Andreessen Horowitz Doubles Down on Crypto Investments With New $515M Fund
Andressen Horowitz pointed to next-generation payments, decentralized finance, new monetization models and Web3 as use cases it would look into for its new $515 million fund.
Andressen Horowitz pointed to next-generation payments, decentralized finance, new monetization models and Web3 as use cases it would look into for its new $515 million fund.
While FOMO drives up bitcoin's price and derivatives market, Telegram announces another delay and Andreessen Horowitz raises a $515 million fund.
Fireblocks, a platform that secures digital assets in transit, is expanding in Asia with two new offices, one in Hong Kong, the other in Singapore.
Brock Pierce’s nonprofit and Binance say they are buying $1 million in personal protective equipment to help fight coronavirus in Puerto Rico.
Older mining models can now earn 10-20% gross margins after bitcoin’s price jumps to two-month highs.
Micree Zhan persuaded a Beijing municipal agency to stop Bitmain from changing its local legal representative – but not to give him back the title.
Predictions and price models abound ahead of Bitcoin's halving, expected in less than two weeks.
A poll from bitFlyer Europe suggests confidence in crypto is growing, despite the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
Taurus Group is looking to expand its operations after securing Series A funding led by Arab Bank (Switzerland).
CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz, who sponsored the Technology Advisory Committee and advocated for self regulation in the crypto industry, will leave his post by late October.
IBM and the WEF both have plans for solving disruption to supply chains disrupted by the coronavirus crisis.
The New York Department of Financial Services has appointed former IRS Criminal Investigations head Richard Weber as its new general counsel.
Blockstack, the startup building a decentralized backbone for Web 3.0, is open-sourcing its two patents – kinda.
The SEC says 7 members of the Blockchain Association have financial interests in Kik in its opposition to the group's brief around the case.
Checkout.com, a digital payment processor that focuses on cross-border transactions, has become the 24th member of the Libra Association.
CipherTrace is rolling out a toolkit to help banks flag accounts and crypto-related transactions that may be suspicious.
As COVID-19 disrupts global supply chains, the WEF has published a roadmap for businesses to deploy blockchains as a solution.
Libra's revised whitepaper resembles clearinghouse certificates that the U.S. used to prevent bank runs before the Federal Reserve was created, a former IMF economist says.
A Chinese city in the world's bitcoin mining hub is publicly encouraging the blockchain industry to help consume excessive hydroelectricity.
The researchers developing the "digital yuan" have tapped an AI firm to look for financial use cases while Dole unveiled a 5-year blockchain plan.
Samsung smartphone and tablet users in the U.S. and Europe can now download Tron-based dapps.
North Capital received regulatory approval to launch an alternate trading system for security tokens.
The SEC and Kik doubled down on their respective views of whether the 2017 KIN token sale was a securities transaction in new legal filings published late Friday.
The U.S. departments of Justice and Homeland Security seized coronaprevention.org after its owner allegedly tried to sell it for $500 in bitcoin.
Pineapple and produce purveyor Dole wants to expand its use of blockchain to track goods from all three business divisions in just five years.
Coinbase's new service may outcompete Chainlink while AVA Labs is looking to fund DeFi development on its public testnet.
The SEC has charged three California residents with defrauding investors of $1.8 million through an unregistered token sale.
Binance launches the Venmo of Africa, Cuba gets a new exchange and Starbucks will trial the "digital yuan."
Mike Blandina, Bakkt’s CEO since December 2019, will be stepping down from the role, CoinDesk has learned.
The peer-to-peer trading service allows investors to directly trade security tokens directly and simply.