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Institutions Say They Want DeFi

DeFi Friday is Decrypt’s DeFi email newsletter. (art: Grant Kempster) If you were in crypto in 2017, then you’re no doubt familiar with the “institutions are coming!” [...]

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9 October 2021 09:44

Barrier to DAO Participation is ‘Just Your Time’: Bankless DAO  

It’s the people that make the DAO. But for the scores of new DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations) that are suddenly cropping up: How can they attract the [...]

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8 October 2021 23:36

Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT Project to Launch Ethereum Token in Q1 2022

The Bored Ape Yacht Club, one of the most popular Ethereum-based NFT collections, surged to life this spring and has generated hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth [...]

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8 October 2021 21:25

Biden Plans Executive Order to Crack Down on Crypto: Report

The White House is in the course of preparing an executive order directed at cryptocurrency, according to several unnamed sources cited by Bloomberg. The report described the [...]

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8 October 2021 21:16

MekaVerse Racks Up $60M in Ethereum in Sales for NFTs We Can’t See Yet

Another day, another buzzy NFT drop—and MekaVerse is one of the largest launches to date. Since launching yesterday, the Ethereum NFTs have already yielded $60 million worth [...]

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8 October 2021 16:49

Bitcoin Service Bakkt Enables Google Pay for In-App Purchases

Cryptocurrency platform Bakkt today announced it has integrated Google Pay to give its users another way to spend their Bitcoin on everyday goods.  The announcement said that [...]

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8 October 2021 16:32

Citi Exec: Clients Started With Bitcoin and Went ‘Down the Rabbit Hole’

Institutional investors, who turned to Bitcoin during the pandemic quickly became interested in the wider crypto industry, according to Itay Tuchman, Citi bank’s global head of foreign [...]

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8 October 2021 16:03

Crypto Industry Getting ‘Less Bananas’ As It Matures: Galaxy Digital Exec

Tim Grant, Galaxy Digital’s head of Europe, said today that crypto is becoming more trusted and “a bit less bananas.” “This is the end of the beginning, [...]

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8 October 2021 14:48

Crypto Companies Raise Record-Breaking $6.5B in Q3 2021

Venture funding for blockchain companies between July and September 2021 hit an all-time high of $6.5 billion in 339 rounds–and that’s in disclosed deals only, according to [...]

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8 October 2021 14:14

Figment CEO: Value of Staking is Built on Community, Not a ‘One-Way Street’

Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchains are set to become the underlying infrastructure of Web 3, Figment CEO Lorien Gabel argued at Token2049 today—and the value of staking tokens derives [...]

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8 October 2021 13:16

How Binance Helped Bring Down a $500 Million Ransomware Gang

Fancycat, an international organization of cybercriminals responsible for over $500 million worth of ransomware crime, was infiltrated this summer by international law enforcement agencies working with Binance, [...]

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8 October 2021 11:37

Crypto Poses ‘Limited Risk’ to UK: Bank of England

Crypto asset markets pose only a “limited risk” to the UK, according to the Bank of England. “Crypto asset markets continue to grow rapidly, but currently pose [...]

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8 October 2021 10:53

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