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Report: Private Equity Eyeing Ubisoft As The Next Big Gaming Acquisition
23.4.2022
Private equity firms could be beginning to circle over Ubisoft, Bloomberg reported Friday. Talks are early, but include interest from firms like Blackstone Inc. and KKR & Co. Even if it’s not private equity, senior current and former Ubisoft developers Kotaku has spoken with in recent months...
Gas-to-Bitcoin Mining Firm Crusoe Energy Systems Raises $505 Million
22.4.2022
On Thursday, the bitcoin mining and flare gas mitigation firm Crusoe Energy Systems Inc. revealed it secured $505 million in new capital from strategic investors. According to the announcement, the Series C equity funding round was led by the climate technology venture capital firm G2 Venture...
LimeWire Raises $10M in Private Token Sale
22.4.2022
LimeWire announced the closing of its private sale for LMWR token, accruing over 10 million dollars. The funds will be used to launch LimeWire’s digital collectibles marketplace in 2022 itself. The venture aims to provide digital collectibles to every user regardless of their tech-savviness...
Bitcoin Miner Bit Digital Files to Raise Up to $500M in Equity
21.4.2022
The proceeds will be used for capital expenditures, buying new mining equipment and other potential acquisitions
Russian Bankers Suggest Criminalizing Crypto Storage in Non-Custodial Wallets
20.4.2022
Keeping cryptocurrencies in non-custodial wallets may be criminalized in Russia, if authorities accept a proposal from the trade association representing Russian banks. While financial regulators think the idea deserves attention, lawmakers and experts doubt it’s possible to implement such...
Australia to List Bitcoin ETF After 4 Clearinghouse Participants Commit to Meet Stringent Margin Terms
19.4.2022
Australia is set to get its first bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) after a report suggested the country’s clearinghouse, ASX Clear, confirmed that four market participants agreed to meet its stringent margin requirements. ASX Clear’s Margin Requirements An Australian clearinghouse...
Argentinian Securities Regulator Launches Innovation Hub to Discuss Regulated Crypto Investments
18.4.2022
The National Securities Commission (CNV), which is the Argentinian securities watchdog, recently launched an innovation hub with the goal of advancing conversations about cryptocurrency and fintech investments. This organization will serve as a link between private entities and the institution,...
Tesla’s Elon Musk Offers to Buy Twitter for $41 Billion, Says He Wants to Make It a Private Company
14.4.2022
Tesla billionaire Elon Musk has offered to purchase Twitter for $41.4 billion, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing published on Thursday. Musk also explained in his note that he believes Twitter should be a private company and he decided he wants “to acquire...
First Mover Asia: What’s in HSBC’s Metaverse Fund for Hong Kong, Singapore Private Banking Clients?; Bitcoin Declines
11.4.2022
The financial services giant has been short on specifics, and the mystery underscores the difficulties in defining what belongs in such products; ether also falls
GAIMIN Delivers a Decentralized Approach to the Increasing Requirement for More Data Processing Power
9.4.2022
With the current concerns around global energy usage, combined with increasing requirements for data processing services, many countries previously supportive of centralized data processing businesses are investigating the impact of these businesses and how they mitigate a requirement...
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon to Shareholders: Decentralized Finance, Blockchain Are Real
8.4.2022
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon sees decentralized finance (defi) and blockchain as real, new technologies that can be deployed in both private and public fashion. He also noted that JPMorgan is at the forefront of this innovation. JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon Praises Defi and Blockchain JPMorgan...
Luna Foundation Purchases 5,040 BTC, Terra Reserves Rise to 35,767 Bitcoin
6.4.2022
On April 6, onchain data shows the Luna Foundation Guard’s (LFG) bitcoin wallet has added 5,040 bitcoin to its reserves. The added funds were worth roughly $221 million at the time of settlement. LFG managed to purchase the bitcoins while bitcoin lost 3.9% against the U.S. dollar during...
FX Trading Volume Rises for Saxo Bank, as Equity Trading Falls
6.4.2022
Reasons for FX could be regular commerce or tourism. Foreign Exchange trading has turned out to be the most liquid and the largest asset market globally. The rule under FX trading is simple. A trader tracks the development of different nations and trades the respective pair. For example, EUR/USD...
HSBC Starts Metaverse Fund for Private Banking Clients in Asia
6.4.2022
The Metaverse Discretionary Strategy aims to capture growth opportunities globally from the development of the metaverse ecosystem
Terra Wallet Leap Raises $3.2M in Private Token Sale
5.4.2022
If estimates in Leap's litepaper of an 8% private sale allocation hold true, the startup has a valuation of $40 million
MoonStarter Announces PlayZap Private Sale on Its Platform
5.4.2022
PlayZap is one of the leading competitive Play-to-Earn platforms for an interactive platform that allows gamers to play their favorite games while collecting, selling, or trading a variety of NFTs and earning money just by being active on the network. The ZapVerse, a new and dynamic metaverse...
In the US, public-private state associations form networks of support for crypto businesses
4.4.2022
State-level organizers in the U.S. are working hard to advance the blockchain and crypto markets and their emerging players
Private Equity Fund Reportedly Plans to Buy Majority Stake in Japan Major Crypto Exchange
4.4.2022
A Japanese, Singapore-based private equity fund is allegedly set to buy a controlling stake in bitFlyer, Japan’s major crypto exchange.
Per Nikkei and CoinPost, the move has been made by the ACA Group, which has agreed on a deal with a coalition of shareholders of the firm bitFlyer Holdings....
US Senator Cruz Introduces Bill to Prevent Federal Reserve From Using Digital Currency as Surveillance Tool
2.4.2022
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has introduced legislation to prohibit the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) directly to individuals and competing with the private sector. The senator from Texas warned that not only would this CBDC model centralize financial information...
Luna Foundation Bitcoin Wallet Nears Tesla’s Stash, BTC Address Is the 29th Largest Wallet Today
31.3.2022
On March 26, the Luna Foundation Guard (LFG) held 24,954.95 bitcoin and during the last five days, LFG’s bitcoin wallet accumulated 5,773.02 bitcoin. At the time of writing, LFG’s wallet now holds 30,727.97 bitcoin worth more than $1.4 billion using today’s exchange rates. In...