Gemini, a $7.1 billion cryptocurrency exchange, announced Thursday that it has acquired five-year-old San Francisco-based digital asset portfolio management firm BITRIA to provide a digital asset ecos...
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Moonbeam Successfully Launches As A Polkadot Parachain
Moonbeam has officially become the first fully operational parachain on Polkadot, with community members that had contributed to the crowd loan effort now eligible to claim their Moonbeam token reward...
Dogecoin Spikes 20% as Tesla Enables DOGE Payments
The largest car manufacturer by market cap, Tesla, has enabled Dogecoin payments months after halting BTC settlements due to environmental issues. As a result, DOGE’s price spiked by double digits. It...
How NFTs Help Shape the Future
NFT stands for Non-Fungible Token – Non-Fungible meaning unique, and token meaning record of ownership stored on a blockchain. Put together, an NFT is a record of ownership of a unique item that’s sto...
Tether freezes $150 million in USDT
Tether has added three more Ethereum addresses, holding more $150 million worth of the USDT stablecoin between them, to its blacklist. As a centralized company, Tether is able to blacklist addresses i...
OCC Chief Hsu Says Regulation Could Boost Stablecoin Innovation
Regulating stablecoin issuers like banks could encourage innovation in the crypto industry, according to top U.S. banking regulator Michael Hsu. Speaking at an event on Thursday, Hsu – the acting comp...
Vechain (VET) Price To Hit $0.40 By End Of 2022, Says Popular Analyst – Coinpedia – Fintech & Cryptocurreny News Media
Since the beginning of the year, VeChain has been on a significant downward trend. The drop has been in line with the general trend in the cryptocurrency market. The decline appeared to be reaching it...
Coinbase Acquires Derivatives Exchange FairX
Coinbase is officially entering the crypto derivatives market, and a strategic acquisition of FairX, a CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange, is its first major step. Crypto futures and options trading ...
Robinhood hits new low as FTX US and Bitstamp USA move into stocks
Crypto exchanges FTX US and Bitstamp USA are working on offering stock trading, which would be a further blow to Robinhood as its share price slumps to new lows. FTX US President Brett Harrison tweete...
Dogecoin Price Soars as Tesla Starts Accepting DOGE for Some Products
Alex Dovbnya Elon Musk announced that Tesla would start testing Dogecoin payments last month Electric car giant Tesla has started pricing some of its products in Dogecoin, the original meme cryptocurr...
DeFi Bribes Are on the Rise
Decrypting DeFi is Decrypt’s DeFi email newsletter. (art: Grant Kempster) Last week’s Decrypting DeFi dispatch gave a general rough-and-tumble overview of what’s happening with Curve and the so-...
Switzerland Completes Testing with Key Banks
The Swiss National Bank has completed testing the circulation of the digital franc in the financial system. They partnered with the country’s key banks to get the job done. Bloomberg reports that Swit...
What’s In Store For FTM and AAVE Price In Coming Days? – Coinpedia – Fintech & Cryptocurreny News Media
FTM, Fantom’s native token, is one of the most popular Ethereum killers, with an all-time high of $3.46 in October of last year. The price is presently trading at $3.02, down 11% from its all-time hig...
Near Protocol Closes $150M Funding, NEAR Price Eyes $20
NEAR protocol has managed to close substantial funding round from top cryptocurrency investors in preparation for a further DeFi-oriented advance. NEAR Protocol has closed $150 million in funding from...
After a rally against the market, here’s why NEAR can breach $20 next week
Over the past few days, NEAR Protocol has rallied impressively from the lows at $13.18. Bitcoin has also bounced from the $40.5k support, and NEAR has been able to climb past areas of supply with rela...
Mike Tyson loves Solana, Aoki stops show to flaunt NFT, Apple and the ‘AR Verse’
Mike Tyson is living the $DREAM Boxing icon Mike Tyson has stepped into the ring this week, after he shared his enthusiasm for Solana and unveiled a partnership with mental health-focused crypto proje...
Channel Wants Content Creators to ‘Squad Up’ via Web 3
For almost two years now, the artist couple Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst has been running a podcast called “Interdependence” – a kind of short-form educational space for the crypto curious. Pitched ...
DeFi Alliance Goes Full DAO After Raising $50 Million
Web3 accelerator DeFi Alliance announced today that it will move forward as Alliance DAO. The move comes at a time when decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) have shown the ability to raise la...
Composable Finance Wins Polkadot Parachain Auctions
Composable Finance, a robust cross-chain and cross-layer infrastructure with intuitive tools for developers, which prides itself as the face of DeFi, has won the 8th slot in the 7th Polkadot Parachain...
SHIB Surges 20% Following the Test of Important Support, What’s Next?
Key Support level: $0.000027 Key Resistance level: $0.000034 SHIB had a great week, seemingly ending its recent downturn after finding support at $0.000027 and rallying more than 20% since. The questi...
Tether Freezes Over $150M+ Worth Of USDT Stablecoin
Tether has been one of the biggest question marks in crypto in recent years, and that hasn’t changed as adoption has grown. Decentralization has been a hot topic, and while the word itself isn’t menti...
Vitalik deluged after asking for the ‘most unhinged’ criticisms about him
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin asked for, and received in spades, examples of “the craziest and most unhinged criticisms” of him on Twitter and elsewhere. Buterin’s lighthearted request came in a...
Restaurant in NYC exclusively signs memberships with NFTs
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) do not seem to be losing their momentum as they continue to attract a wide range of users. Now, VCR Group, a hospitality firm based in New York City, has opened NFT offering...
Ex-CFTC Boss Christopher Giancarlo Joins CoinFund as Advisor
Christopher Giancarlo, the former Chairman of Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has joined blockchain-focused investment firm CoinFund as a strategic advisor. Billed to advise the firm on ma...
UK Lords Economic Affairs Committee Publishes disparaging Report on “Britcoin”
The Lords Economic Affairs Committee has recently published their report on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), providing their findings on digital currency and outlining what they perceive to be...
FTX US and Bitstamp USA Are Working to Offer Stock Trading Services
Crypto exchanges are looking for ways to expand their domains, and it seems that the blockchain space is no longer enough. Now, the U.S. subsidiaries of FTX and Bitstamp could be about to start offeri...
With FairX acquisition, is Coinbase moving away from the SEC and towards CFTC
When it comes to the American crypto sector, one huge source of confusion is the matter of which body should largely regulate crypto exchanges and their products. Is it the state government[s], the SE...
Solana-based cross-chain bridge Allbridge raises $2M to support growth
Allbridge, a cross-chain bridge that lets users transfer assets between different blockchain networks, today announced $2 million in funding led by Race Capital. Allbridge offers a simple way to bridg...