Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Monday the indictment of two Europeans for allegedly collaborating with Virgil Griffith, a cryptocurrency researcher who was recently sentenced to prison for providing cryptocurrency and blockchain technol...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Seattle-based startup Indicio has announced a $3.5 million financing in a seed round led by Hard Yaka.
The latest funding was raised on Apr 25, from a seed round. Indicio.tech has raised a total of $3.5M in funding over 2 rounds. The funds will be...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Canadian fintech firm Stablecorp that it has secured $1.5 million in participation from crypto market leaders, including Circle Ventures, the issuer of USD Coin (USDC) in the Pre-Series A Funding Round.
Stablecorp is committed to providing blockch...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Video blockchain gaming company BoomBit has BoomLand, a top blockchain gaming platform where players and game developers can earn NFTs and in the form of $BOOM and $BGEM tokens.
On the game platform, players can establish direct contact with game...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Nigerian fintech startup Afriex has closed a $10 million in a Series A round for a $60 million valuation.
Afriex has raised a total of $1.3M in funding over three seed rounds. Investors in this Series A financing, including Sequoia Capital China an...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
The FinTech Association of Hong Kong () has published a response to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority's (HKMA) January discussion paper on crypto assets and stablecoins.
The FTAHK said that it is in principle supportive of the HKMA's proposed risk-b...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Carbon action marketplace JustCarbon has announced a multi-exchange platform partnership with DigiFinex, Coinsbit, and Coinstore signifying a play for dominance in the carbon market.
The partnership includes JustCarbon Removal tokens (JCRs) avail...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
The launch of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) is considered the prominent trend in the revolution of digital arts through blockchain technology featuring these digital artworks.
NFT Collections come off as one of the avenues through which digital artwork...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Banks in India have reached out to the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) – a government agency under India’s Central Bank Reserve Bank of India in charge of operating retail payments and settlement systems in India – seeking clarity on t...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Dogecoin was last up to more than 20% after Elson Musk, the new boss of Twitter officially announced the of the social media platform for $54.20 per share (about $44 billion in total).
Twitter's share rose 5.66% on Monday and is currently trading...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Blockchain-based crypto platform Algorand said it will implement smart contracts that automatically offset carbon emissions, and use part of the to offset its carbon emissions.
Climate change becomes one of the trending issues to tackle in the lon...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken to the UAE, and open a regional office in Abu Dhabi.
Kraken will be the first cryptocurrency exchange in the UAE to be able to trade directly, after obtaining full licenses from ADGM, Abu Dhabi Global Mar...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
El Salvador the first country in the world to accept Bitcoin () as a legal tender back in September 2021.
While the President, Nayib Bukele gained popularity through the of sterling data about the adoption of the from September through the end of...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Negotiations between , the CEO of Tesla Inc., and Twitter’s eleven-member board were in high gear on April 25. Musk eyes purchasing the social media giant and making it private.
Musk has already floated a $46.5 billion offer as he seeks to gain ful...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Hedge fund SkyBridge founder Anthony Scaramucci he plans to shift the pace of SkyBridge Capital's investment to virtual digital assets, according to Bloomberg.
SkyBridge is a global multi-asset class alternative investments firm, specializing in h...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Crypto lending platform SALT has partnered with Cion Digital to launch crypto lending-as-a-service for over 5,000 U.S. auto dealerships.
SALT was founded in 2016 and introduced asset-backed lending to the cryptocurrency market, offering digital ass...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Compass Mining, an American cryptocurrency mining firm, is looking for buyers for its gears stranded in Russia in a bid to avoid being sanctioned by the United States Department of Treasury.
According to a Bloomberg citing Compass Mining’s Chief E...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
American Premium Water Corporation the acquisition of cryptocurrency mining and staking company CloudXchange DataCentre Inc. (“CloudX”) for $45.6 million.
Under the terms of the agreement, seller CloudX committed its wholly-owned subsidiary CloudX...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
CertiK, a web3 and blockchain security company based in New York, announced on Friday that it raised an additional $60 million just two weeks after it raised $88 million in a Series B3 funding round. The latest funding gives CertiK a valuation of $2...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Hong Kong's Regal Hotels Group has announced its entrance into the metaverse with project MetaGreen, scheduled for completion by October 2022.
Regal Hotels has said that MetaGreen is a project to build an environmental, social and governance (ESG)...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
According to a court filing first reported by Wired media outlets, about $3 billion worth of seized Bitcoin in connection to an unnamed Silk Road hacker will be used to absolve Ross Ulbricht of his $183 million debt to the US government.
Ulbricht i...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
The State of New York may soon make a move to christen “Rug Pulls” in the digital currency ecosystem as an offence, which could come as a bill, dubbed when it is passed into law.
The Bill was introduced by Senator Kevin Thomas and alongside an acc...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Wallet Street Venture Capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz (a16Z), announced establishing its own crypto research lab to conduct blockchain-related academic research.
Led by Tim Roughgarden, adjunct professor of computer science at both Stanford and C...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have been making headlines based on the notable growth witnessed in this sector despite being the new kid on the crypto block.
NFTs have been hitting a monthly volume of $10 billion on the Ethereum (ETH) network. Data ana...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Bybit users can directly buy crypto with their credit or debit cards using fiat currencies, the cryptocurrency exchange company announced.
The launch of Bybit's credit and debit card payments system "will make buying crypto as simple as making any...