DeFi’s total value locked falls $10 billion in April

April's DeFi sector sees a $10 billion TVL drop, with Avalanche and Solana leading losses, while Bitcoin and Base attract fresh capital. The post DeFi’s total value locked falls $10 billion in April appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF Records $0 Daily Inflows For First Time As BTC Price Nosedives

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Morgan Stanley May Soon Allow Brokers to Pitch Bitcoin ETFs to Customers: Report

The move may bring fresh energy and capital into the spot ETFs.

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Liquid Restaking Protocol Puffer Raises $18M, Led by Brevan Howard, Electric Capital

The fresh round of capital will be used to help launch Puffer’s mainnet.

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‘Initial Points Offering’ can bring a fresh capital inflow to crypto, IntoTheBlock points out

Points systems reward users for key actions without the need for direct investment, redefining contributions and incentives.

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Genesis Bankruptcy Jitters Send Bitcoin to Fresh Low

The troubled crypto investment bank is in talks with potential investors for at least $1 billion in fresh capital, according to a Bloomberg report.

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Crypto Banking Platform Juno Raises $18M in Series A Funding

Alongside the fresh capital, the company will be introducing its loyalty token, JCOIN.

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Crypto-Mining Data Center Compute North Files for Bankruptcy, CEO Steps Down

The company earlier this year raised $385 million in fresh capital.

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Compute North Files for Bankruptcy as Crypto-Mining Data Center Owes up to $500M

The company earlier this year raised $385 million in fresh capital.

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Former Meta Employees Secure Funding for Aptos Labs Amid Web3 Startup Surge

Aptos Labs, a web3 startup that sprang from the ashes of Meta Platforms Inc.'s failed cryptocurrency endeavors, has raised $150 million in fresh capital. The post Former Meta Employees Secure Funding for Aptos Labs Amid Web3 Startup Surge appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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Silks Secures $2 Million Funding To Develop The First-Ever Thoroughbred Horse Racing Metaverse

Game of Silks (Silks), the first-of-its-kind derivative play-to-earn (P2E) metaverse featuring derivative NFTs, has successfully secured $2 million in funding. This fresh capital injection comes just weeks ahead of the Kentucky Derby and the upcoming launch of Silk’s first NFT collection.

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Helium Becomes Nova Labs After Raising $200M in Fresh Capital

COO Frank Mong said the firm wanted to make a clear distinction between the parent company and the network itself.

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Titan Raises $250K to Grow Its Bitcoin Mining Pool

Titan’s fresh capital will enable the firm to broaden its bitcoin mining pool’s reach as it taps Digital Finance Group’s network.

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Blockchain-Based Mobile Gaming eSports Ecosystem Colizeum Closes $8.4 Million In Funding

Fresh capital and talent injection to expand platform’s offerings for mobile game developers Led by renowned investors like Deribit, SevenX Ventures, Axia8, LD Capital, and Genblock Capital, Colizeum, the blockchain-based mobile gaming eSports ecosystem, has closed an $8.

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Creaton Secures Fresh Strategic Funding from Investors

Creaton has announced that it has securely received strategic funding from its partners, including NuCypher and ZBS Capital. The Creaton project aims to bridge the gap between creators and fans with blockchain technology.

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$4 Billion in Fresh Capital Flows into Crypto; Leverage Markets and OI “Completely Reset”

Meanwhile, Barry Sternlicht of Starwood Capital Group advises “having a little investment in Bitcoin” as “a smart little hedge… because your paper will be worthless” and you don't wanna be upset “if it goes to a million a coin.

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OneRare building first ever foodverse with fresh $2M funding

The world’s first ultimate food metaverse, OneRare, announced that it has raised $2M in seed and private funding from major venture capital firms. OneRare is designed to create an immersive gaming experience for foodies while onboarding the global F&B industry onto the blockchain for the first time.

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ConsenSys Seeks Fresh Funding at a $3 Billion Valuation

ConsenSys is in talks to organize funding round at a valuation of $3 billion, according to a Financial Times report on October 12, 2021. ConsenSys Nursing Expansion Plans After successfully raising $65 million last April from notable global brands and blockchain-focused VC firms, including Mastercard, JPMorgan, UBS, the Maker Foundation, Protocol Labs, Fenbushi Capital. TheRead More

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$50K Bitcoin is ‘ultimate bear trap,’ says analyst as BTC price struggles for key level

Bears betting on a fresh Bitcoin price capitulation may get definitively burned this time, argues Rekt Capital.

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Cabital Secures $4 Million in Seed Funding as It Further Strengthens Its Offerings

The Singapore-based Cabital digital assets institution has received a significant boost following the successful conclusion of its seed funding round. The fundraising round witnessed marquee investors led by SIG, Dragonfly and GSR infuse $4 million in working capital, effectively pushing the company’s valuation to $40 million.

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Fine Wine Blockchain Platform WiV Technology Raises $1.5 Million, Funding Led by RedCave Ventures and Daniel Maegaard

WiV Technology, a blockchain-based project focused on the fine wine industry and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), announced it raised $1. 5 million in fresh capital to further accelerate the development of its platform for tokenized fine wine.

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SoftBank Invests $200 Million in Latin America Crypto Exchange

This fresh capital will be used to scale Mercado Bitcoin’s operations, expand its offerings, and invest in infrastructure to meet the rising demand for cryptocurrency in the region. The post SoftBank Invests 0 Million in Latin America Crypto Exchange first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.

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Report: South Africa Bars Transfer of Locally Acquired Cryptocurrencies to Overseas Exchanges, Offenders Face Jail Time

Fresh reports from South Africa suggest that the transfer of locally acquired cryptocurrencies to overseas crypto exchanges will now be subject to the country’s exchange control regulations. Consequently, transactions where an individual purchases crypto assets in South Africa and uses them to externalize “any right to capital” will be deemed a criminal offense. Risk of […]

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NFT service ecosystem Venly raises fresh €500K from blockchain investment firm Tioga Capital

Venly (previously Arkane Network), an NFT management platform with a wallet solution and peer-to-peer NFT marketplace, announced it has raised €500,000 from blockchain investment firm, Tioga Capital.

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Revuto Acquires Fresh Funds To Develop dApp For Subscription Payment Management

With a fresh influx of capital, Revuto is accelerating its decentralized subscription payment management app development. Built on the Cardano blockchain, the app is designed to offer more controls to users.

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Yield Farming Aggregator Don-Key Gears Up for an IDO On SuperStarter

One of the promising decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms, Don-key, has raised fresh capital for expanding its product lineup. It was announced that Don-Key completed a $2. 2 million seed round led by Black Edge Capital, AU21.

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Bitcoin at $62K ‘great buy’ before next surge, says fund manager

Consolidation after fresh all-time highs means now is the time to buy BTC in “wildly bullish” conditions, argues Vailshire Capital.

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Moonbeam Network Receives Fresh Capital Injection After Purestake Fundraising Success

Following an initial seed capital round of $1. 4 million, Purestake has raised a $6 million strategic round of financing from a consortium of investors to accelerate development, as the team aims to bring the Moonbeam network live in the second half of the year.

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Top Bitcoin Quant Analyst Says Fresh USD Is Needed For New Highs

Bitcoin price is still plummeting from a rejection at new highs set this weekend, and struggling to maintain support at former resistance levels. On the way down, the buying pressure has been far less than it was on the way up, which has one top cryptocurrency quant analyst warning that fresh USD capital is necessary […]

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Coinbase Now Has Over $90B in Assets on Platform

Coinbase published fresh numbers Friday on how much capital has flowed onto the exchange in recent months.

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The Number of Bitcoin “Wholecoiners” Just Hit a Fresh All-Time High

Bitcoin investors have been accumulating the digital asset at a rapid pace throughout the past several days and weeks, with the cryptocurrency seeing massive inflows of capital in August while its price remained somewhat stagnant between $11,000 and $12,000.

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JPMorgan: Young Investors are Pouring Money into Bitcoin at a Rapid Pace

Investors are beginning to turn towards “hard assets” like gold and Bitcoin to protect their capital from imminent inflation resulting from the massive money printing seen across the globe. This demand has driven gold’s price to a fresh all-time high of over $2,000 per ounce that was just set yesterday. It is also likely one […]

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Cryptocurrency News Roundup for July 30, 2020

California-based brokerage firm Wealthfront has figured out how to attract fresh capital to its platform. The company recently doubled down on its efforts to woo millennials with a somewhat unorthodox campaign featuring an Instagramming feline.

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Decentralized Derivatives Exchange Injective Protocol Raises $2.6M In Fresh Funding for Upcoming Mainnet

Injective Protocol, a front-running resistant layer-2 decentralized exchange protocol has raised $2. 6 million in seed funding round led by Pantera Capital and many other prominent firms such as QCP's investment arm QCP Soteria, Axia8 Ventures, and OK's strategic investment partner K42.

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Switzerland: CMTA Introduces New Standards for Digital Assets Custody and Management 

Switzerland’s Capital Markets and Technology Association (CMTA), a not-for-profit and non-governmental association focused on formulating standards for the use of blockchain technology in capital markets, has issued fresh open industry standards for digital assets custody and management.

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Bakkt Eyes $1 Trillion in Digital Assets Following Series B Funding Round

Microsoft’s M12 and Pantera Capital are among investors in a $300 million Series B funding round for Bakkt. The fresh influx of capital comes as the company looks to launch its consumer payments app while announcing the option of Bakkt Cash payment for Starbucks coffee.

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Cryptocurrency Markets Keep Powering Higher While Venture Capital Activity Plummets

Venture capital investments seemed to have fallen off a cliff this year as economic tensions escalate. Cryptocurrency markets meanwhile keep posting fresh 2020 highs as the bulls strengthen. According to recent data, venture capital activity is in free-fall.

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Federal Reserve Considers Creating a Separate Entity for Cash Injections

While American President Donald Trump wages war with Iran, the U. S. Federal Reserve has continued to inject fresh capital into the hands of private banks by giving them $100 billion in overnight and 14-day repos on Tuesday.

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Malta Releases Fresh Consultation Paper for Security Token Offerings

The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) released a new consultation paper published July 19, 2019. first of many crucial steps to adjust the capital market according to their Vision 2021. Why now? The timing of this new consulting paper couldn’t have come at a better time with the recent announcement of EFFORCE, a new blockchainRead MoreRead More.

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Bitcoin Price ‘Will Hit $30K’ In 2019 Bull Cycle: Mark Yusko

Bitcoin price will hit $30,000 this bull cycle and continue to a giant $100,000 in just two years, the founder of asset manager Morgan Creek has said.   $100k BTC Coming in 2021 Speaking in an interview with CNBC, Mark Yusko, founder, CEO and chief investment officer of Morgan Creek Capital Management, delivered a fresh bullish outlook for the cryptocurrency, as the market price hit $12,800.

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Analyst: Bitcoin Critics Will Forget Price Hit $20k After 2019 Bull Market

Bitcoin will see another peak followed by a bear market, one cryptocurrency industry expert suggested as the price nears $10,000. An End To The 2019 Bull Market? Discussing the habit of comparing Bitcoin to Tulip Mania, a favorite pastime for cryptocurrency critics, Blockchain Capital managing partner James Todaro said such labels will continue to be thrown around regardless of its growth.

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Legendary Investor Mark Mobius Now Says Bitcoin Has a Future After All

Veteran investor Mark Mobius publicly announced he had U-turned on Bitcoin May 15 as cryptocurrency markets continue to boom. Mobius: Bitcoin Can ‘Transfer Money Easily And Confidentially’ In a fresh interview with Bloomberg, the emerging markets fund manager and founder of Mobius Capital Partners said he saw a global appetite for Bitcoin in particular – and that this would continue.

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Bitfinex, Attorney General Legal Sparring Continues With New Court Filings

Bitfinex and the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) legal sparring in relation to $850 million in missing funds escalated with another round of court filings this past weekend.

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Institutions Inbound: Fidelity Set to Launch Crypto Trading Service as Interest in Markets Flourishes

Fidelity Investments, one of the largest brokerages on the planet, is set to launch their crypto trading service in the coming weeks, which means that an influx of fresh institutional capital may soon be introduced to the markets.

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Tesla Issues Veiled Threat to Staff: Keep Quiet or Face Elon Musk’s Wrath

By CCN: Billionaire Elon Musk is in the middle of raising $2. 7 billion in fresh capital from the market through a series of stock offerings. So now would be a very bad time for someone at the company to pop out of Tesla and say something that’s not to Musk’s liking.

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