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Binance Taps Co-Founder Yi He to Head $7.5B Venture Arm

3.8.2022
Binance Labs announced a new $500 million fund in June to invest in Web3 and blockchain projects

Bitpay Adds APE and EUROC Support — Luxury Retail Giant Gucci Accepts Apecoin Payments

2.8.2022
On August 2, the Atlanta-based crypto payment services provider Bitpay announced that it has expanded its crypto asset support with two different crypto assets. Bitpay revealed the company has integrated apecoin and euro coin into the firm’s platform and the luxury retailer and designer...

Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin Criticizes Corporate Metaverse Attempts — ‘Anything Facebook Creates Now Will Misfire’

1.8.2022
On Saturday, the co-founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, took to Twitter and gave his perspective on the “existing corporate attempts to create the metaverse.” Buterin noted that a metaverse will happen, but he doesnt believe the current corporate metaverse attempts are going...

Ethereum will outpace Visa with zkEVM Rollups, says Polygon co-founder

29.7.2022
A new scaling solution, zkEVM Rollups, could allow Ethereum to overcome Visa in terms of transaction throughput, says Polygon co-founder Mihailo Bjelic

Ethereum founder speaks against transferable governance, community responds

29.7.2022
Vitalik Buterin wrote that supporting DAOs with transferable governance tokens is contradictory and enables the power-hungry

Greek Police Scramble to Catch Onecoin’s ‘Cryptoqueen’ Ruja Ignatova, Local Media Reports

29.7.2022
Law enforcement in Greece has recently tried to locate Ruja Ignatova, founder of the infamous Onecoin pyramid scheme. According to a leading Greek daily, investigators acted on intelligence suggesting she was still in the country. Also known as ‘Cryptoqueen,’ Ignatova was last seen...

CoinGecko open to acquisition but now is ‘too early,’ co-founder says

28.7.2022
While CoinMarketCap was acquired by Binance during post-2017 crypto winter, the current bear market is not the right time to sell CoinGecko, its COO said

‘Big Short’ Investor Michael Burry Doubts SEC Has Resources or IQ to Investigate Crypto Listings on Coinbase Correctly

28.7.2022
Hedge fund manager Michael Burry, famed for forecasting the 2008 financial crisis, believes that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) neither has the resources nor the IQ points needed to correctly investigate crypto listings on Coinbase. Michael Burry on SEC Investigating Crypto...

Strawweight Luana Pinheiro Becomes First Female UFC Fighter to Be Paid in Bitcoin

27.7.2022
On Wednesday, the cryptocurrency payments service company Bitwage announced that the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) strawweight Luana Pinheiro will be the first female UFC fighter to be paid in bitcoin. Pinheiro’s boyfriend, a UFC flyweight fighter, started getting paid in bitcoin last...

Moelis & Co. co-founder to head group advising blockchain companies

26.7.2022
Moelis & Co.'s John Momtazee stated the firm was unfazed launching the group amid a crypto bear market, acknowledging that any new “disruptive” tech comes with volatility

Report: South Korean Prosecutors Raid Home of Terraform Labs Co-Founder

25.7.2022
A team of South Korean prosecutors recently raided the home of Terraform Labs co-founder Shin Hyun-seong. During an earlier raid that targeted 15 places, including seven cryptocurrency exchanges, the prosecutors reportedly secured terra transaction data. Seven Cryptocurrency Exchanges Targeted...

Stablecoin projects need collaboration, not competition: Frax founder

25.7.2022
As long as stablecoin “liquidity is growing proportionally with each other," there won’t ever be true competition between stablecoins, says Frax Finance's Sam Kazemian

FTX to Help Voyager Customers, CEO Says Firm Willing to Deploy ‘Hundreds of Millions’ to Help Crypto Industry

24.7.2022
The founder and CEO of the leading exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried has offered to give early liquidity to Voyager Digital’s customers, according to an announcement FTX published on July 22. Furthermore, Bankman-Fried discussed the crypto industry with CNBC in an exclusive interview,...

US Court Convicts ‘My Big Coin’ Founder in $6 Million Fraudulent Cryptocurrency Scheme

23.7.2022
A federal jury has convicted the founder of “My Big Coin” in a fraudulent scheme that swindled $6 million from cryptocurrency investors. The defendant made several false claims, including that the coins were backed by gold and that the company had a partnership with Mastercard. My...

NFTs banned in Minecraft, SEC lists 9 tokens as securities and 3AC founder blames cockiness for company meltdown: Hodler’s Digest, July 17-23

23.7.2022

3AC founders reveal ties to Terra founder, blame overconfidence for collapse

22.7.2022
Su Zhu revealed the 3AC team had close ties to Terra co-founder Do Kwon, which made them overlook many red flags with the project that eventually led to a multi-million dollar loss for the hedge fund

Prosecutors Raid Home of Terra Co-Founder Daniel Shin as Do Kwon Returns to Twitter

22.7.2022
The South Korean prosecution service’s recent raid of 15 locations as part of the probe into the “Terra (LUNAC) incident” saw officers search the home of the Terraform Labs co-founder Daniel Shin. Prosecutors are widely reported to be looking at evidence pertaining to figures at the top of...