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MoonPay Appoints Former Coinbase Executive Mike Lempres to Its Board Amid Increased Regulatory Scrutiny
30.11.2023
Source: MoonPay Crypto startup MoonPay has announced the appointment of Mike Lempres, a former executive from Coinbase and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), to its board of directors. On November 30, MoonPay announced that Mike Lempres will be joining the company’s board of directors to provide...
Bitfinex’s Tokenized Bond Falls Short of Investment Target, Raises Only $1.5M of Expected $10M
29.11.2023
Source: AdobeStock / prima91 Bitfinex’s recently-launched tokenized bond have fallen short of expectations, raising only $1.5 million of its initial target of $10 million. Bitfinex Securities, the branch responsible for listing tokenized real-world assets, introduced the ALT2611 Tokenized...
Coinbase Eyes Tech Talent in India as it Looks to Expand Workforce
27.11.2023
Source: Pexels US-based crypto exchange giant Coinbase is looking to expand its workforce in India despite facing regulatory setbacks for its products. The company is actively recruiting for product and technology positions, both in remote capacities and at its Bengaluru and Hyderabad locations....
Hong Kong Government Accelerates Cryptocurrency Product Approvals Following JPEX Rugpull: OSL Compliance Exchange
27.11.2023
Image Source: Pixabay The JPEX incident has prompted the Hong Kong government to expedite the approval process for cryptocurrency products to promote compliance in the industry. According to OSL Compliance Exchange, a licensed virtual asset platform, financial technology solution providers have...
New P2E & Staking Project Flies Past $200k in ICO – The Next Market Sensation?
24.11.2023
BlackRock recently met with SEC officials to discuss and clarify details related to their Spot Bitcoin ($BTC) ETF product. Investors must throw off their bearish bias and flip risk-on or get left behind. Institutional flows into crypto are guaranteed, followed by the halving against the backdrop...
Stitch Launches Payment Service Allowing Customers to Settle With Crypto in South Africa
23.11.2023
A new product offering recently launched by Stitch, a South African payment service provider, now enables customers to settle transactions with crypto. According to Stitch, this new functionality makes it possible for customers to pay with bitcoin (BTC) or ether (ETH). Local Businesses to Receive...
Today in Crypto: 11 Former Revolut, Spotify, and Coinbase Leaders Unveil Zeal Wallet, Ondo Finance Launches Tokenized US Treasury Product on Injective
21.11.2023
Source: AdobeStock / trekandphoto Get your daily, bite-sized digest of crypto and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s news. __________ Wallet news The team consisting of 11 former Product and Engineering leaders from Revolut, Spotify, and Coinbase...
Coinbase Unveils Open Source On-Chain Payments Protocol to Offer Instant Settlement for Merchants
17.11.2023
Source: AdobeStock / rarrarorro San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has introduced an open-source On-Chain Payments Protocol to its Coinbase Commerce product. The new protocol aims to enhance the payment experience for merchants and customers by providing instant settlement,...
Coinbase Unveils Open Source On-Chain Payments Protocol to Offer Instant Settlement for Merchants
17.11.2023
Source: AdobeStock / rarrarorro San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has introduced an open-source On-Chain Payments Protocol to its Coinbase Commerce product. The new protocol aims to enhance the payment experience for merchants and customers by providing instant settlement,...
White Hat Hackers Awarded $300K After Uncovering Critical Chainlink VRF Vulnerability
15.11.2023
White hat hackers earn $300K Chainlink bounty for responsibly disclosing critical VRF vulnerability. Image by ZayNyi, Adobe Stock. Decentralized oracle network Chainlink recently awarded white hat hackers Zach Obront and Or Cyngiser of Trust $300,000 for uncovering a critical vulnerability in...
Blackrock Confirms News of XRP ETF Filing Is Fake
13.11.2023
Rumors circulated on Monday that Blackrock, the world’s largest asset manager, has registered to launch an XRP exchange-traded fund (ETF), following its registration of a spot ether ETF. However, Blackrock quickly denied the rumor, confirming that it has not filed to launch an...
Fed Chair Powell’s Hawkish Tone Rattles Markets as Inflation Concerns Persist
10.11.2023
Amid an uncertain economic landscape, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s recent remarks have amplified the debate on the sufficiency of prevailing interest rates. Even with robust gross domestic product growth, Powell’s address indicated the Fed’s stern stance, as he noted...
Bitcoin and Life Insurance: CEO Zac Townsend’s Unique Perspective
9.11.2023
Life Insurance. Source: Adobe / zimmytws Bitcoin (BTC) is the perfect financial asset to form the foundation of a life insurance product, according to Meanwhile CEO Zac Townsend. In a recent interview with Axios, the executive explained how and why his life insurance company uses BTC as its sole...
Binance Launches High-Yield USDT Earning Program Amid Fierce Market Competition
7.11.2023
This week, Binance, the world’s leading crypto exchange by trading volume, announced the introduction of a tether (USDT) earning program with up to a 13% annual percentage yield (APR). Binance’s USDT earn product joins a slew of other digital currency trading platforms offering yield...
Luxor refutes claims its Bitcoin hashrate-backed product is BlockFi, Celsius 2.0
6.11.2023
“The return comes from hashrate, not from pixie dust, ponzi schemes, or rehypothecation,” a Luxor Technology executive stressed
Web3 Pioneer Treehouse Dives Into NFT Analytics with Origins Acquisition
3.11.2023
Web3 data firm Treehouse has announced its acquisition of Origins Analytics, with the goal of expanding into NFT analytics. In a press release released on Thursday, the Singapore-based Treehouse said that it had completed the intellectual property acquisition of Origins to “bolster...
Asset Manager ProShares Introduces SETH ETF for Profiting from Ether Price Drops
3.11.2023
Major US-based Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) provider Proshares has just launched a new short Ether (ETH) product. The new ETF, called the ProShares Short Ether Strategy ETF with the ticker $SETH, will allow investors to profit as the price of Ether declines. Ether is the native currency that powers...
Games Backed by Disney, Alibaba, Google, Square Enix Will Build on Immutable zkEVM, ‘Blockchain Gaming to Become Synonymous with Gaming’
2.11.2023
Three new upcoming games from Australia and Asia-based teams have committed to building on Zero-Knowledge (ZK) proof-based scaling rollup Immutable zkEVM. In an interview with Cryptonews, Michael Powell, Product Marketing Lead at Web3 gaming platform Immutable, discussed the relevance of ZK...
Input Output Global adds Nami Wallet to its product portfolio
2.11.2023
IOG, or Input Output Global, recently announced adding the Nami wallet to its product family. The company released an official post to make the announcement. The post discussed the reputation that the Nami wallet had built. Ever since its release in July 2021, the wallet has secured the trust...
Cubist Revolutionizes Wallet Management with New Wallet-as-a-Service Platform
1.11.2023
Blockchain startup Cubist has publicly launched a new “wallet-as-a-service” (WaaS) product, seeking to tackle the wallet management challenges behind making account keys both readily available and secure. The CubeSigner WaaS “lets users request signatures through revocable signing...