Chicago Mercantile Exchange, a major US derivatives exchange, announced on April 7 that it has partnered with crypto index operator CF Benchmarks to provide 11 indexes tracking the performance of major Altcoins in the market. Per the announcement, the 11 new cryptocurrency reference rates and real-time indices will go live from April 25 and will […]
E-commerce merchants on Shopify can now accept payments in Bitcoin after Strike, a Chicago-based Bitcoin payments app, announced on Thursday its integration with the e-commerce company. With this partnership, US-based Shopify merchants would be able to instantly receive payments in Bitcoin globally and with lower processing fees. The integration with Strike would instantly facilitate bitcoin-to-cash
On September 05, 2022, the “Cyber Future 22:22” conference dedicated to the world of metaverses will be held at the Address Sky View Hotel. The conference is organized by Alexey Maznichenko’s investment fund, AAM Worldwide Investments. More than 1,000 participants from 32 countries will immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the future, learn new strategies,
Improbable, a London-based metaverse startup, has received a significant $150 million funding to create a new entity that aims to interconnect blockchain-based worlds. Called the M², the project has already reached a value of $1 billion after raising $150 million from notable investors in the Web3 space, including Mirana, Digital Currency Group, CMT, SIG, and
Blockchain security firm CertiK announced on Friday that it has concluded its fourth round of funding, doubling the company’s valuation to $2 billion in just three months. The company has now raised a total of $230 million from its four funding rounds in the past nine months. The oversubscribed extended Series B financing round saw
Bolt, a one-click checkout software firm, has agreed to buy cryptocurrency payments startup Wyre for a whopping $1.5 billion, the Wall Street reported Thursday, citing sources familiar with the matter. The deal, which is expected to close by the end of this year, will see Bolt merging cryptocurrencies into its host of services, including one-click
One of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges Coinbase has gilded its way into the country with the largest number of crypto holders present. At an event hosted in Bengaluru, Coinbase confirmed that it has launched digital assets trading services in India, with plans to lead Web3 expansion in the country. Part of the expansion included
HBAR Foundation is looking to further its development in the metaverse industry with a new fund. The $250 million fund announced Thursday seeks to attract developers, entrepreneurs, and companies into developing their metaverse products in the Hedera ecosystem. (1) We’re excited to officially announce the launch of the #Metaverse Fund, a major acceleration force for
Singapore, Singapore, 7th April, 2022, Chainwire MOBLAND, the first-ever Mafia-themed Metaverse has announced a partnership with Wormhole, the largest cross-chain interoperability protocol to build GameFi 2.0 cross-chain bridging solution. All the while, MOBLAND’s Mafia-as-a-DAO governance system has been the #1 NFT collection on Binance NFT (all-time volume) for 4 months running. The cross-chain solution by
Singapore, Singapore, 7th April, 2022, Chainwire The four new decentralized tokens will give users price exposure, not ownership, to the underlying stocks and ETFs without any restrictions DeFiChain, the world’s leading blockchain on the Bitcoin network dedicated to bringing decentralized financial applications and services to everyone, is thrilled to announce that it has added four
In a testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has claimed that her department has not found evidence of Russia exploiting crypto assets as a means to evade sanctions. As a backdrop, the United States and its allies imposed heavy economic sanctions on Russia following the country’s declaration of
Tortola, British Virgin Islands, 7th April, 2022, Chainwire The Kingdom, the world’s first culture-led Metaverse, has secured $3.6 million in its private funding round. Numerous prominent investors took part in the round, catapulting the project to the forefront of Web3 development. The Kingdom will be an open-world Metaverse focusing on culture-led experiences through NFT collaborations,
SushiSwap (SUSHI) and Synthetix (SNX) received a heavy blow on Wednesday after Grayscale Investments removed their exposure from its DeFi Fund’s portfolio as part of its quarterly readjustments. The move came after the protocols’ market capitalization fell short of Grayscale’s minimum requirements. At press time, decentralized exchange SushiSwap and synthetic asset issuance protocol Synthetix have
San Francisco, CA, 7th April, 2022, — LOVO, a synthetic speech startup, has closed a $2 million extension to its pre-Series A round, which now totals $6.5 million. The extension was led by Hashed, a global crypto venture capital firm active in the blockchain gaming and NFT ecosystem, previously investing in Axie Infinity, The Sandbox
A new survey conducted by NBC News suggested that at least one in five adults in the United States have explored cryptocurrencies through trading and/or investing. Of the total 1000 respondents participating in the poll, 21% have “dabbled” in cryptocurrencies, demonstrating heightened interest in the space. The crypto industry saw significant growth in the year
Dapps or Decentralized Applications has become a buzzword in the crypto-world over the past 3 years. For the uninitiated, the term dApp refers to a blockchain-based application that runs on a decentralized network and uses its resources. Decentralized apps normally have no central point of failure, have open source code and work with a decentralized
Trezor, a popular crypto hardware wallet, is likely suffering from a security breach as thousands of its users were targeted in a phishing attack. In a Tweet posted Sunday, the Prague-based company reported that it is investigating a “potential data breach of an opt-in newsletter hosted on MailChimp.” It has also warned users to not
Huobi Global, one of the world’s leading global exchanges, has unveiled a trading bot on its Huobi Global mobile app that will enable investors to capitalize on price volatility in the cryptocurrency market. The trading bot allows users to place buy and sell orders at certain regular intervals above and below the price of a
Popular NFT marketplace OpenSea has expanded its payment options to fiat by enabling transactions through credit cards. The company has partnered with payments infrastructure firm MoonPay to enable direct credit card payments. Specifically, OpenSea will leverage MoonPay’s new solution NFT Checkout which allows users to purchase an NFT instantly with a debit or credit card,
PRESS RELEASE. The past decade has witnessed a revolution in traditional finance led by the utilization of blockchain technology. Blockchain technology has shown greater use cases since the development of leading coin Bitcoin. It has been used in different sectors of world economics including, health, agriculture, supply management, finance and many more. However, one sector
