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Grayscale Report Sees Metaverse as Potential $1 Trillion Business Opportunity
27.11.2021
Grayscale, a leading cryptocurrency asset manager, seems to have set its gaze on the metaverse as a business opportunity. Yesterday the company released a report where it examined the feasibility of this interconnected virtual world and how these economies can provide a profitable entry...
26% of crypto investors in Japan tried out NFTs: Survey
26.11.2021
Major Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck launched its own NFT marketplace back in March 2021
Uzbekistan Allows Residents to Trade Cryptocurrencies on Local Exchanges
26.11.2021
Changes to the rules governing activities of crypto exchanges in Uzbekistan now allow residents to trade coins on licensed platforms. Uzbekistanis could previously only sell their digital assets. The new provisions also regulate the issuance of tokens and their listing. Uzbekistan Loosens...
Mexico’s Third Richest Man Advises Buy Bitcoin Now — Says US Looking Increasingly Like Third World Country
26.11.2021
Mexico’s third-richest billionaire, Ricardo Salinas Pliego, has advised investors to “buy bitcoin right now.” He explained that the U.S. is “looking more and more like any other irresponsible third world country.” Ricardo Salinas Pliego on US Economy and Bitcoin...
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon Warns People to Be Careful When Investing in Crypto Citing ‘No Intrinsic Value’
26.11.2021
The CEO of global investment bank JPMorgan has warned investors about investing in cryptocurrency. “Cryptocurrency has no intrinsic value. You are basically buying a token,” he said. “I would be very careful.” JPMorgan Boss Jamie Dimon Warns About Investing in Crypto...
US Senator Asks Coinbase, Gemini, Binance, Tether How They’re Protecting Consumers
26.11.2021
U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown has sent letters to cryptocurrency exchanges and stablecoin issuers, including Coinbase, Gemini, Binance, and Tether, asking how they are protecting consumers and investors. “I have significant concerns with the non-standardized terms applicable to redemption...
EY Survey Finds 1 in 4 Hedge Funds to Increase Crypto Exposure Next Year
25.11.2021
EY, one of the big four consulting and auditing firms in the world, found that one in four hedge funds are expecting to increase their crypto exposure for the next year. The 2021 EY Global Alternative Fund Survey describes that alternative fund managers are slowly taking a stable place in...
Play-to-Earn Gaming Guild Raises $18 Million in Funding Round Led by Animoca Brands
24.11.2021
A play-to-earn (P2E) blockchain gaming guild has raised $18 million in a Series A financing round according to an announcement on Wednesday. Avocado Guild detailed that the firm raised the funds from investors such as Animoca Brands, Goldentree Asset Management, Three Arrows Capital, and Solana...
Crypto Businessman Disappears as ‘First Greek Cryptocurrency’ Collapses
24.11.2021
The man who was at the helm of the company behind what’s become known as Greece’s first cryptocurrency has allegedly caused the coin’s price to sink as he disappeared this month. The executive was off the radar for about two weeks before finally telling the press he will soon...
Socialite Paris Hilton Backs $20 Million Strategic Investment in NFT Protocol Origyn
24.11.2021
The non-fungible token (NFT) project the Origyn Foundation announced on Tuesday the team received a strategic investment of $20 million from a myriad of investors. Hilton hotel heiress Paris Hilton participated in the funding round alongside firms like Polychain Capital and Table Management. Origyn...
Shiba Inu team issues scam alert to SHIB investors
22.11.2021
The team warned SHIB investors about scammers that are impersonating official accounts and creating fake users
Finiko Founder Doronin Offers to Testify Against 44 Accomplices at Crypto Pyramid
22.11.2021
Kirill Doronin, mastermind of the Russian crypto Ponzi scheme Finiko, has proposed to testify against dozens of his former associates he claims violated his order to accept only cryptocurrency from investors. The founder of Russia’s largest financial pyramid in modern times has already...
Fund Managers Increasingly Prefer Bitcoin Over Gold — Say It’s a Better Store of Value
22.11.2021
A growing number of fund managers and institutional investors now prefer bitcoin over gold. They see the cryptocurrency as a better store of value and a better inflation hedge. “I think it’s probably going to be ten times better than gold over a long period of time,” said...
Funganomics Completes Its First Seed Investment Round to Accelerate Development of the NFT and Gaming Ecosystem
21.11.2021
PRESS RELEASE. The Ethereum-based solution will be a premier, bespoke online community, bringing together NFT investors, partners, play-to-earn gamers and developers. While new NFT and PTE gaming sites are being deployed seemingly everyday, few if any have tied together in a seamless, intuitive...
Onecoin Victims Petition Bulgaria for Seizure of Assets and Compensation
19.11.2021
A lawyer representing investors defrauded by the notorious crypto scam Onecoin has urged authorities in Bulgaria to act on the case, claiming that the “world’s largest pyramid scheme” is still operating from the country. In a petition with the Bulgarian Constitutional...
NFT-Collateralizing South African Startup Raises $5 Million in Latest Seed Round
19.11.2021
A South African startup, NFTfi, is reported to have recently raised $5 million which the company intends to use for boosting its business of collateralizing non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Cryptocurrency Loan Marketplace According to a Techcrunch report, NFTfi’s $5 million capital raise was...
Report: Leading NFT Marketplace Opensea Presented With $10 Billion Valuation, Investors Are ‘Clamoring’
18.11.2021
On November 17, a report disclosed that the leading non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace, Opensea, is “fielding new investment offers” according to two unknown sources familiar with the matter. The investment could propel Opensea’s valuation by six times to a $10 billion market...
DOJ Selling Cryptocurrency Seized From Bitconnect Worth $56 Million
16.11.2021
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is selling cryptocurrency worth $56 million that was seized from the “number one promoter” of Bitconnect, the largest crypto fraud scheme ever charged criminally. Investors were fraudulently induced to invest over $2 billion. The Bitconnect...
Liquid staking protocol pSTAKE raises $10M from notable cryptocurrency venture capital firms and angel investors
16.11.2021
Twelve venture capital firms and three angel investors have joined in to fund the DeFi protocol
Synthetic asset protocol for Polygon raises $1.5M from major investors
16.11.2021
Polysynth aims to support trading for 100,000 different synthetic tokenized assets through its “virtual market maker” protocol