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The crypto-friendly digital banking app – Revolut – announced it had raised $800 million in a new funding round led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund and Tiger Global Management. The fundraising turned the company into one of the largest fintech unicorns in Europe, as it is now valued at $33 billion. Revolut Becoming a Super-Unicorn According to a Reuters report, Revolut has secured $800 million in a new funding round. The Japanese financial giant SoftBank and the American investment...

The non-profit organization – American Cancer Society – plans to hire a product supervisor to oversee its potential cryptocurrency and NFT roadmap. The best candidate needs to have experience in fintech, knowledge of payments processing, and a passion for digital assets. The ACS Wants to Be The Leading Digital NPO The health organization dedicated to fighting cancer seems highly interested in getting involved with cryptocurrencies. According to a job posting, the American...

Aside from a brief spike of over $1,000, bitcoin’s struggles continue as the asset is still well below $32,000. The alternative coins have also lost some more steam, with ETH standing beneath $1,900 and BNB close to breaking below $300. Bitcoin Dipped to a 3-Week Low BTC’s hurdles continue ever since the asset failed to breach $35,000 earlier this week. The bears took control over the market at that point and kept pushing it south. Initially, bitcoin decreased beneath...

The Japanese government intends to put stablecoins under strict regulation as some authorities consider them a threat to the country’s financial stability. At the same time, the Bank of Japan aims to issue a digital yen that it sees as a safer alternative to private virtual currencies. Japan’s Next Crypto Move According to Reuters, three Japanese officials revealed that the country is looking to increase its efforts to regulate digital assets. Per the report, some local...

It was a tough week price-wise in the cryptocurrency market. The total capitalization lost around $100 billion as every single coin from the top 20 is in the red. Some lost more than others, but we’ll get to that later. Kicking it off with Bitcoin. It had a relatively calm week, and even though it’s down about 3% over the period, it’s still not as bad as a lot of the altcoins. BTC was trading at around $34,000 last Friday, and apart from a brief positive spike on Monday, it...

After years of bashing Bitcoin, one of America’s largest banking establishments – Bank of America – seems to have completed its 180-turn. The organization has purportedly approved the trading of BTC futures. Citing two sources familiar with the matter, CoinDesk reported that the Wall Street behemoth will enable some of its customers to trade BTC futures. The plan to allow only a handful of clients to access the new service is because of the large amount of margin required to...

THORChain is the latest DeFi project to be exploited, with estimations showing that the hackers might have swooped up to $7.6 million in digital assets. The team behind the decentralized exchange promised to make whole all affected users and requested the perpetrators to contact them to discuss the return of funds. THORChain highlighted the hack on Twitter earlier on July 16th. The amount stolen remains unconfirmed as the initial estimations showed that it was more than...

Jackson, Tennessee, could soon implement BTC for property tax payments, according to the city’s mayor – Scott Conger. He made this statement shortly after bashing the US government for the unnecessary high inflation rates across the entire country. Scott Conger, the mayor of Jackson, Tennessee, since 2019, took it to Twitter to indicate that the local blockchain task force is looking into how the city “can start property tax payments in bitcoin.” Furthermore, he indicated...

The Biden administration reportedly plans to take severe measures on the use of digital assets in ransomware attacks by starting to track such transactions. Crypto Tracing to Combat Cyber Attacks The governing body of the USA discussed how to combat the growing number of ransomware attacks during a virtual briefing with members of Congress. According to Bloomberg, the Biden administration will begin tracing digital assets sent to hackers, who harm firms, corporations, and...

Cardano’s Alonzo testnet went through a hardfork yesterday. Alonzo White, as the effort is called, was successfully implemented, so let’s examine what’s next for the network. Alonzo White Hardfork Successful In a Twitter update from yesterday, IOHK revealed that the Alonzo testnet went through a successful hardfork called Alonzo White. “We’ll monitor the new network closely over the next 24 hours while continuing to do further QA work on the node tonight. We’ll then review...