Emirates, a Dubai-based international aviation company, announced on Thursday that it will soon launch non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and thrilling experiences in the metaverse for its customers and staff...
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UK Crypto Startup Fasset Secures $22 Million in Series A Funding
Fasset, a global digital asset gateway, has raised $22 million in a Series A funding round led by New York-based Liberty City Ventures and Pakistan’s Fatima Gobi Ventures with support from Soma Capit...
Ripple CEO Says Legal Battle With U.S. SEC Has Gone “Exceedingly Well”
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse told CNBC during the Paris Blockchain Week Summit (PBWS) that the company is likely going to win its never-ending court battle with the United States Securities and Exchan...
Amazon Probably Not Close to Adding Crypto Payments, Says CEO
Andy Jassy, CEO of American multinational e-commerce company Amazon, told CNBC in an interview on Thursday that the online retail platform will not be adding support for crypto payments anytime soon. ...
Elon Musk’s Bid for Twitter Is a Machiavellian Play
On Thursday, market talk was dominated by Elon Musk’s bid for Twitter (TWTR) . I believe Musk will eventually own the company, one way or another. Earlier this week, I wrote about Musk’s p...
A retired nurse lost $43,000 to bitcoin — watch out for red flags online
A New York retired nurse lost $43,000 of her life savings to bitcoin scammers, after transferring the money to them through a malicious computer pop-up – an unfortunate reminder to be vigilant when it...
Cramer’s Mad Money Recap 4/14: Bank of America, Netflix, Tesla
There’s still a bull market going on underneath all of this nonsense, Jim Cramer told his Mad Money viewers Thursday. The great pivot out of momentum stocks and into growth at a reasonable price...
Basic tips for getting started investing in DeFi
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols have diversified investment opportunities in the crypto industry by facilitating novel and innovative passive income generation schemes. Delving a bit into how t...
Doug Kass: How Did Bank Stock Investors Get So Clueless?
Travelling with the herd is often harmful to your investment well being. Banks stocks have been among the worst-performing sectors in the last six months. Yet, the vast consensus view was that, in ...
US Treasury Links North Korean Hacking Group to Axie Ronin $600M+ Exploit
The United States Treasury Department has linked the notorious North Korean hacking group, Lazarus, to the over $600 million stolen from blockchain gaming project, Axie Infinity last month. On Friday,...
The Rise of Blockchain-Powered Decentralized Applications (dApps)
Decentralized applications (dApps), which often but not always utilize blockchain technology, have seen an exponential increase in both interest and use cases over the last several years. Unlike their...
Peloton Stock Halted, Tumbles After Surprise Membership Price Hike
Updated at 3:23 pm EST Peloton (PTON) – Get Peloton Interactive, Inc. Class A Report said Thursday that it will boost the price of its connected fitness programs for the first time in eight yea...
USDC Issuer Circle Inches Closer to Becoming US Bank Charter
USDC issuer and global payments company Circle continues to edge closer to becoming a charter crypto bank in the United States, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Circle Closer to Becoming a Crypto Bank Cir...
Avalanche Developer Ava Labs Plans to Raise $350M at $5B Valuation
Ava Labs, the developer of popular blockchain network Avalanche, has joined a growing list of crypto startups seeking funds for business expansions. The Brooklyn-based blockchain development firm is ...
USDT Is the Most Serious Harm
In a press conference held by the State Council Information Office (SCIO) on Thursday, the Director of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, Liu Zhongyi, shared some in...
4 big expenses you should factor in for retirement
Retirement planning is part savings, part guessing game. While many of your day-to-day expenses will remain the same, there are big-ticket categories that can take a large bite out of your savings. Th...
We Are in the Final Chapter of PoW, Says Dev as Ethereum Merge Gets Delayed
The last few years have seen several postponements of upgrades that would take the Ethereum blockchain to a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism. The final upgrade, dubbed the Ethereum Merge, has ...
Compound Continues to Soar as it Eyes $175
Following a bad start to the week, Compound has since recovered and is currently on its third day of uptrend. Bitcoin Cash also experienced the same sentiment but is showing signs of slowing down. The...
Aleph.im Integrates with Tezos to Provide Resilient Storage Solution for NFTs
Aleph.im, a cross-blockchain decentralized storage and computing network, announced today that it will integrate with Tezos blockchain. In line with Aleph’s previous integrations with blockchains like...
Why the stock-market rally may be nothing more than ‘wishful thinking,’ according to Morgan Stanley CIO
Listen to the bond market. That is the advice from Lisa Shalett, chief investment officer at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, warning that recent resilience in stocks could be “nothing more than a be...
BlockchainCom Inks Partnership Deal With NFL’s Dallas Cowboys
Cryptocurrency financial services firm BlockchainCom has partnered with the American football team, the Dallas Cowboys, just a few weeks after hitting a $14 billion market valuation. BlockchainCom Par...
Improve Your Portfolio’s Health By Investing In Health Care Stocks
Investors have weathered an incredible storm of volatility so far in 2022. The year started with a rapid surge of COVID driven by the Omicron variant, supply chain issues continued to plague the globa...
Four (4) Hot DeFi Projects Worth Watching in 2022
Blockchain technologies are attracting more and more people every year. They provide customers with many opportunities and benefits, such as trustworthiness, complete security, anonymity, and much mor...
Cathie Wood Watch: Ark Buys a Fascinating Tech Stock, More Biotech
Renowned investor Cathie Wood, chief executive of Ark Investment Management, on Tuesday continued her recent patterns, buying biotechnology stocks, a spectrometry stock, a 3D printer maker and a robot...
Tiny Titans Strategy For Investing
. Investing in Micro-Cap Companies Using the O’Shaughnessy Tiny Titans Screen AAII tracks several screens from James O’Shaughnessy, the founder and chair of O’Shaughnessy Asset Management LLC, an asse...
Ethereum Dev Says The Merge Could Be Delayed a Few Months, ‘Strongly Suggests’ Not Investing in ETH Mining Rigs – Bitcoin News
According to Ethereum developer Tim Beiko, The Merge is likely to be pushed to the third quarter of 2022. Despite the delay, Beiko also said he “strongly suggests not investing more in mining equipmen...
Nexo Partners Mastercard to Launch Crypto Payment Card
Leading crypto lending and savings platform Nexo has launched a crypto-powered payment card in collaboration with global payments giant Mastercard. Nexo Rolls Out Crypto Card In an official press rele...
Apollo’s head of sustainable investing says we need to speed up the transition toward clean energy
(Click here to subscribe to the Delivering Alpha newsletter.) Geopolitical tensions in Ukraine have had a massive impact on global energy supply chains and prices this year, reminding the world how re...
Binance CEO Plans to Invest Over $108 Million in France
With the Paris Blockchain Week Summit (PBWS) currently being held in France, leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance has pledged to invest over $108 million in the country, Reuters reported Wednesda...
This is how much you made if you bought into the oil crash 2 years ago
If you want to retire rich, the late, great Dan Bunting has some advice for you. “Always buy the market (i.e., stocks or even just the index) after a spectacular bankruptcy,” my old friend Bunting, a ...