Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the CEO of FTX, has recently become one of the largest shareholders in the popular American trading platform, Robinhood, after taking a 7.6% stake in the company. According t...
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Coinbase CEO Explains New Disclosure Filing, Says Company Has No Risk of Bankruptcy
Leading U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase recently released its earnings report for the first quarter of 2022, netting a total loss of about $430 million within the period. Coinbase New Disclosur...
Five U.S. States Order Virtual Casino to Stop Selling NFTs
Regulators in five U.S. states – Texas, Wisconsin, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Alabama – have issued a cease-and-desist order against Flamingo Casino Club, a virtual platform where users can purchase no...
Crypto Startup WhaleFin Inks $20M Sponsorship Deal With Chelsea FC
WhaleFin, a digital asset platform owned by Amber Group, has become the official sleeve partner of England’s top flight team, Chelsea Football Club, via an annual sponsorship deal worth $20 million. T...
$1 Trillion Crypto Meltdown—Huge Crash Wipes Out The Price Of Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB, XRP, Cardano, Solana, Terra’s Luna And Avalanche
Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies have crashed further overnight, dropping to levels not seen since the crypto market began surging in late 2020 and wiping away almost $1 trillion worth of value in a month...
Hong Kong Police Arrest 25-Year-Old Man For $191,000 Cryptocurrency Fraud
Hong Kong police have arrested a 24-year-old man for allegedly piloting a cryptocurrency scam sometime last week, the South China Morning Post reported Wednesday. 24-Year-Old Man Steals 191k in Crypt...
UK Asset Manager Fasanara to Raise $350M Fund For Crypto Startups
Fasanara Capital, a UK-based asset management firm with over $3.5 billion in AUM, is raising a new $350 million venture fund to back fintech and crypto startups, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. Fasan...
Do Kwon Pledges to Rebuild UST (This Time With Collateral Backing)
Following a failed attempt to defend the peg for the TerraUSD (UST) stablecoin, TerraForm Labs CEO Do Kwon has finally admitted that it is now embarking on a plan to “rebuild UST.” Recall that a sleut...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Calls for Stablecoin Regulation Amid UST Drama
Janet Yellen, the secretary of the United States Treasury, said on Tuesday that there is a need for stablecoin legislation, while noting that TerraUST (UST) is risky. Secretary Yellen Speaks On Stable...
Going ‘To Zero’—Panic Is Sweeping Crypto Markets, Hitting The Price Of Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB, XRP, Cardano, Solana, Terra’s Luna And Avalanche
Bitcoin BTC and cryptocurrency markets have fallen sharply after the controversial algorithmic stablecoin TerraUSD (UST) dropped further from its dollar peg (following a serious “ripple” w...
Blockchain Startup Flow Launches $725M Ecosystem Funds
Flow, the Web3 blockchain company powering NBA Top Shot NFT maker Dapper Labs, revealed Tuesday that it has raised $725 million in funding for its ecosystem expansion. The funding saw participation f...
Down Bad! Institutional Bitcoin Holdings Drop by $12B Amid Bloodbath
Following a recent announcement of rate hikes by the US Fed and the ongoing bloodbath in the crypto market, the total amount of bitcoin held by large corporations has dropped by $12 billion. Instituti...
Primex Launches Alpha Version of Decentralized Prime Brokerage Protocol on Testnet
Primex Finance, a DeFi platform connecting passive allocators with traders, is launching its first Alpha version on the upcoming testnet. The Alpha offers the vast majority of the features intended fo...
El Salvador Acquires 500 Bitcoins ($15.5M) Amid Market Sell-Off
The Central American nation of El Salvador has bought the dip yet again, adding another 500 bitcoins ($15.5M) to its portfolio amid the recent massive market sell-off. Buying the Dip El Salvador’s pre...
BTC Must Drop to $3562 Before We Get Margin Call
MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor has confirmed that the company is under no immediate pressure to liquidate its Bitcoin (BTC) holdings despite prevailing market conditions. In fact, the price of bitco...
Instagram to Start Rolling Out NFTs
Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, disclosed via Twitter that the social platform will start testing NFTs with selected creators and collectors from the United States before spreading to other users gr...
Luna Foundation Guard Empties $2.2B Bitcoin Wallet to Save UST
The Luna Foundation Guard (LFG), a non-profit organization aimed at bolstering the Terra blockchain, has recently emptied $2.2 billion worth of bitcoin from its Bitcoin reserve to save the Terra stabl...
BTC Becomes Oversold for the First Time in Three Months
Bitcoin has been on a downtrend for more than five days. The latest dip saw the apex coin lose more than 7% in less than 22 hours. The dip which was a result of Luna Foundation selling off $1.5 billio...
Indian GST Council Wants to Treat Crypto Like Casinos and Online Betting, Proposes 28% Tax
The Goods and Service Tax (GST) Council, the body in charge of making laws and regulating goods and services tax in India, is planning on treating cryptocurrencies like casinos and online betting. Cur...
South Korean Crypto Startup Xangle Bags $17 Million in Series B Funding
Xangle, a cryptocurrency disclosure platform built by South Korean crypto company CrossAngle, has raised $17 million from industry investors in a just-concluded Series B funding. Xangle Bags $17 Mill...
Serious ‘Ripple’ Warning After Massive $400 Billion Crypto Crash Suddenly Plunges Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB, XRP, Solana, Cardano, Terra’s Luna And Avalanche Into Free Fall
Bitcoin BTC , ethereum and other major cryptocurrencies have suddenly crashed, wiping $400 billion from the combined crypto market since Friday. Subscribe now to Forbes’ CryptoAsset & Blockc...
SBI Group’s Cross Border e-Commerce Platform to Accept Bitcoin and XRP Payments
Japan-based financial services company SBI Group announced today that its SBI Africa cross-border e-commerce platform, dubbed SBI Motor Japan, will start accepting Bitcoin (BTC) and Ripple (XRP) payme...
Luna Foundation Guard Deploys $1.5B to Defend Troubled UST Peg
The Luna Foundation Guard (LFG), a non-profit organization supporting all things Terra, has recently announced that it will lend $1.5 billion to protect the peg of its algorithmic stablecoin UST amid ...
How Blockchain Gaming Needs to Evolve for Survival
By Şekip Can Gökalp – Core Contributor, Infinite Arcade While blockchain gaming has its haters, who react almost hysterically any time it’s mentioned in conjunction with a major publisher or popular v...
What is Avalanche? An A-Z Guide to the “Ethereum Killer”
Avalanche is a public blockchain designed to scale throughput at low costs while maintaining speed, security and decentralization. The Avalanche network uses AVAX as a native coin for paying transacti...
BTC Makes an Attempt at $34k. Will it Hold?
According to Cryptocurrenciestowatch few minutes to the time of writing, Bitcoin retraced as low as $34,210. There were major fears of the apex coin testing and flipping the $34k support increased. Op...
NVIDIA Settles Undisclosed Crypto Revenue Charges With SEC, Agrees to Pay $5.5 Million
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Friday that it has settled charges against popular cryptocurrency mining chip maker NVIDIA Corporation. NVIDIA Agrees to Pay $5.5 ...
SW DAO Showcasing New UI/UX Improvements in Q1 Report
SW DAO is evolving to improve its user experience. Transparency reporting gives users and the general public access to critical information about how a company operates. Being a provider of DeFi inves...
U.S. Sanctions Crypto Mixer Blender.io for Aiding Axie Infinity’s Hackers
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the United States Department of the Treasury has added cryptocurrency mixing platform Blender.io to its sanction list, according to a Friday statement. U...
‘Extreme Fear’ Crypto Crash Suddenly Wipes $200 Billion From The Price Of Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB, XRP, Luna, Solana, Cardano And Avalanche
Bitcoin BTC , ethereum and other major cryptocurrencies have fallen sharply, wiping around $200 billion from the crypto market in just a matter of days (though some fear the bitcoin price could fall f...