Ant Group, a majority-owned fintech firm of Alibaba Group Holdings has launched ANEXT, a digital bank following a nod from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) earlier this month. The move comes ...
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a16z Floats $600m Gaming Fund
After more than a decade of actively investing in the gaming industry, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) wants to further exert its influence in that space. In order to do this, the investment giant has floa...
DragonFly Capital Floats New $650m Crypto Fund
DragonFly Capital has launched a new Venture Capital Fund worth $650 million to continually invest in the broader digital currency ecosystem. While earlier filings with the US Securities and Exchange...
Binance Floats €100M Investment in France
Binance cryptocurrency exchange is extending its regional footprint in the European Union with a €100 million investment in France. The move was announced at the Paris Blockchain Week Summit event on ...
Ignite Floats $150m Accelerator Fund for Web3.0 Projects
Ignite, the blockchain development startup in charge of the Cosmos Network has announced the launch of a $150 million Accelerator Fund to help fast-track the timing required for interoperability-focus...
Axie Infinity maker floats bug bounty program after $600 million Ronin hack
Sky Mavis, the studio behind the popular Axie Infinity game, has floated a bug bounty to unearth security vulnerabilities in its ecosystem following the theft of over $600 million from its Ronin netwo...
Russian lawmaker floats bitcoin as payment option for energy exports as the country moves away from euros and dollars
A senior lawmaker in Russia’s State Duma has expressed openness to selling the country’s energy in Bitcoin, following major moves away from the dollar and euro. Pavel Zavalny, who heads th...
Cypher Capital Floats $100M Fund to Invest in Blockchain Projects
As a MENA native fund, Cypher Capital believes it has a big role to play in helping to build the blockchain and digital currency ecosystem within the region. Cypher Capital, a private venture capital ...
Grayscale Floats New Smart Contract Fund for 6 Ethereum Competitors
The acclaimed largest digital assets management company, Grayscale Investments has launched a new investment product tagged the Grayscale® Smart Contract Platform Ex-Ethereum Fund (GSCPxE). As announc...
Luno Floats Venture Capital Arm to Invest in Web3.0 & Fintech Startups
Luno, a digital currency platform owned by the Digital Currency Group (DCG), has launched Luno Expeditions, its Venture Capital (VC) outfit. As reported by TechCrunch, the new VC offshoot will engraft...
Cake DeFi Floats $100M Venture Fund for Web3.0
Cake DeFi, a Singapore-based decentralized finance investment platform has launched its new $100 million venture capital arm to invest in innovative technology companies. As announced by the startup, ...
Binance Floats First Crypto Payments Tech Company As It Eyes Global Merchants ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     The world’s largest crypto exchange Binance has launched its own crypto payment services company, Bifinity. According to a Monday blog, the company i...
FTX floats institutional business, recruits former Coinbase executive
advertisement FTX, the crypto exchange founded by Sam Bankman-Fried, has launched a new business geared towards institutional clients to meet Wall Street’s growing interest in digital assets. Th...
New Jersey governor floats property tax relief for homeowners, renters
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy delivers a victory speech on Nov. 3, 2021, in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez | Getty Images Property tax relief may soon be coming to New Jersey. Gov. Phil ...
Bitfury Floats 28MW Bitcoin Mining Farm in Canada
Amsterdam-based Bitcoin (BTC) mining company Bitfury has announced the launch of a new data centre in Sarnia, Ontario, with an initial energy generation capacity of 28 MW. As detailed in a press relea...
Kazakhstan floats 500% tax increase on Bitcoin miners, leading some to eye relocation
Kazakh authorities have floated tighter regulatory conditions for bitcoin miners in recent days — a state of affairs that could spur some operations to leave the country for friendlier shores. As loca...
MicroStrategy’s Saylor floats new paths to buy more BTC
MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor touted the firm’s stock, MSTR, as a better alternative to other exchange-traded vehicles with exposure to bitcoin — and he’s considering alternative method...