memecoins

Republic, an investment firm that includes a crypto arm, announced Tuesday a $150 million Series B funding round led by Valor Equity Partners. Republic’s Head of Crypto and Tokenization Andrew Durgee discusses the raise, crypto markets outlook, and memecoins.

Oct 27, 2021

Galaxy Digital Research has released a report on the top 10 things and 15 charts that show crypto is booming. Galaxy's Head of Firmwide Research Alex Thorn shares insights into the main takeaways. Plus, his outlook on bitcoin's price, the U.S. bitcoin futures and spot ETF landscape, the memecoin phenomenon, BTC market share dominance, and regulation.

Oct 20, 2021

The Thai SEC is banning meme, fan, and exchange tokens, as well as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Meanwhile, in Italy, regulators are reportedly concerned about the unsupervised spread of cryptocurrencies. "The Hash" panel explores the international regulatory framework around crypto investments.

Jun 14, 2021

Dogecoin has taken on a life of its own. The memecoin used to be correlated with the price of bitcoin, but data gathered by CoinDesk’s research team shows the correlation between the two cryptocurrencies has dropped to nearly zero. “All About Bitcoin” host Christine Lee breaks it down in the Chart of the Day.

May 14, 2021

One tweet from Elon Musk can send the crypto markets soaring or, in the case of Tesla's reversal on bitcoin payments, spiraling. Dogecoin has jumped 22 percent after Musk tweeted that he was working with developers to improve the memecoin's network transaction efficiency. Why does Musk have such an impact on the crypto markets? "All About Bitcoin's" Week in Review panel discusses. Plus, a discussion of Coinbase's first earnings report.

May 14, 2021

The creator of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, sent memecoin prices spiraling after he made a massive donation of an unsolicited dogecoin knockoff, Shiba Inu (SHIB), to charity. "The Hash" panel discusses the impact of Buterin's move on the crypto markets.

May 13, 2021