Non-fungible token (NFT) country club LinksDAO has included Callaway Golf Company in its plan to own and operate a golf course. Callaway, one of the largest golf...
Digital assets have replaced real estate as the preferred alternative asset class, the bank said in its alternative asset outlook and strategy paper."While significant recession risks...
Ignite (formerly Tendermint), the company originally behind the Cosmos blockchain ecosystem, announced in February after a sensational rebranding that it will split into two entities: Ignite...
Crypto-focused venture capital fund NGC Ventures has raised $100 million for its latest blockchain fund.Investors in the Web 3 fund include Babel Finance, Huobi Ventures and...
StarkWare Industries, which provides solutions to make blockchain technology more scalable, has received $100 million in a Series D funding round at a valuation of $8...
Cryptocurrency tax services company ZenLedger announced Wednesday that it has received $15 million in Series B funding, bringing the company's total funding to $27 million. After what...
The National Football League (NFL) is once again venturing into uncharted crypto territory, this time with the launch of its own play-to-earn game in partnership with...
The developers of Avalanche (AVAX) have asked the ApeCoin (APE) community to consider building the Bored Ape Yacht Club metaverse as an Avalanche subnet, according to...
Volt Capital, a crypto venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments, has received $50 million for its second fund from a list of industry heavyweights. The fund...
The Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) and Global Digital Finance (GDF) - the main industry associations for blockchain technology and digital asset adoption - will merge...
Decentralized Finance Project (DeFi) Lido Finance has voted overwhelmingly against supporting the new Terra blockchain, with less than 5.5% voting in favor. The revitalization plan was...
Babel Finance has achieved unicorn status after raising $80 million in a funding round that brings the crypto finance provider's value to $2 billion.The lead investors...
Andreessen Horowitz has announced a new $4.5 billion fund that will invest in cryptocurrency and Web 3 companies, according to an official statement.The fund is the...
Web 3 game studio MetaKings has received $15 million in a seed funding round that also included Makers Fund and Bitkraft Ventures, according to a press...
Crypto businesses are betting big on lending amid the market downturn with yield products that offer modest annual returns on their customers' dollars - at least...
The latest Web 3 education platform promises executives who join it to "make money while you learn." Metacademy was founded by Shelly Palmer, a consultant known in...
Argentina-based cryptocurrency exchange Buenbit has laid off 45% of its staff, the company told CoinDesk on Monday. According to the company, the team now consists of 100...
WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA - One topic dominated the conversation at Blockworks' Permissionless Conference last week: the collapse of Terra. After the death spiral of UST and...
Fintech company Stripe and bitcoin payment infrastructure platform OpenNode are teaming up to allow Stripe's merchant customers to instantly convert all or portions of incoming payments...
Argentina-based cryptocurrency exchange Buenbit has laid off 45% of its staff, the company told CoinDesk on Monday. According to the company, the team now consists of 100...
Popular decentralized financial exchange (DeFi) Uniswap announced Tuesday that it has processed $1 trillion in trading volume over its lifetime. According to data from CoinGecko, Uniswap ranked...
Good morning and welcome to First Mover. I'm Lyllah Ledesma, here to guide you through the latest crypto markets, news and insights.Price Point: Bitcoin and Ether...
Travel Rule Universal Solution Technology (TRUST), originally a group of five U.S. companies building an anti-money laundering (AML) system for cryptocurrency transactions, has increased its membership...
Coinbase (COIN) has been named to the Fortune 500, a ranking of the largest companies in the U.S. by revenue, making it the first cryptocurrency company...
Flowcarbon said it has raised $70 million to develop a carbon credit tokenization protocol aimed at encouraging investment in projects that remove carbon dioxide from the...
Project Liberty, the initiative backed by real estate billionaire Frank McCourt that aims to disrupt today's social media platforms, has found a home on Polkadot, the...
It looks like Deutsche Telekom's (DTEGY) loss is Finoa's gain. Six months after leaving the European telecom giant, Andreas Dittrich and Daniel Schrader - two former Deutsche...
As the non-fungible token (NFT) market continues to slide downward, down to Goblin Town, an NFT collection with a similar theme has caught fire. The collection, Goblintown.wtf,...
CoinDesk is launching its social token DESK, making it an integral part of Consensus 2022, our first on-site event since the coronavirus pandemic. Attendees at the festival,...
Clinique had a problem. The brand wanted to "enter the metaverse," but it didn't want to do so in a way that was uncomfortable. So it...
When the world's largest beer company wanted to "enter the metaverse," it turned to a woman named Lindsey McInerney. But that may be understating her involvement....
Metaversum, metaversum, metaversum! You hear it everywhere. It's mainstream, it's a trendy buzzword, it's even the business strategy du jour. But that wasn't the case in early...
Popular e-commerce platform eBay (EBAY) has released its first collection of hockey-themed non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in partnership with Tezos-based NFT platform OneOf. EBay officially announced its interest...
Good morning and welcome to First Mover. I'm Lyllah Ledesma, here to guide you through the latest crypto markets, news and insights.Price Point: Bitcoin and Ether...
Video game retailer GameStop (GME) has unveiled a digital wallet for storing, sending and receiving cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) ahead of the launch of its...
According to a report from Nikkei Asia, Japanese bank Sumitomo Mitsui Trust will launch a new company to provide digital asset custody services to institutional investors.Called...
French banking giant BNP Paribas (EPA) has joined JPMorgan's (JPM) blockchain-based fixed income trading network, according to a Financial Times report.The Onyx Digital Assets network uses...
Crypto Valley Venture Capital, which also calls itself CV VC, is launching an Africa-focused fund to support blockchain startups on the continent. The investor made the...
In recent years, Cherie Hu has become one of the most reliable prognosticators in the music industry - the kind of expert who knows exactly where...
NIAGARA FALLS, NY - An explosion and subsequent fire rocked a Blockfusion crypto mining facility in New York state last week, causing thousands of mining rigs...
Fred Ehrsam bought more than one million shares of Coinbase (COIN) last week, valued at about $75 million, and jumped in as the crypto exchange's stock...
Good morning and welcome to First Mover. I'm Brad Keoun, here to guide you through the latest crypto markets, news and insights. (Lyllah Ledesma is out...
Decentralized finance protocol iZUMI Finance has raised $30 million through the sale of bond vouchers and claims on its iZUMi Bond USD (iUSD), the company said...
U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global (COIN) is pausing new hires for two weeks and cutting cloud spending on Amazon Web Services, along with other cost-cutting measures...
Digital art collective UnicornDAO has raised $4.5 million to support women and LGBTQ-led non-fungible token (NFT) initiatives, with members from all corners of the NFT space...
You don't like Facebook. Democrats don't like Facebook. Republicans don't like Facebook. It may be the one thing most people in the United States agree on. But...
The Solana market for non-fungible tokens (NFT) is starting to take off. Daily transactions on the ecosystem's leading marketplace, Magic Eden, now surpass OpenSea, Ethereum's counterpart. According...
Merchants using the Shopify e-commerce platform now have access to Crypto.com as another way to accept payments in cryptocurrencies.Sellers using the Crypto.com Pay feature can allow...
Binance.US has hired Krishna Juvvadi, former global head of operations compliance at Uber, as its new general counsel.Juvvadi was also Uber's Chief Regulatory Counsel and the...
Tether reduced its commercial paper holdings by 17% from $24.2 billion to $20.1 billion in the quarter ended March 31, according to its latest certification report....
MicroStrategy Chief Financial Officer Andrew Kang told The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday that the company's strategy of buying bitcoin (BTC) and holding it for the...
Good morning and welcome to First Mover. I'm Brad Keoun, here to guide you through the latest crypto markets, news and insights. (Lyllah Ledesma is out...
SingularityNET and Singularity DAO have received a $25 million commitment from global investment group LDA Capital Limited to accelerate their product roadmap, adoption of artificial intelligence...
Canaan (CAN), which specializes in hardware for bitcoin mining, reported a 237% year-over-year increase in revenue to $213.9 million. The one analyst quoted on Yahoo Finance...
Blockchain gaming company Azra Games has received $15 million in a seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The round will help fund Azra's first game, a...
First came the meme coins. Then the jpegs. Now FTX US is betting on the original retail investment vehicle: Stocks. The Chicago branch of Sam Bankman-Fried's trading...
Nomura's new digital assets subsidiary, announced earlier this week and potentially catapulting the Japanese investment bank ahead of U.S. and European rivals, will initially focus on...
Getting a clearer picture of what's happening in complex areas like decentralized finance (DeFi) is probably the most important thing for many investors right now. Paris-based cryptocurrency...
When she was a teenager, Diana Sinclair drew and created digital characters through a social app called Draw Something. On the app, there were "communities of...
Singapore-based crypto wallet BitKeep announced Wednesday it has closed a $15 million Series A round with a post-money valuation of $100 million. The funding will help...
Mike Novogratz, founder and CEO of crypto trading bank Galaxy Digital (GLXY.TO), released a public letter Wednesday outlining his perspective on the Terra (LUNA) and UST...
NEW YORK - Chainalysis is launching an on-chain visualization tool that the company says will help investigators follow the money in cryptocurrency. The new analytics software, Storyline,...
Coinbase Global (COIN) on Wednesday launched a cryptocurrency think tank called the Coinbase Institute to promote ideas across the digital ecosystem.The Coinbase Institute will publish crypto...
Bitcoin has the potential to disrupt existing traditional payment networks, especially with the increasing adoption of the Lightning Network, Block Inc (SQ) said during its virtual...
Argo Blockchain (ARGO), the mining company that diversified into Web 3 earlier this year through its subsidiary Argo Lab, said Wednesday that it had a stake...
Venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has launched its first gaming fund and plans to invest $600 million in game studios, game-related consumer applications and infrastructure. "Today,...
Good morning and welcome to First Mover. I'm Brad Keoun, here to guide you through the latest crypto markets, news and insights. (Lyllah Ledesma is not...
Weeks after Aave founder Stani Kulechov went to Twitter jail for calling himself the "interim CEO of Twitter," the DeFi lender's long-heralded decentralized social media platform...
Hackathon organizer DoraHacks has raised $20 million in a funding round led by FTX Ventures, the investment arm of crypto exchange FTX, and Liberty City Ventures. Other...
Cryptocurrency exchange operator INX has appointed Galaxy Digital veteran Renata Szkoda as chief financial officer. Szkoda most recently served as finance director at financial services and investment...
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is in talks for regulatory approval in Germany, founder and CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao said.Binance is recruiting compliance staff for its team in...
N3TWORK Studios has raised $46 million in a Series A funding round led by Griffin Gaming Partners and with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Galaxy Interactive, KIP,...
Switzerland-based investment products firm 21Shares is launching two exchange-traded crypto (ETP) products in the U.S. to capitalize on global crypto investor demand. The two products are the...
Argo Blockchain (ARB) reported first-quarter net income of £1.6 million ($2.1 million), down more than 90% from the corresponding quarter last year.Among other factors, Argo cited...
Ledger is adding a browser extension for Safari called Ledger Connect, which allows Ledger hardware wallet users to easily connect to Web 3 applications without requiring...
BitPatagonia, one of Argentina's largest registered crypto mining companies, recently received a 400% increase in its electricity tariff as a result of a regulatory change specifically...
Cryptocurrency trading firm Elwood Technologies says its focus will be on institutional-grade crypto derivatives following this week's $70 million funding round involving three blue-chip banks. Large banks...
On-chain data platform Nansen said it has acquired decentralized finance portfolio tracker (DeFi) Ape Board for an "eight-figure" sum. Ape Board lists over 375 protocols on 33...
Terraform Labs' legal team has quit.Lawyers Marc Goldich, Lawrence Florio and Noah Axler all stopped working for the company in May, their LinkedIn profiles showed Tuesday....
Trading company Robinhood plans to launch a new decentralized finance-focused (DeFi) wallet by the end of 2022 for customers looking to play in the crypto economy. Robinhood...
