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Coinbase Shares Hit All-Time Low Following Controversial Disclosure Filing
Leading U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase had an unusually tough week after releasing a disappointing first quarter earnings report, which included a controversial disclosure filing with the...
American Millionaire Investor Mark Mobius Says Bitcoin is Going to $10k
May has not been a good month for crypto investors. Bitcoin is down 24% since the start of the month and 57% from its all-time high (ATH) of $69,000. Analysts believe the recent crash was heavily infl...
KuCoin Hits $10B Valuation After Rasing $150 Million From Industry Investors
Popular cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin has reached a $10 billion valuation after the company raised $150 million in a just-concluded Series B round. KuCoin Raises $150 Million The funding round saw pa...
Satoshi-Era Bitcoin Wallet Holding Over $30 Million Reactivates After 8.5 Years
A dormant Satoshi-era BTC wallet with a balance of $30,395,186 has just been reactivated after 8.5 years of dormancy, blockchain transaction tracking platform Whale Alert revealed on Twitter. Satoshi-...
Germany’s Finance Minister Says No Income Tax on Bitcoin and Ether Held for a Year
Germany’s Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF), alongside the country’s highest tax authorities, recently published a letter on how income from cryptocurrencies and other digital assets would be taxed in...
Do Kwon’s Spouse Gets Strange Visitor, Requests Police Protection
The quick decline of Terraform Labs-backed project Terra (LUNA) has been the talk of the week with millions of investors around the world impacted. Local reports allege that affected investors are now...
Binance CZ Slams TerraForm Labs Poor “Handling” of UST/LUNA Crash
Changpeng Zhao (CZ), CEO of leading crypto exchange Binance has expressed disappointment at how the Terra (LUNA) project team has so far handled the price crash of its stablecoin, UST and its native t...
Chainalysis Now Valued At $8.6B Following Fresh Funding
Blockchain analytics company, Chainalysis, announced Thursday it has raised $170 million in a Series F funding round at an $8.6 billion valuation. This means that the firm has more than doubled its va...
Terra Blockchain Temporarily Halted to Protect The Protocol From Attacks
Following the recent headwinds surrounding the Terra ecosystem and its native cryptocurrencies, the blockchain was temporarily halted to protect the ecosystem against malicious attacks. Terra Blockch...
PancakeSwap DEX Introduces Fixed Supply (750M $CAKE)
PancakeSwap, the decentralized exchange based on BNB Chain, has proposed to impose a supply cap of 750 million for its native token, CAKE. CAKE 750M Max Supply and Revised Tokenomics The decentralize...
FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Acquires a 7.6% Stake in Robinhood
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...