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August 8, 2022

Is Gaming a Good Use Case for Blockchain?

Adding digital assets and NFTs to an already huge and complex industry has the potential t...

May 5, 2022

Marshall Wace Makes Hire to Focus on Blockchain Investments

Marshall Wace is building out a team that invests in private blockchain-related companies,...

April 11, 2022

Mideast Asset Manager Investcorp Seeks Cash for Blockchain Fund

Investcorp Holdings, the biggest alternative asset manager in the Middle East, started rai...

April 10, 2022

Central Banks Can Save DeFi, as Weird as That Sounds

The financial metaverse would be better served by truly stable currencies but the powers-t...

February 15, 2022

Coinbase Eyes Challenge to Western Union With Crypto Remittances

Coinbase Global Inc., the biggest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, is wading into the interna...

February 15, 2022

McLaren Racing Ends Sponsorship Deal With Bitci.com Crypto Group

McLaren Racing has terminated its relationship with Bitci.com, the Turkish-based crypto gr...

February 15, 2022

Crypto Is Like a ‘Ponzi’ Scheme, India’s Central Bank Warns

In a strong warning to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, a top official at India’...

February 15, 2022

Pakistan Says Risks From Cryptocurrencies Outweigh Its Benefits

Pakistan’s central bank said that risks posed by cryptocurrencies outweigh its benefits, d...

February 14, 2022

BlockFi’s Plans to Register with SEC Augurs New Era for Crypto

Crypto proponents have argued for years that regulators shouldn’t apply decades-old rules ...

February 14, 2022

Hackers Snagged $36 Million in Crypto in Breach of IRA Financial

A hack at IRA Financial Trust, which offers self-directed retirement accounts, resulted in...

February 14, 2022

Big Bitcoin Miners Aren't Immune to the Need for Cash

A pair of big Bitcoin miners are poised to sell their stock in the face of a drop in token...

February 14, 2022

SEC Warns Investors About Risks From High-Yield Crypto Accounts

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is warning investors about risks associated wi...

February 13, 2022

Financial Ads Are Stars in First-Ever Crypto Super Bowl

Cryptocurrency exchanges and other financial services companies were stars amid a Super Bo...

February 12, 2022

Andreessen’s Dixon Spies Riches in Web3. Others See ‘Rubbish’

The venture capitalist and other backers of the blockchain-based future of the internet vi...

February 12, 2022

Crypto Lender BlockFi to Pay $100 Million In Settlement with SEC, States

BlockFi Inc. is poised to pay $100 million to settle allegations from the Securities and E...

February 11, 2022

Coinbase Resumes Trading Feature After Vulnerability Warning

Coinbase Global Inc., the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, resumed operations of a re...

February 10, 2022

The Market Is Finally Putting a Realistic Price on Carbon

This surge should be seen as a success. Politicians need to resist the populist impulse to...

February 10, 2022

Jamaican Digital Currency Coming in 2022, PM Holness Says

(Bloomberg) -- Jamaica’s Prime Minister said the country is on track to launch its own e-c...

February 10, 2022

Binance to Invest $200 Million in News Publisher Forbes

Binance Holdings Ltd., parent of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is making a ...

February 10, 2022

Hackers Nabbed $1.3 Billion in Ransom Over 2 Years, a New Report Says

Criminals netted $1.3 billion in ransom payments from hacking victims in the past two year...

February 10, 2022

A Deep Dive Into Crypto's Cure for the Texas Power Grid

Yes, it could raise electricity demand and encourage extra solar and wind power, but there...

February 9, 2022

FTX Chief Reminds Congress That 95% of Crypto Volume Is Offshore

(Bloomberg) -- Sam Bankman-Fried, the chief executive officer and co-founder of cryptocurr...

February 9, 2022

Goldman-Backed Battery Maker Says Bitcoin Mine a Waste of Energy

(Bloomberg) -- Battery startup Northvolt AB says Sweden should stop wasting state-funded g...

February 9, 2022

IMF Chief Sees No Universal Central-Bank Digital Money Case

(Bloomberg) -- Sign up for the New Economy Daily newsletter, follow us @economics and subs...

February 9, 2022

Zambia Explores Digital Currency, But Warns Against Crypto

Zambia’s central bank expects to complete research on forming a digital currency that coul...

February 8, 2022

Bitfinex Cryptocurrency Linked to 2016 Hack Surges 59% After Fund Recovery

The cryptocurrency known as Unus Sed Leo, which was issued in part to recapitalize the Bit...

February 8, 2022

Singapore Crypto Investment Jumped to a Record in 2021, KPMG Says

Investment in the cryptocurrency and blockchain sector in Singapore jumped more than 10 ti...

February 7, 2022

Crypto Intermediaries Need More Regulation, Treasury’s Liang Says

(Bloomberg) -- Treasury Undersecretary for Domestic Finance Nellie Liang is set to undersc...

February 7, 2022

Sequoia-Led Group Buys Polygon’s Crypto Token for $450 Million

(Bloomberg) -- Polygon, the operator of an eponymous protocol used by developers to make E...

February 7, 2022

U.K. Fintech Investment Surges 617% to Top £27 Billion Last Year

British fintech firms attracted $37.3 billion of investment last year, up from $5.2 billio...