The U.S. Department of Justice said it intends to call FTX customers, investors and cooperating witnesses to testify against Sam Bankman-Fried at trial next week, including a Ukrainian local who would have difficulty getting to the courthouse in-person.

FTX was hacked in November 2022, hours after the global crypto empire declared bankruptcy and its founder Sam Bankman-Fried stepped down from running the company.

Sam Bankman-Fried's attorneys objected to some of the U.S. Department of Justice's proposed voir dire questions in a late Friday filing, saying they may miss potential juror bias or otherwise lead to jurors making assumptions about the case.

If appetite for staking on Ethereum does not slow meaningfully over the next several months, the size of Ethereum’s validator set could become problematic for the blockchain, says Christine Kim, Vice President of Research at Galaxy Digital.

The asset manager Thursday said it had already begun purchasing ether futures contracts.

Co-founder of the Three Arrows Capital hedge fund was seized at Changi airport, Teneo said

The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for Sept. 29, 2023. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

The tokenized Treasuries market has grown sixfold this year to $668 million, according to rwa.xyz data.

Perimeter Protocol, an open-source smart contract codebase dedicated to credit facilitation, is the first development of Circle Research.

Gemini said it is taking the step "due to requirements imposed by the De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB),"

Hong Kong and Macau authorities say they've detained people closely linked to the scandal linked to the crypto exchange, bringing total arrests to 18.

To some, Sam Bankman-Fried’s impending trial is one of the biggest stories in recent news, but to many New Yorkers, the name does not strike a chord.

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has a right to shape the narrative around him, his lawyers argued during a court hearing last month. Unposted tweets obtained by CoinDesk suggest he may have been trying to craft a new image for himself since as soon as last December by discussing his mental health and prescribed medication.

In a rare display of candor – or as part of a calculated exercise in reputation management – Sam Bankman-Fried delved deep into his mental health struggles in a trove of unposted tweets obtained by CoinDesk’s Christine Lee and published for the first time on Friday. “I don’t really know what ‘happiness’ means,” he said in one of the tweets, which he wrote just weeks after his crypto empire blew up last year, as he was facing down a tidal wave of public scorn.

Traders at Japanese exchange Bitbank said in a daily note that they expect bitcoin prices to move towards the $28,000 level, citing ETF optimism.

The acquisition will expand Fireblocks' capabilities in tokenization including token customization, orchestration, distribution and advisory.

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase this week announced that it had received regulatory approval to list perpetual futures on its international exchange.

The game's growth is now primarily driven by creator content, meaning lower revenue for Epic as the revenue is shared around more.

There’s a “90% chance” an ether futures ETF will be traded in the first week of October, one analyst said.

Stablecoins alone can’t be considered securities, argues the USDC issuer, supported by former commodities regulator Heath Tarbert.

FTX, an industry titan, ended up in bankruptcy court nine days after a November 2022 scoop from CoinDesk’s Ian Allison.