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Spot Ethereum ETF Styled ETHETF Token Starts Mammoth Burn Program, Price to Pump 10x?
16.11.2023
Thursday, November 16th, 2023 – Two days after launching, $ETHETF coin has announced a 21 million token burn program, reducing total token supply by 21%. The price of $ETHETF jumped 25% on the news to $0.01601 and is now up 12% at $0.1448. News of the burn program comes at the same time as fund...
Tether Aims to Invest Half a Billion Dollar in Mining Ventures Over Next Six Months to Become a Top Miner
16.11.2023
Source: Adobe/Jim Tether, the company behind the world’s largest stablecoin USDT, aims to invest half a billion dollars to become one of the world’s leading Bitcoin miners. Paolo Ardoino, the company’s incoming CEO, said in a recent interview that Tether plans to invest...
Today in Crypto: Polkadot Founders Launch a $45 Million Community Project, Bybit Reveals Easy Options Tool, Taurus SA Expands to Dubai
16.11.2023
Source: AdobeStock / NikahGeh Get your daily, bite-sized digest of crypto and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s news. __________ Investment news Web3 Foundation, whose flagship project is the Polkadot blockchain protocol, announced the launch...
Philippines Government to Raise $180 Million Through Sale of Tokenized Treasury Bonds
16.11.2023
Source: Pixabay / David Peterson The Philippines Bureau of the Treasury has announced its plan to issue tokenized Treasury bonds for the first time on Monday after canceling a traditional auction initially scheduled for the same day. In a historic move, the Philippines Bureau of the Treasury is...
Is Monero Going to Zero? XMR Price Drops 3% as Viral New Bitcoin Mining Project Surpasses $4 Million Milestone
16.11.2023
The XMR price has dropped by 3% in the past 24 hours, slipping to $160.91 on a day when the cryptocurrency market as a whole gains by 2.5%. Monero is also down by close to 4% in the past week and by 6% in a fortnight, with the privacy coin gaining by only 9% in […]
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Blockchain.com Raises $110 Million in Series E Round Led by Kingsway
16.11.2023
Blockchain.com, a cryptocurrency enterprise offering a digital asset exchange, a blockchain explorer, and a non-custodial wallet, has recently secured $110 million in a Series E funding round spearheaded by Kingsway. Despite this successful funding round, Blockchain.com’s post-valuation...
Crypto Exchange PancakeSwap Expands into Gaming with New Marketplace – Earn CAKE for Playing Games?
16.11.2023
Source: pancakeswap.games Decentralized exchange (DEX) PancakeSwap has launched its Gaming Marketplace, enabling developers to directly build, publish, and update games on the platform to an audience of 1.5 million potential players. Per the announcement, the platform is also a hub for...
South Korea’s pension fund bags 280K Coinbase shares: SEC data
16.11.2023
South Korea’s National Pension Service, one of the world’s largest pension funds, invested $20 million in Coinbase in Q3 2023
South Korea’s National Pension Fund Bought $20 Million Coinbase Stocks in Q3 2023
16.11.2023
Source: Pexels The National Pension Service of South Korea has acquired approximately 26 billion won ($20 million) worth of Coinbase stocks (COIN). The National Pension Service is South Korea’s largest investment group and the third largest pension fund in the world. The investment group manages...
CFX Labs Secures $9.5 Million Seed Round To Expand Solana-based Payment Network
15.11.2023
Source: Pixabay CFX Labs has raised $9.5 million in seed investments to expand its Solana-based stablecoin payment and remittances network. The US-based fintech firm said in a press release on Wednesday that the fundraising was oversubscribed, with Shima Capital, Decasonic, Antalpha, CMT Digital...
Celsius Moves $10 Million in Ethereum to Exchange Following Bankruptcy Plan Approval
15.11.2023
Celsius transfers millions in Ethereum to an exchange as part of a strategic shift post-bankruptcy. Image by Rafael Henrique, Adobe Stock Crypto lending company Celsius has transferred over $10 million worth of Ethereum to an exchange on Wednesday, just 6 days after a judge approved...
Gaming Firm Boyaa Interactive to Add Bitcoin and Ether to Balance Sheet With $100M Investment
15.11.2023
Recently disclosed in a regulatory statement, Hong Kong-based Boyaa Interactive International Limited announced its plan to acquire cryptocurrency assets valued at up to $100 million. This publicly listed entity, known for developing and managing online card and board games through its various...
Poloniex to Resume Deposits and Withdrawal Services After $100 Million Exploit: Here’s More
15.11.2023
Source: Adobe Cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex has announced plans to resume operations after it suffered a major hack resulting in losses over $100 million. The exchange announced on Nov 15 that following restoration efforts after the hack, it will begin deposits and withdrawal services assuring...
Blockchain.com Receives $110 Million in Series E Funding Led by Kingsway Capital
15.11.2023
Source: Blockchain.com The crypto exchange Blockchain.com has successfully raised $110 million in its latest Series E funding round. This substantial financial boost was led by Kingsway Capital, a UK-based investment management firm. Alongside Kingsway Capital, the Series E round saw participation...
South Korean Woman Avoids Jail After Stealing Ex-husband’s $1.3m Crypto Stash
15.11.2023
Source: moon/Adobe A South Korean woman who stole her ex-husband’s $1.3 million crypto stash has been handed a suspended jail sentence. Per Yonhap News, an unnamed woman aged 32 stole the coins from her ex-partner’s crypto wallet after the end of their common-law marriage. The 14th Criminal...
“Mutant Ape Planet” NFT Designer Pleads Guilty to Fraud, Faces 5 Years in Prison
14.11.2023
Aurelien Michel, the 25-year-old designer of “Mutant Ape Planet” NFTs, pled guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, on Tuesday. A $3 million fraud scheme Michel admitted to luring in NFT investors with promises of giveaways, tokens, merchandise...
Foresight Ventures Acquires Majority Stake in The Block
14.11.2023
Foresight Ventures, a Singaporean Web3 VC firm, has announced it acquired a majority stake in The Block, a cryptocurrency-focused news outlet. The deal, which values The Block at around $70 million, will allow the news platform to purchase the stake belonging to former CEO Mike McCaffrey, who...
K-pop Agency Modhaus Announces $8 Million Series A Investment
14.11.2023
Source: Pixabay A South Korean blockchain-based K-pop startup has raised $8 million in its series A funding round. Modhaus announced in a statement today that the series A funding round has pushed their total fundraising to $12 million overall. The funding round was led by U.S. investment firm...
Crypto Mining Profitability Soars as Miners Rake In Record $32 Million in Revenue in One Month
14.11.2023
Image Source: Pixabay The crypto mining industry is experiencing a surge in profitability, with miners earning a record $32 million in revenue in the past month. The hashrate, a measure of the computational power needed to mine a coin, has reached an all-time high, indicating that miners are using...
BGX Invests $90 Million in BC Technology Group, Operator of Hong Kong’s OSL Exchange
14.11.2023
Source: Adobe / Dmitry Rukhlenko BC Technology Group, the operator of Hong Kong’s publicly listed cryptocurrency exchange OSL, has secured a significant investment from BitgetX (BGX), the Hong Kong division of the cryptocurrency services provider Bitget, although it is still pending...