Hong Kong-based crypto exchange FTX is now valued at a whopping $18 billion after earning $900 million in its latest raise. The funds will reportedly be used [...]
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21 July 2021 08:45
Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith has been taken into custody after a federal judge found he had violated the terms of his bail, according to reporting from Inner [...]
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20 July 2021 20:21
Making good on a promise, Maker Foundation CEO Rune Christensen announced today that the Ethereum-based DeFi protocol he created is now in the hands of others. “MakerDAO [...]
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20 July 2021 19:09
FTX, the cryptocurrency exchange founded by Sam Bankman-Fried, has raised $900 million in a funding round, with investors including Sequoia Capital, Paradigm and Coinbase Ventures. The company, [...]
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20 July 2021 17:28
In a blog post today, stablecoin issuer Circle revealed the various sources of backing that underpin its stablecoin USDC. Stablecoins are pegged to the price of a [...]
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20 July 2021 15:42
The European Commission (EC), which is the executive branch of the European Union (EU), confirmed a new proposal today, calling for stricter regulation of anonymous cryptocurrency wallets [...]
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20 July 2021 15:37
Decentralized exchange Sushiswap, a fork of Uniswap, has unveiled four new Automatic Market Makers, or AMMs, that will expand the possibilities afforded to developers, traders, and users [...]
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20 July 2021 14:36
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday announced that it had obtained a restraining order and asset freeze to halt the operations of a Las Vegas-based [...]
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20 July 2021 13:56
As the price of Bitcoin plunged by another 4% over the last day, dropping below $30,000 for the first time in a month, stock markets around the [...]
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20 July 2021 13:25
Bears ruled the day today, as most digital assets dove plummeted deep into the red. Some, including Thorchain (RUNE), Polygon (MATIC), and Kusama (ENJ) fell much harder [...]
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20 July 2021 12:57
The UK tax authority, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC,) is gathering customer data from cryptocurrency exchanges both at home and overseas, according to data obtained by [...]
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20 July 2021 11:53
OpenSea, a major blockchain marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFT), announced today that it has closed a $100 million Series B funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), [...]
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20 July 2021 11:12
