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Vinted has recently finished its funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, previous backers Sprints Capital, Inside Venture Partners, Accel and Burda Principal Investments. The startup raised a total of $141 million and reached a total valuation of $1 billion. Since the startup is from Lithuania, it is now the second unicorn startup coming out from the Baltics. Previously, an Estonian startup Taxify, which now has rebranded to Bolt had reached a valuation of $1 billion.The company...

Banking app Revolut has introduced a new feature that will allow many users to use the app just like any other bank account. The introduction of the direct debit feature for the UK pound has enabled users to be able to pay for goods and services with direct debit as it is becoming the norm for many businesses at the moment. Already Euro direct debit services were started last year. Many businesses prefer direct debits as card transaction fees and chargebacks are usually more problems than...

With the current expansion of and new entrants into the crypto space, ex-UBS employee Claude Waelchli has decided of a lifetime: to pitch his tent (and his life as well) with cryptocurrencies. After leading the Global team for the management of portfolios for ultra-high net worth individuals and institutions, Waelchi has decided to settle for nothing less than the best as he studied digital assets and to launch his own startup Tokenyz. The new cryptocurrency startup’s name is a play on the...

The recent Upbit hack crashed all the cryptos down and again reminded crypto investors how vulnerable this sector is. However, this was the last among seven majors hacks that happened this year. So, let’s mention some of them:CryptopiaAround January 15, New Zealand-based cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia said there was $3.2 million in tokens stolen and the company went into the liquidation. However, on Jan. 20, it was reported that as much as $16 million worth of Ethereum (ETH) and ERC20...

Manchester City, the champions of the English Premier League have struck a big deal recently. The owner of Manchester City has agreed to liquidate just over 10% of the stake in Manchester City to a private equity firm Silver Lake.City Football Group (CFG), the holding company of Manchester City is currently valued at $4.8 billion, and the deal has been concluded for a price of $500 million. As per the Financial Times report, CFG is an Abu Dhabi-controlled organization that owns Manchester...

Matic Network, the platform working on solutions to the scalability issues of the Ethereum blockchain and using Plasma side chains and a Proof-of-Stake network, has announced its public incentivized staking testnet event Counter Stake is finally live.Counter Stake has arrived!Matic’s public incentivized staking testnet event is now officially live.We have released a detailed step-by-step guide on setting up your node. Over 3 million $MATIC tokens are to be shared among participants ?Read...

Various factors are known to limit the public adoption of cryptocurrency especially Bitcoin. For now, one cannot spend Bitcoin the same way they would spend fiat currencies. Sometimes converting crypto into fiat can be quite a challenge. Custodianship of crypto assets and wallet security are the other concerns for the average investors.Also, wallet and key security together with the undeveloped crypto ecosystem and economic precedent discourage institutional investors from joining the nascent...

Earlier today, news of a possible hack on one of South Korea’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange platforms Upbit made the rounds. Reports had it that the exchange’s customers were confused because they noticed quite a few irregularities with their accounts including the inability to transfer funds. In a recent publication, Upbit has now confirmed that a large and unauthorized amount of funds was moved to an unknown wallet.It’s also worth mentioning that this news has negatively influenced the...

Ripple Labs’ XRP token seems to have again come under scrutiny as popular crypto influencer and crypto investor BitLord went after the cryptocurrency token in a tweet describing it as a security. That’s an allegation which Ripple Labs has gone to great lengths to deny and also to put at bay due to the serious nature of the repercussions of such. This comes after sources indicated that Ripple completed its investment commitment in Moneygram as it now holds about 10% of the common stock of the...

After a first, well. we could gently say – shock, Tesla’s Cybertruck doesn’t stop being controversial in any sense. This week is obviously reserved for Musk & Co. boasting around Twitter of how great and wonderful their new vehicle is (except the window glass but that will be repaired – Elon promised). And it’s worth mentioning that Tesla stock reacts positively (but slightly) to all this noise around the company.The distinctive Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk said how the company’s forthcoming...