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Justin Sun who is the founder and CEO of Tron (TRX) has dismissed rumors and allegations that he is behind the investment group that acquired the premier cryptocurrency exchange group Poloniex. He indicated this in a tweet on October 19th and categorically stated that he is “not buying anything”.I'm not buying anything. Just invest some and help out my friends. Actually I have a huge bag of $BNB, $HT, $OKB etc and bet on all exchanges that support $TRX & $BTT. ?— Justin Sun...

Layer1, San Francisco-based startup involved in Bitcoin mining, has raised $50 million in an effort to live up its plan to establish farms for mining. The money has been received from such a row of prominent investors including Peter Thiel, an American billionaire and co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies and Founders Fund, and Shasta Ventures, an early-stage venture capital investment firm that invests in enterprise and technology consumer startups.According to Alexander Liegl, CEO of...

Photo: Fidelity Digital Assets / TwitterAs promised, Bitcoin custodian Fidelity Digital Asset Services (FDAS) is “now engaged in a full rollout” of its custody and trading services, spreading from the limited trial users in the platform’s final test stage.Financial Times reported that by building up its crypto custody business, the focus of the company is to profit from the shortage of classically and traditionally regulated institutions as are banks and other more conservative...

Photo: Galileo Financial Technologies / YouTubeA gentleman named Clay Wilkes had already decided to retire and enjoy his late years when he changed his mind – he’d rather not to. In 2000 this amazing entrepreneur launched Galileo Financial Services and already then realized the growing demand for better integration between and financial institutions and secondary services.19 years later, what his company does exactly that is the back-office connections with financial institutions and, boy,...

The race for the space business is getting intense as big organizations are spending billions of dollars in creating the infrastructure for space tourism. While we have frequently heard Elon Musk’s SpaceX or Jess Bezos’ Blue Origin working on the plan, Richard Branson’s space tourism venture Virgin Galactic has pulled the rabbit out of the hat.Virgin Galactic is all set to become the first company in the space tourism to go public. During a recent interview with the CNBC, we heard this...

Billionaire and innovator Richard Branson’s space tourism start-up, Virgin Galactic, space tourism seems to be only a few months away from its first commercial flight to space.To prove its seriousness, the company unveiled its line of ‘Under Armour’-made spacesuits for passengers to come.Jumpsuits are made in royal-blue and from lightweight “flight-grade” material that is designed in a way that keeps travelers pleasant as they speeding faster than 50 miles into the atmosphere (that’s more...

Now, anyone who is big on cryptocurrencies already knows that Anthony Pompliano is one of the biggest names in the crypto space and whatever he says is law. A such, he recently took to twitter to talk about HODL or keeping digital assets for a long period until such assets appreciate as the best investment strategy. The fact that he is the co-founder of Morgan Creek which is one of the premier Blockchain Venture capital partners in the world gives him credence as one of the “go-to” people...

Global investment platform eToro has announced its new sentiment-based crypto portfolio offering called TheTIE-Long-Only. For this, eToro has joined hands with a data analytics platform The TIE which can formulate an algorithm-based investment strategy.The input data for this sentiment-driven trading platform will be Twitter mentions. The social media platform Twitter has been the main platform for discussing crypto activities. Several popular analysts and companies share their trading...

Helios Towers which is one of the key operators of towers for several mobile networks across Africa has successfully raised about 288 million pounds (or $364 million) in an initial public offering. It’s worth mentioning that IPO was delayed last year due to concerns on political tensions in key markets where the tower operator has core operations.The offering which though was supposed to be valued at $500 million was well-received in a season of low-key offerings and others which have been...

The financial technology industry is booming and many investors have noticed that. In that context, investment in fintech ventures in Singapore rose rapidly. The latest reports from Accenture confirm that in the first 9 months of the current year, investors in Singapore brought a record $735 million into financial-technology deals. That represents a 69% surge from the prior-year period that raked in $435 million.Accenture came up with this data after analyzing reports from CB Insights,...