Search
Andreessen Horowitz Eyes USD 4.5B For New Crypto Funds
20.1.2022
As another sign of venture capital money increasingly fueling the cryptosphere’s disruption of legacy finance, US venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has unveiled plans to raise up to USD 4.5bn to launch new crypto-focused funds -- potentially more than doubling the amount it raised...
Opensea Acquires Dharma Labs, Co-Founder Is Named New CTO
20.1.2022
Opensea, one of the biggest NFT marketplaces globally, recently announced it is acquiring Dharma Labs. The price is believed to be between $110 million and $130 million. As a result of the new agreement between the two companies, Nadav Hollander, a co-founder at Dharma Labs, will become the...
Chinese Central Bank: In Pilote Stage, Digital Yuan Has 261M Active Users
20.1.2022
China’s central People’s Bank of China (PBoC) has claimed over 261m users in the nation activated digital yuan wallets by the end of last year – in addition to the 20 million-plus who have downloaded its official pilot app, which was released to marketplaces in some cities earlier this...
SCRT Labs Launches $400 Million Fund to Bolster Privacy Network’s Ecosystem and Application Layer
19.1.2022
On Wednesday, the Secret Network announced the launch of a $400 million fund in order to expand the application layer and provide grants to ecosystem participants that accelerate user adoption. The market capitalization for the network’s native token SCRT is the third-largest privacy-centric...
Milan Fashion Meets Crypto in Fendi-Ledger Collaboration
19.1.2022
In an unusual merger of cryptoverse high-tech and high-end fashion straight from the streets of Milan, the Italian luxury fashion house Fendi has teamed up with hardware wallet maker Ledger to showcase two tech accessories for the latter company’s flagship Ledger Nano X.
Fendi has unveiled...
Google Pays 'a Lot of Attention to' Crypto, Partners With Coinbase, BitPay + More News
19.1.2022
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
__________...
Read More: Google Pays 'a Lot of Attention to' Crypto, Partners With Coinbase, BitPay + More News
Opera Launches Web 3 Browser With Built-in Non-Custodial Wallet
19.1.2022
The popular multi-platform web browser Opera has unveiled its “Crypto Browser Project” meant to offer users direct access to Web 3 services across multiple networks. The project's beta version is already available with a built-in non-custodial wallet for Windows, Mac, and Android users....
Read...
Bitcoin Mining Company GRIID to Be First Recipient of Intel's "Bonanza Mine" Chips
19.1.2022
GRIID, an American infrastructure company that owns and operates a number of Bitcoin (BTC) mining facilities, has inked a partnership with major multinational corporation and technology company Intel to become the first recipient of its upcoming "Bonanza Mine" chips....
Read More: Bitcoin Mining...
NFT Infrastructure Moves: OpenSea Acquires Dharma, Coinbase Partners With Mastercard
19.1.2022
The market for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) is off to a strong start in 2022. While this is evident from the increasing number of NFT users and the rising volume of transactions, the recent decisions by some of the industry leaders further strengthen this perspective -- as companies move to make...
Blockchain Firm Animoca Brands Raises $358 Million to Enhance Web3 and the Metaverse
18.1.2022
Animoca Brands has announced the blockchain and cryptocurrency-focused firm has raised $358.8 million to bolster the non-fungible token (NFT) industry and “build the open metaverse.” The capital raise follows the firm’s previous $65 million and $138.88 million raises last year...
Intel's Bitcoin Mining Surprise, Crypto Mortgage, BNB Burn + More News
18.1.2022
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
__________...
Read More: Intel's Bitcoin Mining Surprise, Crypto Mortgage, BNB Burn + More News
20m+ Chinese Now Reportedly Using Central Bank’s Digital Yuan App
18.1.2022
Over 20m people have now downloaded the central People’s Bank of China (PBoC)’s digital yuan app, media outlets in the country have reported....
Read More: 20m+ Chinese Now Reportedly Using Central Bank’s Digital Yuan App
Bitcoin, Ethereum Fund Outflows Slow, Solana Remains Favorite + More News
17.1.2022
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
__________...
Read More: Bitcoin, Ethereum Fund Outflows Slow, Solana Remains Favorite + More News
Crypto Jobs Boomed In 2021 Amid Funding Influx - LinkedIn
17.1.2022
Crypto-related job postings skyrocketed in 2021, indicating disruption across industries, according to a recent analysis by employment-oriented social media platform LinkedIn.
Last year, job postings with titles that contained key words such as bitcoin (BTC), ethereum (ETH), blockchain,...
Altcoins Gain Bigger Share in Payments, Crypto Spending on Luxury Goods Jumped in 2021 - BitPay
17.1.2022
Crypto payments processor BitPay says that the bitcoin (BTC) payments at merchants who use the company’s services dropped to 65% of all processed payments last year -- a decline from 92% in 2020. ...
Read More: Altcoins Gain Bigger Share in Payments, Crypto Spending on Luxury Goods Jumped...
UK 3rd for ETH ownership as crypto adoption grows 1% in December: Survey
17.1.2022
In a December survey conducted by Finder.com, the United Kingdom held third place worldwide in adoption rankings for Ethereum, while overall cryptocurrency adoption crept up by 1%
‘Flurry’ of Walmart Patents Show Willingness to Embrace Crypto, NFTs and the Metaverse
17.1.2022
Walmart has developed plans that involve the creation of its own cryptoasset, launch collection non-fungible token (NFT) collections, and (yes, you guessed it) enter the metaverse, per reports citing filings made with the American Patent and Trademark Office....
Read More: ‘Flurry’ of Walmart...
Fidelity Expects More Countries to Acquire Bitcoin Citing ‘Very High Stakes Game Theory’
17.1.2022
Fidelity expects more sovereign nation states, or even a central bank, to acquire bitcoin this year. “There is very high stakes game theory at play here, whereby if bitcoin adoption increases, the countries that secure some bitcoin today will be better off competitively than their...
2021: A year of mass adoption for cryptocurrencies in Brazil
15.1.2022
2021 was a year of affirmation for the Brazilian crypto market with good news in the national stock market, the promise of a CBDC and Brazilian soccer joining the game
IMF: Crypto Could Soon Pose Risks to Countries’ Financial Stability
15.1.2022
Economists at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) say that “crypto assets are no longer on the fringe of the financial system.” In addition, they “could soon pose risks to financial stability especially in countries with widespread crypto adoption.” ‘Our...