Showing posts from September, 2021
Binance, the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, announced on Wednesday that it has hired a pair of IRS sleuths to help it improve...

Binance Hires IRS Agent Who Helped Crack Silk Road Case

An on-chain study released by Kraken Intelligence highlighted strong accumulation behavior among Ethereum miners even as they faced the ...

Ethereum miners are hoarding a record $70B in ETH following EIP-1559 activation

Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya, chairman of spaceflight company Virgin Galactic and owner of NBA team the Golden State Warriors,...

Billionaire Investor Chamath Palihapitiya: ‘Bitcoin Has Effectively Replaced Gold’

President Bukele revealed gas stations in El Salvador will begin selling each gallon of fuel at a $0.20 discount for those who pay using the...

President Bukele Reduces Gas Price For Chivo Bitcoin Wallet Users In El Salvador

In a series of  recent interviews and speeches, United States Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler has called the ...

Powers On… Don’t worry, Bitcoin’s adoption will not be stopped

Gelato Network, a protocol that helps automate smart contract execution on Ethereum and other blockchains, has raised $11 million in a Serie...

Gelato Network raises $11 million in Series A funding led by Dragonfly Capital

A fintech company owned by MassMutual is launching a service that lets registered investment advisors (RIAs) and their clients tap into bitc...

MassMutual-owned fintech Flourish launches a new service to connect financial advisory clients with bitcoin

DeFi automation protocol Gelato Network has raised $11 million in Series A funding.  Founded in Berlin in 2019, Gelato is a protocol that ...

Gelato Network Raises $11M to Automate 'Dumb Contracts' on DeFi

Belt Finance, an automated market maker (AMM) protocol operating a yield optimization strategy on Binance Smart Chain (BSC), claims to ha...

White hat hacker paid DeFi’s largest reported bounty fee

Decentralized finance (DeFi) interest rate protocol Compound Finance has reported a token distribution bug within their newly-implemented...

Compound supply bug mistakenly rewarded users with $70M in tokens

Global payment giant Visa has introduced a project that aims to be “universal adapter” of blockchains that can connect multiple cryptocur...

Visa working on blockchain interoperability hub for crypto payments

Crypto startup Layer3, which provides tools for decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), has raised $2.5 million in a seed funding rou...

DAO infrastructure platform Layer3 raises $2.5 million in seed funding 

The national postal service of Switzerland is working to bridge the gap between physical stamps and the digital cryptocurrency industry b...

Switzerland national postal service to debut crypto stamp on Polygon

Dogecoin co-founder Billy Markus has said that Dogecoin (DOGE) needs an Ethereum bridge and inclusion by NFT marketplaces as a payment op...

Dogecoin Co-Creator: Ethereum Bridge and NFT Purchases Would 'Help Dogecoin'

Scientists are continuously pursuing ways to lengthen the human lifespan, and blockchain might have been a missing part of the puzzle. Th...

$1B science fund seeks blockchain projects to expand human lifespan

CoinEx cryptocurrency exchange is winding down operations in mainland China to comply with local anti-crypto regulations. The company of...

CoinEx crypto exchange to remove all mainland China users in October

Payments giant Visa has taken a step toward achieving its vision for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). It has developed a concept tha...

Visa develops interoperability concept for central bank digital currency payments

Credit card giant Visa has bet big on crypto in the last two years, forging relationships with blockchain companies and even buying a Cry...

Visa Unveils 'Layer 2' Network for Stablecoins, Central Bank Currencies

Crypto treasury management platform MultiSafe has rebranded to Coinshift and announced it has raised $2.5 million in a seed funding round. ...

Crypto treasury management platform Coinshift raises $2.5 million in seed funding

Widely followed crypto trader and market analyst Lark Davis is looking at five specific cryptocurrencies to shine in October. The trader t...

These 5 Cryptocurrencies Have the ‘Greatest Potential’ in October, According to Trader Lark Davis

Kraken’s Security Labs, the cybersecurity arm of crypto exchange Kraken , has identified several vulnerabilities in the commonly used Gener...

Kraken Reveals Vulnerabilities in ‘Commonly Used’ Bitcoin ATMs

Quick Take In this weekly series, we dive into some of the most interesting data and developments across the Layer 1 blockchain landscape,...

Layer by Layer Issue 9: Solana, Terra, Cosmos, and Binance Smart Chain

The region of Central, Northern, and Western Europe (CNWE) has become the world’s largest cryptocurrency economy thanks to the proliferatio...

European Institutional Investors Are Embracing Ethereum DeFi: Chainalysis