Robinhood Raises $323 Million From DST, Sequoia, and Ribbit Capital
The $323 million in funding from crypto notables, including Ribbit Capital and Sequoia, brings Robinhood's valuation to $6.7 billion.
The $323 million in funding from crypto notables, including Ribbit Capital and Sequoia, brings Robinhood's valuation to $6.7 billion.
Circle is moving the majority of its Poloniex exchange operations offshore, citing a "lack of regulatory frameworks" in the U.S.
Bakkt is scheduled to begin testing its bitcoin futures contracts Monday, more than six months after its originally planned launch date.
Uganda's government is supporting a project using blockchain tech to fight the problem of counterfeit medicines.
The AFOX platform will allow for the tokenization of media contracts and the selling of advertisements in the futures and options markets.
A parliamentary committee worries about Facebook holding financial details on its potentially billions of Libra users.
The crypto exchange left a database open on the internet and leaked data for up to 300,000 users.
FairX, a crypto bank that planned to run on the Stellar network, ran out of steam.
The self-regulatory body for brokers and exchanges has quietly extended its deadline for member firms to report their crypto activity.
Nearly 2.7 trillion won (US$2.3 billion) have been lost to cryptocurrency crimes in the last two years, not including exchange hacks.
Facebook's Libra is trying to simultaneously be pro-privacy and pro-KYC; this forms an inherent contradiction.
Sun will sit down with Buffett, Circle's Jeremy Allaire, and Yoni Assia, founder and CEO of eToro.
While some traders prefer to watch multiple indicators for buy signals on their charts, others prefer a simpler setup like the Awesome Oscillator.
A site called "US Veteran Token" looks to be using goodwill toward military vets to scam investors. And one of our bios was stolen to promote it.
The cadastral map will offer a chance for everyone to claim a stake in the moon before Jeff Bezos claims it.
After a $40 million Series B, buzzy crypto startup Anchorage is setting up a new subsidiary in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
He can try, argues Noelle Acheson – but the risk he might succeed is outweighed by the benefits of the heightened conversation.
The former head of a ConsenSys-incubated startup filed paperwork to sue the venture studio and its founder, Joe Lubin.
KPMG is piloting a way to handle massive amounts of telecom data prior to the full implementation of 5G service. They're trying blockchain.
R3 has hired software sales pro Cathy Minter as chief revenue officer to grow the user base for its paid DLT product, Corda Enterprise.
Dmitri Vasilev, the former CEO of now-defunct crypto exchange WEX, has reportedly been arrested in Italy.
Someone in South Korea appears to be trying to take advantage of Samsung's blockchain efforts by nabbing the "Samsung Coin" trademark.
A bold maneuver in the dark nets a group of wannabe crypto thieves in Birmingham, U.K., very little.
The Jersey arm of Binance has listed the cryptocurrency exchange's own British pound-backed stablecoin, BGBP.
CoinDesk dives deep into the complex process of reviewing code for the Bitcoin Core software.
The U.S. state of New Jersey is taking legal action over alleged securities violations by blockchain rental marketplace Pocketinns.
“There was a clear agreement ... that Libra, in particular, raises some very significant concerns, and cryptocurrencies more broadly," said Mnuchin.
Seychelles-based cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX is being probed by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission over client trades, Bloomberg says.
The Apple co-founder has joined his second blockchain enterprise, one targeting more efficient use of energy.
Joshua Ashley Klayman Kuzar sees Libra as a turning point in the march to mass adoption. "Facebook didn't come to congress," she said. "Congress came to Facebook."
