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Binance Announces $500 Million Funding for Bitcoin Mining
15.10.2022
Binance Pool, the crypto mining services arm of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, aims to support Bitcoin miners to weather the crypto winter with a $500 million loan.
The ongoing bear market has had deep impacts on almost all industry participants, particularly miners. Amid rising fuel...
Terra Luna Classic Price Prediction as $400 Million Trading Volume Comes In
14.10.2022
Terra Luna Classic is preparing for a bullish breakout which might send the price of LUNC up 26%. The remnant of the fallen Terra (LUNA) network dodders at $0.0002927 during the American session on Friday. Its support at $0.0002594 is crucial for a bullish outcome, keeping in mind the building...
Uniswap Labs Raises $165 Million Reaching $1.66 Billion Valuation
14.10.2022
Uniswap Labs, the company behind one of the world's leading decentralized exchanges, has announced the company has raised some $165 million in Series B funding. The funding round was led by California-based Polychain Capital, with participation from longtime investors Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)...
Uniswap’s $165 Million Series B Capital Raise One of the Largest by a Crypto Firm in 2022
14.10.2022
Uniswap Labs, the firm behind the Uniswap decentralized exchange protocol, announced on Thursday that it raised $165 million in a Series B funding round. According to one report, the capital raise, which sees Uniswap Labs’ valuation rise to $1.66 billion, is the largest by any crypto firm...
Binance Burns Over $500 Million of BNB Tokens – Pump Incoming?
14.10.2022
The major crypto exchange Binance on Thursday completed its last BNB token burn for the third quarter, with more than 2 million BNB tokens burned at a value of well over $500 million.
The total amount of tokens burned during the quarter 2,065,152.42 BNB, and was comprised of token burns under...
Chinese Digital Currency Transactions Exceed 100 Billion Yuan, Central Bank Says
14.10.2022
Spending with China’s state-issued digital currency has surpassed 100 billion yuan, close to $14 billion, by the end of August, the country’s monetary authority revealed. More than 5 million merchants now accept the digital yuan in 15 Chinese regions as Beijing continues to expand the pilot areas....
Binance Pool Starts $500 Million Fund to Support Bitcoin Mining
14.10.2022
Binance Pool is the latest entity to join the growing ranks of alternative lenders looking to provide capital to the distressed mining industry
Crypto Custodian Copper Raises $196 Million In Latest Funding Round
13.10.2022
Advancing the company’s expansion plans, crypto custodian Copper Technologies has secured a total of $196 million under the firm’s C series financing round.
The business managed to raise some $181 million from a group of existing and new shareholders and gained access to a further $15 million...
Crypto.com Selects Paris for its European Headquarters After €150 Million Investment
13.10.2022
Major cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com will establish its European regional headquarters in the capital city of France, Paris.
The exchange has also announced a €150 million ($145 million) investment into the country to support the establishment of a regional headquarters as well as other...
Damien Hirst Burns $10 Million Live as Part of NFT Project
13.10.2022
English artist and art collector Damien Hirst completed his year-long non-fungible token (NFT) project by starting the burn of $10 million worth of his physical artwork.
Hirst burned a part of the unclaimed physical artworks at his London gallery this Thursday during a live stream.
Asked how...
Binance-Backed Blockchain Completes Hard Fork to Mitigate Future Cross-Chain Bridge Hacks
12.10.2022
The Bnb Smart Chain commenced the blockchain’s hard fork on October 12, at block height 22,107,423, in order to add a security patch to “mitigate the cross-chain infrastructure between [the] Beacon Chain and Smart Chain.” Binance and the Bnb Smart Chain suspended withdrawals...
Solana-Based Defi Protocol Mango Markets Loses $117 Million in Hack, Exploit Allegedly Revealed in Project’s Discord in March
12.10.2022
According to various reports, the Solana-based trading and lending platform Mango Markets was hacked as a malicious actor was able to siphon $117 million from the protocol. An analysis of the hack published by Certik explains that the attacker manipulated the price of the project’s native token...
Mango Markets Protocol Suffers $100 Million Exploit
12.10.2022
The Mango Markets protocol has experienced an exploit that allowed a person or group to get away with around $100m worth of various cryptoassets.
Per a Twitter thread from Mango Markets, the exploit was carried out by a person or group funding an account with the stablecoin USDC, and later taking...
SettleMint receives a series a funding of €16 million
12.10.2022
SettleMint has successfully acquired Series A funding of 16 million euros. This funding also includes the co-funding of OTB ventures and Molten Ventures together. It now becomes extremely imperative to know what the enterprise SettleMint entails and a little information related to its general...
Interoperable QR Payments Reach Record Number in Argentina
12.10.2022
Interoperable QR payments, a system that allows all digital wallets in Argentina to make payments in several stores, reached a record number in September. According to official numbers, 3.15 million payments were completed using this system, including cryptocurrency-based payments that exchanges...
US Treasury Charges Bittrex With Sanctions Violations, Crypto Exchange Agrees to Settle With Regulator
12.10.2022
On October 11, the U.S. Treasury department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that it has settled charges with the cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex. The crypto exchange was accused of sanctions violations and failure...
Solana-Based Decentralized Finance Platform Mango Hit by Potential $100 Million Exploit
12.10.2022
The apparent exploit of Mango Markets stemmed from the ability of an attacker to manipulate the value of their posted collateral
Binance to Invest $500 Million in Elon Musk Twitter Buyout
11.10.2022
Changpeng 'CZ' Zhao, the outspoken CEO of major exchange Binance, has announced his company is planning to allocate more than $1 billion to acquisitions and investments in 2022. Binance’s top project in this field is providing $500 million in financing for Elon Musk’s planned takeover of the social...
Japanese Telecom Giant NTT Docomo Launches $412 Million Metaverse Unit
11.10.2022
NTT Docomo, the largest telecom carrier in Japan, has launched a new division that will be dedicated to directing its metaverse push. The unit, named Qonoq, is already operating and has a staff of 200 people, researching and developing software and hardware solutions directed to integrate extended...
BNB Chain Back Online Following $568 Million Exploit
10.10.2022
BNB Chain, the native blockchain behind the Binance crypto exchange, has come back online after being suspended due to an exploit that drained around $600 million in crypto assets.
On October 6, Binance announced the suspension of deposits and withdrawals from its BNB chain after it identified...