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Amber Group's Ex-U.S. CEO Raazi Joins EDG, a Digital-Asset Structured Product Firm

[Apr 3, 2023 12:05 PM] Enhanced Digital Group (EDG) is helping bridge the gap between TradFi and digital currencies, and Cactus Raazi brings decades of Wall Street experience including time at Goldman Sachs.

TradFi Banks Team Up to Create Digital Bonds Trading Platform on Blockchain

[Apr 3, 2023 10:17 AM] The platform will use Proof of Climate awaReness as a validating protocol to encourage users to minimize their environmental footprint.

Crypto Custodian Copper Partners With OKX to Provide Off-Exchange Settlements

[Apr 3, 2023 9:29 AM] Institutional clients will be able to trade on the OKX exchange while their digital assets remain safeguarded with Copper.

Trio of Canadian Crypto Exchanges Confirms Plans to Merge

[Apr 3, 2023 8:22 AM] WNDR shares have surged following the announcement, currently up 43.75% at 0.23 Canadian dollars on the day.

Web3 Platform Lisk Seeks to Attract New Projects With Grants of Up to $270K

[Apr 3, 2023 7:00 AM] The platform's Javacript SDK is designed to allow developers to create their own Lisk-compatible sidechains.

Ethereum Bot Gets Attacked for $20M as Validator Strikes Back

[Apr 3, 2023 4:56 AM] One of the major Ethereum MEV (maximal extractable value) bots has been targeted in an attack, allegedly by an Ethereum validator.

GMO Financial Holdings Buys 10% of Crypto Hedge Fund AWR Capital

[Apr 3, 2023 4:35 AM] AWR will act as a market maker at GMO Financial Holdings subsidiary GMO Coin, one of the largest crypto and FX exchanges in Japan.

Nomura-Backed Komainu to Offer Segregated Crypto Collateral Product for Institutions

[Apr 3, 2023 2:00 AM] Komainu Connect will let clients deploy digital assets in collateralization scenarios, while they remain in segregated custody and verifiable on chain.

Household Crypto Holdings Included in Bank of Russia’s Consumer Finance Survey

[Apr 2, 2023 11:30 PM] The Central Bank of Russia has added crypto asset holdings of households to its survey of consumer finances. The statistics reveal that Russian families keep more money in cryptocurrency wallets than in gold investment accounts or mutual funds…

Alchemy Pay Raises $10M at $400M to Push South Korean Expansion Plans

[Apr 2, 2023 8:00 PM] The funding came from DWF Labs making its eighth investment of $10 million or more in the last six weeks.

Arbitrum Foundation Pledges New Votes, No 'Near-Term" ARB Sales Amid Community Revolt

[Apr 2, 2023 4:46 PM] The Arbitrum Foundation issued a mea culpa after its contentious premiere governance vote backfired.

Arbitrum Foundation Sold ARB Tokens Ahead of 'Ratification' Vote; ARB Falls

[Apr 2, 2023 5:48 AM] Arbitrum Foundation would be “severely damaged” without blank check grantmaking powers, according to a blog post.

Arbitrum’s First Governance Proposal Turns Messy With $1B ARB Tokens at Stake

[Apr 1, 2023 1:16 PM] The Arbitrum Foundation would get to side step community governance when issuing “special grants.”

March Bitcoin Mining Stats Show Climbing Revenue and Hashrate Highs

[Apr 1, 2023 9:30 AM] According to statistics, 4,498 blocks have been mined in the last 30 days, creating 28,112 new bitcoins over the past month. Bitcoin’s network hashrate has been around 341 exahash per second (EH/s) during the last 2,016 blocks or the last…

Bitcoin Miner Marathon Digital's CFO to Retire After One Year

[Mar 31, 2023 4:13 PM] Hugh Gallagher intends to retire effective May 12.

Crypto Exchange Trader Joe Nears Launch of Upgraded Trading Engine

[Mar 31, 2023 3:11 PM] Trader Joe will launch a tech upgrade and new liquidity features next week.

Crypto Exchange Aggregator 1inch Proposes Diluting Some Insiders' Voting Power

[Mar 31, 2023 2:18 PM] A proposed governance shakeup would greatly reduce the amount of voting power accumulated by core contributors, investors and other insiders.

FTX EU Sets Up Website to Repay Users

[Mar 31, 2023 12:19 PM] The European arm had only been in operation for about 8 months prior to the collapse of parent FTX.

Decentralized Liquidity Platform Synthetix Sees Jump in Fees Collected Amid Incentive Campaign

[Mar 31, 2023 12:05 PM] Synthetix generated more than $730K in fees on March 30 ahead of the start of its allocation of 200,000 OP tokens to traders.

U.S. Government Sold $216M of Seized Silk Road Bitcoin This Month

[Mar 31, 2023 9:53 AM] The U.S. sold 9,861.17 bitcoin ($216 million) on March 14, according to a court filing.

Non-Fungible Token Sales Slid 31% Lower in March With $882 Million in NFT Sales

[Mar 31, 2023 8:30 AM] According to statistics, the number of non-fungible token (NFT) sales in March was 31.42% lower than the previous month, dropping from $1.03 billion in sales for February to $882.89 million. The number of NFT buyers and transactions also declined…

Crypto Hardware Wallet Maker Ledger Raises $100M Amid Growing Demand for Secure Storage Solutions 

[Mar 30, 2023 11:30 PM] The cryptocurrency hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger has raised €100 million ($109 million) in funding, according to the company’s disclosure on Thursday. Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier says there has been significant demand for hardware…

Bitcoin Miner TeraWulf Reports 146% Increase in Revenue as It Ramps Up Operations

[Mar 30, 2023 3:24 PM] TeraWulf reiterated its 5.5 EH/s computing power target for the second quarter of the year.

Coinbase Hires Ex-Shopify Exec to Oversee Canada Operations

[Mar 30, 2023 3:12 PM] Coinbase (COIN) has named Lucas Matheson as its country director in Canada and said it signed an enhanced Pre-Registration Undertaking with that country’s regulators, according to a Thursday afternoon blog post.

Solana-Based Crypto Exchange Raydium Proposes $2M Bug Bounty Fund

[Mar 30, 2023 11:09 AM] Raydium, Solana's second-biggest decentralized exchange, envisons a bug bounty program to clean up its market maker smart contracts.

Visa and Bitcoin Rewards App Fold Expand Partnership to New Regions

[Mar 30, 2023 10:00 AM] Crypto rewards app Fold and Visa (V) have expanded their ongoing partnership to North America, Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean, an announcement said.

Crypto Hardware Wallet Maker Ledger Raises Most of $109M Round: Bloomberg

[Mar 30, 2023 7:53 AM] The startup will have a second close in the coming weeks for the round at a $1.4 billion valuation.

How Advisors Can Prepare for Ethereum’s Unlock

[Mar 30, 2023 6:30 AM] Ethereum’s Shanghai upgrade will unlock ether that has been staked since the Merge, potentially leading to selling pressure that market participants could ride out or take advantage of.

Stuttgart Stock Exchange Unit Secures BaFin License for Crypto Custody

[Mar 30, 2023 4:17 AM] Among the institutions it expects to make use of the offering are banks, brokers, asset managers and family offices.

Blockchain and regulated stablecoins to be widely used by 2030, industry execs say

[Mar 30, 2023 3:40 AM] Digital regulatory professionals have predicted the wide use of stablecoins throughout the world by the year 2030, despite the current competition between TradFi and DeFi