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 …
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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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Nearly Half of Active Crypto Wallets Connected to Blockchain-Based Games As Axie Infinity Records Impressive Q3: Report
Blockchain-based games are “here to stay” in the crypto space, according to decentralized application ranking platform DappRadar. In a new Q3 2021 update, DappRadar says that play-to-earn (P2E) games have driven a surge of interest in the crypto subsector. ADVERTISEMENT P2E games allow players to earn crypto and/or nonfungible tokens (NFTs) that can be …
Crypto unicorn: CoinList valued at $1.5B following $100M Series A
Crypto listing platform CoinList has concluded a $100 million Series A fundraiser to fuel its global business expansion, bringing its total valuation to a whopping $1.5 billion. The cash injection will help CoinList to scale its business operations, support its community of early adopters and launch new product offerings, the company announced on Tuesday. The fundraiser …
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Bitcoin bull market ‘2nd leg has started,’ says BTC price model creator
Bitcoin (BTC) marking a new high of $67,000 last week has opened the possibility of hitting $100,000 by the end of this year. PlanB, creator of the popular Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow (S2F) model, called Bitcoin’s price retracement from the $60,000-level the “2nd leg” of what appeared like a long-term bull market. #bitcoin bull market, 2nd leg …
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Culture converges with blockchain as luxury fashion brands launch NFT collections
It’s no surprise that nonfungible tokens (NFT) have been dominating the crypto market this year. The booming digital asset class generated over $2.5 billion in sales within the first six months of 2021, demonstrating unheard-of financial gains for artists, brands and content creators across the globe. The rise of metaverses has also impacted the adoption …
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Ampleforth integrates with Avalanche to introduce stablecoin alternative
Fragments Inc., the team responsible for developing the Ampleforth protocol, has announced that Ampleforth will be integrated into popular blockchain Avalanche to facilitate the introduction of AMPL, a fully decentralized unit-of-account that can be used to denominate stable contracts. The Ampleforth protocol holds promise as a decentralized alternative to stablecoins that can be used in …
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Bitcoin Price Registers New All-Time Highs, RUNE, XLM, Oct. 26
Bitcoin blasts above $66,000 after strong ETF demand. RUNE gains 69% on Ethereum restart. XLM signs MoneyGram partnership deal. BTC The Bitcoin price saw a new all-time high this week after the launch of the Bitcoin futures-backed ETF product. The price of BTC saw a high at $66,999 last week before dropping back to $66k. …
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Popular Analyst Now Bullish on Three Altcoins, Says Shiba Inu’s Epic 2021 Breakout Not Over Yet
A popular crypto analyst says the memecoin Shiba Inu has more upside potential while predicting rallies for three additional altcoins. Pseudonymous trader Altcoin Sherpa tells his 138,500 Twitter followers that Dogecoin competitor Shiba Inu (SHIB) is gearing up for a rally to a new all-time high at $0.00005. ADVERTISEMENT “SHIB: If I were around …