Bankruptcy court restricts KeyFi founder Jason Stone in Celsius case

KeyFi founder Jason Stone and others involved with the staking firm are barred from transferring or disposing of most property tied to the Celsius bankruptcy case, according to a temporary restraining...

Crypto markets rebound as Silvergate soars 16% on Citadel Securities, Susquehanna stakes

Cryptocurrency prices rebounded after yesterday’s decline, when the New York Department of Financial Services announced it will pursue regulatory action against stablecoin provider Paxos. ...

Why Morgan Stanley says you should be paying attention to stablecoins

With U.S. regulators moving to limit stablecoin products, strategists at Morgan Stanley think the broader crypto economy should be paying attention. “Falling stablecoin market capitalizati...

Susquehanna Advisors Group buys 7.5% stake in Silvergate, following Citadel Securities

Susquehanna Advisors Group reported a 7.5% stake in crypto-friendly bank Silvergate Capital. The Pennsylvania-based finance firm bought over 2.36 million shares in Silvegrate, a filing showed. S...

Serious about your crypto project? Binance’s CEO says you should move.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao suggested crypto entrepreneurs might need to move to a country more favorable to cryptocurrencies and digital assets amid what appears to be a growing crackdown by U.S. regu...

Former Jump Trading developers raise $19 million to build Monad blockchain

Monad Labs, a Layer 1 blockchain project co-founded by former Jump Trading developers, raised $19 million in funding led by Dragonfly Capital. Other investors included Placeholder Capital, Lemni...

Credit Suisse leads $65 million Series B in digital asset firm Taurus

Taurus SA, a Switzerland-based digital asset infrastructure company focused on servicing financial institutions in Europe, raised $65 million in a Series B funding round. Credit Suisse, Switzerl...

Magic Eden lays off 22, about 15% of staff in latests workforce cuts

Magic Eden laid off 22 people as companies across the industry cut staff amid industry-wide cuts. That amounts to about 15% based upon the 141 employees listed on LinkedIn. Magic Eden is the lat...

Top Cricketers Fetch $400,000 Deals For India’s New Three-Week Women’s Premier League

Smriti Mandhana received a massive pay day (Photo by Pankaj Nangia/Getty Images) Getty Images In a momentous, game-changing moment for cricket, several leading players earned blockbuster deals in Indi...

Cash-rich US oil producers hunt for deals after long M&A dry spell

US oil producers flush with cash after a year of bumper profits are hunting for deals as concerns grow that the shale patch’s best drilling sites are becoming more scarce, priming the sector for a wav...

Crypto firms are busy adding executive talent, with several recent notable hires

Crypto firms are busy hiring executive talent, especially in the venture space.  Layoffs have been in the headlines since last June, yet some firms have continued to add talent where needed. Her...

PayPal pauses stablecoin project amid Paxos probe: Bloomberg

PayPal’s putting work on its stablecoin on ice amid increasing regulatory scrutiny, Bloomberg News reported, citing a source. The news came a day after a report that the New York Departmen...

Stable Tech N.V. celebrates first milestone as 100 affiliate deals closed

CoinSlotty.com has announced that the team has broken the first milestone in their 2023 roadmap – the closure of 100 affiliate deals. To celebrate the occasion, their marketing team decided to shower ...

TV prices sink ahead of the Super Bowl — here are the best deals

Nearly 200 million people will watch the Philadelphia Eagles face off against the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl on Feb. 12, which is a good reason to buy a brand-new television. While you may n...

Bitcoin has hit bottom — at least that’s what Pantera Capital and Osprey Funds chiefs say

Crypto chiefs say bitcoin prices have hit bottom and are consolidating.  Bitcoin was trading around $21,760 at 7 a.m. EST, down about 4% over the past 24 hours, according to TradingView data. Th...

Pair Of Trade Deadline Deals Make Thunder Even Younger

PHOENIX, ARIZONA – APRIL 02: Kenrich Williams #34 of the Oklahoma City Thunder puts up a shot over … [+] Dario Saric #20 of the Phoenix Suns during the second half of the NBA game at Phoen...

Bitcoin drops, crypto stocks down across the board as Coinbase slides 14%

Cryptocurrency prices dropped across the board as the market adjusts to speculation that the U.S. may restrict crypto staking.  Bitcoin was trading at $21,890 by 5:10 p.m. EST, down almost 5% ov...

Su Zhu unveils new OPNX exchange for trading trapped crypto funds

Su Zhu, a co-founder of the collapsed crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital, said Thursday that a waitlist is now open at a new marketplace called OPNX for trading claims and derivatives related to f...

Modular blockchain Dymension raises $6.7 million in private token round

Dymension, a modular blockchain that leverages Cosmos’s and Celestia’s technologies, raised $6.7 million in a seed funding round. Big Brain Holdings and Stratos led the round, with M...

Robinhood’s crypto trading revenue dips 24% in Q4, along with most everything else

Robinhood saw transaction revenue fall in the fourth quarter from the previous period, including a 24% decline in cryptocurrencies, while a slew of other numbers also took a turn lower. The firm also ...

Consello Digital names Citigroup alum Itay Tuchman as CEO 

Consello Digital tapped a “key architect” of Citigroup’s digital asset strategy to serve as its new CEO, with the firm announcing the appointment of Itay Tuchman on Wednesday. The news comes months af...

Coinslotty.com Breaks First Milestone of 2023, Celebrates 100 Partner Deals

Stable Tech N.V., a Curacao-based iGaming operator, is celebrating a significant achievement with its flagship crypto casino. In a press briefing published on Yahoo Finance, the company proudly announ...

a16z crypto taps Eddy Lazzarin as new chief tech officer

A16z crypto said Wednesday that it promoted Eddy Lazzarin to chief technology officer to oversee research and security teams at the venture capital fund.  “It takes a truly special intellect to ...

Coinslotty.com Celebrates 100 Closed Affiliate Deals, Announces Gifting Campaign

[PRESS RELEASE – Please Read Disclaimer] Coinslotty.com, the online crypto casino managed by Stable Tech N.V., celebrates its first milestone with 100 gift boxes. In a press release published on AP Ne...

Bankrupt crypto giant FTX racks up millions in legal and consulting bills

Going broke isn’t cheap.  Troubled crypto exchange FTX and its affiliated companies racked up more than $20 million in legal and consulting bills during the first several months of its ban...

VRRB Labs raises pre-seed round at $20 million valuation as it builds its own Layer 1

VRRB (pronounced “verb”) Labs, a Miami-based crypto startup that is developing a Layer 1 blockchain network, raised $1.4 million in a pre-seed funding round. Investors in the round i...

Saudi Arabia, The Sandbox agree to collaborate on metaverse projects

Metaverse gaming platform The Sandbox and Saudi Arabia have come to an understanding of some sort. Details were not provided. Sandbox co-founder and COO Sebastien Borget took to LinkedIn to anno...

Bitcoin, ether retrench after rising with traditional markets on Fed Chair comments

Cryptocurrencies rose alongside traditional markets in response to comments delivered by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at The Economic Club in Washington before turning lower. Bitcoin rose...

Crypto markets tread water ahead of Fed speech

Cryptocurrency prices were little change alongside other risk assets ahead of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s speech this afternoon at the Economic Club of Washington. Bitcoin was tr...

Crypto ad deals for Super Bowl LVII fell apart after FTX collapse: Report

Fans watching the Kansas City Chiefs face off against the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LVII on Feb. 12 will reportedly not see a plethora of ad spots for cryptocurrency companies, as they did in ...

Bitcoin miners Hut 8 and US Bitcoin merge to form new US-based entity

Bitcoin miners Hut 8 and US Bitcoin (USBTC) are merging to form a new company called Hut 8 Corp, which will be based in the United States. Hut will have a total self-mining capacity of 5.6 EH/s,...

Genesis, Gemini and DCG reach agreement in bankruptcy court

Genesis, its parent Digital Currency Group, Gemini and other creditors have reached a bankruptcy agreement to recover assets.  Sean O’Neal, a lawyer representing the debtors, said the sides agre...