5ire – a London-based layer one blockchain firm – secured a $100 million fundraiser, boosting its valuation to $1.5 billion. Becoming a Unicorn in Less Than a Year 5ire’s latest fundraiser was led by SRAM & MRAM Group (a leading international conglomerate headquartered in London). The company vowed to use the Series A financing to...Read More
Protagonist – a venture capital firm that supports entities in the digital asset industry – launched a $100 million fund that will be distributed to early-stage crypto companies. The initiative was established by the firm’s Co-Founders – George Bousis, Dylan Macalinao, and Harry Hurst. Bear Markets Create Legends In a recent interview for Tech Crunch,...Read More
Yifan He, the CEO of Blockchain-based Service Network (BSN), published an article on June 26 referring to cryptocurrencies as the “biggest Ponzi scheme in human history.” He is also the CEO of Red Date Technology, which happens to be one of the founding members of China’s blockchain infrastructure. The article was published in the state...Read More
The Governor of Qatar’s central bank – Sheikh Bandar – revealed that the financial institution intends to issue a digital form of its national currency. To do so, it must find the appropriate technology and consider the possible benefits and drawbacks of such an initiative, he added. Still in ‘Foundation Stage’ Launching a CBDC has...Read More
The distributed ledger is the fundamental technology behind blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum. The latest report, titled “Are Blockchains Decentralized?” by security research firm Trail of Bits, poses a question on the thesis of decentralization as the longstanding notion of blockchain, arguing that it may be more centralized-oriented than the crypto industry tends to think....Read More
It has become challenging for miners to expand their operations as the schedule of the Ethereum Merge has become uncertain in the near times. The difficulty bomb is a computer program in the Ethereum blockchain meant to raise the complexity of mining ETH regularly. Developers have repeatedly delayed it in the merging, causing many problems...Read More
Philip Hammond – a British politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2016 to 2019 – urged the United Kingdom’s authorities to open their arms to the digital asset industry. Otherwise, other countries that have already hopped on the bandwagon will turn into global crypto leaders, while the UK will miss this opportunity....Read More
Following FTX’s assistance to insolvent crypto lenders BlockFi and Voyager, there have been suggestions that Binance may also declare some bailouts. Binance has finally broken the silence and addressed the situation. The firm stated that it is not in the mindset to assist “poor” or failing cryptocurrency initiatives, which also include ‘ill-considered,’ ‘badly handled,’ or...Read More
The blockchain-based payments company – Roxe Holding – reportedly struck a $3.6 billion SPAC deal with Goldenstone Acquisition Ltd to become a publicly-traded enterprise with a ticker symbol “ROXE.” NASDAQ’s Next Participant Despite the unfavorable condition of the cryptocurrency market, Roxe Holding and Goldenstone Acquisition decided to enter into a $3.6 billion collaboration and join...Read More
As per today’s Wall Street Journal article, struggling cryptocurrency hedge firm Three Arrows Capital (3AC) is focusing on negotiating a bailout arrangement. The failure of Terra, one of the largest blockchain projects, which entirely collapsed in early May, had a significant impact on the cryptocurrency industry. Three Arrows Capital, Kyle Davis, speaks about the firm’s...Read More
It is a known fact that the crypto space is now in the middle of a notable bear market which is yet to find its bottom. The star crypto, Bitcoin, currently appears struggling to restore the last line of defence above $20,000. In such a case, the crypto market tumbles down heavily and at the...Read More
The French Government’s Olympics committee is willing to run the Paris 2024 Olympic Games with minimum security risks for fans. As such, the organization might incorporate blockchain technology into its ticketing system and provide non-transferable, personalized passes to spectators. Blockchain to the Rescue According to a recent coverage, Michel Cadot – the interministerial delegate of...Read More
The largest stock exchange in Nigeria – Nigerian Exchange Ltd. – will reportedly roll out a blockchain-enabled trading platform next year to facilitate the capital market and attract young investors. The main application of the distributed-ledger technology will be in trade settlements, the company revealed. According to Bloomberg, the exchange will partner up with a...Read More
DApp discovery and analysis platform DappRadar released a detailed report analyzing the state of the crypto market in May. It mainly covered three areas: DeFi, NFT activities, and crypto games, stating that the Terra debacle did not destroy the overall DeFi ecosystems. NFT trading volume was only down 6% from April if measured in token...Read More
The Crypto bear market is currently dealing with a bunch of uncertainties in the price. One of the Crypto analysts has made his outlook for Solana (SOL), Avalanche (AVAX), Chainlink (LINK), and ApeCoin (APE) aiming at all the uncertainties the market is dealing with. Solana Price The Pseudonymous crypto trader Altcoin Sherpa told his 176,500...Read More
All eyes have been on Do Kwon and his crew at Terraform Labs since the fall of Terra Luna and UST and the following introduction of Terra 2.0. Several allegations have been made against the founder and TFL, some of which are backed up by good proof. TFL and Do Kwon have even been the...Read More
Paolo Ardoino, Tether (USDTchief )’s technical officer (CTO), has identified the Terra (LUNA) ecosystem as the primary cause of the coin’s fall. Ardoino pointed at the Terra developers’ decision to create the UST stablecoin and back it with bitcoin. He called this move a “recipe for disaster” during an interview on Kitco News dated June...Read More
Chainalysis’ latest report finds that decentralized exchanges (DEXs) have surpassed centralized exchanges (CEXs) in terms of on-chain transaction volume since January 2021. However, to maintain their lead in market share, DEXs may need to resolve a set of issues, including regulatory scrutiny, in the future. DEXs Vs. CEXs Since CEXs usually adopt the “order books”...Read More
Mr. Jason Choi, a member of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list, co-founded Spartan Group. The Spartan Group is APAC region’s most successful Web3 VC fund. Mr. Jason has expressed his thoughts on the current crypto “bottom.” DeFi 2.0 Lost 98.5% On An Average According to Mr. Choi’s data, all forms of utility and governance holdings...Read More
The Vietnam Blockchain Association partnered with the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange – Binance – to boost the development of blockchain technology in the Asian country. The two parties will also establish connections with other tech companies across the globe. Striking a Deal With Binance The cryptocurrency industry has found a welcoming location in the face...Read More
Big banks are making moves into the blockchain and crypto space at a greater pace now more than ever. JPMorgan is the latest to experiment with distributed ledger technology to improve transfer efficiency. On May 26, Bloomberg reported that the Wall Street bank ran a pilot test transfer last week involving a transfer of a...Read More
The Israeli-American businessman and investor started the firm with his spouse Rebekah and CEO Dana Gibber. On May 24, the company announced that it had raised $70 million in its first major funding round led by a16z. The event was made through a combination of traditional venture equity and a private token sale. Participants included...Read More
China may have banned cryptocurrencies on its territory, but blockchain technology remains a key priority area for the government. Its global ambitions in this space are just taking off with BSN Spartan Network, which is advertised to be open-source and free from the Chinese government’s snooping. BSN’s Spartan Network Blockchain-based Service Network (BSN), a project...Read More
Leading crypto VC firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) released a report offering an annual overview of the current trends and state of the crypto industry. The paper reiterated the firm’s bullish views on Web3, projecting long-term growth ahead of the sector, and weighed in on the dominant position as claimed by Ethereum among layer-one blockchains. “Web3...Read More
On May 9th, 2022, Terra (LUNA) made international headlines after its stable coin, UST lost its peg for the second time in two days. The fear that followed resulted in the Terra ecosystem collapsing on May 10th. Terra has lost 99 percent of its value in just 48 hours. The crypto community has been outraged...Read More
As huge turbulence was hovering within the space that the Terra executive had not handled the crisis in a proper way, the founder Do Kwon came up with a relief plan. As per the relief plan, the existing ecosystem would become Terra Classic with the token named LUNC. And the newly created chain would be...Read More
Falcone rose to fame and fortunes, amassing a fortune of $2 billion by shorting housing markets but has since squandered most of that over the past decade, according to reports. On May 17, the New York Post reported that the former hedge fund tycoon is angling to profit from TV coverage of the crypto industry,...Read More
EY – a Big Four accounting firm – launched a new application programming interface (API) for its blockchain platform, allowing enterprise users to transact on public blockchains without dealing with the complexity of entire DLT systems. New API for EY OpsChain EY OpsChain, part of the giant’s blockchain platform, is a subsidiary dedicated to solving...Read More
As the cryptocurrency industry continues to be shaken by the Terra blockchain’s failure and the price crash of its native token, LUNA, and its algorithmic Stablecoin, UST, suspicions have arisen concerning the whereabouts of around 80,000 Bitcoin units belonging to the ecosystem. The claimed Bitcoin was intended to be held in trust by the Luna...Read More
Terra validators have reportedly decided to freeze Terra’s blockchain due to LUNA’s collapsing market price. The team argues that at such low costs, a whale buyer could easily commit a governance attack on the network. The chain was officially frozen at block 7,603,700, making native transactions on Terra’s blockchain impossible. Terra (LUNA), which has seen...Read More
