Digital asset infrastructure provider Fireblocks has teamed with X-Margin, a distributed clearing and settlement platform, in a bid to boost institutional offerings in the crypto derivatives market… https://www.coindesk.com/fireblocks-x-margin-counterparty-risk-tradi-crypto-derivatives

Cryptocurrency exchange Mexo, developed with Latin American users in mind, launched on Thursday… https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-exchange-mexo-latin-america

The League of Entropy is launching the first production-ready version of drand, a network that produces “randomness”… https://www.coindesk.com/how-a-decentralized-randomness-beacon-could-boost-cryptographic-security

“Though now evolved in many ways,” Gavin Wood wrote in Ethereum’s 2015 yellow paper, “the key functionality of a blockchain with a Turing-complete language and an effectively unlimited inter-transaction storage capability remains unchanged.”… https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-2-0-closer-than-ever-still-plenty-of-work-to-do

In a paradoxical twist, bitcoin’s price, which is denominated in dollars, has become unusually stable in recent weeks, prompting some Twitter users to joke that it’s trading like a stablecoin… https://www.coindesk.com/first-mover-boring-bitcoin-shrugs-off-twitter-hack-as-stablecoins-co-opt-satoshis-dream

Mutual fund giant Vanguard has completed another blockchain pilot that aims to change the risk profile of foreign exchange (FX) transactions… https://www.coindesk.com/vanguard-symbiont-blockchain-foreign-exchange-pilot-with-state-street-bny-mellon-franklin-templeton

Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency platform Crypto.com has revamped its digital exchange… https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-com-tech-upgrade-paves-way-for-derivatives-trading

Hester Peirce, one of five commissioners with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has been tapped for a second term at the regulatory agency… https://www.coindesk.com/sec-crypto-mom-hester-peirce-tapped-for-second-term-at-us-regulator-report