Representatives for Circle and Coinbase blamed traditional financial institutions — ‘TradFi’ — for instability in the digital asset sector. “What happened over the last several days...
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Regulators shuttered Signature Bank to show ‘crypto is toxic’
Crypto panic sparked a deposit run on Signature Bank, former Rep. Barney Frank said, but he argues that the bank had already stabilized before New York state regulators stepped in to close the crypto-...
DeFiance Capital completes first close of $100 million liquid token fund
Arthur Cheong’s crypto investment firm is back in the game after getting hit by the now-bankrupt crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital. DeFiance Capital completed the first close of a new...
Marathon Digital says it has access to funds held at Signature Bank
Marathon Digital said it has access to $142 million in cash deposits held by Signature Bank, which was closed by state regulators on Sunday. The company said in a statement it has access to the...
SGEN Stock, PRVB Stock Rocket After Nabbing Takeover Deals
Pfizer (PFE) will buy cancer specialist Seagen (SGEN) for roughly $43 billion as Sanofi (SNY) takes over Provention Bio (PRVB) for about $2.9 billion, the companies announced Monday. In response, SGEN...
How this user-owned talent network is disrupting the staffing industry
People • March 13, 2023, 5:00AM EDT Episode 22 of Season 5 of The Scoop was recorded remotely with The Block’s Frank Chaparro and Freelance Labs Founder & CEO Adam Jackson. Listen belo...
Signature Bank Closure Deals Another Blow to Crypto Industry
(Bloomberg) — The closure of Signature Bank, a lender that counted a number of crypto companies as customers, marks another major setback for digital assets as the industry becomes ever more cut...
The Block: Circle USDC operations will resume when U.S. banks open Monday: CEO Allaire
Circle USDC reserves are “safe and secure” and liquidity operations will resume when U.S. banks open Monday, CEO Jeremy Allaire said on Twitter. “We were heartened to see the U...
Regulators rush to sell SVB assets to make uninsured accounts partly available on Monday: Bloomberg
Regulators are scurrying to sell assets of the failed Silicon Valley Bank this weekend and hope to make between 30% to 50% of uninsured deposits available for withdrawal Monday, Bloomberg reported. &#...
SVB implosion ‘a-soon-to-be-irreversible mistake’ unless government intervenes
The consequences could be “vast and profound” if Silicon Valley Bank is not bailed out, according to billionaire investor Bill Ackman. Ackman warned of an “irreversible mistake” if a...
BlockFi has $227 million in uninsured funds in Silicon Valley Bank
Crypto lender BlockFi has $227 million in “unprotected” funds in Silicon Valley Bank, according to a bankruptcy document, and may be in violation of U.S. bankruptcy law. The bank was shut down b...
Crypto VCs urge portfolio companies to pull funds from Silicon Valley Bank
Crypto-focused venture capital investors have advised their portfolio companies to withdraw funds from Silicon Valley Bank, which is struggling to reassure clients after moves to shore up its balance ...
Sam Bankman-Fried may need more time to review ‘substantial’ evidence, lawyers say
Sam Bankman-Fried may request to delay his October trial, his lawyers said in a letter to a federal judge this week. The disgraced FTX founder says he may need more time to review troves of evid...
Coinbase Ventures, Brevan Howard among early backers of compliant DEX Mauve
Violet, which offers compliance and identity infrastructure for decentralized finance, launched its compliance-focused decentralized exchange, Mauve. Coinbase Ventures and Brevan Howard joined t...
India-Russia Oil Deals Chip Away at Dollar Dominance in International Trade – Economics Bitcoin News
On Wednesday, Reuters reported that Western sanctions on Russia and oil trading between Moscow and India have started to erode the dollar’s decades-old dominance of international oil trade. The oil de...
OpenSea, ConsenSys among prized crypto startups with shares available at big discounts
As the crypto industry suffers, decacorns can be yours at mere unicorn prices. Shares in numerous private crypto startups are currently being offered at sizable discounts on Birel.io, a platform...
Binance.US gets green light to buy Voyager Digital assets
Binance.US can buy failed crypto lender Voyager Digital’s assets, a federal judge confirmed after a four-day marathon hearing that stretched from last week to this one. Judge Michael Wiles conf...
Coinflex says restructuring plan is approved by Seychelles court
Courts in the Seychelles, where crypto exchange Coinflex is based, approved its restructuring plans on Monday, according to a statement from the company. The court may publish the written order ...
Spain a Hotbed for Cryptocurrency Real Estate Deals, According to Study
– Advertisement – A recent study indicates that Spain is one of the hottest countries regarding real estate offerings that can be paid with cryptocurrency. The report, prepared by Forex Su...
Spain a Hotbed for Cryptocurrency Real Estate Deals, According to Study – Bitcoin News
A recent study indicates that Spain is one of the hottest countries regarding real estate offerings that can be paid with cryptocurrency. The report, prepared by Forex Suggest, found that Spain is the...
Crypto prices flat, Silvergate declines ahead of Powell testimony
Crypto markets traded relatively flat as the market prepares for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s Congressional testimony on Tuesday and the release of U.S. jobs data on Friday. Bitco...
FTX sues Grayscale and DCG, citing ‘exorbitant’ fees
Collapsed crypto exchange FTX filed a lawsuit against Grayscale Investment, citing mismanagement of the firm as evidence that it was in violation of Trust agreements. The FTX debtors also filed ...
Ethereum L2 Scroll reaches $1.8 billion valuation in new funding round: Source
Published 30 minutes earlier on Scroll, an Ethereum Layer 2 network that uses zk-rollups technology, raised $50 million in a new funding round. Investors in the round included Polychain Capital,...
Altria deepens push into vape biz with two deals
Altria Group Inc. said Monday it would buy e-vapor company NJOY Holdings Inc. for $2.75 billion in cash, its second deal in recent days in the smokeless-tobacco space. Altria MO, +0.59% said the trans...
Arthur Hayes vows his family office Maelstrom will ‘f— some s— up’
Arthur Hayes, a co-founder founder of the Bitmex exchange, said he’s ready to “be more public” about his family office dubbed Maelstrom. “You will see our head of investments, Akshat Vaidy...
Silvergate Bank to release nearly $9.9 million to BlockFi
A bankruptcy judge has ordered Silvergate Bank to release nearly $9.9 million to crypto lender BlockFi, days after the bank said it was “reevaluating its business” and could be “less than well-c...
Celsius creditors tout NovaWulf deal as ‘best’ option
Legal • March 1, 2023, 5:57PM EST The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Celsius bankruptcy case said a proposed sale to NovaWulf Digital Management is “the best” option, according to a ...
Sam Bankman-Fried’s inner circle turns on him
A third member of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s inner circle pleaded guilty to criminal charges, significantly upping the legal peril for the embattled former CEO. Former FTX Director of...