Kraken has made another strategic acquisition to support its expansion across Europe. The crypto exchange has announced the closing of the Coin Meester (BCM) acquisition, one of the Netherlands’ oldest registered crypto broker firms. Through the acquisition, Kraken is now expanding its Dutch footprint and business with a registered virtual asset service provider (VASP) license…

Cardano’s Voltaire-era governance overhaul prevents it from becoming a “dictatorship” like Ethereum and sidesteps the “anarchy” of Bitcoin, its founder Charles Hoskinson said. Speaking to Cointelegraph at Token2049 in Singapore, Hoskinson attacked Ethereum’s governance model, claiming it relies too heavily on its co-founder Vitalik Buterin for direction. Hoskinson said that blockchains can elect to keep…

Bitcoin has been mislabelled as a “risk-on” asset, according to BlackRock’s head of digital assets, Robbie Mitchnick. “What’s happened a little bit in the crypto industry is a bit of an own goal,” said Mitchnick in an interview with Bloomberg on Sept. 24. “Some of the crypto research type publications and daily commentaries have taken the fact…