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News/crypto
The central American nation today sets a world-first as it adopts the cryptocurrency for use across all goods and services – even taxes.
07 September 2021
News/payments
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) was today announced as the newest member of Hedera Hashgraph’s Governing Council, joining UCL as the second member from the higher education sector.
19 August 2021
Proceedings against Binance will be brought in the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre by a group of disgruntled Binance customers who were unable to trade on the platform during this year’s infamous May 19th crypto crash.
After returning nearly all the $610 million in cryptocurrency that they stole earlier this week, a hacker has been offered a $500,000 "bug bounty" by the Poly Network.
13 August 2021
Polynetwork, a platform that helps link blockchains together, says that its Twitter plea to hackers to return the $610 million in recently stolen cryptocurrency has begun to pay off, with several million already handed back.
11 August 2021
News/people
Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini has boosted its DeFi credentials through the acquisition of Guesser, a real-time predictions market platform. Financial terms were not disclosed.
10 August 2021
Open-source blockchain payments outfit Celo is spinning out Valora, its native digital wallet, into an independent company that has already closed a $20 million Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
27 July 2021
Visa and PayPal have invested in the latest, $300 million, fund from venture capital firm Blockchain Capital.
22 June 2021
Digital asset management player Ledger has hit a $1.5 billion valuation off the back of a $380 million Series C funding round led by 10T Holdings.
11 June 2021
Block.one, the blockchain software firm backed by Peter Thiel, is pumping $10 billion into a new cryptocurrency exchange subsidiary.
11 May 2021
News/regulation
A report from the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has found that while distributed ledger technology (DLT) offers the potential for significant market-wide transformation, market participants are still far from adopting this technology at scale at a market-wide level.
06 May 2021
News/retail
Open Bank Project (OBP) has formed a partnership with the API3 Foundation to deliver banking and open banking data oracles to the decentralised web.
19 April 2021
News/startups
Gro, a UK DeFi startup founded by former Revolut and Spotify executive Hannes Graah, has raised $7.1 million in a seed funding round led by Galaxy Digital and Framework Ventures.
01 April 2021
RioDeFi, a Singapore-based decentralised finance startup, has launched an incubator hub designed to bring greater blockchain interoperability to Asia.
30 March 2021
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