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Openai Shakeup: Sam Altman Out as CEO, Worldcoin’s WLD Plunges
18.11.2023
Following the announcement by Openai, a firm dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI), that Sam Altman is stepping down, Worldcoin, a crypto venture backed by Altman, experienced a 13.5% decline in its native asset WLD compared to the U.S. dollar. Openai, in an open letter addressed to the public...
Bitcoin Price Prediction: Market Trends, CEO Insights & New Ventures in BTC
17.11.2023
In the dynamic world of cryptocurrency, Bitcoin’s latest market movements have caught significant attention as it trades at $36,530, marking a around 2.50% decline on Friday. Amidst these fluctuations, Brazil’s evolving cryptocurrency regulatory landscape is spurring a competitive...
CoinShares Gets Greenlight to Buy Valkyrie ETF Arm as It Expands Into North America
16.11.2023
Source: Adobestock Leading European digital asset investment firm CoinShares has announced its strategic acquisition of the Valkyrie Funds, a crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF) subsidiary of US-based Valkyrie Investments. In a press release dated November 16, the CoinShares Group stated it obtained...
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...
Stablecoin Issuer Paxos Receives Preliminary Nod from Singapore Regulator
16.11.2023
Source: Paxos Blockchain infrastructure firm Paxos has obtained a preliminary license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) for its new entity. With the in-principal approval, Paxos Digital Singapore, the new entity, will offer digital payment token services to Singaporeans. Further, Paxos...
Stablecoin Issuer Paxos Plans New U.S. Dollar-Backed Token for Singapore Operations
16.11.2023
Paxos, a cryptocurrency brokerage firm, has received a preliminary license from regulators to offer digital payment token services in Singapore, the company said Wednesday in a statement
Kazakhstan’s NPC Officially Rolls Out State-backed CBDC in Partnership With Visa and Mastercard
15.11.2023
Source: Iliya Mitskavets/Adobe Central-Asia Country Kazakhstan has officially launched the digital tenge project, a central bank digital currency (CBDC) designed to simplify payments and drive economic growth. According to a local news outlet report on November 15, Binur Zhalenov, CEO of...
Kevin O’Leary Says Binance Could Lose Half of its Customers to Abu Dhabi’s M2 Exchange
15.11.2023
Image Source: CNBC Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary has predicted that Abu Dhabi’s M2 exchange could pose a significant threat to industry giants. According to O’Leary, M2 will emerge as the largest regulated crypto exchange globally as it is backed by substantial capital and...
Institutional Investors Flock to Bitcoin Pushing Inflows Past $1 Billion in 2023
14.11.2023
Source: Adobe / Alex Total inflows into traditional investment funds backed by crypto have finally passed the $1 billion mark for the year, after last week saw investors flocking to Bitcoin. For the week as a whole, crypto investment funds recorded inflows of $293 million, bringing the year-to-date...
Poloniex Hack Analysis: North Korean Hacking Syndicate Lazarus Group Suspected in Wallet Breach
13.11.2023
The North Korea-backed hacker group is thought to be behind the Nov. 10 Poloniex hot wallet breach. A market research platform has said “a leakage of the private key” could be the reason why the hot wallet got breached. Private Key Leakage According to X-explore, a market research...
BIS Research Report: Stablecoins Not Secure as Store of Value
9.11.2023
Stablecoins. Source: Adobe / Grispb Fiat-backed stablecoins are “not a safe store of value,” according to a new research report from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). According to the report, the BIS found that from January 2019 to September 2023, fiat-backed stablecoins were able...
Can Bank-Backed Exchanges Solve Crypto Trading’s Trust Problem?
8.11.2023
Investment Advisor Two Prime Sees $2B in Demand for Bitcoin-Backed Loans
8.11.2023
"We have seen about $2 billion in demand for bitcoin-secured loans since we started offering them in September, " Two Prime's Alexander Blume said
Wintermute claims NEAR backed out of $11M stablecoin redemption deal
8.11.2023
Wintermute founder and CEO Evgeny Gaevoy says the Near Foundation reneged on an offer to convert $11m million worth of its stablecoin
SwissGold Crypto AG Launches Gold-Backed NFTs for Wealth Preservation
7.11.2023
PRESS RELEASE. Zug, Switzerland – SwissGold Crypto AG, a Swiss-regulated crypto issuer, introduces a novel solution to the wealth preservation challenge in times of inflation and uncertainty: gold-backed non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Gold’s enduring stability, in contrast to depreciating fiat...
Scammers play a long game using bogus, AI-backed 'law firm'
6.11.2023
Is artificial intelligence the best invention for scammers since the internet was invented? Here's one story of an AI-generated law firm sending threats to win backlinks
Hundreds of GROK Tokens Launched Days After Elon Musk-Backed ChatGPT Rival Goes Live
6.11.2023
Several GROK  tokens have been released days after Elon Musk announced GROK, an AI chatbot touted as a major rival to ChatGPT. Over the weekend, nearly 400 tokens have been released to the ecosystem by new developers inspired by GROK with some having hopes to turn into the new Dogecoin (DOGE)...
Luxor refutes claims its Bitcoin hashrate-backed product is BlockFi, Celsius 2.0
6.11.2023
“The return comes from hashrate, not from pixie dust, ponzi schemes, or rehypothecation,” a Luxor Technology executive stressed
Blockchain Integration: A16z-Backed Cryptocurrency Index Platform Unveils V2
3.11.2023
Alongside, a cryptocurrency index platform backed by venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), has launched its V2, aiming to take a decentralized approach to crypto investments using blockchain technology. The startup will allow crypto investors to gain exposure to a basket of the top...
Games Backed by Disney, Alibaba, Google, Square Enix Will Build on Immutable zkEVM, ‘Blockchain Gaming to Become Synonymous with Gaming’
2.11.2023
Three new upcoming games from Australia and Asia-based teams have committed to building on Zero-Knowledge (ZK) proof-based scaling rollup Immutable zkEVM. In an interview with Cryptonews, Michael Powell, Product Marketing Lead at Web3 gaming platform Immutable, discussed the relevance of ZK...