Taking Stock of How Far Crypto Has Come
Crypto has financial, technological and human capital. But for now it lacks a compelling mainstream narrative, says a European VC.
Crypto has financial, technological and human capital. But for now it lacks a compelling mainstream narrative, says a European VC.
With NFTs taking off and the real real estate market buffeted by COVID-19, virtual worlds like Decentraland could be well placed to capitalize.
The digital currency asset manager's new executives bring with them experience at firms such as Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and Ripple Labs.
The rebranded Libra network aims to come out with an initial product around the end of this quarter, with help from Fireblocks and First Digital Assets.
The fund is structured similarly to the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, but aims to compete with lower fees.
The firm aims to sell over $1 billion worth of cover in 2021 spread across at least 30 protocols.
The digital assets post-trade collaboration also involves Citi, State Street, UBS and others.
Luxor Technologies will use the funds to expand its hashrate and hire more engineers.
SBI's founder and CEO Yoshitaka Kitao said his firm would turn the planned crypto venture into a core source of profitability.
The bank’s game plan was hidden in plain sight in a widely overlooked report by the World Economic Forum.
Hearn will become CEO of a new firm while remaining a technical adviser to R3.
Mexico City-based Bitso plans to incorporate Quedex’s high-performance trading engine across the exchange.
Kraken Ventures will operate autonomously, with financial backing from the exchange.
Biggs is an associate fellow at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School, guest lecturing on blockchain technology and digital assets.
The world’s biggest custodian bank beats rivals JPMorgan and Citi to the punch.
Images have surfaced on Twitter reportedly showing a crypto-mining operation using laptops fitted with high-end Nvidia RTX 30-series graphics cards.
Chief financial officer Ned Segal said the firm has been watching other companies to see what it can learn.
Celo offers a blockchain payments platform using customers' cellphone numbers to secure their public keys.
A shipment of devices said to be worth up to $60 million was set up in the city of Bratsk and set to mining bitcoin.
Never mind bitcoin on the balance sheet, a subsidiary of Europe’s biggest telco is taking a stake in DeFi.
Argo said the new Texas facility will have access to up to 800 megawatts of cheap, renewable energy.
By digitizing the normally paper process, the Lygos joint venture says it's shown it can speed up bank guarantee issuances.
In open-source development, where there's little privileged intellectual property, intangibles like brand and community matter more.
Xend Finance will allow credit unions and cooperatives to earn interest on deposits by converting them to stablecoins.
The San Francisco-based firm did not say if it would choose a direct listing.
Spartan Group's new fund has raised over $30 million in its first round, with a further $20 million expected to be raised in March or April.
A "Signals" account has been blocked after making racist posts available to all users of the app.
Compliance chief Malcolm Wright led the development of BitMEX’s data storage principles for crypto exchanges.
The early-stage VC will continue to invest around its primary thesis, that public blockchains are changing the world.
Binance, Coinbase, Gemini and Kraken are all having technical difficulties under heavy trading load.
