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Blockchain Firm Securrency Secures $17.65 Million in Series a Funding Round

13.1.2020
Securrency, a leading blockchain-pegged startup platform providing revolutionary financial and security compliance tools to issuers, institutions, and brokers, has announced that it has pooled in a whopping sum of $17.65 million in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by Wisdom Tree which...

Court Gives Craig Wright More Time to Await the Mysterious Bonded Courier

11.1.2020
10 days after the Tulip Trust expired, new court filings have appeared in the billion-dollar Kleiman v. Wright lawsuit. One document describes the professed existence of a Tulip Trust III, which was shown to the plaintiffs on January 6, 2020. Another filing shows that Judge Beth Bloom has affirmed...

Bithumb Pledges $8M to South Korea’s ‘Regulation-Free’ Blockchain Zone

10.1.2020
South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has pledged to invest roughly $8 million into the Busan blockchain zone. The region was recently declared “regulation-free” by the national government and modeled after the Switzerland town of Zug. Bithumb’s subsidiary GCX Alliance will...

Mining Giant Canaan Faces Stiff Competition After IPO Shares Slump

10.1.2020
On November 21, the Chinese mining rig manufacturer Canaan Inc. launched its initial public offering (IPO) sale of $90 million worth of U.S. shares. Canaan shares initially sold for $8.99, but plummeted over 48% on December 16 to $4.65 per share. Since then, Canaan has launched a series of five...

US SEC Seeks $16 Million Penalty from Token Sales Platform Operator

10.1.2020
The U.S. SEC is seeking a default judgment and $16 million in penalties from token sale platform ICOBox for operating as an unregistered securities broker

The SEC’s 2020 crypto priorities

8.1.2020
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 8 January, 2020 “My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.” - Maya Angelou In today's newsletter, we will be covering: $17 million funding round in startup to […] The post The SEC’s...

The SEC’s 2020 crypto priorities

Binance Donates $1 Million in Crypto for Australian Bushfire Relief

8.1.2020
The cryptocurrency community is again showing its commitment to support charitable goals around the world. Binance, the most active international digital asset exchange, has donated $1 million to help with Australian fire relief efforts and invites the community to join the initiative. The recent...

WisdomTree Leads Securrency’s $17.65 Million Series A Funding Round

8.1.2020
Financial and Regulatory Technology firm Securrency has raised $17.65 million in a Series A funding round held by WisdomTree Investment. Other participant firms include Japanese financial services giant, Inc., Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO), Monex Group, Venture Capital Firms RRE Ventures...

CFTC Cannot Locate Man Responsible for Over $140 Million Crypto Ponzi

7.1.2020
The regulators are unable to find the man responsible for a $140 million Bitcoin pyramid scheme

Antler Receives Fresh $50 Million Funding; Facebook Co-founder is on the List

7.1.2020
Singapore-based ‘Startup generator’ has received fresh funding worth of 50 million USD from a range of investors, including Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin. There was an official confirmation of this funding on Monday. The other major investors include Norwegian privately-owned investment firms...

McAfee Catches Heat After Welshing On Famous Bitcoin Bet

6.1.2020
Many bold predictions about bitcoin’s price have been made over the years, but tech entrepreneur John McAfee’s 2017 claim that BTC would reach $1 million before the end of 2020 garnered more column inches than any other. This is because he promised to, ahem, consume his own manhood...

Business Club Aims to Get a Million Users in a Year

4.1.2020
Disclaimer: The text below is a sponsored article that was not written by Cryptonews.com journalists. _________ How can you grow your blockchain project to a million users by the end of 2020, and five million by the end of 2022? It’s simple, says CEO of blockchain startup Business Club...

Scottish Novelist Andrew O’Hagan Asked to Testify in Kleiman v. Wright Lawsuit

4.1.2020
The high profile billion dollar bitcoin lawsuit, Kleiman v. Wright, has continued into the new year. The Kleiman estate’s legal team filed for a protective order to prevent the deposition of Wright’s ex-wife on January 13, 2020. Additionally, the plaintiffs and defendants have scheduled...

First green day of the week

3.1.2020
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 3 January, 2020 “Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself.” - Roger Staubach In today's newsletter, we will be covering: a developer donating 10,000 MKR ($4.3 million) to Carnegie Mellon […] The post First...

First green day of the week

Tron-Based Tether Has Ballooned to Over 900 Million Tokens, Almost 22% of Total Supply

2.1.2020
Since Tether’s (USDT) migration to other networks beside the BTC-based Omni protocol, significant shifts have taken place seeing the heavily-printed stablecoin rise to prominence also via Ethereum’s ERC20 standard and Tron’s TRC20 implementation. Ethereum-based USDT supply...

Wifi Sharing Platform Wicrypt Gets Government Grant in Nigeria

1.1.2020
A crypto startup providing wifi hotspot sharing services in Nigeria has won funding from the country’s telecom regulator. Wicrypt placed second among 25 tech companies participating in an innovation competition organized by the Nigeria Communication Commission and it’s going to receive...

Alleged $8B BTC Tulip Trust Expires With Tales of Bonded Couriers

1.1.2020
Five years ago, the crypto community became aware of an alleged contract called the Tulip Trust. The supposed contract emerged when a few tech-based news outlets published stories on two former business partners Craig Wright and David Kleiman. According to the Tulip Trust contract story, Wright...

Etoro CEO Yoni Assia on Reaching 12 Million Users and Why Cryptos Are a Gateway to Stocks

1.1.2020
Yoni Assia is the CEO and founder of multi-asset trading platform Etoro. The brokerage firm, which enjoys a high profile within the cryptosphere, enables digital assets such as BTC and BCH to be traded alongside stocks, ETFs, and commodities. Juxtaposed between the traditional and crypto investment...