Amid the COVID-19 slowdown, institution-facing liquidity aggregator FalconX has raised $17 million from top VCs in the crypto space. Institution-facing liquidity aggregator, FalconX, has announced a $17 million fundraising round including participation from Coinbase Ventures, Accel, and a venture capital firm associated with FMR LLC — the parent company of Fidelity Investments. FalconX will use […]
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Bitcoin acts as a gateway to altcoins, with only 24% of investors keeping the faith, according to research from Coinbase. Bitcoin (BTC) acts like a gateway down the altcoin rabbit hole, according to new research from Coinbase. The research found that while 60% of users buy Bitcoin as their first cryptocurrency purchase, only 24% of […]
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CoinMarketCap last year rejected the web traffic metric that has catapulted new owners Binance into the top spot. Crypto markets data aggregator CoinMarketCap yesterday changed its methodology to rank exchanges on their web traffic by default — a metric that puts CoinMarketCap’s new owners Binance in the top spot. But this stands in stark contrast […]
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Visa has filed a patent application to create digital currency — potentially using Ethereum as the blockchain. Visa has filed an application to create digital currency on a blockchain with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. According to the application published May 14 — but filed way back in November 2018 — inventors Simon J. […]
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The Proof of Stake Alliance has engaged in dialogues with U.S. regulators regarding industry-driven standards for PoS protocols. The Proof of Stake Alliance revealed that it is taking critical steps toward improving the regulatory space around the Staking-as-a-Service (STaaS) market, including dialogues with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. According to the announcement, the POSA met […]
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Major U.S. venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has began publishing educational material from its crypto-focused bootcamp. Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz — also known as a16z — has started releasing an online version of “Crypto Startup School,” its seven-week education course for industry entrepreneurs. Two lectures from week one were published on May 13 via […]
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$220 million in Bitcoin has left exchanges since the halving. Do users not trust exchanges or simply see it as a store of value? Almost 24,000 Bitcoin (BTC) have been withdrawn from exchanges since Bitcoin’s halving on May 11, according to Bitcoin Exchange Net-Flow data from on-chain market analysis platform Glassnode. The trend of Bitcoin […]
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Bitcoin price is moving similarly as in April 2019, when BTC surged from the $5,000s to $14,000 in 62 days. Bitcoin (BTC) price is portraying a similar trend seen in April 2019, when BTC surged from $5,000s to $14,000 within two months. Based on the similarity of the price action, there is a possibility that […]
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We have now officially entered the 6.25 block subsidy era, and the fourth Bitcoin halving started to count down. The cryptocurrency industry has just experienced the most anticipated event, Bitcoin’s (BTC) third halving. The last 12.5 Bitcoin block was mined by F2Pool and encoded the message: “NYTimes 09/Apr/2020 With $2.3T Injection, Fed’s Plan Far Exceeds […]
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Recent reports show an unprecedented increase in the number of women involved in the crypto market, some exchanges see a 160% surge. It is widely believed that the cryptocurrency and blockchain sectors are almost exclusively male-dominated. However, a report released by CoinMarketCap on April 30 suggests otherwise. According to analysts, the number of women in […]
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