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...
New York's top financial regulator believes the current approach to regulating digital assets - both at the state and federal level - needs to be overhauled. At...
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...
Last week we learned that stablecoins are not really stable. The major stablecoin TerraUSD - better known as UST - officially lost its peg to the U.S....
Ethereum's public test network Ropsten will undergo a "merge" next month before being rolled out to the main network, according to developer activity on GitHub. The "merge"...
New York bitcoin mining companies are increasingly considering abandoning their efforts in the once-praised land as the state legislature considers a bill to ban new mining...
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...
Stablecoin swap application Curve Finance is proposing to stop issuing its CRV tokens from pools linked to terraUSD (UST) after the latter imploded last week. An on-chain...
The collapse of tokens associated with the Terra ecosystem, stablecoin terraUSD (UST) and Luna (LUNA), has led some major investors to disclose their losses. Two other...
According to Bank of America (BAC), the second largest U.S. bank, fears of a so-called crypto winter are unfounded. Investors wondering why digital assets aren't outperforming traditional...
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...
New global tax reporting rules could soon extend to cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and decentralized finance (DeFi), but some worry that the inflexible framework of the...
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...
Waning sentiment on strong economic growth led to a second day of sell-offs in broader markets on Thursday morning. Asian markets slid after a day of...
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...
A U.S. appeals court has ruled that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) violated the constitutional rights of a hedge fund manager by having an internal...
Good Morning. Here's what happened: Prices: Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are plummeting along with stocks. Insights: Although interest in the NFT market has declined in recent...
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will increase its resources and step up its efforts to address fraud and manipulation cases involving cryptocurrencies, the agency's chairman,...
Bitcoin (BTC) fell back from a high of $30,654 on Wednesday, following losses in equities. The cryptocurrency has been in a tight trading range in recent days,...
Bitcoin (BTC) has been trading in a tight range between $27,000 and $30,000 in recent days. This is an important support zone for BTC, although it...
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...
U.S. President Joe Biden's administration will push Congress to require cryptocurrency exchanges to keep their customers' money separate from their own company funds, according to a...
The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, is hosting an annual meeting of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI), promoting the use and adoption of Bitcoin...
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...
Gary Gensler, the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, made the case for a bigger budget on Wednesday, telling lawmakers in the U.S. House of...
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 (BTC) has been trading in a tight range between $27,000 and $30,000 in recent days. This is an important support zone for BTC, which is...
UPDATE (May 18, 2022, 17:30 UTC): Clarifies that the designer was a student at the time and that the logo proposal was a school project. A graphic...
As the crypto bull market has turned into a rout, speculators and investors have been exiting stablecoins in droves. Amidst this chaos, the world's largest stablecoin...
The extent of the human destruction and suffering caused by Do Kwon's fatally flawed Terra blockchain collapse and reckless selfishness is becoming increasingly clear. It is...
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...
Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, is actively trying to "find the ideal time to launch its local presence in India," a Binance...
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...
Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon announced an on-chain governance proposal Wednesday morning, despite minimal community support for the results of a preliminary online poll on a...
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,...
Bitcoin fell below $30,000 in European trading on Wednesday, while traditional markets declined. Traders and analysts assessed the potential economic impact of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome...
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...
Lido is the most widely used protocol for liquid stakes. According to data from Nansen and Etherscan, it accounts for one-third of all ETH wagers on...
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...
Addresses linked to the $625 million Ronin Bridge exploit show more than $10 million worth of Ether was in motion in the Asian morning hours Wednesday,...
Good Morning. Here's what happened: Prices: Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies in the green, but market sentiment remains bearish. Insights: investors are changing their stablecoin preferences. Technician's take: BTC...
Bitcoin (BTC) failed to move decisively above or below $30,000 on Tuesday. The cryptocurrency appears to be stabilizing, although sentiment among traders remains bearish. Some alternative cryptocurrencies...
Bitcoin (BTC) continues to trade around $30,000 and is at the lower end of a one-year price range. The cryptocurrency appears to be stabilizing, although resistance...
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...
Bitcoin (BTC) continues to trade around $30,000, which is near the bottom of a one-year price range. The cryptocurrency appears to be stabilizing, although resistance at...
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz released what it hopes is the first of many "State of Crypto" reports on Tuesday. The summary covers the world of...
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...
New blockchain investment firm Fortis Digital is raising $100 million for a digital asset fund focused on altcoins that aims to bridge the gap between traditional...
Hosting an annual meeting of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI), El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele is promoting the use and adoption of Bitcoin to 32...
For Pierina Merino, emigrating from Venezuela was a matter of course. At 16, she had graduated from high school in her hometown of Ciudad Bolívar. But with...
Albert Forkner, former State Banking Commissioner with the Wyoming Division of Banking, has joined Fortress Blockchain Technologies, a Web 3 infrastructure company that provides custody and...
Shares of Voyager Digital (VOYG) were downgraded to "neutral" from "buy" by boutique investment firm Compass Point. Compass Point pointed to headwinds across the crypto ecosystem...
After the disastrous minting of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for the metaverse "Otherside" cost investors more than $100 million in transaction fees, both Yuga Labs and ApeCoin...
Coinshift, a platform that provides treasury management for DAOs, has received $15 million in a Series A funding round led by Tiger Global, according to a...
Trading in crypto derivatives should be restricted to wholesale markets, a senior Dutch financial regulator said recently. The comments suggest Dutch regulators want to join the U.K....
The bottom lineCombining chat transcripts leaked in February with subsequent analysis of blockchain data, researchers have gained new insight into the infamous Conti ransomware gang.According to...
Smart-contract security company Certora has raised $36 million in a Series B round led by Jump Crypto to fund development and port its vulnerability detection technology...
Web 3 social graph protocol CyberConnect announced Tuesday that it has received $15 million in Series A funding. CyberConnect seeks to make personal data, such as handles...
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...
Jump Crypto-backed cross-chain bridge Wormhole has introduced support for the Algorand blockchain. The Algorand partnership marks Wormhole's tenth integration with a Layer 1 blockchain as developers focus...
Big Four consultancy EY has unveiled its blockchain-based supply chain manager, developed for the Polygon network and designed to address product traceability bottlenecks. The EY OpsChain Supply...
Bitcoin held above the $30,000 level while indices in Asian, Indian, European and U.S. markets turned green on Tuesday, data showed. Traders priced in expectations of an...
Cryptocurrency custodian Fireblocks has launched its "Web3 Engine," a software developer kit (SDK) that allows companies to create infrastructure for applications that include non-fungible tokens (NFTs)...
