Cryptocurrency wallet provider Phantom has secured $9 million in Series A financing to launch a new multi-chain wallet designed to help decentralized finance (DeFi) users access decentralized applications (DApps) across multiple blockchains. The raise comes on the heels of a successful beta launch in April of this year that saw 40,000 new Phantom users. The …
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Bitcoin’s (BTC) price continued its downtrend Wednesday ahead of the testimony from United States Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. The spot BTC/USD exchange rate fell to its 17-day low of $31,600 following a 3.46% intraday dip. Meanwhile, CME futures tied to the pair plunged 3.41% to $31,515, extending their week-to-date losses to 9.5%. Bulls step …
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Blockchain security firm CertiK announced Wednesday that it has received $37 million in fresh financing to expand its product and security capabilities for the cryptocurrency and DeFi industries. “We’re proud to advance transparency in the space by providing the tools and resources – including our official audit reports – so the community can make sense …
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Bitcoin’s daily active addresses have halved since BTC’s most recent all-time high of $64,854 Bitcoin whales who sold at the top in mid-April are yet to start accumulating BTC New address growth on the Bitcoin network has dropped to levels last seen in early 2018 All these metrics negate what some traders and analysts have …
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Fidelity Digital Assets is getting ready to expand its cryptocurrency team as institutional demand heats up. According to Tom Jessop, president of Fidelity Digital Assets, the firm’s cryptocurrency unit plans to increase its workforce by 70% and hire around 100 new employees in its Dublin, Boston and Utah locations amid strong interest from institutional investors. …
Brazil’s Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM), the country’s securities regulator, has approved an Ether (ETH) exchange-traded fund (ETF), according to an announcement by QR Capital, the holding company of QR Asset Management. The fund, which trades under the ticker QETH11 will trade on Brazil’s highly reputable B3 stock exchange, which operates as a regional exchange and …
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Global payment giant Visa is moving forward with its commitment to digital currency adoption by approving the issuance of a new Bitcoin (BTC) debit card in Australia. Sydney-based crypto spending app CryptoSpend announced Wednesday that Visa has approved the issuance of a physical debit card that will allow Australians to spend their Bitcoin at local …
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The California District Judge overseeing a racketeering suit filed against crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX, William H. Orrick, has rebuffed the plaintiffs’ motion offering to provide them with a tutorial on “cryptocurrency basics.” According to a July 13 report from Law360, the judge responded to Bitcoin Manipulation Abatement LLC (BMA)’s proposal with a one-page order on …
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Two weeks after a 15% increase in electricity prices in Turkey, a new store selling professional mining equipment has opened its doors in Istanbul — the business hub of the country — on Tuesday. Opening a mining equipment shop in a country with costly electricity seems counterintuitive. But Phoenix Store, Bitmain’s sales partner in the …
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Ethereum’s top 10 whale addresses are continually accumulating ETH The Ethereum whales now hold 20.58% of ETH’s circulating supply This is the highest percentage they’ve held since May 2017 2.12% of their holdings was accumulated in the last 41 days Ethereum is once again trading below $2k with $1,700 being a support zone to watch …
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The new policy organization, DeFi Education Fund, focused on promoting decentralized finance (DeFi) education and advocacy were supported through the Ethereum (ETH) DeFi protocol Uniswap and it deployed half of the funds received from the protocol’s treasury in a single transaction. The fund was formed with 1 million Uniswap (UNI), after receiving support from the …
The crypto market took a turn for the worse today yet again as literally all top 100 cryptocurrencies—except stablecoins—have plunged into the red zone across the board. At the time of writing, Bitcoin (BTC) slipped below the 32,000 mark, trading at around 31,900, down 3.5% on the day, according to crypto metrics platform CoinGecko. Ethereum …
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Save the Children in Rwanda recently became the latest member of the NGO community to endorse cryptocurrencies after it announced the establishment of a partnership agreement with the Cardano Foundation. ADA Donations According to a statement released by parties to the project, this arrangement became possible after Cardano “installed a payment gateway that allows ADA …
Cryptocurrency trading volumes decreased significantly in June according to data from Cryptocompare, a price and volume tracking organization. Volumes traded diminished by at least 40% month-on-month, with spot and derivatives trading both suffering due to the mining and trading crackdown in China, amongst other factors. The resulting volatility seems to have made many traders lose …
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In 2019, a man with Fabio-like hair entered the cryptocurrency scene with questionable claims when he told a slew of people he helped co-found the creation of Bitcoin. The self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor named Jörg Molt not only offered a “Satoshi School” but allegedly ran a number of scams on the side. The publication Bild reports …
