Galaxy Digital Holding Ltd. started two new Bitcoin funds special because, well, they’re meant to be for a specific demographic profile of investors.Mike Novogratz (54) decided to use the fact that there is plenty of wealthy Americans aged 50-80 and, until now, they were pretty much into more traditional types of investing such as stocks or pension funds. Cryptocurrencies surely weren’t one of the ways they thought they could increase their wealth. However, Novogratz thinks there might be a...
Read More »YСombinator’s Crypto Compliance Startup Raises $4.2M from Investors Including Paypal Ventures
A San Francisco -based startup TRM Labs, which emerged from YCombinator and looks at blockchain analysis as a tool for the ensuring of compliance, has received $4.2 Million in funding from various investors that included PayPal Ventures. The big problem with compliance for cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology is that most banks and financial institutions would rather not deal with the intricacies and the technological hoops which they would have to leap through before they get a clear...
Read More »Bitcoin (BTC) Selling Pressure Stays Intact, Investors Put Hope in Anticipated Halving
The next Bitcoin halving remains the predominant story of bulls hoping for huge price gains. The popular line of thought is that the price of Bitcoin could increase, as crypto enthusiasts warn of an increase that adds to the pressure on prices. However, its price may increase.The expected halving testifies to this dream and its coming in the blockchain of the BTC in May, while several hodlers anticipate an increase in prices. On the flip side, the price may continue to drop to $8,000....
Read More »Led by Bitcoin, Crypto Market Prices Continuously Falling
Bitcoin seems to continue this week’s losses. After yesterday’s sell-off, crypto markets continued to fall and Bitcoin price fell below the $8,200 threshold. At the time of writing it was still in the fall by 4.81% to $8,148.80.The correction of the market is more than obvious because, at the time of writing, all 30 biggest coins were declining with major losses. But, not to get too pessimistic, it only means that in last month Bitcoin price is mostly flat. Some analysts think this fall could...
Read More »How To Trade Cryptocurrency Derivatives On Delta Exchange: The Complete Guide & Review
Trading cryptocurrency has become increasingly popular ever since Bitcoin skyrocketed to $20,000 in 2017. However, what followed was a prolonged bear market, and the demand for trading services that allow users to capitalize on the declining price grew in demand.This lead to a surge in popularity of cryptocurrency derivative products, especially futures contracts which allow traders to open both long and short positions. As such, we saw an increasing number of exchanges adding these products...
Read More »Fundstrat ‘s Tom Lee Sets $25k Price Target for Bitcoin Comparing It to FAANG Stocks
On 15 November, during an interview for CNBC journalists, Tom Lee gives price prediction to set some fire. Cryptocurrency will show its potential as a “network value asset”, according to Tom. He said Bitcoin is similar to FAANG stocks that represent the top companies of the U.S. economy: Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google. By referring to the shares of the companies above, Tom inkles that cryptocurrencies are gaining their value from supportive crowds:“Cryptocurrencies are network...
Read More »Crypto Lending DeFi Startup Compound Finance Raises $25 Million Led by Andreessen Horowitz
Compound Finance, a crypto lending and decentralized finance (DeFi) startup has recently raised a massive $25 million in its latest funding round led by venture capital Andreessen Horowitz. This is reportedly one of the largest investments in any DeFi startups to date.Andreessen Horowitz will be pouring money into Compound through its a16z crypto fund. Besides, other investing firms include Bain Capital Ventures, Paradigm, and Polychain Capital.Currently, Compound holds nearly $103 million...
Read More »UK-based FinTech Firm Revolut Plans to Raise $500 Million for Global Expansion
Revolut, the Britain-based digital banking and investing app is currently in discussion with global investors to push its expansion plans. As per the Reuters report, Revolut is planning to raise nearly $500 million as the company plans to expand its operations to Japan and the United States.On Tuesday, November 12, during an interview with Reuters, Revolut CEO and co-founder Nikolay Storonsky said:“We want to raise at least $500 million in direct equity and potentially, maybe at a later...
Read More »OneConnect Financial Technology Files for IPO in the U.S.
It has been evident in the last few years that companies within the blockchain, cryptocurrency and fintech space are receiving a lot more institutional backing after years of being rather niche sectors of the business world. This is evidenced by the fact that many more prominent firms are taking on blockchain technology such as MasterCard, Air Canada, Barclays and so on. It is also evidenced by the fact that many private firms such as Facebook and JP Morgan are embracing cryptocurrency and...
Read More »The Garage Incubator Will Help Blockhain Projects in Paris
Damien Daube, The Garage director, said that he sat down with friends wondering “how a perfect blockchain development help hub can look,” thus they have decided to unite the practices from different companies and make the engineer-grade venture fund with fat roots in this new technology.Per the crypto press, some “blockchain-consultants” are taking up to half of the emission of ICO tokens for their services. At the same time, The Garage offers an amazing 5% fee in equities taken in 6 months...
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