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Crypto Lending Firm Set To Pay $100,000,000 To Settle Allegations From SEC and State
A popular crypto lending platform is reportedly going to pay out $100 million to resolve accusations from state and federal regulatory agencies. Sources familiar with the matter tell Bloomberg that Bl...
Crypto Rewards Firm Fly Coin Raises a Lot of Money
Fly Coin – a digital currency travel rewards company – has raised more than $30 million through a new seed funding round. Fly Coin Raises $33 Million Fly Coin allows regular travelers to garner crypto...
How a hack, a bug of $80 million, turned out to be the reason for a crypto firm breaking up!
Lately, a bug was reported on a finance platform that then lost millions worth of coins and broke so much that they might not be able to continue their operation. The announcement by Bunny Finance an...
Uber CEO Says Firm Will ‘Lean Into Crypto’ When It Becomes ‘Environmentally Friendly,’ Less Expensive to Transact – Bitcoin News
Speaking in an interview on Friday, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi explained that the company will accept cryptocurrencies “at some point.” Khosrowshahi noted that there were two downsides to leveraging t...
Manchester United Selects Blockchain Firm Tezos as Technical Partner
Manchester United has inked a multi-year deal with Tezos, a proof-of-stake (POS) blockchain provider, as the club’s training kit sponsor. The new partnership came after the deal expired with AON last...
$10 Trillion Asset Management Firm Blackrock To Offer Crypto Trading Services
The world’s largest assets manager, BlackRock, is looking to allow its clients to trade cryptocurrencies. The mega asset manager is looking to start its offering with client support trading, before pr...
Surveillance Firm Launches Launches Push Towards Crypto Market Safety With 16 Other Industry Leaders
New York-based crypto surveillance firm Solidus Labs is teaming up with leading digital asset exchanges, trading firms and industry associations to launch a new crypto market safety initiative. In a s...
Italian Sports Car Maker Ferrari Inks Multi-Year Deal With Blockchain Firm Velas Network AG – Coinotizia
The Italian luxury sports car manufacturer headquartered in Maranello, Italy, Ferrari has announced the firm is partnering with Velas Network AG, a firm that specializes in blockchain and non-fungible...
$9 Trillion Asset Management Firm Blackrock To Add Bitcoin Trading To Its Services
The world’s largest assets manager, BlackRock, is looking to allow its clients to trade cryptocurrencies. The mega asset manager is looking to start its offering with client support trading, before pr...
Blockchain Firm Trust Machines Garners $150 Million in Funding
Muneeb Ali – a doctor of computer science who graduated from Princeton – has raised a whopping $150 million to create a New York-based company he’s calling Trust Machines, which he’s establishing with...
Investment firm KKR ups Animoca Brands’ newest funding to $500 million
advertisement KKR & Co, a global investment firm based in the United States, has increased Animoca Brands’ latest funding round to $500 million, Bloomberg reports with anonymous sources familiar w...
Fintech Firm Ebury Unveils Partnership with Melbourne Rebels Rugby Team
Ebury, a London-based fintech firm that enables cross-border transactions for companies, institutions, banks and their clients, announced on Tuesday that it has formed a partnership with the Melbourne...
Bitcoin Payments Firm OpenNode Closes $20M Series A
In brief OpenNode utilizes the Lightning Network. The Series A included investments from Twitter and Tim Draper. OpenNode, a Bitcoin payments provider utilizing the Lightning Network, has just finishe...
Bitcoin mining infrastructure firm Compute North raises $385 million
Compute North, a bitcoin mining infrastructure firm that provides equipment hosting services within its data centers, has raised $385 million in equity and debt funding. The equity part of the funding...
$4.4M Stolen in Hack of Blockchain Infrastructure Firm Meter
The leader in news and information on cryptocurrency, digital assets and the future of money, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set ...
Research Firm Predicts Bitcoin Will Hit $200K in Second Half of 2022, ETH to Reach $12K – Markets and Prices Bitcoin News
This week in a note to investors, Fsinsight, a Fundstrat company, said bitcoin could reach $200,000 during the second half of the year. In the investor’s note, Fsinsight’s head of digital asset strate...
Top Four Accounting Firm Buys Bitcoin and ETH For Treasury Reserves – Trustnodes
KPMG, one of the big four accounting firm with 236,000 employees and $32 billion in yearly revenue, has bought bitcoin and ethereum for its treasury reserves. “Investors such as hedge funds and family...
‘Big-Four’ KPMG Firm Adds Bitcoin and Ethereum to Its Treasury Reserves
Companies adding cryptocurrencies to their reserves have been a trending topic over the past few years and one of the largest financial services companies in Canada recently declared to add Bitcoin an...
CFTC Charges Two Florida Residents and Their Firm with $19 Million Futures and Forex Fraud
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ( CFTC CFTC The 1974 Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) in the United States created the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The Commission protects and...
Big Four Firm KPMG Adds Bitcoin And Ethereum To Treasury
According to a press release, Canadian giant Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (KPMG) has added Bitcoin and Ethereum to its balance sheet. The multinational is one of the top accounting firms in the wor...
Hackers steal 4.4 million from blockchain infrastructure firm Meter
California based blockchain infrastructure company Meter is the latest victim of a cyber attack, losing $4.4 million on Saturday in eth and btc. According to blockchain analytics firm PeckShield, Met...
Decentraland (MANA), Tezos (XTZ) and Three Other Altcoins Are Spearheading Crypto Rally: Insights Firm Santiment
Crypto analytics firm Santiment says Decentraland (MANA), Tezos (XTZ) and several other altcoins are leading the charge as digital asset markets enjoy a broad bounce. Scanning the markets for price mo...
Fintech Firm EBANX Appoints Paula Bellizia to Lead Global Payments
Latin America’s leading payments platform, EBANX has recently named Paula Bellizia, former Vice President of Marketing for Latin America at Google, as the company’s new President of Global Payments. W...
Cargobike Taxi Firm Bans Helmets For Staff Riders Citing Safety Concerns
Pedal Me cofounder Ben Knowles on one of his firm’s electric cargo bikes. CARLTON REID “Overwhelmingly, our staff experience injuries off the bike, not on the bike,” states Pedal Me cofounder Be...
Bitcoin’s Correlation to Tech Stocks Surges Amid Macro Uncertainty: Analytics Firm IntoTheBlock
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) is increasingly correlating with that of tech stocks amid widespread uncertainty in the crypto markets, according to analytics firm IntoTheBlock. In a new article, the marke...
Crypto Trading firm Aurox against Private Token Sale: focused on platform users
Aurox is in early negotiations to go public this year, however, it is not clear if this would be through a SPAC, reverse merger, or other vehicles for legal reasons. While other firms have dealt with ...
African Web3 Startup Raises $6.45 Million in Pre-Seed Round, Serena Williams’ Investment Firm Participates – Emerging Markets Bitcoin News
An African startup, Nestcoin, said it raised $6.45 million in a pre-seed funding round in which tennis’ star, Serena Williams’ Serena Ventures took part. The startup, which was launched in November 20...
VC Firm SuperSeed Introduces £50 Million Fund
London-based venture capital firm, SuperSeed has recently announced the launch of a £50 million fund to invest between £500k and £1.5m into 30-35 startups. SuperSeed focuses on companies working on th...
Fintech Firm Tribal Receives $60 Million Funding
B2B payments and financing platform for emerging markets, Tribal today announced that it has secured $60 million in a Series B funding round led by SoftBank Latin America Fund. Coinbase Ventures also ...