The application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) manufacturer Canaan has revealed the firm is offering a stock buyback for up to $100 million. Canaan’s chairman and CEO Nangeng Zhang highlighted in ...
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IQ Labs CEO Tom Tirman on Unlocking Utility for NTFs With Collateral-Less Renting Framework – Interview Bitcoin News
IQ Protocol is a decentralized money market for digital asset renting and on-chain subscriptions. The next money lego that allows users to rent wrapped expirable versions of digital assets without col...
Crypto Assets Can Help Russia Return to Global Financial Market, Lawmaker Says – Regulation Bitcoin News
Digital financial assets like cryptocurrencies can help Russia to reach the global financial market despite western sanctions, a lawmaker working on crypto regulations has stated. The official believe...
UAE Hospitality Brand Stella Stays Now Accepts Crypto – Emerging Markets Bitcoin News
A hospitality brand from the United Arab Emirates(UAE), Stella Stays, has announced that its clients can now pay for services with cryptocurrencies. Clients can pay with bitcoin, ethereum, and 35 more...
Silvergate Bank Hires Aave General Counsel Rebecca Rettig as Board of Director
Rebecca Rettig, a general counsel for Aave Companies, the team behind decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Aave, is assuming a new role at Silvergate bank, a leading bank for innovative businesses in...
Crypto Whales Taking Wait-and-See Approach
Based on hiked interest rates and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, crypto whales have shown signs of caution, given that their transaction volumes have been dwindling. On-chain insight provider Santime...
Canadian Central Bank Partners with MIT for CBDC Research
The Bank of Canada- the Central Bank of Canada, announced Wednesday that it has partnered with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to work on a twelve-month research project on Central Ban...
Stock market news live updates: March 17, 2022
U.S. stock futures opened slightly higher in extended trading Wednesday following a pivotal session on Wall Street marked by the Federal Reserve’s long-anticipated move to hike short-term interest rat...
Kenyans Lost $120 Million to Cryptocurrency Scams in the Past Financial Year — Government Official – Emerging Markets Bitcoin News
Kenyans are believed to have lost as much as $120 million to cryptocurrency scammers in the last financial year, a government official has said. The official, however, suggested the number of Kenyans ...
BAYC tied ApeCoin Makes Debut
Crypto token ApeCoin ($APE) was unveiled in the official Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) Twitter account, which detailed initiatives planned by creator Yuga Labs. The initiative also included a planned to...
Russians Under Sanctions Using Crypto to Launder Money: Elliptic Report
Russians with strong social connections, who are under international sanctions for the invasion of Ukraine, have been using cryptocurrencies to launder their wealth, according to a report. Crypto watc...
Stablecoins Wallet Addresses Records 12m with Holding at Least $1m
Amidst the dwindling digital currency market trend, data has confirmed that more investors have continued to hedge their crypto assets by converting them to stablecoins, keeping them safe and ready to...
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...
President Zelenskyy Signs Ukraine’s Law ‘On Virtual Assets’ – Regulation Bitcoin News
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed the law “On Virtual Assets” which aims to regulate the crypto market in Ukraine. The approval comes as his country is increasingly relying on cryptocurrency do...
Binance Gets Business License to Offer Trading Services in Dubai
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, announced Wednesday that it has obtained a license from Dubai’s Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA) to carry out some busi...
Elliptic Identifies ‘Several Hundred Thousand Crypto Addresses’ Tied to Russia-Based Sanctioned Actors – Bitcoin News
As the Russia-Ukraine conflict continues, blockchain surveillance companies have discussed and implemented ways to combat sanctioned countries from using digital assets. Last week, Chainalysis reveale...
How Penguin Karts Will Drive The Blockchain Gaming Scene Forward – Sponsored Bitcoin News
sponsored A lot has happened since the idea of Penguin Karts was first conceived. Who would have thought that a nostalgic memory would spawn the development of a blockchain project, let alone one that...
Democrat division over crypto isn’t all bad news for regulation
The Biden Administration has just passed an executive order furthering research into crypto assets in view of regulating them, but politicians within the ruling Democrat party remain deeply divided on...
LSG Group Says Crypto Exchanges Dealing in Russia Could See Setbacks
The head of the London Stock Exchange Group said that cryptocurrency exchanges engaging with Russia could see negative consequences as Western governments look for ways to tackle Moscow’s invasion of ...
The Russia-Ukraine War Might Accelerate CBDC Issuance, Former BOJ Official Says
The sanctions slapped on Russia based on its invasion of Ukraine might prompt more nations to adopt central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) as a shield against the U.S. dollar’s supremacy in the globa...
Ukrainian President Signs Law to Establish Regulatory Framework for Crypto
Amidst the ongoing war on its shores, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed into law the bill that will legalize digital currencies in the country. According to a press release published by the Ministry of D...
Winners, News And Notes On March 16, 2022
The Hardys debut vs. Private Party on AEW Dynamite. Credit: AEW AEW Dynamite, St. Patty’s Day Slam, advertised a Trios Match pitting Adam Cole and reDRagon vs. Hangman Adam Page and Jurassic Express, ...
Indian Government Says Central Bank Has No Plan to Issue Cryptocurrency – Regulation Bitcoin News
The Indian government has told parliament that it does not have a plan to issue cryptocurrency to be regulated by the central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The government also clarified that ...
US Federal Reserve Raises Interest Rates since 2018: Implications for Crypto
The United States Federal Reserve announced to raise its interest rates by 25 basis points, the first time in about three years it will be making such a move since December 2018. When the Coronavirus ...
DIRECTV Dropping One America News Network, A Trump Favorite, Despite Lawsuit
Former President Donald Trump. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images. Getty Images One America News Network, an avid supporter of Donald Trump during his presidency, is still on track to get kicked off of t...
Marvell Technology Is Struggling to Bottom on the Charts
For his final “Executive Decision” segment of Monday’s Mad Money program, Jim Cramer checked in with Matt Murphy, CEO of chipmaker Marvell Technology (MRVL) . Murphy said Marvell is ...
Robert Kiyosaki Predicts End of US Dollar — Says War Giving Rise to Crypto as Safer Haven Than Fiat Money – Economics Bitcoin News
The famous author of the best-selling book Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki, has predicted the end of the U.S. dollar. Furthermore, he said that the Russian-Ukraine war has given rise to crypto as “...