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The valuation of the company has risen above $3 billion after completing the Series B round in which some of the participants included iFinex and Baillie Gifford. Blockstream aims to use the funds towards manufacturing mining chips. As reported by Canadian media on August 24th, Blockstream has further solidified its positioning as a cryptocurrency unicorn firm following the latest funding. The UK private equity firm Baillie Gifford and iFinex, the parent company of Bitfinex...
Read More »Swiss Fintech Trio Enabled Asset Tokenization via Tezos: XTZ Spikes 15%
The Switzerland-based financial institutions – Crypto Finance Group, InCore Bank, and Inacta – have selected Tezos to create on-chain digital products through a new token standard for asset tokenization. InCore Bank would also enable additional digital services with XTZ – the native cryptocurrency of the blockchain network. Tezos to Power The New Token Standard According to a press release shared with CryptoPotato, three Swiss fintech organizations will use the blockchain...
Read More »FTX And ‘The Bears’ Partner Up: Cal Athletics to Receive Crypto Payments
Cal Athletics – the sports teams representing the University of California, Berkeley – and FTX have signed the first sponsorship between a college athletic department and a cryptocurrency platform. As part of the $17.5 million deal, the team’s home ground will change its name to FTX Field at California Memorial Stadium. At the same time, the university will receive the payment entirely in digital assets. FTX Enters into New Waters According to a recent press release, the...
Read More »U-Turn: Centre to Convert USDC Reserves to Cash and US Treasuries
Centre, the issuer of popular stablecoin USDC, has revealed that it will convert the asset reserves back to cash and U.S. treasury bills only. In an official blog post on Monday, the Centre Consortium noted that it now intends to “hold the USDC reserve entirely in cash and short duration US Treasuries.” The organization said the decision was prompted by its commitment to increasing transparency and exploring new opportunities to collaborate with the USDC community. It noted...
Read More »AVAX Is Up 150% in a Week as Over $1B TVL Locked on BENQI
After launching on August 19th, the algorithmic liquidity protocol BENQI has already reached $1B in TVL. Meanwhile, the price of Avalanche’s native cryptocurrency has been soaring. Big Support for BENQI BENQI is collaborating with AVAX in a joint liquidity mining program, in which $3M worth of AVAX will be provided as incentives to users of the former’s protocol. Any user borrowing or exchanging ETH, wBTC, LINK, USDT, DAI, or AVAX will be eligible for these rewards. More...
Read More »Substack Debuts Bitcoin Subscription Payments via the Lightning Network
San Francisco-based online publishing platform Substack has enabled support for bitcoin payments for subscriptions to publications through the use of the Lightning Network. Substack has collaborated with OpenNode, a bitcoin payment processor, for the BTC payment option. OpenNode made the announcement via a press release on Monday (August 23rd, 2021). With the latest development, readers would be able to pay with BTC for subscriptions on the Substack platform. However, this...
Read More »Poly Network Drama is Over: Hacker Returns the Remaining $141 Million
The Poly Network drama seems to be officially over as the hacker has returned the remaining $141 million, according to a blog post from the DeFi project. ‘Full Asset Restoration’ Begins As per the announcement, at 8:39 AM UTC, Mr. White Hat gave his private key to the 3/4 multi-signature wallet in an embedded message, retrieving the 28,853 ETH and 1,032 WBTC (Wrapped BTC) left and giving Poly Network the green light to return full asset control to users. The team had to...
Read More »Google Trends: Bitcoin Interest is Far From Yearly Highs Despite BTC Surpassing $50K
Many reports in the past have confirmed that bitcoin’s price increase is often followed by a significant rise in interest in the leading cryptocurrency, especially from retail investors. Now, though, the situation seems rather different. Bitcoin Price and Interest Usually Correlate As reported in Q3 last year, when bitcoin started hitting highs after highs, months after a severe crash during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the impressive price movements received wide...
Read More »37% of American Investors Would Not Cash out Their Crypto Even in Critical Moments
According to a recent research, US cryptocurrency investors have allocated on average $1,707 in such assets. 37% of them admitted they would not touch these funds even if they must cover a necessary bill or an important payment. Somewhat expectedly, the celebrity who influences most of the respondents’ crypto-related decisions is Elon Musk. Many Americans Have ‘Diamond Hands’ The betting platform – GamblersPick – surveyed 1,000 US digital asset investors to conclude that a...
Read More »In The Money Stocks’ President: Bitcoin Will Eventually Slip to $18K Despite Its Recent Rally
Gareth Soloway – chief market strategist at InTheMoneyStocks – is not impressed by bitcoin’s recent price increase. He argued that the primary cryptocurrency’s USD value would soon reach $50,000-52,000, but will eventually tumble to $18,000. Would History Repeat Itself? In a recent interview for Kitco News, Gareth Soloway – the President of InTheMoneyStocks – opined that bitcoin’s price would eventually experience a massive downturn. While he predicted that the digital asset...
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