VC Stars & LL Cool J Hunting 'Extraordinary Momentum' In Crypto
4.2.2021
LL Cool J during a 2001 performance in Germany. Source: Wikipedia/Mikael 'Mika' Väisänen
Private equity veteran Glenn Hutchins together with other business partners has launched a new venture capital crypto fund, Yahoo! Finance reported, citing Hutchins.
Among the investors in the fund that...
The Unexpected Challenges of CoinDesk’s First Staking Venture
4.2.2021
How we decided to participate in staking on Ethereum 2.0, the challenges we had to overcome and the implications of the controversial move
$72M Crypto Fund Backed by Paul Tudor Jones and LL Cool J Comes Out of Stealth
4.2.2021
Led by Glenn Hutchins, the new fund has already invested in Dapper Labs and other crypto projects
FTX Boss Bankman-Fried Says He Is Worth a ‘Mostly Illiquid’ USD 10B
4.2.2021
Sam Bankman-Fried. Source: A video screenshot, Youtube/FTX Official
One of President Joe Biden’s biggest campaign backers in the 2020 presidential election has been grabbing the limelight in the mainstream media – as Sam Bankman-Fried (28), the CEO of the crypto derivatives platform FTX, continues...
Circle Launches USD Coin on the Stellar Network
4.2.2021
Circle and the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) announced that the second-biggest stablecoin is now available within their network. USD Coin (USDC) is accessible through five integrated wallets, and it can be tradeable on their ecosystem, said the USDC issuer. Stellar Has Been the Official...
First Mover: Ethereum, DOGE on Own Journeys as Inflation Bets Fuel Bitcoin
4.2.2021
Altcoins like Chainlink get big boost from DeFi growth on Ethereum, while inflation bets boost bitcoin and dogecoin gets (Elon Musk) moonshot
US Library of Congress report highlights proof-of-stake tax blindspot
4.2.2021
The taxman still isn't wise to cryptocurrency earnings made through proof-of-stake. But that could change soon
Binance Coin hits all-time highs as BNB surpasses Bitcoin Cash by market cap
4.2.2021
Bitcoin Cash is now in danger of being ejected from the top ten cryptocurrencies by market cap
Cardano Upgrades On Its Way To Offer Better Tokenization Than Ethereum
4.2.2021
Source: Adobe/Skórzewiak
The Cardano (ADA) testnet is officially in the multi-asset era, announced Cardano development firm IOHK.
On February 3, at 20:20 UTC, "we successfully forked & applied the Goguen 'Mary' native token upgrade. Next stop mainnet, by the end of the month,"...
$10M Fund From Cosmos-Based Terra Will Gladly Back DeFi Projects on Ethereum
4.2.2021
The fund will pay for the one thing devs can't do internally: security audits
Researchers detect new malware targeting Kubernetes clusters to mine Monero
4.2.2021
The malware campaign has not been active since it was first detected in Jan. 2021, leading researchers to believe that it "may still be in the reconnaissance and weaponization stage."
Discord Scammers Lure Users to Fake Exchange With Promise of Free Bitcoin
4.2.2021
The scammers may be trying to collect a database of crypto users for sale on the dark web, said Kaspersky