Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
During a Senate hearing, Chainalysis founder Jonathan Levin that the U.S. ought to prioritize and invest in digital assets to get the upper hand when enhancing financial transparency, public safety, and national security. Speaking to the Senate C...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
A prominent Canadian cryptocurrency mining company, Hut 8Â a record high annual revenue of $173.8 million. Bitcoin holdings will increase by 100% to 5,518 by the end of 2021, with a of $323.9 million. Hut 8's fourth-quarter 2021 financial results,...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
FanCraze is raising around $100 million in a new funding round from backers, including Cristiano Ronaldo, sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. The Series A funding round for the online trading platform officially licensed for digital cr...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
In its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report, GameStop, a major US video game and electronics retailer, announced that it plans to launch a non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace by the end of the second quarter (the end of July this year). The timel...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
U.S. Democratic senators introduced a bill to the U.S. President Thursday that they propose to impose sanctions on foreign cryptocurrency companies with business to Russian entities, preventing them away from transacting with U.S. customers, Reuters...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Anchex has raised its largest-ever investment of up to $1 million to expand the customer market. According to Dylan Thompson, the funds raised will be to expand into new markets in the U.S. and India. Dylan Thomp...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Australiaâs competition watchdog sued Meta Friday, alleging scam advertisement of cryptocurrency investments by asking local celebrities to promote them on its social media platform. The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) said...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Swedish audio streaming and media services provider Spotify appears to be planning to add blockchain technology and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to its streaming service. The firm recently posted two job openings that indicated that the streaming co...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Ethereum scaling startup Optimism has secured a $150 million Series B round, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Paradigm. After this financing, the company was valued at $1.65 billion. Since and Defi products are closely linked to the Ethereum netw...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Coinbase Global Inc, Coinbase Inc, and Brian Armstrong have been named defendants in a class-action lawsuit by three Plaintiffs Louis Oberlander, Henry Rodriguez, and Christopher Underwood. All of whom claim the NASDAQ-listed exchange acted in th...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Kyash, a Tokyo-based challenger bank, announced Thursday that it had raised $41.2 million in a Series D funding round from investors, including payments company Block (formerly Square), Greyhound Capital, and Japan Post Investment Corporation, SMBC...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
The Hong Kong government is working to establish a regulatory system for the virtual asset industry, Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Christopher Hui Ching-yu wrote in his blog. In a to the virtual asset industry forerunners, Hui...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Mina Foundation, the blockchain outfit responsible for developing and managing the worldâs lightest blockchain, Mina Protocol, has pulled the sum of $92 million in funding from investors led by Three Arrows Capital and FTX Ventures. The funding ro...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Despite the price fall experienced by the digital currency ecosystem in the past week, a rejuvenation was recorded for the better part of this week. Trailing the upshot, the global crypto market cap to a high of $1.837 trillion amidst a soaring up...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
LMAX Group, a global fintech firm that operates multiple institutional execution venues for electronic foreign exchange and cryptocurrency trading, announced Thursday a partnership with SIX Swiss Exchange, a major stock exchange based in Switzerland...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
During the general shareholderâs meeting, Samsung Electronics revealed plans to make the metaverse more accessible by developing innovative devices because it sees it as a new business model, to South Korean media outlet Hankyung.  Han Jong-hee,...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Luno, a digital currency platform owned by the Digital Currency Group (DCG), has launched Luno Expeditions, its Venture Capital (VC) outfit. As by TechCrunch, the new VC offshoot will engraft itself as a funding outfit for or Web3.0 startups and...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
The Bank of Canada- the Central Bank of Canada, announced Wednesday that it has partnered with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to work on a twelve-month research project on (CBDC). The Bank will collaborate with the MIT Media Labâs...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Based on hiked interest rates and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, crypto whales have shown signs of caution, given that their transaction volumes have been dwindling. On-chain insight provider Santiment : â, Ethereum, & Tether have seen p...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Rebecca Rettig, a general counsel for Aave Companies, the team behind (DeFi) platform Aave, is assuming a new role at Silvergate bank, a leading bank for innovative businesses in fintech and cryptocurrency. Silvergate Capital Corporation announced...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Crypto token ApeCoin ($APE) was unveiled in the official Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) Twitter account, which detailed initiatives planned by creator Yuga Labs. The also included a planned token tied to gaming and virtual experiences. The underlying...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Russians with strong social connections, who are under international sanctions for the invasion of Ukraine, have been using to launder their wealth, according to a report. Crypto watchdog firm Elliptic said that it found millions of crypto address...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
HSBC Bank announced Wednesday a partnership with The Sandbox, a blockchain gaming platform, to build its presence in the Hong Kong-based companyâs metaverse. Through the partnership, HSBC acquired a plot of LAND, virtual real estate in The Sandbox...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Amidst the dwindling digital currency market trend, data has confirmed that more investors have continued to hedge their crypto assets by converting them to , keeping them safe and ready to jump in on any potential deal. to data from CoinMetrics,...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Binance, the worldâs largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, announced Wednesday that it has obtained a license from Dubaiâs Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA) to carry out some business operations in the region. Binance received...
