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Startup Raises $1.5M to Make DAO Creation as Easy as Starting a Group Chat
Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) have established themselves as a core part of Web3, but could they have use cases outside of...
El Salvador Buys More Bitcoin: 420 BTC Added to Treasury
El Salvador, the country that made bitcoin legal tender alongside the U.S. dollar, has bought the dip again. The Salvadoran government has...
NFT Ticketing Gets Boost With Mobile App From YellowHeart
The startup behind the Kings of Leon’s foray into crypto is looking to disrupt the $15 billion live entertainment resale market with its...
Alameda Research Pumps $75M Funding Into Voyager Digital
Cryptocurrency broker Voyager Digital said it has received a $75 million investment from trading firm Alameda Research.The investment will...
Ether Poised for Biggest Monthly Price Gain Since April; Analysts Remain Bullish
As ether heads for a monthly rise of more than 10%, analysts are maintaining a positive bias, citing $3,400 as key resistance to beat for...
Crypto Miners Are ‘Stockpiling’ Bitcoin Amid Recent Rally, Kraken Says
Crypto miners, both large and small, are accumulating bitcoin amid its recent rally, creating a “supply shock” to the bitcoin market...
NFT Software Firm Nameless Raise $15M to Expand Its Team
Nameless, a company that helps brands launch and manage non-fungible tokens (NFTs), has raised $15 million in a seed round led by...
Islamic Organization in Indonesia Issues Fatwa Against Cryptocurrency
A provincial branch of one the largest Islamic organizations in Indonesia has declared cryptocurrency “haram,” or forbidden...
‘Crypto AWS’ Alchemy Hits $3.5B Valuation in $250M Round Led by A16z
Crypto infrastructure company Alchemy said Thursday it raised $250 million, padding an already hefty venture war chest for building out...
Binance Hires Former GE, Edelman Exec as First Chief Communications Officer
Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange by daily trading volume, has hired former General Electric and Edelman executive Patrick...
Guild of Guardians Is a Stunning Multiplayer RPG Where You Play to Earn Epic NFT Rewards
Guild Of Guardians is a multiplayer RPG where players earn epic rewards. The project has top tier partners such as Ubisoft and one of the...
Dogecoin jumps 44% in one day as traders rotate Shiba Inu profits into DOGE
Dogecoin (DOGE) soared on Oct. 28 amid massive capital rotations out of its top meme coin rival’s market, Shiba Inu (SHIB). Notably,...
Do Cryptocurrencies Have a Dirty Little ESG Secret?
Environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) and cryptocurrencies are two of the most prevalent, if not the hottest, investing...
Why Bitcoin’s Volatility Is a Feature, Not a Bug
I’m a financial advisor, and my clients own bitcoin. A few of them remind me frequently about bitcoin’s price volatility, which they...
El Salvador ‘Buys the Dip’, Acquires 420 Additional Bitcoin
The government of El Salvador has bought 420 more bitcoin ($25.6 million), President Nayib Bukele tweeted on Wednesday.Nayib Bukele said...
Crypto.com Looks to Cash In on Bull Market With $100M Advertising Campaign
Cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com is embarking on a global advertising campaign, looking to cash in on the latest surge in the...
DOGE flips above Shiba Inu again as BTC reclaims $61k
DOGE has broken above $0.3 for the first time since early September and could move higher as the crypto market bounces on...
CBDC Could Increase Nigeria’s GDP by $29 Billion in 10 Years: President Buhari
The Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari, suggested in a recent speech that the new e-naira central bank digital currency (CBDC) could...
Here’s why analysts say Bitcoin ETFs may ‘completely change the structure of the market’
After reaching new all-time highs it’s customary for Bitcoin (BTC) price see a bit of cooling off in the form of profit taking,...
New Bitcoin hash rate highs remove any trace of China mining ban
Bitcoin (BTC) has all but deleted any trace of the mining ban, which saw its hash rate dive 50% this year. According to the latest...
Bitcoin suddenly passes $61K as a $1.7K hourly candle fuels BTC bulls
Bitcoin (BTC) delivered another classic surge during Oct. 28 as bulls enjoyed a $1,700 hourly candle. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart...
FATF Crypto Guidance Looks to Bring Industry in Line With Banks
Global anti-money laundering (AML) agency the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has released its updated guidance for firms that handle...
El Salvador buys another 420 Bitcoin worth about $25M
El Salvador’s total Bitcoin (BTC) haul has surpassed 1100 as the government looks to strengthen its adoption of the cryptocurrency...
Thailand Department Store Chain Is Testing Its Own Cryptocurrency
A Thai department store chain is trialing its own cryptocurrency for use by employees with a view to offering it to customers in the...
SEC Will Not Approve Leveraged Bitcoin ETF: Report
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will not approve the listing of leveraged bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETF).The SEC...
Cardano price analysis: ADA dips below $2 amid bearish view
ADA is showing a bearish outlook and an extension of recent losses, a scenario that could see bears breach support to retest prices near...
Bitpanda Pro Hires Former JPMorgan Exec to Lead Growth in Europe
Austria’s first tech unicorn, Bitpanda, hired former JPMorgan executive Joshua Barraclough as CEO of digital-assets exchange Bitpanda Pro,...
Crypto Custody Firm Ledger Expands Institutional Footprint in Switzerland and UK
Institution-focused cryptocurrency custody provider Ledger Enterprise Solutions (formerly known as LedgerVault) is opening offices in...
UPenn’s Wharton Taps Coinbase to Accept Crypto for Online Blockchain Course
A new online executive education program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania will accept payment in various...
Dogecoin Hits Two-Month High as Shiba Inu Lags in Crypto Rankings
It’s an intense dogfight in crypto skies as dogecoin (DOGE) and shiba inu (SHIB), two of the most popular meme coins, battle it out for...
Slovenia Launches Public Consultations on Crypto Taxation Law
Authorities in Slovenia have prepared new legislation tailored to determine how crypto holdings and transactions are taxed in the country....
China to Release National Blockchain Standard Next Year, Says Official: Report
China’s technology standardization body will issue a national standard for blockchain next year, said an official from the China...
Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest Scoops Up 2.2M Falling Robinhood Shares
Cathie Wood’s ARK Investment Management picked up a large number of Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD) shares on Wednesday, despite the platform’s...
Indian Crypto Regulation Is Planned for February: Report
The Indian government is reportedly planning to introduce cryptocurrency regulation by the time of the next general Budget, which is in...
International Operation Dark Huntor Seizes $31.6 Million in Cash and Cryptocurrencies, 150 Arrested
Operation Dark Huntor, a coordinated international effort on three continents to disrupt opioid trafficking on the darknet, has led to the...
US Regulators Weigh Avenues For Banks to Hold Crypto: Report
A team of U.S. bank regulators is devising ways in which banks may hold crypto on their balance sheets, provide custody and facilitate...
Friday’s jaw-breaking $3.2B Bitcoin options expiry could kick-start a new rally
Bitcoin (BTC) has been trading in a descending channel pattern since its $67,000 all-time high on Oct. 20, which was just one day after...
Federal Reserve, FDIC, OCC Discuss Allowing Banks to Hold Crypto on Balance Sheets
A group of U.S. banking regulators is working on how banks can be allowed to offer crypto services and hold cryptocurrencies on their...
Mask Network, 1inch and Shiba Inu ignore Bitcoin’s downtrend, posting 20% gains
The cryptocurrency market is back on the rocks on Oct. 27 as many of the top assets find themselves in the red on the day after Bitcoin...
Price analysis 10/27: BTC, ETH, BNB, ADA, SOL, XRP, DOT, DOGE, SHIB, LUNA
Bitcoin (BTC) has broken back below the psychological support at $60,000. While this seems to be negative in the short term, the price...
A Need for More Regulatory Clarity
For years fintech leaders, investors and technologists in the cryptocurrency space have whined about the lack of regulatory clarity coming...
Gigante brasileño de movilidad 99 habilitará la compraventa de bitcoin en su billetera digital
99Pay, la billetera digital de la compañía brasileña de red de transporte 99, permitirá la compra y venta de bitcoin en su plataforma,...
Adobe Jumps Into Non-Fungible Token Ecosystem With ‘Prepare as NFT’ Photoshop Tool
Adobe Inc., the American multinational computer software company that’s well known for its platforms like Photoshop and...
Coinbase Experiencing Extended Outages, Including for Credit Card
Crypto trading platform Coinbase was experiencing extended outages on Wednesday that were affecting access to its Coinbase and Coinbase...
EpiK Protocol: Calling All AI Data Labeling Domain Experts
It is a truism that the quality of data you can get out of a system depends on the quality of the data you put into the system. This is as...
PlanetWatch Announces Listing of PLANETS Token on Bitmart
PRESS RELEASE. PlanetWatch, a French start-up which decentralizes and incentivizes environmental monitoring, announced that its utility...
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Dips Below $60K as ETF Enthusiasm Fades
Bitcoin continues to decline after buyers failed to sustain last week’s all-time high of around $66,900. Analysts pointed to extreme...
Shiba Inu Jumps 70% to Surpass Market Value of Robinhood – Where It’s Not (Yet) Listed
The shiba inu (SHIB) token continued its astonishing ascent in the cryptocurrency markets, surging 70% over the past 24 hours to a...
Don’t get bearish on Bitcoin just yet, says veteran trader who called 2018 crash
Bitcoin (BTC) may have printed a classic “head and shoulders” pattern but bulls could still win, says veteran trader Peter Brandt. In a...
Shiba Inu fetches a new ATH — 3 reasons why SHIB keeps jumping higher
Meme coins burst onto the scene in early 2021 and helped kickstart the bull market after Dogecoin (DOGE) rallied above $0.01 to new highs...
Crypto Bank Anchorage to Command $2B+ Valuation in New Funding Round, Sources Say
Cryptocurrency custody firm Anchorage is raising a large funding round that will value the San Francisco-based company at between $2...
Video Game Retail Giant Gamestop Seeks a Senior Engineer for Blockchain NFT Platform
The American video game, consumer electronics, and gaming merchandise retailer, Gamestop, is seeking a non-fungible token (NFT)-focused...
Bitfarms to Expand Production Facilities to Add 2.1 EH/s Mining Power
Bitfarms (BITF), the Canadian crypto miner, is constructing two new production facilities in Sherbrooke, Québec that are slated to be...
CFTC Acting Chair: ‘Nearly 60%’ of Cryptos Are Commodities
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeOn today’s episode, NLW does an extended brief, covering:The CFTC Chair arguing...
He Saw Iceland’s Banking Fraud From Inside. Now He’s Worried About Crypto
Jared Bibler was in the belly of the beast. Then he got to perform the autopsy.Bibler was an asset manager at Landsvaki, one of Iceland’s...
From Pancake Batter to Bitcoin Mining: Struggling Businesses Try 2017-Style Pivots
Which is harder, mining bitcoin or selling pancake batter?Nate’s Foods is about to find out.The little-known, publicly traded company,...
DOT Holders Are Voting on Polkadot’s New Look
After months of iteration, Parity Technologies – one of the developers of interoperability protocol Polkadot – launched a web portal on...
It’s BITO vs. GBTC vs. BTC as Bitcoin ETF Wars Heat Up
The ProShares Bitcoin Strategy exchange-traded fund (stock ticker BITO) turned heads last week when it hauled in more than $1 billion of...
Bitcoin price dip matches October 2017 with BTC ‘explosion’ still forecast before 2022
Bitcoin (BTC) has dipped below $60,000 — but BTC price action is still mimicking the eye-popping 2017 bull run. The latest data covering...
The FTC Doesn’t See the Difference Between Crypto and LuLaRoe
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Oct. 26 sent what’s known as a “Notice of Penalty Offense” to more than one thousand companies,...
Wu-Tang Clan’s Unreleased Album Changes Hands From Martin Shkreli to an NFT Art Collective
After fighting in court since 2015, the former hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison for conspiring to...
Upgradable NFTs: How collaborations will leap forward
Artist collaborations are an undeniable cornerstone of modern pop culture. The confluence of creative minds ultimately captured in a...
We Are Already Living in a Post-Scarcity World
One of the most hotly debated topics in the world of blockchain and economics today centers on inflation and interest rates, and the...
BREAKING: Cream Finance appears to have suffered major loss in flash loan hack
Decentralized lending platform Cream Finance appears to have suffered a severe exploit on Wednesday, with an attacker stealing over $100...
Cronies or Experts? Crypto’s Revolving Door Ignites a Debate
Brian Brooks went from a law firm to a bank to a mortgage company to a crypto exchange to America’s top banking regulatory agency to a...
To the roots of mining: Bitcoin going green faster than ever
There’s no denying that over the past couple of years, the narrative that Bitcoin (BTC) consumes too much power has continued to garner an...
‘Open Finance’ Project Findora Launches $100M Ecosystem Fund
Privacy blockchain project Findora is launching a $100 million ecosystem fund “to accelerate the growth and development” of its community,...
Crypto exchange FTX buys slot to advertise during the Super Bowl
Sam Bankman-Fried’s exchange company FTX is one of the companies that will have an ad featured in the February 2022 Super Bowl. The...
River Financial to Let Clients Mine Bitcoin Without Having to Set Up, Run Machines
River Financial, the San Francisco-based bitcoin technology and financial services company, will enable its customers to buy bitcoin...
WWE, Blockchain Creative Labs Ink Deal to Launch NFT Marketplace
World Wrestling Entertainment (NYSE:WWE) has signed an agreement with Blockchain Creative Labs, to launch a non-fungible token (NFT)...
Paradigm Leads $5M Seed Round for Play-to-Earn Game AI Arena
ArenaX Labs has closed a $5 million seed round led by Paradigm with participation from Framework. The funds will help accelerate the...
The Many Facts That Indicate Bitcoin’s Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Won’t Ever Come Back
On January 3, 2022, the Bitcoin network will be celebrating its 13th year of life after its creator Satoshi Nakamoto kick-started the...
Crypto News Roundup for Oct. 27, 2021
This episode is sponsored by Kava, Nexo.io and Market Intel by Chainalysis.Today’s Stories:Taproot Upgrade Might Already Be Priced Into...
SHIB Flippened DOGE With $160M in ‘Smart Money’ Backing Latest Pump, Blockchain Data Shows
Shiba inu, the self-proclaimed dogecoin killer, briefly surpassed DOGE in market value on Wednesday, according to data from CoinGecko.Both...
CFTC Should be Crypto’s ‘Primary Cop,’ Acting Chair Says
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is ready to be the main federal regulator for crypto, its acting head said...
CREAM Finance Exploited In Flash Loan Attack Worth Over $100M
Decentralized finance (DeFi) money market and lending service CREAM Finance appears to have been the target of a devastating exploit...
Is a Bitcoin Futures ETF Good for Bitcoin?
The first bitcoin-linked ETF to ever hit U.S. markets has finally arrived. But what does that mean for bitcoin as an investment? For...
Osmosis Closes $21M Token Sale Led by Paradigm
The Osmosis Foundation has closed a $21 million token sale from its treasury to help expand the Osmosis automated market maker (AMM)...
FDIC exploring the possibility of letting banks hold crypto
On Tuesday, the Chairperson of the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Jelena McWilliams, said that the agency is on the path...
A Crypto Whisperer on How Regulators Toss Retail Into the Deep End
The big crypto story last week was the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approving a bitcoin futures ETF. For the uninitiated,...
Solana-Based Yield Aggregator Tulip Raises $5M
Solana-based decentralized finance (DeFi) app Tulip raised $5 million in a bid to expand its yield aggregation and crypto lending...
Visa Follows Mastercard With Investment in Credit Card Tech Startup: Report
Visa Inc. has joined Mastercard Inc. as an investor in Deserve, the credit-card technology startup’s CEO said in an interview, according...
Bitcoin ATMs Double This Year, Exceed 30,000 Globally
Locations providing crypto ATM services have increased exponentially this year, according to data compiled by a major tracking site....
Shiba Inu could surpass Dogecoin after a 700% SHIB price rally in October
Shiba Inu (SHIB) continued its march upward on Oct. 27 with its price hitting a record high of nearly $0.000060 before correcting lower....
Blockchain Development Platform QuickNode Raises $35M
Blockchain development platform QuickNode has raised $35 million in Series A funding round, the company said Wednesday.The round was led...
The Legends of Bezogia Blockchain NFT Rental MMO Game Takes Gaming Industry by Storm
The Legends of Bezogia, the land where everything always goes up, is a massive open-world sandbox-style game where players can summon...
Nigerian Judge Rules in Favor of Accused Crypto Startup, Accounts to Be Reopened
A Nigerian Federal Court judge recently ruled that the two frozen bank accounts belonging to Rise Vest Technologies, which is accused of...
UK Police Seize $2.7M in Crypto From Teenager in Money Laundering Investigation
U.K. police seized more than £2 million ($2.7 million) in cryptocurrency from a 17-year-old during an investigation into what they called...
The Evolution of Ethereum’s Monetary Policy
This article originally appeared in Valid Points, CoinDesk’s weekly newsletter breaking down Ethereum 2.0 and its sweeping impact on...
Florida County Miami-Dade to ‘Study Feasibility’ of Paying Taxes With Crypto
Miami-Dade County in Florida has approved a resolution to create a taskforce to study the feasibility of accepting crypto as a form of...