Avalanche ecosystem accelerator Colony has raised $18.5 million in seed investments to bootstrap the next generation of Avalanche blockchain projects, underscoring heightened demand for the proof-of-stake ecosystem. The investment round was led by the Avalanche Foundation, an organization overseeing ecosystem development grants, with additional participation from Shima Capital, HashKey, GBV Capital and Bixin Ventures. Members of the Avalanche community also…
The use of cryptocurrencies to evade international sanctions from various international governmental organizations like the United Nations (UN), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, among others, has been a concern for regulators ever since the creation of cryptocurrencies. The rapidly increasing adoption of digital currencies in the last two years makes this discussion more important than ever,…
The below is a direct excerpt of Marty’s Bent Issue #1120: “They have made plunder the norm.” Sign up for the newsletter here. If you couldn’t tell, we’re living through a bit of a societal decay at the moment. And if we’re being brutally honest with ourselves, we’ve probably been living through a bit of a societal decay for decades,…
Aarika Rhodes, a Democrat running to represent California’s 30th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives, has begun to accept campaign contributions in Bitcoin using the Lightning Network. In a Tuesday message to her more than 21,000 Twitter followers, Rhodes said her campaign website had started using Lighting for campaign contributions in addition to the BitPay options for Bitcoin…
In Brief DeFi, shorthand for “decentralized finance,” is a catchall term for a group of financial tools built on a blockchain. The idea is to allow anyone with internet access to lend, borrow and bank without going through middlemen. DeFi is one of the fastest growing areas of the blockchain and decentralized web space. Bitcoin—a payment system in which anyone…
Grayscale Investments has launched a solana trust. The company now has nearly $54 billion in total assets under management. The new trust, which is the company’s 16th crypto investment product, will solely invest in solana (SOL). The CEO of Grayscale said that investors are increasingly “diversifying their exposure beyond digital assets like bitcoin and ethereum.” Grayscale Adds Solana to Its…
Today Ether (ETH) price briefly touched $4,760, exciting investors and reminding the world that the altcoin is a mere 2.2% below the $4,870 all-time high reached 20 days ago. While the spot price action might be intriguing, let’s see what’s happening in Ether’s derivatives markets. Ether ETH/USD price at Bitstamp. Source: TradingView While it is possible to draw a descending…
When China banned Bitcoin mining in May, plenty of crypto natives scoffed—and not just because China’s tried and failed to ban crypto before. The mining rigs would be loaded up and shipped elsewhere, they said, because the beauty of decentralized networks is that they’re borderless. Crypto finds a way. But the miners that arrived in nearby Kazakhstan have overtaxed the…
2TM, the owner of Brazil’s biggest bitcoin exchange, Mercado Bitcoin, has raised $50 million in an extension round.Now valued at $2.15 billion, the group had captured $200 million in July from SoftBank Group Corp.Mercado Bitcoin has over 3 million clients, while the country’s stock exchange has 3.8 million individual investor accounts as of the first semester of this year. 2TM,…
press release PRESS RELEASE. Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 29th of November, 2021: TabTrader is excited to announce the launch of our own token (TTT) on Solanium and AcceleRaytor on December 1 🚀, aspiring to be the ‘ultimate trading terminal’; we are now on the way to drastically expand. DeFi is the future and TabTrader 2.0 makes sure to be a part…
