Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Roofstock, a popular online real estate investment marketplace based in Oakland City in California, announced last Friday that it raised $240 million in a Series E equity financing round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2.Â
The funding gives the company...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Two co-heads of Citigroupâs digital assets, Greg Girasole and Alex Kriete announced on Friday via their LinkedIn platform that they are leaving Citigroup to launch a new venture and would reveal more details soon.
Two top executives left the global...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
The Fantom Foundation has to address what it termed as âfactual inaccuraciesâ from Rekt regarding the exit of superstar developers Andre Cronje and Anton Nell from the and crypto ecosystem as a whole.
While the foundation affirmed that Cronje wo...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
The Bank of Israel has issued a new draft guideline to stakeholders in the cryptocurrency ecosystem concerning Anti-Money Laundering () provisions.
According to the press release by the bank, the new guideline becomes necessitated with the growing...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Yuga Labs, the startup behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) Non-Fungible Token (NFT) collection, has acquired the Intellectual Property (IP) rights to the CryptoPunks and Meebits collections from LarvaLabs.
As by the startup, the unveiled acquis...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
The European Union could see a major change in the cryptocurrency industry as proof-of-work (PoW) cryptocurrencies face an indeterminate future.
Proof-of-work cryptocurrencies are designed in an energy-intensive consensus mechanism.
PoW cryptocurr...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Lendable.co.uk, a major AI-powered consumer finance platform based in London, announced on Thursday it raised ÂŁ210 million in a funding round led by the Ontario Teachersâ Pension Plan Board through its Teachersâ Innovation Platform (TIP).
That is n...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
With the International Monetary Fund (IMF) data showing about 110 countries around the world are currently developing their own (CBDC), the subject has garnered a lot of thoughts from experts in the cryptocurrency ecosystem, one of them is Tether C...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
The bridge between the major blockchain networks has set its sights on one of the new contenders to join the race for Web3, Fantom.
Ghost may be new, but it offers the best that proof-of-stake (POS) chains have to offer. Scalable, fast, and afforda...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
In Asia, Singapore extends taxes imposing on Non-Fungible Token (NFT) transactions, according to local media CNA.
Speaking to the parliamentary reply on Friday, Singapore Finance Minister Lawrence Wong said the prevailing income tax rules âwill app...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Lunar, a Nordic neobank headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark, announced on Thursday that it raised $77 million in a funding round led by Heartland and also launched a cryptocurrency trading platform.
Lunar said that it plans to use the fresh funding to...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Lendable, a major AI-powered consumer finance platform based in London, announced on Thursday it raised ÂŁ210 million in a funding round led by the Ontario Teachersâ Pension Plan Board through its Teachersâ Innovation Platform (TIP).
That is not the...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Elrond, a blockchain firm based in Romania, announced on Thursday that it acquired Twispay, a major Romanian payments company. The blockchain companyâs move came after the National Bank of Romania gave it the green light to buy the electronic money...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Paxos, a New York-based financial institution and technology company, specializing in blockchain, announced on Thursday that it obtained approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (), the Central Bank of Singapore, to offer digital payments t...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
LimeWire, the controversial file-sharing network that closed down back in 2010, is relaunching this May, but as a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) marketplace.
Despite the inherent controversy the startup was known for, its new owners, Paul and Julian Zehe...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
StarkWare, an Israeli blockchain startup, is on track to close a $100 million funding round, to details gathered by local media channel, Calcalistech, the capital raise has not been announced yet, and it is expected to push the startupâs valuation...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Z Holdings, the internet arm of Japanese multinational conglomerate SoftBank Group, is reportedly planning to launch a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) marketplace before the end of the year.
As by Bloomberg, the marketplace is designed to help the compan...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
It seems that what began in 2009 as an innovative currency solution merely became a hot asset class that draws capital every day. When digital assets first appeared, they were out of touch with traditional assets, but as they become more mature now...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Crypto.com the LeBron James NFT series to fans by placing QR codes in Big Game ads.
The "The Moment of Truth" series consists of 15 NFTs in 3 layers. The NFT was airdropped to a random draw of 5,550 lucky people who discovered the QR code and succ...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Web3 infrastructure platform Our Happy Company its social NFT platform OurSong and integrated with the issuer of stablecoin USD Coin (USDC) Circle.
Our Happy Company solved it by using Circle's payment The solution as it aims to simplify the proce...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Two of US stock trading app Robinhoodâs former employees on Wednesday announced the launch of money transfer service Atlantic Money to solve challenges that users experience while transferring money globally.
Neeraj Baid and Patrick Kavanagh descri...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
To gain durable decentralized liquidity, ethereum-based insurance platform Nexus Mutual treasury funds worth $2 million in the form of wrapped NXM (wNXM) tokens in decentralized trading protocol Bancor.
Joining more than 30 decentralized autonomou...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Multinational investment bank Goldman Sachs today announced its partnership with Galaxy Digital, the crypto merchant bank founded by Mike Novogratz, to once more enable its customers to get greater access to the crypto business.
According to a new...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Blockchain infrastructure platform Blockdaemon announced on Wednesday that it has acquired Gem, a popular cryptocurrency on-ramp company.
Gem is an API (application programming interface firm) that provides fiat-to-crypto offramps and onramps, or b...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
State Street Corporation, a major US bank based in Boston, announced on Wednesday that its digital division has partnered with Copper.co, a London-based provider of institutional digital asset custody and trading infrastructure.
State Street Digita...