Crypto data firm Kaiko announced the launch of a product tracking market data for DeFi lending and borrowing protocols on Ethereum. The Paris-based firm’s new data product will track Aave,...
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Stardust Company Intelligence
November 28, 2022, 11:16AM EST • 29 min read Quick Take Founded in 2018, Stardust enables game developers to easily create and manage NFTs within their game without the need for any blockchain code St...
Audit Standards Overseer Also Backs Startups
Listen to article (2 minutes) An accounting trade body has invested in audit-related tech startups, while setting auditing standards and overseeing millions of audits—prompting concerns within the ind...
Lemon Cash CEO expects more fintech layoffs in LatAm amid its own: Exclusive
Argentina-based crypto app Lemon Cash has laid off about 100 people, 38% of staff, marking the latest round of cuts in the region. Several other Latin America-based crypto companies have announc...
BlockFi puts client loans into forbearance, email shows
Crypto lender BlockFi has put client loans into forbearance, according to a customer email viewed by The Block. “At this time, clients do not have the ability to post new funds to BlockFi...
Startups to Watch in Crypto this Week
Interested in reading about some of the best-performing projects from the crypto space? This article highlights some of crypto’s recent top gainers. Bata ($BTA) The $BTA token grew almost 1500% from u...
Concluding a Record Year of Growing its Venture Fund, Funding 49 Startups, Softeq CEO Chris Howard Invites Technology Community to New Podcast
Forging the Future with Chris Howard Showcases High-Impact Successes and Critical Conversations in Innovation HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Christopher A. Howard, the CEO and Founder of Softeq Development C...
Miami’s crypto crowd sees silver lining around dark FTX clouds
Armies of developers, VC funders and CEOs descended upon Miami for two separate crypto conferences on Thursday as the shockwaves from FTX’s spectacular collapse continued to reverberate across the ind...
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan to write down $95 million FTX investment to zero
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP), one of the most important pension funds in the world, will write down all of its $95 million investment in FTX and FTX US. The OTPP had invested ...
The Bear Market Is a Promising Time for Web 3.0 Startups – Here Is Why
HodlX Guest Post Submit Your Post Calling 2022 a challenging year for the crypto space would be an understatement. Rising inflation, record-high interest rates, and full-scale meltdowns such as Ter...
Europe’s Top Startups Join Investors and Blockchain Community at Next Block Expo 2022
Berlin, Germany, 15th November, 2022, Chainwire With a pitch contest, curated networking sessions and a dedicated mobile app to link people, projects and investors, Next Block Expo’s ambition is to be...
Next Block Expo 2022 – One of the biggest European events linking startups, investors and blockchain community
With a pitch contest, curated networking sessions and a dedicated mobile app to link people, projects and investors, Next Block Expo’s ambition is to become the most promising networking opportunity f...
Nu Holdings’s Q3 profit bests estimate; shares rise
Nu Holdings reported a surprise net profit of $7.8 million, besting analyst expectations for a net loss of $9 million. The Sao Paulo-based neobank’s third-quarter revenue totaled $1.3 bill...
Binance will launch a new ‘industry recovery fund’
Binance will launch a new fund to help prop up crypto projects facing liquidity crunches. Changpeng Zhao, Binance’s CEO, tweeted about the plan early on Nov. 14. “To reduce further cascadi...
After pausing withdrawals, BlockFi customers are confused and angry
In the aftermath of FTX’s dramatic demise, crypto lending firm BlockFi stunned users with an announcement that it would pause withdrawals. Now, they’re waiting confused and without many an...
Alameda Research, FTX Ventures invested in more than 250 crypto startups
FTX Ventures and Alameda Research have invested in more than 250 crypto industry startups, according to data collected by The Block Research. The investments cut across a variety of verticals, i...
Y Combinator backs payment startup Ping in $15 million seed round
Ping, a new freelancer-focused neobank, raised $15 million in a seed round as it plans to expand its focus from Latin America to new regions. Firms including Y Combinator, Race Capital, BlockTow...
Genesis reports losses of around $7 million after hedging against market volatility
Crypto trading and lending firm Genesis Trading reported losses of around $7 million “across all counterparties” that include Alameda Research after it hedged and sold collateral on Tuesda...
Genesis, Crypto.com latest companies to distance themselves from FTX crisis
Crypto trading and lending firm Genesis Trading and wallet provider Crypto.com are among the latest companies to distance themselves from the FTX liquidity crisis. The two firms took to Twitter ...
Layoffs sweep crypto as economic concerns mount; Dapper Labs, Bitmex among hardest hit
Crypto layoffs have continued into November. The industry faces not only an ongoing bear market marked by depressed digital asset prices, but also a tough macroeconomic environment where inflati...
Mastercard’s Crypto Accelerator Program Unveils 7 New Startups – crypto.news
Mastercard has unveiled seven new startups that will be part of its Start Path Crypto program, a six months training for newly established or rising Fintech firms. In a public statement titled “Scalin...
7 Startups Join Mastercard Program to Make Cryptocurrency More Accessible – Featured Bitcoin News
Payments giant Mastercard has added seven startups to its Start Path program to make cryptocurrencies more accessible. “We’re welcoming a new cohort of startups to ease access to digital assets, build...
Mastercard Welcomes 7 Crypto, Blockchain Startups to Fintech Innovation Program
Credit card giant Mastercard today announces that it’s welcoming seven new startups into its global startup engagement program, Mastercard Start Path. Since its inception in 2014, Mastercard Start Pa...
Mastercard invests in 7 new crypto startups
Mastercard recently added seven new startups to its cryptocurrency accelerator to make the future of crypto more accessible to users. Shortly after Visa, Mastercard had already moved into creating car...
Mastercard adds 7 blockchain startups to its crypto accelerator
Global payments giant Mastercard continues supporting cryptocurrency and blockchain startups as part of its fintech accelerator, the Mastercard Start Path program. Mastercard has chosen another seven ...
Bullish: MasterCard picks seven crypto startups for growth program
Global payments company Mastercard has announced that it has chosen seven crypto startups that would be onboarded on its Start Path Program. Over the last few years, the company has been helping firms...
How Decentralized Finance is Helping DeFi Startups Raise Capital on the Orbeon Platform
Advertisement     DeFi, or decentralized finance, refers to using smart contracts and blockchain technology to raise and issue securities such as stocks or bonds, usua...
All Eleven Startups in the 2022 Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator Announce Partnerships with Comcast, NBCUniversal, or Sky
Companies will present their game-changing ideas and pilots at this year’s Demo Day at the Comcast Technology Center in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, for the first time ever, all 11...