Hedge fund manager Brevan Howard is continuing to ramp up its crypto business, hiring Jump Capital partner Peter Johnson as a portfolio manager and Gemini Trust’s former head of security Cem Paya, acc...
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FTX US Valuation Taps $8 Billion After Raising $400 Million From SoftBank and Temasek
The US branch of the digital asset exchange raised $400 million in a funding round that saw participation from prominent names such as Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp and Singapore’s Temasek Holdings. Con...
Gold-i Taps Modus.Trade to Offer Crypto Fund Management Services
Gold-i, a trading systems integration specialist for the financial services industry, continues to enhance its services around digital assets and partnered with Modus.Trade to enter the cryptocurrenc...
Coinbase Taps MasterCard For Upcoming NFT Marketplace Support
The metaverse might be the next best thing for payment providers and credit card firms like MasterCard. Coinbase is adding another heavy-hitting name to it’s list of partners across the crypto exchang...
Grayscale taps Bloomberg for Future of Finance Index launch amid ETF push
advertisement Grayscale Investments, the world’s largest crypto asset manager, and Bloomberg have partnered to launch a new digital assets-based index. Dubbed the Bloomberg Grayscale Future of Finance...
Nexo Taps Bakkt for Crypto Services
On January 19, Bakkt Holdings Inc announced a partnership with Nexo, a cryptocurrency-backed loan platform, to custody crypto assets in the Bakkt warehouse. The partnership will see Nexo using Bakkt’s...
Mercedes Taps NFT Creators In Celebration of G-Class Series
Auto manufacturer Mercedes has called for the services of about 5 artists from the NFT industry, even as the brand looks to create a Mercedes-Benz NFT collection that would be based on the G-class veh...
INGOT Brokers Taps Acuity Trading for Market Signals
INGOT Brokers, which is a multi-asset broker, announced on Tuesday that it has partnered with Acuity Trading to provide trading signals to the broker’s retail client base. As per the press release, IN...
Bangkok Billionaire Taps Binance For New Crypto Exchange
Share this article Thai billionaire Sarath Ratanavadi’s has entered into a partnership with Binance to set up a local crypto exchange in the country. Binance Helps Build Thai Crypto Exchange A Thai bi...
Bitcoin’s Hashrate Taps New Lifetime High, BTC Price 20% Above Production Cost, Difficulty Nears ATH – Mining Bitcoin News
Bitcoin’s hashrate has been riding high again as the processing power tapped another lifetime high on January 15, 2022, reaching 219.68 exahash per second (EH/s). The new record follows the previous a...
TAPME: Flappy Bird and Crypto Punks inspired Play-to-Earn GameFi TAPS on Coinstore
What is TAP? Inspired by the legendary pixelated pieces of Flappy Bird and Crypto Punks, TAPME’s GameFi release allow players to constantly touch the screen to control the characters flying up and dow...
President Biden taps economists for Fed governors’ seats, Sarah Bloom Raskin as vice chair for supervision
The White House has officially tapped former Fed governor Sarah Bloom Raskin to serve as the vice chair for supervision for the Federal Reserve, as well as economists Lisa Cook and Philip Jefferson to...
Sheer Markets Taps Match-Prime as Liquidity Provider
On January 13, Match-Prime, a Liquidity Liquidity Liquidity is at the core of every broker’s offering. It is a basic characteristic of every financial asset – be it a currency, stock, bond, ...
Binance taps former central bank exec to push compliance in CIS and Russia
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is putting more effort into increasing compliance in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Russia and Ukraine. Binance is planning to exte...
Lululemon taps former Amazon exec as new CEO of its at-home gym Mirror
Michael Aragon previously served the role of chief content officer of Twitch, Amazon’s livestreaming business. Source: Lululemon Lululemon said Thursday it has named former Amazon exec Michael A...
Esports Team Vitality Taps Tezos for Fan Engagement Initiatives
In a bid to revolutionize its fan engagement, French esports organization Team Vitality announced that it has collaborated with popular blockchain project Tezos on a three-year partnership deal. Team ...
BitMEX Taps Tokeny for Native Exchange Token Launch
BitMEX, an offshore crypto derivatives platform, announced on Thursday that it has tapped the services of Tokeny for the upcoming launch of its native exchange token. Tokeny, which is a tokenizatio...
Hasbro taps Chris Cocks as new CEO
Hasbro Toy company logo seen displayed on smart phone. (Photo by Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Igor Golovniov | SOPA Images | Getty Images Three months after the sudden pass...
Leading NFT Marketplace Opensea Raises $300 Million, Firm’s Post-Money Valuation Taps $13.3 Billion – Finance Bitcoin News
Leading non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace Opensea announced the firm has raised $300 million in a Series C funding round led by Paradigm and Coatue. Opensea’s latest capital raise has propelled the...
Bitcoin’s Hashrate Taps New Lifetime High, Mining Difficulty Nears ATH – Mining Bitcoin News
Bitcoin’s hashrate tapped a lifetime high on the first day of 2022 reaching 209.39 exahash per second (EH/s). During the last 12 months, Bitcoin’s hashrate has increased by 47.92% from the 141.55 EH/s...