growing concern as of late about the...

Coinbase – one of the world’s largest and most powerful digital currency exchanges – is not happy with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), claiming the agency has not implemented efficient crypto regulations. The company has now filed a petition criticizing the organization and calling for fair regulation within America’s legal spectrum. Coinbase Isn’t too Happy with the SEC Faryar Shirzad – chief policy officer at Coinbase – explained in a recent statement...

Brian Armstrong – Chief Executive Officer of Coinbase – expects the ongoing crypto winter to last around 12 to 18 months. However, he admitted that his company is prepared for a prolonged bear market because it coincides with a broader macroeconomic crisis. Armstrong believes Coinbase will not have problems enduring the negative conditions since it has passed through similar market declines four times in its ten-year-old existence. It Should be Over by the end of 2023 In a...

Coinbase is one of the world’s largest and most powerful cryptocurrency exchanges, but lately, it’s having a hard time. Coinbase Is Being Looked at by the SEC Things started out rough a few months ago when the company announced it was going to be enforcing a hiring freeze due to the ongoing crypto winter. Initially, 2022 was going to be the year in which the exchange rose to new heights and practically tripled its workforce, but crashing prices ultimately brought an end...

Coinbase is being sued by one of its users for failing to keep its customers’ accounts accessible in periods of high market volatility. Acting on behalf of all Coinbase wallet and account holders, plaintiff George Kattula alleges that the exchange “does not properly employ standard practices to keep consumers’ accounts secure”. Unkept Promises at Coinbase? According to the plaintiff’s filing, Coinbase “improperly and unreasonably locks out its consumers from accessing their...

A former Coinbase employee and two of his comrades have been arrested by the Department of Justice (DOJ) following reports that the employee had conducted insider trading and passed along confidential information to his cohorts about which coins would be listed on the exchange in the future. A Man Who Worked with Coinbase Has Been Arrested The former employee – a man named Ishan Wahi – was part of the team at Coinbase that listed assets on the trading platform. The data...

Could Coinbase lose its position as the number one digital currency exchange in the western hemisphere? Coinbase Is Really Hitting the Bottom The crypto exchange is often cited as one of the largest and most popular crypto trading companies in the world. It was also the first digital currency exchange to ever go public, first joining the Nasdaq in April of last year. Things were looking up for the exchange, and many felt the company was going to reach a peak unlike...

Analysts of prominent investment bank JPMorgan believe that Coinbase will be meaningfully benefitted from the upcoming Merge. In a note to the clients on Wednesday, analyst Kenneth Worthington said that the San Francisco-based crypto exchange has taken concrete measures in a bid to maximize the value of ETH staking for its clients. This is expected to result in higher revenue generation itself. Worthington asserted, “We see the staking revenue opportunity bigger...

Brian Armstrong – CEO of Coinbase – stated on Thursday that he would refuse to censor the Ethereum blockchain using his platform’s concentrated stake in the protocol.  If compelled by the government to do so, he’d rather shut down the service. Armstrong made his intentions clear in response to an Ethereum developer’s question concerning the centralization of staked ETH. According to Dune Analytics, 66% of ETH staked on the beacon chain is held by entities that are regulated...