Ex-Pimco, Millennium execs set up crypto advisory business

After leaving crypto liquidity firm GSR in 2023, former Millennium and Pimco executives are returning to crypto by launching a dedicated advisory firm.

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Standard Chartered’s crypto arm eyes buying billionaire’s crypto OTC firm: Report

Zodia Markets is reported to be in talks to buy Elwood Capital Management, a crypto firm backed by billionaire hedge fund manager Alan Howard.

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UK Crypto Advice Firm Shut Down After

The UK government’s Insolvency Service has shut down a crypto advisory firm for accounting negligence and the loss of investors’ money. The firm seemingly claimed to help users with investments while promoting crypto schemes that resulted in millions lost.

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This Latest Move Suggests SEC Lawsuit Against Ripple Is Pushing The Crypto Firm Outside The US

Ripple may be in the process of leaving the United States market for good as the prominent crypto firm has stated that it will be acquiring the majority of its employee candidates from countries outside the US.

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SEC freezes assets of crypto mining firm DEBT Box in $50m fraud case

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has frozen the assets of Utah-based crypto mining firm Digital Licensing Inc., linked to a $50 million fraudulent crypto scheme.

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Paradigm VC Firm Displays Long-Term Interest in Crypto and AI, InQubeta (QUBE) and Fetch (FET) Surge

Paradigm, a prominent venture capital firm in the crypto industry, is in the news for its strategic decision to expand investment focus beyond crypto and blockchain. The firm’s recent adjustments to its website indicate a growing interest in emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI).

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Gemini's Cameron Winklevoss Tweets $1.5B 'Final Offer' in Debt Talks Over Crypto Firm Genesis

Creditors of the crypto financial firm Genesis call for $1.5 billion of forbearance payments and loans denominated in dollars, bitcoin and ether, according to a term sheet posted on Twitter by the Gemini co-founder.

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SEC’s ‘brute force’ crypto regulation attempt is ‘bad policy’ — Paradigm

The venture capital firm pointed out the fundamental differences between crypto assets and securities.

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Crypto Analytics Firm Messari Cuts 15% of Workforce as Part of Restructuring

The crypto intelligence firm, which is led by Ryan Selkis, had closed a $35 million Series B last year.

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Crypto.com Cuts 20% Workforce as Firm Braces for Crypto Winter

The firm is the latest among the major crypto firms to announce layoffs.

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Firm behind FTSE 100 Launches Crypto Index Series

Coinspeaker Firm behind FTSE 100 Launches Crypto Index Series Development and adoption of the crypto space in the past years have prompted the expansion of mechanisms that assess the credibility of virtual tokens.

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SEC Sued By Crypto-Focused Law Firm, Nouriel Roubini Tweets Sarcastic Comment

Prominent crypto hater slammed crypto firm that filed legal suit against SEC for harming crypto industry

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Crypto Financial-Services Firm Galaxy Digital Hires Andrew Lace for Its London Trading Division

The firm has been hiring aggressively despite concerns of a crypto winter and plans to end the year with more than 400 employees.

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BBC Chairman Buys Share In Crypto Firm Despite Crypto Winter

A recent report connected the BBC Chairman, Richard Sharp, to a crypto company founded by a Russian oligarch. Sharp, a former banker, is said to have invested in cryptocurrency business using a foreign firm.

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Bits Crypto Raises $1.2M to Facilitate Gradual Investments in Crypto

The round was led by HOF Capital, the firm that previously invested in MoonPay, Stripe and Kraken.

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Barclays Invests Millions of Dollars in Crypto Custody Firm Copper

Global financial services provider Barclays PLC announced that it will purchase a multi-million dollar stake in crypto firm Copper. The post Barclays Invests Millions of Dollars in Crypto Custody Firm Copper appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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Crypto Custodian BitGo Cleared to Operate in Italy

Despite regulatory uncertainty, the crypto custody provider isn’t the only firm that has recently entered the European nation.

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Crypto Fallout: Voyager Faces User Backlash Over Funds Refund

Crypto lending firm Voyager posted an update on its “restructuring process” and how it will impact its crypto users. Last week, the company filed for bankruptcy following a default on a $650 million loan issued to investment firm Three Arrows Capital (3AC).

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Citadel Securities business development head to lead the new crypto venture firm

Citadel Securities‘ global head of business development, Jamil Nazarali, quit his position to lead a joint venture firm aiming to increase investors’ access to crypto. The post Citadel Securities business development head to lead the new crypto venture firm appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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This crypto firm wants to use DeFi loans to fund its trades

One of the biggest crypto trading firms, Alameda Research, is financing part of its daily trading activity with DeFi loans.   The leading crypto firm transacts around $5 billion worth of crypto daily and revealed that it would borrow $750 million from TrueFi and Maple Finance over the year.

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A $1 billion crypto fund could be on its way from Andreessen Horowitz

The VC firm is looking to raise a considerable sum to put towards crypto investments.

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Brevan Howard Hedge Fund Intends To Buy Crypto

According to a Bloomberg source, the firm will start by investing up to 1. 5% of its $5. 6 billion main hedge fund in digital assets. Co-founders of crypto investment firm Distributed Global, Johnny Steindorff and Tucker Waterman, will oversee this initial allocation.

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UK blockchain firm to build crypto banks in India

The London-based Fintech firm is looking to open a number of physical crypto branches...

The post UK blockchain firm to build crypto banks in India appeared first on Coin Journal.

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Coinhouse Becomes First Crypto Trading Firm To Obtain Crypto License From French Authorities

Coinhouse, a crypto trading firm has achieved a major milestone by becoming the first crypto firm to be approved by France’s top financial regulator, the Financial Market Authority. The nod from the French regulator required Coinhouse to prove that it was capable of keeping crypto-related frauds at bay.

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Europe’s First Crypto License Issuer Warns of New Unregistered Crypto Firm

Luxembourg financial watchdog CSSF warns against a crypto firm claiming to be headquartered in the country

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Legacy Trust Brings Cryptocurrency to Pensioners

Custody firm Legacy Trust announced the launch of a digital asset-based pension plan to allow the public to hold crypto for their retirement corpus. As per Coindesk, September 4, 2019, the Hong Kong-based firm will offer the scheme to employees of participating firms and self-employed individuals through an underlying portfolio of cryptocurrencies and fiat currencies.

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TD Ameritrade CEO: We’re Taking ‘Crawl, Walk, Run’ Approach to Crypto

The firm's early investment in derivative platform ErisX may enable the firm to expand their crypto investment opportunities.

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Turkish Police Arrest 24 Suspects Involved in Hacking Crypto Firm, Local Media Reports

Turkish police have arrested 24 people involved in hacking a crypto firm, using online multiplayer game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds to communicate

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Crypto Exchange Huobi Acquires Public Firm for $70 Million

Crypto exchange Huobi has become the largest shareholder of a public firm listed in Hong Kong, inching a step closer to a possible back-door listing.

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Venture Capital Andreessen Horowitz launches a crypto fund worth $300M – a16z crypto

American Private Venture Capital, Andreessen Horowitz announced a $300 million worth venture fund named “a16z crypto” for cryptocurrency companies and protocols. Chris Dixion, General partner at Andreessen Horowitz mentioned the same in one of his Twitter posts, which detailed the features of the traditional venture capital.

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Andreessen Horowitz Launches $300 Million a16z Cryptocurrency Fund

Andreessen Horowitz is set for an even deeper foray into the cryptocurrency market. The Silicon Valley Venture Capital (VC) firm recently announced the launch of a $300 million cryptocurrency fund.

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Andreessen Horowitz Has Launched a $300M Crypto Fund

Andreessen Horowitz has launched a $300 million crypto fund dedicated to investing in cryptocurrencies and other blockchain-related projects. The fund, named a16z crypto, signals that the firm is diving deeper into the cryptocurrency space to grow its existing portfolio, which includes digital currency exchange Coinbase.

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Silicon Valley investment powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has launched a new $300 million fund focused on cryptocurrencies.

Famous crypto trader Brain Kelly along with Cardano co-founder Charles Hoskinsin expressed very bullish views on the bright future of cryptocurrencies. In a further push to bring some fresh optimism in the market surrounding cryptocurrencies, Silicon Valley’s one of the most prominent venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has finally announced the launch of its $300 million

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Venture Capital Giant Announces $300 Million Crypto Dedicated Fund

Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz announced that it has raised $300 million to invest in the crypto marketplace through a dedicated fund as it brings in regulatory expert Katie Haun as first female general partner.

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Bitcoin Miner Maker ‘Ebang Communication’ Seeks To Join Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX)

Outside the crypto market, Ebang Communication has positioned itself as a major bitcoin mining chip maker in China but will now look to nail a place in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) in the coming months.

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Andreessen Horowitz Launches $300 Million Crypto Fund

Despite a market downturn, cryptocurrency is drawing institutional investor attention now more than ever. Announced on June 25, 2018, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is launching a $300 million fund dedicated to cryptocurrency-related ventures.

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Extange and Wallets partners with Security Firm to Stop use of Stolen Crypto

A Singapore-based IT security company offers a potential blockchain-based solution to help protect individual crypto users and block the use of stolen cryptocurrencies on crypto wallets and exchanges.

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a16z sets up $300 million venture fund to invest in crypto companies

Today, Andreessen Horowitz (known as a16z) a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz announced the launch of a16z crypto, a $300... a16z sets up $300 million venture fund to invest in crypto companies

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Andreessen Horowitz Hires First Female General Partner for Crypto Fund

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has hired its first female general partner to manage the company’s newly formed cryptocurrency fund

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Bitcoin dropped by China’s crypto ratings index and puts EOS in top slot

Just days prior to launch, EOS had also seen serious bugs raised by a Chinese internet security firm that required urgent patches to be issued. The report said that loopholes in EOS’ code could expose nodes to attackers, giving them the ability to possibly take “full control” of transactions. In its assessment, the CCID blockchain research team

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Bithumb Expects Actual Losses to Be Lower, Promises Reimbursement to Affected Clients

Earlier this week, the cryptocurrency community was once again dumbfounded when millions of dollars worth of digital coins went missing as hackers successfully breached Bithumb, which is South Korea’s biggest crypto exchange.

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Billionaire Novogratz Is Investing Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Bitcoin and Crypto Startups

Mike Novogratz, a billionaire investor who formerly managed Fortress Investment Group and Goldman Sachs, is said to be investing hundreds of millions of dollars in emerging Bitcoin and crypto startups.

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Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review: Fortunes and Fallacies

This week, leading South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb experienced a major hack, while Mt Gox, the most notorious exchange to be hacked in bitcoin history, is also back in the news.

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Word on the Street: Law firm confirms Tether's assets

A comparatively quiet week in crypto where markets are still taking stock from the highs of the SEC clarifications and low of the Bithumb exchange hack that quickly succeeded it.

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Bitfinex's Chief Strategy Officer Leaves Crypto Exchange

Crypto exchange Bitfinex's chief strategy officer Phil Potter is leaving the firm, Reuters reported Friday.

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Crypto Hedge Fund Multicoin Valued at $75m After Fred Wilson’s VC Investment

Despite the recent decline of the cryptocurrency market, the promise of huge profits continues to lure investors to funnel some of their funds into these digital coins. Recently, the New York-based venture capital firm Union Square Ventures (USV) officially announced its investment in Multicoin Capital, which is a cryptocurrency hedge fund startup.

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Nihon’s Financial Watchdog Orders AML change at 6 Crypto Exchanges

Japan’s financial watchdog has issued business improvement orders to six licensed cryptocurrency exchanges following on-site inspections conducted over recent months. As a result, bitFlyer has announced that it has temporarily stopped accepting new customers in order to reexamine the IDs of “certain customers.

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Stellar Could Acquire Chain the San Francisco-Based Blockchain Startup

A San Francisco-based blockchain startup called Chain is making headlines in the crypto world. Fortune reports that cryptocurrency company Stellar is in talks to acquire the firm. According to the publication, the entirety of the $500 million acquisition deal will be paid in Stellar Lumens (XLM) coins.

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UK’s FCA Issues Yet Another Warning Against Crypto Brokers

The Financial Conduct Authority of the U. K. has warned traders against an unregulated firm called Cryptorobot365. The regulatory body blacklisted the firm for providing cryptocurrency investment services in the country without authorization from the agency.

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