October 26, 2021 – Montreal, Canada Bitfinex, a state-of-the-art digital token trading platform, has joined forces with Nuvei via its subsidiary Simplex, a leading fiat-crypto gateway provider, enabling users to deploy its suite of crypto on-ramp services. Bitfinex customers with an intermediate verification level will obtain access to the new Simplex funding options. Users will …
Monthly archives: October 2021
Investors Spend $7,500,000 on NFT Collection They Have Not Yet Seen
A group of non-fungible token (NFT) collectors is spending millions of dollars on a set of digital collectibles that have yet to be minted. In a tweet, a digital artwork analyst known as Future says that tokens that are redeemable for digital artworks created by Tyler Hobbs were bought for hundreds of Ethereum (ETH) in …
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Minima Closes Series A Round Raising $6.5 Million To Build ‘The Most Decentralized Network’
October 26, 2021 – Zug, Switzerland Minima, the protocol designed to run on smartphones, has closed a Series A funding round while raising $6.5 million from several notable investors. These investments will be instrumental in launching Minima’s mainnet in 2022. The investment round includes GSR, DEX Ventures, AGE Crypto, SMO Capital and Vinny Lingham. Minima’s …
Community Will Battle Big Investors in Super How’s NFT Auction
October 26, 2021 – Vilnius, Lithuania The art platform superhow.ART is launching a special NFT auction. During a week-long event, a genuine oil painting, ‘Head with Legs,’ by one of the greatest Russian surrealist artists, Oleg Tselkov, will be auctioned together with the corresponding NFT. Competition – whales versus shrimps During the auction, superhow.ART will …
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KYVE raise $2.8M to advance Web 3.0 data storage
Data archiving protocol, KYVE, has announced a Series B funding raise of $2.875M instigated by institutional capital firms Permanent Ventures and Hypersphere Ventures, and participated by a vast collection of crypto projects and individual angel investors including, but not limited to, Coinbase Ventures, Volt Capital, Justin Kan and Robin Chan. KYVE has expressed the ambition …
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NFL quarterback Tom Brady gives fan 1 BTC for his historic 600th-touchdown-pass ball
Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady nearly lost ownership of the ball behind his 600th touchdown pass, but now he’s paying for it… in Bitcoin (BTC). In Sunday’s game between the Buccaneers and Chicago Bears, Brady threw his 600th career touchdown pass to fellow teammate Mike Evans — he is the only player in NFL …
Ethereum 2.0 inches closer with the Beacon Chain’s Altair upgrade
The price of Ether (ETH) nearly hit a new all-time high on Oct. 21 before falling below $4,000 after the $435-million options expiry on Oct. 22 soured the mood. The Ethereum network is set to take another step toward Ethereum 2.0 on Oct. 27 at epoch 74240 with the Altair upgrade to Beacon Chain. Eth2 …
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Bank of Spain issues registration guidelines for crypto services
The central bank of Spain is introducing new registration guidelines for local virtual currency service providers, or VASPs, including banking institutions. The Bank of Spain has issued instructions on VASP registration for Anti-Money Laundering, or AML, purposes, requiring institutions to submit their registration requests through an electronic registry, Cointelegraph en Español reported on Monday. Issuing the …
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Why strategists say Bitcoin (BTC) can reach $100,000 by 2022
“Rocket fuel”: Why this prominent investor is still eyeing a $100,000 Bitcoin price With global markets crashing and the broader economy on the verge of another great recession, it’s hard to visualize Bitcoin rallying, especially since it collapsed by 50 percent in a single 24-hour period in mid-March. 2 min read → Go to Source
Dfyn announces new incentivized liquidity program on Fantom Network
Video Bitcoin and Financial Wellbeing with Woman in Blockchain founder Lavinia Osbourne Lavinia Osbourne is the founder and director of Butterfly Wealth Creation, a Holistic Financial Wellbeing and Money Mindfulness consultancy where she promotes financial well-being and money mindfulness—so that their clients can have a better relationship with their money, improve their personal finance and …
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NFT Sales Climb 464% in 3 Months, Mochi Market Nears $1B, Cryptopunk #7804 Sells for $7.5M
The market history of non-fungible token (NFT) sales has been steadily expanding during the last three months, according to statistics from nonfungible.com’s historical market data. NFT sales over the past three months have increased by 464% since June 27 and the Binance Smart Chain NFT market called Mochi Marketplace is nearing close to a billion …
Non-Custodial Dex Platforms Continue to Expand — Curve, Pancakeswap, Sushiswap, Uniswap Lead the Pack
Five years ago, there was a large quantity of digital currencies and blockchains, but there were very few trading platforms that dealt with decentralized exchange. Since the boom of decentralized finance (defi), there’s now a myriad of decentralized exchange (dex) platforms that allow people to swap funds in a private, non-custodial manner. These days the …
BlockBank Just Launched Its DeFi Application, Where Users Can Interact With an AI-Powered “Robo Advisor”
press release PRESS RELEASE. BlockBank, the platform disrupting mobile banking by blending it with decentralized finance (DeFi) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, is officially launching its all-encompassing financial application in Q4 of 2021. On a mission to grow worldwide accessibility to DeFi and build users’ financial empowerment, BlockBank’s new mobile and online app will combine …
IMF Partly Blames Uncertainty in Nigeria’s Forex Market for Drop in Remittances
The uncertainty that prevails in Nigeria’s foreign exchange market is partly to blame for the plunge in cross-border remittances into the country, an official with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said. Covid-19 Another Contributing Factor According to a report by local news outlet Punch, the official, Abebe Selassie, said this in response to a …
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Saxo Bank Expands Crypto Offerings to Meet Growing Demand
Saxo Bank is seeking to expand its cryptocurrency offerings. To this effect, the firm has announced that it will be expanding the list of its exchange-traded products (ETPs). These products track the prices of the supported cryptocurrency assets. The Tuesday announcement further stated that the firm would offer nine crypto-FX pairs and expand the position …
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