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Crypto Market Turnaround Coming? Analytics Firm Says Spike in This Metric Triggers Trend Reversal
A leading crypto analytics firm says that a correlation exists between cryptocurrency prices and inflation levels. Following the announcement that the inflation rate, or Consumer Price Index (CPI), ro...
Crypto Firm MoonPay Receive Investments From Justin Beiber
Crypto payment platform MoonPay recently announced that it raised $87 million from about 60 A-list celebrities. The investors include singers like Justin Beiber and Snoop Dogg, tennis player Maria Sha...
Blockchain Firm Serenity Shield Is Bringing Non-custodial Inheritance Solutions to Crypto
Serenity Shield, a non-custodial crypto company launches to solve the inheritance issue across the cryptocurrency community. Serenity Shield is launching in a bid to provide users with a non-custodial...
P2E Gaming Firm, First Light Games raises $5 million private token sale to develop Blast Royale
Popular blockchain gaming firm, First Light Games has successfully completed a $5 million private token sale led by Animoca Brands and Mechanism Capital, an announcement released on Wednesday reads. T...
This Colorado Firm Aims to Make Your Next Connecting Flight A Bus
Landline uses 35-passenger Prevost H3-45 motorcoaches like the one seen here on the ramp at … [+] Philadelphia International to link Lehigh Valley and Altantic City airports to PHL via road. The...
Justin Bieber, Maria Sharapova, Snoop Dogg, Drake Invest $87 Million in Crypto Firm MoonPay
The cryptocurrency payments startup MoonPay secured an $87 million fundraiser led by numerous investors, including the Canadian singer Justin Bieber, the former tennis champion Maria Sharapova, and th...
Silver Lake Leads the $150 Million Funding Round for NFT Firm Genesis
The private equity firm’s latest move demonstrates that traditional investment firms have started buying Web.3.0 projects as part of their investment thesis. A growing interest in a decentralized inte...
Blackrock, Fidelity to Invest in Crypto Firm Circle’s $400 Million Funding Round – Finance Bitcoin News
Blackrock, Fidelity, Marshall Wace, and Fin Capital are investing in crypto firm Circle. In addition, Blackrock, the world’s largest asset manager, has entered into a broader strategic partnership wit...
NFT Avatar Firm Genies Becomes A Unicorn On New Funding
Genies, a non-fungible token (NFT) avatar company, has raised $150 million in a recent funding round led by private equity giant Silver Lake. The investment values Genies at $1 billion, making it a cr...
DeFi infrastructure firm bloXroute raises $70M Series B led by SoftBank
BloXroute, a crypto firm that provides tools for DeFi trading, has raised $70 million in a Series B funding round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2. Other investors included Dragonfly Capital, ParaFi Capi...
BlackRock busted 3 managing directors plotting a jump to a rival firm — and fired them before they could quit
BlackRock Inc. said it dismissed three managing directors from its private equity division because they were coordinating an effort to leave the world’s largest asset manager. Konnin Tam, Steve Lessar...
Blockchain Firm Singularity Future Makes $250 Mln Bitcoin Mining Push
Nasdaq-listed blockchain technology firm Singularity Future Technology said on Monday it had formed of a joint venture with power services provider Golden Mainland Inc to build bitcoin mining faciliti...
Bitcoin Whale Transactions at Lowest Proportions in Nearly 10 Years, According to Analytics Firm Santiment
Blockchain analytics firm Santiment says that Bitcoin whales are being outnumbered by other crypto investors in terms of volume by a historical margin. The intelligence firm says that Bitcoin (BTC) tr...
Ukraine War Not Driving Crypto Market Activity, Says Blockchain Firm
Russians are moving out of Russia and taking their money with them, but crypto has not yet felt the effects, according to blockchain data. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine precipitated a mass exodus from ...
Hong Kong’s Ex-Financial Secretary Joins Crypto Firm StashAway as Advisor
Hong Kong’s former financial secretary has become an advisor of a Singapore-based digital wealth firm and has planned to give away a portion of his soon-to-be issued non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to attr...
Crypto Analytics Firm Santiment Says Ethereum (ETH) Close to ‘Opportunity Zone’ – But There’s a Catch
Cryptocurrency market intelligence platform Santiment is revealing bullish prospects for the second-largest crypto asset by value. In a new blog post, Santiment says that the Market Value to Realized ...
Former Citi Triune Releases Latest Crypto Investment Firm
Former Citi exec trio have released a specialized investment management organization for cryptocurrency to tap into the evolving virtual asset space. Details regarding this new organization are still ...
Web3 Security Firm Certik Raises $88 Million in Series B3 Financing Round Led by Tiger Global and Others – Bitcoin News
Certik, a Web3 and blockchain auditing and security firm, has raised $88 million in its recent B3 funding round. The round, which was led by Tiger Global and included Goldman Sachs as an investor in t...
Three Ex-Citi Executives Launch Crypto Investment Firm
Three former Citi executives have started a new crypto investment firm named Motus Capital. Alex Kriete, Greg Girasole and Frank Cavallo started the company after leaving Citi a few months ago followi...
Fintech Firm Bolt Acquires Crypto Startup Wyre for $1.5B
The acquisition is worth a whopping $1.5 billion, making it one of the largest in the sector that did not involve a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Crypto mergers and acquisitions have sur...
Former Citi trio launch crypto investment management firm
A trio of former Citi executives have formed a new investment management firm dedicated to crypto named Motus Capital. The company is the brainchild of Alex Kriete, Greg Girasole and Frank Cavallo — e...
Bolt Acquires Wyre for $1.5 Billion, Firm Aims to ‘Decentralize Commerce’ – Bitcoin News
On Thursday, the payments and checkout and shopper network, Bolt has announced the firm plans to acquire the digital currency provider Wyre in a $1.5 billion deal. Bolt has explained the acquisition i...
Blockchain Security Firm CertiK Closes $88 Million in Funding at a $2B Valuation
Cryptocurrency security firm CertiK expands as a unicorn to join the ranks of blockchain-based businesses with a valuation upwards of $2 billion. CertiK is arguably the biggest blockchain security ser...
Blockchain security firm CertiK raises $88M, propelling its valuation to $2B
Web3 and blockchain security firm CertiK has closed an “oversubscribed” $88 million Series B3 financing round led by Insight Partners, Tiger Global, and Advent International, according to an announcem...
Crypto ATM firm GENERAL BYTES launches new model
GENERAL BYTES, a bitcoin and crypto ATM manufacturer, has announced this week the launch of its newest model, the BATMTwoUltra. This latest machine is loaded with the newest features while offering op...
Crypto payments firm Wyre acquired by Bolt in deal worth roughly $1.5 billion
Bolt, a payments and e-commerce firm, has acquired crypto company Wyre in a deal valued at around $1.5 billion. “Bolt and Wyre plan to close the transaction and fully integrate before the end of...
Philippine’s largest digital payments firm PayMaya unveils new features to support crypto
PayMaya, a fintech and digital payments firm based in the Philippines, has unveiled new features to allow crypto trading and enable people to earn cryptocurrencies on its application. The launch of th...
EV Battery Firm QuantumScape Stock Is Rising
Text size Car batteries at a factory. STR/AFP via Getty Images Electric-vehicle battery technology company QuantumScape picked up a new rating. It’s lukewarm, but the stock is rising Wednesday. Deutsc...