Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Blockchain game "Cross the Ages" (CTA) has received a $12 million in seed round from gaming crypto investment firm Animoca Brands, video game developer Ubisoft, and Sebastian Borget, co-founder and COO of The Sandbox. The funds raised will be used...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Iris Energy raised $71 million in debt issuance for new Bitcoin mining equipment. According to a statement, the Australia-based Bitcoin mining firm won the deal with an NYDIG subsidiary. Iris Energy used 19,800 Bitmain S19j Pro miners to secure the...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
The Japanese government is pushing for new legislation that will see cryptocurrency trading platforms operating in the country under governance, which same rules apply to banks. As by Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno, the government is pla...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
SK Square, the largest shareholder of South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix, is reportedly earmarking the sum of 2 trillion won ($1.63 billion) to invest in new technologies, including chips and blockchain. Per a Reuters , the investment will feature a n...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
America’s largest trading platform, Coinbase Global Inc, is reportedly on track to acquire 2TM, the Brazilian startup that owns the Mercado Bitcoin cryptocurrency exchange. As by the Estadão newspaper, the American cryptocurrency trading firm has...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
In a dramatic twist, the Russian Deputy Minister of Energy Evgeny Grabchak is pushing for the regulation of Bitcoin () mining, given the in the country. As by the Russian News Agency, the deputy minister wants a legal framework to be floated as s...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
In an interview with CNBC last Friday, US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen acknowledged crypto’s rising role in American finance. Yellen said that she will work towards creating guidance for future regulation that supports innovation in the...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
India’s parliament announced last Friday that it passed the Finance Bill 2022, which has introduced taxation on digital assets including cryptocurrencies. The new law has imposed a 30% capital gains tax on crypto transactions, putting digital asse...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
U.K. government will a cryptocurrency regulatory regime in the next few weeks, with a focus on stablecoins, and the details of the plan are still being actively discussed, CNBC has the details. The H.M. Treasury, including Chancellor Rishi Sunak,...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Game developer for PC and mobile devices Krafton with Solana Labs to develop blockchain-based games and services in the Metaverse world. Krafton, stylized as KRAFTON which was formerly known as Bluehole, is a South Korean company that develops and...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Greenidge Generation Holdings has secured $100 million in funds to help in enlarging its operations in the U.S. The total sum included $81.4 million as a loan from an affiliate of NYDIG and $26.5 million as a promissory note with a cohort of B. Ril...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
The price of Bitcoin hit the level of $46,000, which has put the world’s top back on track to positive territory for the year, according to Bloomberg. Bitcoin touched $47,583 during intraday in the Asia trading session, which was the $35,000 to $...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation announced last Friday that it has launched a MetaHistory NFT Museum, a blockchain-based collection of digital images of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Ukrainian government launched a non-fungible-t...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Coinbase, a global cryptocurrency exchange, announced last Friday that it plans to collect additional information from its customers based in Canada, Singapore, and Japan. Coinbase said that starting from April 1, the exchange will request regional...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Rather than wasting natural gas through flaring, oil and energy giant ExxonMobil has launched a pilot program to convert this excess natural gas into energy that powers mobile generators that can mine Bitcoin (BTC). As by Bloomberg, citing people...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Satoshi Island Limited, the startup that is committed to building the crypto capital of the world as a smart city in Vanuatu, has it has secured approval from the Prime Minister of Vanuatu for this project. As revealed by the team behind the proje...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Singapore and Cambodia are notably exploring the use of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and digital currencies to improve their payment ecosystem efficiency as well as bolster the growth of startups across the board. Both ASEAN countries ar...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Rio de Janeiro is gearing up to be the first city on Brazilian soil to accept tax payment in from 2023, to Bloomberg Linea. As a result, plans are underway for the municipality to hire companies that will aid in the conversion of crypto assets t...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
To delve deeper into the opportunities, risks, trade-offs, and potential technical challenges faced when developing a CBDC system, the Bank of England (BoE) has joined hands Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on a year-long research project...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Many wallet addresses that have been in losses for the better part of the year hit take profits on centralized exchanges in the past week as the broader digital currency ecosystem charted a very impressive growth momentum. The global crypto industr...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
The (FCA), a financial regulatory body in the United Kingdom, has issued a fresh warning to crypto firms. The regulator issued a mildly worded statement on Thursday informing crypto companies to be clear and honest with their customers when selling...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Bit.com, a Singapore-based crypto exchange owned by Matrixport, has a new savings product and USDT margined futures to diversify the cryptocurrency options. With an annualized yield of 30%, the fixed savings product will enable users to earn inte...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Net Savings Link, Inc. (OTC Pink: NSAV), a technology services company for the digital asset industry, announced Thursday a partnership with Metaverse Network LLC (MNC) to release HIVE, the first multi-token-enabled blockchain home mining device. M...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Binance is putting in a fresh $5 million investment in metaverse gaming startup Ultiverse after leading a $4.5 million seed investment a week earlier for the firm. The previous seed investment was in a blog post by Binance Labs, the venture capita...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Bank Leumi’s digital platform Pepper Invest announced that the bank is set to become the first Israeli bank to facilitate cryptocurrency trading - following a partnership with US blockchain firm Paxos, according to a report by Reuters. The announce...
