Former SEC Director tipped to lead Coinbase’s Capital Markets Division into IPO
Coinbase's plans to go public reached another landmark today, with the organisation hiring ex-SEC Director Brett Redfearn to head its Capital Markets team. This is...
Visa’s proposed plans to encourage its partners to settle fiat transactions with cryptocurrencies.
Visa's members will be able to swap USDC over the payment network to clear fiat currency transfers. Visa, the world's largest credit card firm, is...
Robinhood submits paperwork t0 SEC for initial public offering
The famous trading app has filed a draught registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Robinhood Markets Inc., a famous trading...
China’s own MicroStrategy, Meitu spends another $50 million in Ethereum and Bitcoin
Meitu, a Chinese investment firm, has spent another $50 million in ETh and BTC, raising its total assets to $90 million. Meitu, a Chinese software...
Coinbase has reported over 114 million Class A shares ahead of a direct listing.
Even before Coinbase publicly filed its S-1, news of the crypto exchange going public had captivated the market. In the most recent progress, the crypto...
Grayscale adds 10,000 Ethereum (ETH) as the price hovers around $1800, and Whale Addresses remain strong
Since breaking through $1900 heights last Saturday, Ethereum (ETH) struggled to smash through its all-time peak of $2000 and has since retraced. At the time...
Bitcoin is currently more valued than both Visa and Mastercard put together.
According to results, the largest cryptocurrency recently outperformed the world's three largest banks in terms of market capitalisation. Bitcoin (BTC) did more than reach $60,000...
Investview currently has $1 million in Bitcoin and altcoins on the balance sheet.
Investview, a prominent financial services technology business headquartered in the United States, is the first publicly traded entity to have cryptocurrencies on the balance sheet....
Grayscale Looking to Recruit Crypto ETF Team, Says the U.S. Will Quickly Follow Canada’s Footsteps
Canada has launched three bitcoin-based exchange-traded funds (ETFs) within the last few weeks, and the United States appears to think that its day in the...
Dallas Mavericks Starts Accepting Dogecoin as Payment for goods
Dallas Mavericks fans will also be able to purchase their tickets using Dogecoin (DOGE), one of the most interesting crypto currencies in the world. In...
Adoption: Clothing firm turns $1M in cash deposits into Bitcoin, Ethereum.
Over the last several months, Bitcoin has gradually been positioned as an alternate protection against fiat devaluation and other unfavourable market occurrences. As a result,...
Israeli pension firm earns huge profits from a $100 million investment in Bitcoin.
Altshuler Shaham, Israel's biggest pension firm, has doubled its capital by spending $100 million in Grayscale Blockchain Trust shares (GBTC). According to Israel's Globes publication,...
Ripple, MoneyGram end relationship, alleging ‘lack of a crypto-reg system’
Ripple and MoneyGram have ended their partnership agreement, according to an announcement made earlier today. However, according to Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, the two parties...
PayPal for the acquisition of crypto asset protection company Curv
Payments giant PayPal Holdings Inc. has announced its plan to buy a crypto-focused startup in Tel-Aviv, Curv. The company plans to conclude the purchase of...
Galaxy Digital Bitcoin ETF to be launched this week , drawn to ‘compelling prospects’
The new Bitcoin ETF to enter the market arrives when the United States has yet to sanction any homegrown rivals. Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETFs)...
Yearn Finance and Cover Protocol’s merger process to be suspended
Yearn Finance and Cover Protocol have parted ways, according to an announcement made earlier today. We have decided to end the previously announced merger process...
Bybit will close down its activities in the U.K to conform with the FCA directive.
In a bid to comply with the Financial Conduct Authority's [FCA] ban on crypto-derivatives, Bybit, a prominent exchange company, has announced that it will shut...
Polkadot and IOST partners for cross-chain interoperability
Polkadot [DOT] has recently gained enormous traction in many crypto-circles as it focuses on interoperability. Its DOT token has returned 298 percent year-to-date to customers,...
BitGo is granted a confidence licence by New York regulators
Goldman Sachs-backed crypto custodian BitGo has secured a licence from the New York Trust to act as an independent custodian in the state. Major American...
Ripple is loyal to San Francisco, said co-founder Chris Larsen.
In October last year, Chris Larsen, co-founder of Ripple, said that the company would consider moving to other countries, citing a lack of regulatory transparency...
Class-action lawsuit filed against MoneyGram for False allegation about XRP
After Ripple Laboratories, the payment giant MoneyGram is the next to be caught at the end of the legal entanglement, with a class action suit...
Bitfarms to hire 48,000 miners to improve their hashing efficiency.
Canadian miner Bitfarms is expected to purchase 48,000 new miners from MicroBT in order to raise the hashing power by roughly 5.0 EH. The organisation...
MicroStrategy buys extra 328 bitcoins worth $15m.
Business analytics company MicroStrategy has acquired an extra 328 bitcoins for nearly $15 million. This will be the first acquisition of the crypto currency by...
Rakuten’s customers can now use Bitcoin to shop.
Japan's retail giant Rakuten has integrated its crypto wallet with its payment app, enabling consumers to directly load and convert their Bitcoin holdings for daily...
Optimistic Coinbase premium and how this will impact price of Bitcoin
Bitcoin's price action on Coinbase has been a time test, particularly as crypto-exchange user statistics have often highlighted institutional market participation. Present bitcoin bullfighting is...
Grayscale, asset manager plots investing into alts of high repute like Cardano, Aave, Chainlink…
Over the last few months, Grayscale Investments has become one of the most important players in the cryptocurrency market. Now, in the light of the...
Coinbase delivered SEC filing to Satoshi in a symbolic gesture.
However, the exchange also reported that the discovery of the Bitcoin creator could cause the crypto market to deteriorate. United States-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase named...
MicroStrategy purchases 19,452 Bitcoins more worth $1,026 billion.
Further raising their Bitcoin reserves, the publicly traded MicroStrategy firm has now purchased an additional 19,452 Bitcoins worth around $1,026 billion. Company CEO Michael Saylor...
Blockchain Australia terminates Qoin retail crypto project
Blockchain Australia has ended Qoin's membership of the organisation on the grounds that the crypto project is a pyramid scheme. Blockchain Australia—the new tech industry...
Jack Dorsey’s Square buys more Bitcoin worth $170M
Jack Dorsey's Square now owns some 3,318 more BTCs. Financial services outfit Square just announced that more bitcoin has been picked up (BTC). Square "has...
Tether and Bitfinex, reached a settlement of $18.5 million in penalties, to cease NY activities
The much-discussed conflict between Bitfinex and Tether has now come to an end; the parties have reached a settlement. The deal resulted in both iFinex...
MoneyGram is suspending its agreement with Ripple
As a result of the pending litigation between Ripple and the United States Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), MoneyGram has agreed to suspend trading on Ripple's...
Why institutions will emulate Tesla’s style in bitcoin adoption
Offering a fresh perspective on Tesla's Bitcoin investment strategy, Daniel Ives, Managing Director and Senior Equity Research Analyst at Wedbush Securities, claims that Tesla will...
How Tesla made $1B profit on its purchase of Bitcoin – analyst.
Tesla is about to make more money from its investment in Bitcoin than revenues from selling its electric vehicles in all of 2020, said the...
Why do institutions have zero remorse on their purchases in Bitcoin?
It's a good time to be part of the crypto business. Not only did Bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency, walk to hit yet another ATH...
Why $55k an obstacle for the retail adoption of Bitcoin
Bitcoin was in the spotlight late as its new price hikes attracted more investors from around the globe. Commenting on Bitcoin's growth and value, Adam...
Binance restarts Ethereum withdrawal after temporarily halting it
Crypto's exchange Binance resumed Ether's withdrawals on its platform after the leading exchange briefly halted the withdrawal of Ether and Ethereum-based tokens in order to...
Mastercard’s CBDC-linked prepaid card launches in the Bahamas
The global payment processing giant Mastercard and the digital payment network Island Pay have introduced a CBDC-linked prepaid card in the Bahamas. The prepaid card...
Bitcoin Adoption: UK airline reports receipt of 19% ticket payments in Bitcoin
Bitcoin's come a long way... gone are the days when people used BTCs to buy pizzas! Recently, a UK-based private airline company announced that it...
MicroStrategy to invest $900M from convertible senior notes into Bitcoin
If the purchase goes as expected, the business intelligence company will retain more than $3.5 billion in Bitcoin as a reserve asset. Following Tuesday's announcement...
Coinbase business worth revealed in preparations to public listing
Three weeks after Coinbase officially revealed its intention to go public via a direct listing, the company's overall valuation was valued at $77 billion. The...
NYDIG gets the support of Morgan Stanley, files for SEC’s Bitcoin ETF in US
The crypto-focused financial services firm filed S-1 paperwork with the SEC, re-launching the debate on the Bitcoin ETF. New York Digital Investment Group, or NYDIG,...
MicroStrategy set to purchase more Bitcoin as BTC spikes above $50K.
MicroStrategy, a publicly traded firm, plans to sell $600 million of convertible senior notes in a private offering to eligible institutional purchasers. The company intended...
Synthetix reports a $12 million increase led by Paradigm, Coinbase Ventures and IOSG.
As crypto group discusses VCs taking part in DAOs, Synthetix welcomes three new Spartans. The Synthetix DAO added some new, perhaps unexpected voices to its...
JPMorgan gives condition on when it will offer bitcoin trading
JPMorgan's co-president and COO Daniel Pinto said that the banking giant would support bitcoin trading if there is client demand for it. "If over time...
Grayscale’s filing reveals considering Yearn Finance as a potential offering.
The filing of a corporate registration with the State of Delaware reveals that Grayscale is considering Yearn Finance as a potential offering. Grayscale Investments has...
Synthetix agrees to add an asset offering blockchain links to Tesla Shares
Synthetix's new governance proposal has been successfully adopted, with the same approval for the development of sTSLA – a synthetic asset that will provide on-chain...
Bithumb to compensate victims of Bitcoin withdrawal mishap with $1.1 b following Seoul court’s ruling
Seoul's Central District Court ruled that Bithumb, a South Korean crypto-exchange, was liable to compensate the victims of Bithumb's withdrawal in November 2018. In that...
Adoption: Uber gives condition it might accept Bitcoin as payments
Uber's Chief Executive Officer and Expedia Group, Dara Khosrowshahi, says that Uber would consider Bitcoin as a type of payment if the business sees a...
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Nigerian Naira [NGN] becomes tradable on Binance’s P2P platforms as NGN fiat pair
Binance has announced the addition of the NGN FIAT/NGN pair to its peer-to-peer [P2P] network in Nigeria. This will allow users to purchase and sell...
MasterCard to start accepting cryptocurrencies in its network with over 30 million merchants
MasterCard will allow nearly one billion users to spend cryptocurrencies on more than 30 million retailers, although it has not specified which coins will be...
Yearn.Finance restores yDAI vault , DeFi project repays $11M to recent hack victims.
The yearn.Finance team has opened a creator vault with YFI native tokens from the treasury. The team said on Twitter on 9 February that Yearn...
Crypto-portfolio tracking firm Blockfolio’s reportedly hacked
Popular crypto-portfolio monitoring company Blockfolio seems to have been hacked. According to news, many Blockfolio users have received aggressive push notifications from the site, with...
Siam Commercial Bank of Thailand to invest $50M in DeFi startups and digital assets
Earlier today, SCB TenX (SCB 10X), a holding company in the Siam Commercial Bank Group, announced a $50 million allocation to DeFi start-ups and digital...
How Bitfarms, Bitcoin mining firm raised $31M
After Tesla's announcement, Bitcoin's price registered yet another ATH. For bitcoin miners, there was a benefit and successful bitcoin mining company, Bitfarms entered into a...
Assets Under Management for Grayscale now a little over $30b
Bitcoin's price has been appreciating since January 2021, but the surge has now come to a fleeting halt. The BTC price has been rising sideways,...
Bitfinex completes repayment of $900 million loan to Tether
Bitfinex has already repaid a $750 million loan to Tether, cancelling the $900 million credit lines between the two businesses – iFinex Inc and Tether....
China’s Poolin buys North American mining pool NovaBlock
China-based Poolin, the second largest mining pool in Bitcoin, has purchased the North American mining pool NovaBlock. According to a public statement addressed to its...
US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau investigating PayPal’s Venmo app
The United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is investigating the PayPal Venmo software after the firm submitted a civil investigation order from the regulator on...
$11 million worth of DAI lost to v1 yDAI vault exploit at Yearn Finance
DeFi Protocol Year Finance experienced an exploit earlier today, resulting in a $11 million loss in one of its DAI vaults. Following the news of...