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Photo: UnsplashA new Vegan focused exchange-traded fund (ETF) was launched on the New York Stock Exchangenew yor on Tuesday the 10th of September. Dubbed the U.S. Vegan Climate ETF with the code VEGN, the ETF costs 60 basis points for interested participants and it is the first vegan and climate oriented ETF that has been ever launched.Initiated by Beyond Investing which is itself a vegan and anti-animal investment service, the new ETF boasts of more than a few major holdings including...

With the massively exploding global internet user-base, the web is cluttered with a lot of information and companies providing web services are facing severe challenges in segregating the useful information and getting it to their users.Taking a step towards effective web monetization, open-source web browser Mozilla, Ripple-backed content platform Coil, and non-profit organization Creative Commons have pledged a whopping $100 million for a program dubbed Grant for the Web that aims at...

The results of a cryptocurrency survey conducted by the Dutch banking group, ING, revealed a significant lack of appetite for Facebook's Libra, and its designated use case: Sending payments across social media. Taking 15,000 Europeans, from 15 distinct countries, the survey collated Europe's sentiment around digital currencies. Questions ranged from the future of cryptocurrencies to whether or not respondents would go swap cryptos out in lieu of cash. Want Some Libra?...

XRP saw a 22% price increase over the past 3 days which allowed it to get back above the $0.30 level to where it currently trades at $0.307. The cryptocurrency has seen a further 14.5% price hike over the past 24 hours, making it the strongest performing coin out of the top 5 projects.The latest surge might have been propelled further by the announcement of Line’s new cryptocurrency exchange. Operated by LVC Corporation, a subsidiary of LINE, the Japanese-based cryptocurrency exchange,...

eToro as a broker in its own right has been a huge presence in the Forex and CFD trading industry since its inception in 2006. They have grown continuously and now cater to millions of traders worldwide.Following on from progressive growth in the number of digital assets offered, the eToro group launched sister platform eToroX Exchange in April 2019. The company is regulated in Gibraltar under the umbrella of the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission.The crypto exchange currently offers...

U.S. President Donald Trump has previously spoken out against Bitcoin but he probably would never have imagined that his own justice department would unwittingly get involved in promoting the cryptocurrency. But they are, according to the American whistleblower hiding in Russia, Edward Snowden. Trump wants to seize Snowden’s money Specifically, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia and the Department of Justice’s Civil Division has filed a lawsuit...

Things aren’t so great in the FedEx camp at the moment as the express shipping and logistics firm fell short of expectations on Wall Street for its first fiscal quarter of the year, which ended in August. This has led the firm to also lower its general expectations for its possible earnings for next year to between $10 and $12 in earnings per share. Due to this, FedEx stock’s (FDX) after-hours trading fell more than 9%.Based on the report posted for the quarter, the company reportedly pulled...

Photo: CoinspeakerTechnology innovation startup GitLab which operates fully remotely has raised $268 Million in series E funding ahead of the planned IPO. This was revealed on Tuesday the 17th of September by the company. This brings to $426 Million the total amount invested since 2015 and the $2.75 Billion the total valuation of the company which is more than twice the valuation when last year’s $100 Million series D funding took place. It was led by Goldman Sachs and Iconic...

It seems that altcoins are finally getting their moment as Binance has deployed its trading platform for US-based citizens. All large and mid-cap cryptocurrencies are in the green and a lot of them are marking substantial double-digit growth against both the USD and Bitcoin. With these developments coming up, the question is if the long-awaited altcoin season is finally here?Binance US Starts, Altcoins PumpA few months ago Binance had to halt trading for US-based traders on their main...

Binance, one of the world’s leading crypto exchange is opening its platform for the American market today, on September 18. In the official post published by CEO Catherine Coley, it was noted that Binance US will support the biggest coins in the market and will offer to make US Dollar deposits as well. The blog post reads:“We will be accepting inbound transfers of BTC, ETH, XRP, BCH, LTC, USDT, and USD upon appropriate account verification.”But what’s about Binance Coin (BNB)? It was not...