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Evolve Funds Files for Crypto ETF in Canada
Evolve Funds has filed a preliminary prospectus with the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) for an Evolve Cryptocurrencies...
Move Over, Carry Trade, These Retail-Friendly DeFi Options Strategies Yield 12%-30%
The crypto “cash-and-carry” trade – where traders simultaneously enter into a long position on bitcoin or ether (ETH) in the spot market...
Gary Gensler Says Crypto Is a ‘Wild West.’ Others See Pure Capitalism
Gary Gensler, from up high on his regulatory perch at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, is arguing for greater oversight of...
MassMutual-Owned Fintech Firm Flourish to Offer Bitcoin Investment Service to Financial Advisors
Flourish, a MassMutual-owned fintech company, is launching a service that allows registered investment advisors (RIAs) and their clients...
CFTC Charges 14 Trading Platforms Offering Crypto-Related Investments
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has charged 14 trading platforms that claim to offer crypto-related investments but have...
Powers On… Don’t worry, Bitcoin’s adoption will not be stopped
In a series of recent interviews and speeches, United States Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler has called the...
France’s Market Authority Warns Against Proposed Air Next ICO
France’s markets regulator has warned of the risk of fraud associated with a recently proposed initial coin offering (ICO).The Autorité...
Ethereum miners are hoarding a record $70B in ETH following EIP-1559 activation
An on-chain study released by Kraken Intelligence highlights strong accumulation behavior among Ethereum miners even as they faced the...
How to Send Bitcoin Tips on Twitter
Tips is a new integrated tipping service on Twitter that allows users to add links to third-party payment services, including bitcoin...
Polygon Bolsters Augur Betting Platform With $1M Liquidity Program
Polygon is launching a $1 million incentivization program to provide liquidity on Augur Turbo, a decentralized predictions platform that...
Polygon Bolsters Betting Platform With $1M Liquidity Program
Polygon is launching a $1 million incentivization program to provide liquidity on Augur Turbo, a decentralized predictions platform that...
Where to buy Zilliqa as ZIL reaches the $0.08 level
The Zilliqa (ZIL) token has jumped by 8.39% and is currently trading at $0.08 level at the time of writing The Zilliqa token has seen a...
Crypto News Roundup for Sept. 30, 2021
This episode is sponsored by Kava, Nexo.io and Bitstamp.Today’s Stories:Bitcoin Rising Toward $45K Resistance; Support at $40KMarket Wrap:...
Bit Digital Stock Slides After $80M Private Placement
Bit Digital (Nasdaq: BTBT) announced an $80 million private placement to sell stock to institutional investors. The shares fell 14% to...
Where to buy Binance coin as BNB recovers by 8%
The Binance Coin (BNB) is up by 8% and is currently trading at $375.31 at the time of writing The Binance Coin is up by 8% in a day and...
3 Factors That Make Quant Trading in Crypto Unique
In recent years, quantitative (quant) trading has gone from mysticism to being part of the everyday vocabulary of capital markets. The...
Bit Digital Stock Slides After $80 Million Private Placement
Bit Digital (Nasdaq: BTBT) announced an $80 million private placement to sell stock to institutional investors. The shares fell 14% to...
Survey Shows 64% of Britons Believe Crypto Is ‘Not a Safe Investment,’ Respondents Think Ethereum Is a Drug, Cardano Is Cheese
While there’s a lot of hype surrounding digital currencies like bitcoin, a great number of people are still confused by the crypto...
Zero Hash Eyes Expansion in DeFi, NFTs After Raising $35M
Zero Hash has raised $35 million in a Series C funding round to expand its product offerings in decentralized finance (DeFi) and...
Binance Adds Veteran IRS Investigators in Push to Strengthen Compliance
Binance’s ongoing efforts to pinpoint and prevent the illegal misuse of its platform continued Thursday with the announcement that it had...
Private-Equity Giant KKR Makes First Blockchain Investment in ParaFi Fund
Investment giant KKR & Co has made its first blockchain-related investment with a stake in the flagship fund of ParaFi Capital, ParaFi...
Avalanche DEX Trader Joe Gets $20M Slice of ‘Rush’ Incentives Program
Avalanche-native decentralized exchange (DEX) Trader Joe announced Thursday the launch of a $20 million liquidity mining incentive program...
Multicoin Capital Hires General Counsel as Talk of Crypto Regulation Ramps Up
Venture firm Multicoin Capital is adding to its legal ranks at a time when global regulators are putting crypto squarely under the...
Where to buy Marsan Exchange Token as MRS registers 207% rally
The Marsan Exchange token (MRS) is up by 207% and is trading at $0.08 at the time of writing The Marsan Exchange token has registered...
Where to buy Aventus as AVT skyrockets by 196%
The Aventus (AVT) token has seen a strong rally with 196% gains in the past 24 hours The Aventus token is currently enjoying a bull run...
Coincidence or Insider Trading? Price Pops Before Incentive Announcements Raise Questions
“Buy the rumor, sell the news.” It is not surprising when a token sees a price pop after its underlying blockchain announces a...
Gelato Raises $11M as Smart Contract Automation Market Heats Up
The race is on to see who can capture the smart contract automation market, and early pioneer Gelato has raised $11 million to expand...
How Binance Helps Legal Authorities Take Down Cybercriminals Laundering Illicit Funds
According to the latest UN statistics, global money laundering transactions reach up to $2 trillion a year. A small fraction of that huge...
Why Bitcoin Has Value and Should Be Part of Your Client’s Portfolio
Personal prosperity is the core of financial planning and why we work with our clients. Our goal as an advisor encapsulates helping...
The Importance of Bitcoin Upgrades and Layer Two Applications
It’s no secret that the crypto community is divided around the support of bitcoin and alt coins, a term given to any coin that is an...
Terra to Apply Columbus 5 Mainnet Migration
Terra, a top 15-ranked cryptocurrency by market capitalization, is planning to apply the Columbus 5 upgrade to its mainnet today. If...
Swiss Exchange lists ADA as Coinbase Pro adds support for AVAX
Lykke Wallet, a Switzerland-based digital assets platform, posted a tweet detailing that it was adding Cardano to its list of tradable...
Cardano lands $100M boost for its DeFi and NFT projects
The funds will help developers undertake projects built on Cardano Cardano (ADA) has received a major boost in the form of a massive...
Visa Unveils Proposed Interoperability Platform for Stablecoins, CBDCs
Payments behemoth Visa has unveiled a proposed platform enabling interoperability between central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and...
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry makes huge crypto fraud bust
According to local reports, Iranian authorities apprehended members of a network that was running a bogus crypto scheme The Ministry of...
Bitcoin Rising Toward $45K Resistance; Support at $40K
Bitcoin (BTC) buyers were active during Asia hours as pullbacks remain limited to the $40,000 support level. Initial resistance is seen...
Terra Blockchain, Home of LUNA and UST, Upgrades for Cross-Chain Interoperability
The Terra blockchain has completed Columbus-5, a hotly anticipated upgrade that is expected to make the system work more seamlessly with...
Altair Network wins auction to become 10th parachain on Kusama
Users can experiment on any number of real-world assets before releasing them on Centrifuge Chain Altair Network has become the 10th...
Nigerian Lawmaker Proposes Closure of All Domiciliary Accounts in Order to Save Imperiled Naira
Nigerian lawmaker Ibrahim Obanikoro has called on Nigerian authorities to “close all domiciliary accounts for the next 12...
Is $40K Bitcoin the new $10K? BTC holds $43K support as exchange Bitfinex halts trading
Bitcoin (BTC) erased overnight gains on Sept. 30 as sudden problems at major exchange Bitfinex caused a mass outage. BTC/USD 1-hour candle...
HBAR price analysis: Bears eye breakdown beneath $0.30
Bulls could push for a breakout to $0.35 and then rally as high as $0.53 if they hold prices above the $0.30 level Hedera Hashgraph is...
Germany’s 2021 election: What do parties think of crypto and blockchain?
The use of new technologies such as blockchain or artificial intelligence has been in the spotlight lately and gaining more acceptance...
Argo Blockchain to Buy 20,000 Mining Machines for West Texas Data Center
Crypto mining firm Argo Blockchain has agreed to buy 20,000 mining machines for the data center it is building in West Texas.The Bitmain...
Bitcoin Jumps as SEC’s Gensler Reiterates Support for Futures ETF; Dollar Rally May Cap Gains
What looked set to be a down day for bitcoin is turning positive, courtesy of renewed speculation that the U.S. could soon approve...
Crypto Exchange Bitfinex Halts Trading Due to Platform Outage
Bitfinex, one of the largest decentralized crypto exchanges, has halted trading due to a platform outage.The exchange said on its website...
Russian Post to Employ Blockchain Technology in Parcel Tracking
The national postal operator of Russia plans to implement a parcel tracking system that will rely on blockchain technology. The...
Bragging rights: Twitter previews verification badge for NFT profile pics
Twitter has unveiled an in-development tool that will enable users to display a verified NFT as their profile picture. Mada Aflak, a...
Kraken Reveals Security Vulnerabilities in Bitcoin ATMs
A commonly used model of bitcoin ATMs has several software and hardware vulnerabilities, Kraken Security Labs revealed in a blog post...
EverRise Brings Buyback Token and Ecosystem of dApps to Polygon and Ethereum
PRESS RELEASE. Singapore, September 30, 2021. Less than three weeks after releasing its first dApp EverOwn for Binance Smart Chain,...
New Zealand’s Reserve Bank Seeks Public Input on Digital Dollar Before December Deadline
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand is seeking public input over how it should assess the use case for the country’s digital dollar.Two...
‘Faster and Cheaper Cross-Border Transfers’ — Banking Report Led by BIS Highlights the Benefits of Cryptocurrency
According to a report published by the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) and a group of central banks, digital currencies can lead...
San Jose, ‘Capital of Silicon Valley,’ Wants to Provide Internet to Low-Income Households Using Helium Mining
The California city of San Jose, sometimes called the “Capital of Silicon Valley,” plans to fund internet access for low-income families...
China’s crypto holdouts: Bitcoin nodes and OTC desks struggle on
Despite Beijing’s ever-increasing crackdown on the crypto industry, there are still some signs of life in the People’s Republic regarding...
SBI, Sygnum, Azimut Establish $75M VC Fund for Crypto Startup Investments
A new Singapore-based venture capital fund has been set up by three major financial services firms that will pour $75 million into crypto...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk Opposes Governments Regulating Crypto, Says They Should ‘Do Nothing’
Tesla CEO Elon Musk thinks governments should not try to regulate cryptocurrency. “I would say, do nothing,” he recommended....
Traders identify $41K as Bitcoin’s key support to hold for the short-term
Bitcoin faced another day of bearish pressure on Sept. 29 as the impact of China’s crypto crackdown and uncertainty about the...
DeFi Money Market Compound Overpays $15M in COMP Rewards in Possible Exploit
In a possible exploit on Wednesday night, decentralized money market Compound has been erroneously paying out millions of dollars in COMP...
Miami Mayor: China’s Crypto Crackdown ‘Creates Incredible Opportunity for America’ in Bitcoin Mining
The mayor of Miami, Florida, sees China’s cryptocurrency crackdown as “the turning point” that “creates an...
SEC Crypto Regulations Need ‘Even Application,’ Says A16z’s Katie Haun
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) General Partner Katie Haun said the crypto industry isn’t opposed to regulation but does need clarity from...
DYDX gains 80% in a week — What’s driving the DEX token rally?
Decentralized exchange dYdX’s native token DYDX surged by nearly 80% this week as traders assessed its potential against...
Celer (CELR) gains 400% after traders embrace its multi-chain ‘cBridge 2.0’ solution
High transaction costs have been a thorn in the side of investors and developers for more than a decade and the issue became worse in 2021...
Price analysis 9/29: BTC, ETH, ADA, BNB, XRP, SOL, DOT, DOGE, AVAX, UNI
Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) are attempting to bounce off their critical support levels as bulls try to thwart attempts by the bears to...
Salvadoran President Shares Video of Volcano-Powered Bitcoin Mining Facility
On Tuesday, Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele shared a video of a bitcoin mine operating adjacent to a volcano. Bukele discussed the...
Twitter Exec Shares ‘Sneak Peek’ of NFT Profile Verification
Twitter’s head of consumer marketing Justin Taylor tweeted a video on Wednesday showing what the company is working on for its NFT profile...
Market Wrap: Analysts Expect Higher Bitcoin Trading Volume in October
Bitcoin traded in a tight range on Wednesday as buyers continue to hold support (the price level an asset does not fall below for a period...
CFTC Files Charges Against 14 Crypto Companies
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed charges against 14 crypto companies—12 the regulator says failed to register as...
Traders sit idly by as Ripple (XRP) price struggles to avoid a drop to $0.70
Ripple’s (XRP) rallied 72% from Aug. 7 to Aug. 14 but since then, every attempt to break out of the descending channel has been...
Is Kraken’s Settlement With the CFTC Actually Bullish?
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeToday on “The Breakdown,” NLW looks at the $1.25M settlement Kraken just finalized...
Thailand to Develop ‘Cryptourism,’ Considers Issuing Utility Token
In search of ways to heal its travel industry, hurt by the pandemic, Thailand is now recognizing an opportunity to tap into a growing...
Crypto Gains Ground in Latin America Amid Venture Capital Boom
Latin America is experiencing a boom in venture capital investments.In the first six months of 2021, the region registered nearly $6.5...
Pro-Crypto Senator Lummis Thinks Stablecoins Should Face Audits
Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) took aim at stablecoins on Wednesday, saying they “must be 100 percent backed by cash...and this should be...
SwissOne Capital AG Makes It Easy for New Investors to Take Advantage of the Top 50 Cryptocurrencies With Smart Index Crypto Fund Tracker Certificate
PRESS RELEASE. Zug, Switzerland: SwissOne Capital AG, a specialized digital asset manager with a focus on blockchain investment funds, has...
Everything You Need to Know About Ethereum 2.0
Ethereum 2.0 is coming.The years-long upgrade – intended to radically transform the world’s largest smart-contract platform – is inching...
A Battle for Bitcoin’s Soul, With Jill Carlson and Raoul Pal
Join Michael Casey and Sheila Warren as they speak with Jill Carlson, founder of the Open Money Initiative, and Raoul Pal, CEO of...
Gensler Reiterates Support for Futures-Based Bitcoin ETFs
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler reiterated his support Wednesday for a narrow class of bitcoin...
CME Ethereum Futures, Explained
Investors can now attempt to profit from the future price movements of Ethereum’s main crypto token, ether (ETH), on the Chicago...
Fed Chair Says US Inflation ‘More Enduring Than Anticipated’ — Strategist Predicts 10% Market Correction
Americans are not only worried about future inflation, but they are also dealing with dwindling purchasing power in real-time. Meanwhile,...
El Salvador’s Bitcoin Volcano Can Be a Model for Cleaner Crypto
Yesterday afternoon, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele posted a short video of workers installing a shipping container full of...
China is Getting Out of Crypto Mining. Is North America Ready to Embrace it?
Beijing has been playing around with the notion of cryptocurrencies and blockchain for more than a decade. While the Chinese government...
How Does Ethereum Staking Work?
The launch of the Beacon Chain network in December introduced the first iteration of protocol-level staking for Ethereum investors.Put...
Crypto WeChat Groups Suspended by Organizers Amid China’s Crackdown
Organizers of various crypto communities on WeChat are shutting down their private groups following the latest crackdown from China’s...
The First Euro Stablecoin Gets a Boost
There’s a chasm between the fast-developing world of decentralized finance (DeFi) and the old-school world of regulated TradFi, or...
Cool green mayor giving a grand in Bitcoin to each resident
Cool Valley, Missouri, a small town of about 1,500 in the St. Louis County area, found itself the subject of international attention...
China Crypto Bans: A Complete History
Those familiar with the crypto industry will understand that China’s latest crypto ban is not entirely a surprise. The country has...
Developing the Hack-Proof Privacy Coin: No ‘PICNIC’
Even the best anonymous chains were only as secure as their users- until now.Privacy coins have become a fixture in the crypto market....
Bitcoin ‘FOMO rally’ long overdue that could see BTC price top $200K — Bobby Lee
Bitcoin is long overdue for a “FOMO rally” to new all-time highs that could touch $200,000 or more, say one of its oldest investors. In an...
Using NFT Marketplaces for Philanthropy
Many different potential use cases for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have come to light in the last few years, including art, gaming, luxury...
Building the Blockchain Business of the Future
The trillion-dollar tech giants of the future will likely come from the world of crypto. Blockchain and encrypted assets are...
Qilin Puts Liquidity at the Heart of Crypto Derivatives
The spot trading and swapping market in decentralized finance (DeFi) has grown exponentially over the past year, but the DeFi derivatives...
Crypto News Roundup for Sept. 29, 2021
This episode is sponsored by Kava, Nexo.io and Bitstamp.Today’s Stories:Bitcoin Consolidates Above $40K Support; Resistance at $45KMarket...