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If stability and liquidity are part of bitcoin's road to becoming a mature asset, 2019 has been a period of arrested development.

https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-volatility-is-up-liquidity-stagnant

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) wants Telegram’s former chief investment advisor to testify and hand over documents related to the company's $1.7 billion 2018 token sale.

https://www.coindesk.com/sec-reveals-telegrams-communications-with-investors-seeks-to-question-advisor

The majority of asset managers that bank with State Street are interested in digital assets, but none have asked the global custodian to store them yet.

https://www.coindesk.com/state-street-38-of-clients-will-put-more-money-into-digital-assets-in-2020

Bank of China has issued 20 billion yuan, or about $2.8 billion, in blockchain-based bonds to small businesses.

https://www.coindesk.com/bank-of-china-issues-2-8b-in-bonds-for-small-businesses-using-blockchain-tech

With markets mixed but mostly down, we're looking at Deutche Bank's 2030 crypto call, the movement encouraging an annual bitcoin exchange "bank run", and Enjin’s Microsoft-fueled rally

https://www.coindesk.com/markets-daily-planning-a-run-on-bitcoin-banks

NYDIG plans to raise $25 million for an SEC-approved investment fund focused entirely on cash-settled bitcoin futures.

https://www.coindesk.com/asset-manager-secures-sec-approval-to-create-novel-bitcoin-futures-fund

The widely followed monthly MACD has turned bearish for the first time since May. However, it likely just reflects recent months of price downturn.

https://www.coindesk.com/key-bitcoin-price-indicator-turns-bearish-but-it-may-not-be-bad-news

Microsoft’s collaboration with blockchain gaming startup Enjin has prompted a roughly 50 percent surge in the project's native token over a two-day period.

https://www.coindesk.com/microsoft-collaboration-news-fuels-50-rally-for-enjins-cryptocurrency

Steven Mnuchin, secretary of the U.S. Treasury, has no issue with the launch of the Facebook-led Libra project – as long as financial rules are followed to the letter.

https://www.coindesk.com/mnuchin-fine-with-libra-launch-but-crypto-project-must-fully-comply-with-aml-rules

Microsoft is pitching blockchain technology as a way to make artificial intelligence less scary for its corporate customers.

https://www.coindesk.com/microsoft-is-using-blockchain-to-help-firms-trust-ai

Missed our webinar on crypto exchanges? Read the takeaways from CoinDesk Research's chat with Binance US CEO Catherine Coley and FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried.

https://www.coindesk.com/four-insights-on-crypto-liquidity-from-binance-us-and-ftx

The first application on Kadena's public blockchain is a tracking platform for CBD oil.

https://www.coindesk.com/kadena-blockchain-taps-healthcare-data-firm-to-track-medical-cannabis-product

Mable Jiang, formerly of Nirvana Capital, will spearhead the venture firm's hunt for new deals in Asia.

https://www.coindesk.com/multicoin-capital-hires-principal-in-asia-as-crypto-vcs-look-east

"Crypto has to be seen from a macro perspective," Mati Greenspan says.

https://www.coindesk.com/former-etoro-analyst-to-provide-crypto-trading-course-for-cointelligence

Even if XRP were a security, the investors suing Ripple brought their case far too late for it to proceed, the company said in a new filing.

https://www.coindesk.com/ripple-files-last-bid-to-dismiss-xrp-securities-lawsuit-before-court-meeting

IDEX is launching a new DEX built on a layer 2 scalibility protocol made possible through Ethereum's Istanbul hard fork.

https://www.coindesk.com/ethereums-top-dex-is-rebooting-with-new-scaling-features

On another down day, we're talking U.S. warnings on digital assets, a brief history of troubled but systemically important stablecoin "Tether", and a look at the arms-race in blockchain mining te...

https://www.coindesk.com/markets-daily-casualties-ahead-in-the-cryptocurrency-mining-arms-race

Crypto lending firm Unchained Capital has hired Will Cole of the Wyoming Blockchain Task Force as its new chief product officer.

https://www.coindesk.com/stack-overflow-vp-joins-crypto-lending-firm-as-chief-product-officer

Blockchain-based consumer lender Figure added Morgan Creek Digital’s Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano to its board following a $103 million funding round.

https://www.coindesk.com/pompliano-joins-board-of-blockchain-based-lending-firm-after-103m-raise

Matter Labs released Thursday the testnet of ZK-Sync, a privacy-minded scaling tool meant to help blockchains boost transaction speeds.

https://www.coindesk.com/matter-labs-unveils-layer-2-scaling-solution-for-ethereum-payments