BlockDAG’s $100 Million Liquidity Promise With Strategic Vesting Period Lures Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana Investors

BlockDAG aims over $100 million in liquidity with its strategic 4-month vesting period, attracting investors from Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana. The presale has secured $21. 7 Million and sold over 5100 miners and 8.

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Ethereum (ETH) Smashes Major Milestone of 1 Million Validators

This milestone is accompanied by impressive figure of 32 million Ethereum staked

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Mike Novogratz's Galaxy Digital Buys $76 Million in Ethereum From Major Exchanges

Galaxy Digital withdraws $76 million in Ethereum from Coinbase Prime and Binance

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Ethereum whales scooped 3.5 million ETH in 30 days: Santiment

Ethereum whales with 1 million or more of Ether in their wallets added 3. 5 million tokens, or over $4. 5 billion worth of ETH in 30 days. Santiment, a market intelligence firm covering on-chain and social metrics for over 2,500 cryptocurrencies, says more whales have bought Ether, the native token on the Ethereum blockchain.

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Whales Move $761 Million in Ethereum, While Coin Recovers to $3,500

Anonymous large holders of crypto have transferred a close to $800 million worth Ethereum

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Publicly-listed company loses $17 million on Bitcoin. Makes $14 million on Ethereum instead

Meitu, a software tech company based in Hong Kong, has said that it recorded a loss of $17. 3 million on its Bitcoin portfolios, while in contrast, it recorded a $14. 7 million gain on its Ethereum investment.

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Nexus Mutual Hacker Now Demanding $2.7 Million Ethereum Ransom 

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This DeFi app based on Ethereum just stole $12 million from its users

The Ethereum decentralized finance (DeFi) space was just hit with a “rug pull,” with unknown developer(s) dragging in $12 million in what seems to be the biggest ostensible scam in recent weeks.

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Ethereum 2.0 competitor raises $21 million from a top-tier crypto venture capitalist

NEAR Protocol, which touts itself as an Ethereum 2. 0 competitor, has raised over $21 million from Andressen Horrowitz (a16z), just days after the latter announced a $515 million fund for expanding its cryptocurrency investments division.

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Why French Lender SocGen Issued a $110 Million Ethereum Bond to Itself

Societe Generale has no plans to resell its $110 million ethereum bond, but future blockchain trials will involve external investors, an exec said.

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Santander Settles Both Sides of a $20 Million Bond Trade on Ethereum

Santander has issued a $20 million bond on ethereum, and paid fiat cash for it on the public blockchain as well.

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Ethereum Foundation Pledges to Allocate $30 Million Over The Next Year Towards ETH Projects

Aya Miyaguchi, Ethereum Foundation’s execuive revealed at the ConsenSys’ Ethereal Summit that they are going to be spending $30 Million on various projects in the Ethereum ecosystem. The $30 Million allocated will be allocated over the period of next 12 months.

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Despite Rumors, Ethereum Is Not Spending $15 Million on the Development of Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs)

On February 7, Coindesk published a piece stating that the Ethereum Foundation was considering investing $15 million to develop… The post Despite Rumors, Ethereum Is Not Spending $15 Million on the Development of Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs) appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.

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Analysis: Hackers Liquidated $3.2 Million in Tokens From Cryptopia Hack

$3.2 million in Ethereum and ERC20 tokens stolen from the Cryptopia cryptocurrency exchange have been liquidated

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Ethereum Refutes VDF Plans, Shares Intentions On How Funds Will Be Split Between Financial Partners

Ethereum Denies VDF Rumors It had been reported that Ethereum has to make the transition to a proof-of-stake system and was to invest $15 million in the development of Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs) which would aid this transition.

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Ethereum Denies It Is Mulling $15 Mln Investment to Develop Verifiable Delay Functions

The Ethereum Foundation has refuted alleged plans to spend $15 million on the development of Verifiable Delay Functions for use in its planned transition to Proof-of-Stake

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Three Months After A $5 Million Lawsuit, US Rapper, T. I’s FLik Token is up 173%

Three months after being sued for $5 million, Rapper T. I’s coin, FLik is up 173 percent outperforming the likes of Tron and Binance Coin. Although it is nowhere close to $15, it is better off from the $0.

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$15 Million Venture Proposed By Ethereum Foundation For Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs)

$15 Million Venture Proposed By Ethereum Foundation For Verifiable Delay Functions Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs) is a new technology that the Ethereum foundation is examining, offering an unpredictable and unbiased computer-generated response system.

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New Zealand Police Report States Cryptopia Hack Investigation Has Been Progressing Well

The police force from New Zealand has recently emitted a report stating that it has been making important progress on the case of the local crypto exchange Cryptopia, which was hacked and lost over $16.

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How MIT Joined Ethereum in the Race for the First PoS Blockchain

Backed by $162 million in investments and MIT, Algorand may become the first scalable blockchain working on the proof-of-stake protocol

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Bitcoin Cash Price Analysis: BCH Adds $100 Million in Less than 24 Hours, Roger Ver Verdict on Segwit

Latest Bitcoin Cash News Vlad Zamfir, a researcher with the Ethereum Foundation, laid out three crypto laws. Of the three, there is one that stands out. He prefers calling that the Nick Szabo’s law.

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Ethereum Foundation Weighs $15 Million Bid to Build ‘Randomness’ Tech

The Ethereum Foundation may spend $15 million on a project implementing randomness tech called "Verifiable Delay Functions."

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Lawyers May Sell QuadrigaCX To Amend $150M Bitcoin (BTC), Crypto Debts

Canadian Crypto Exchange In Crisis The QuadrigaCX saga, nay, imbroglio has only continued for the umpteenth consecutive week. After reports arose that the company owed upwards of $150 million worth of Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), along with other leading cryptocurrencies and millions in Canadian dollars, local media claims that the Vancouver, British Columbia-based […] The post Lawyers May Sell QuadrigaCX To Amend $150M Bitcoin (BTC), Crypto Debts appeared first on Ethereum World News.

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Where’s the ‘Missing’ $150 Million? Crypto Exchange QuadrigaCX’s Fiasco Gets Weirder with New Research

According to a cryptocurrency researcher with an online alias “ProofofResearch,” QuadrigaCX may not have a Bitcoin cold wallet nor $150 million in crypto. In a research paper, Zerononcense editor ProofofResearch stated that based on the evaluation of the company’s 31 Bitcoin addresses, no evidence to prove the existence of a cold wallet for QuadrigaCX was found.

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“The Crypto Bear Market Won’t Last” – Anonymous $200 Million Ethereum Trader Talks to CCN

A mysterious trader who made international headlines when he turned a $200 million profit trading Ethereum in a single month has agreed to speak with CCN regarding his latest investments and his outlook on the crypto market in general.

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Avoiding QuadrigaCX’s $190 Million Disaster: How Do the World’s Largest Crypto Exchanges Store Funds?

Canada’s largest crypto exchange QuadrigaCX lost more than $190 million worth of user funds and is unable to reimburse its users. As CCN reported on February 1, the founder and CEO of QuadrigaCX passed away in India with sole control over the company’s cold wallets containing more than $150 million in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, and $40 million in cash stored with a third party.

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Nvidia Made Billions From Ethereum Crypto Mining Says Analyst

An analyst at RBC Capital Markets claims Nvidia made “$1. 95 billion in total revenue related to crypto/blockchain,” significantly more than Nvidia’s reported $602 million. Mitch Stevens of RBC says from April.

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$190 Million in Crypto Possibly Lost at Canada’s QuadrigaCX Bitcoin (BTC) Exchange

One of Canada’s biggest Bitcoin (BTC) exchange – QuadrigaCX – has possibly lost $190 Million in cryptocurrencies after its founder and CEO died suddenly last December in India due to Crohn’s disease.

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Ethereum Classic’s 51 Percent Attack Highlights the Challenges of Proof-of-Work Coins

On Jan. 5th, Ethereum Classic (ETC) suffered a 51% attack losing a total of more than US$1 million spread over 15 different transactions. The scale of this attack can offer some lessons to the challenges faced by blockchains secured by Proof of Work (PoW).

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$190 Million in Crypto Gone Forever, How Canada’s Biggest Bitcoin Exchange Lost it All

QuadrigaCX, the largest bitcoin exchange in Canada, has lost $190 million worth of crypto after it lost access to its cold storage wallets. An affidavit filed on January 31 with the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia revealed that $190 million in Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Cash SV, Bitcoin Gold, Litecoin, and Ethereum were lost.

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Litecoin Price Analysis: LTC Likely to Extend the $200 Million Gap From TRX

Latest Litecoin News Charlie Lee, as controversial as critics think he is, is an ardent supporter of Litecoin and Bitcoin. He might have liquidated his stash at the peaks of late 2017—unheard of from a project founder, “interrupting” and even warning investors that asset prices were overextended and may crash.

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Binance now lets you buy cryptocurrency with credit cards

Binance users will now be able to use their credit cards to purchase cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin or Ethereum. The crypto-to-crypto exchange has joined forces with a third party to enable consumers to make credit card purchases directly on its platform.

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Bitcoin Cash Price Analysis: BCH Adds $240 Million in 24 Hours

Latest Bitcoin Cash News As it is, Bitcoin Cash describes itself as a Bitcoin alternative and a coin which operates as envisioned by Satoshi Nakamoto: that of acting as a medium of exchange, supplementing and eventually replacing political money.

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IOTA Foundation: Majority of the Stollen $11 Million in MIOTA Has Been Found

In a recent interview with Reuters, IOTA Co-founder and Co-Chairman of its Board, Dominik Schiener, stated that a good percentage of the stolen $11 Million MIOTA tokens taken from users’ wallets had been recovered.

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Cheddar and Brave Partner to Offer Free Premium Content to Browser Users

Brave Software and Cheddar have announced a partnership that will initially allow users of the browser to get three months free access to premium content from the latter media provider. The two firms have estimated that the partnership could fund hundreds of thousands of subscriptions out of Brave’s 5.

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Tron and BitTorrent’s BTT Are Satoshi Nakamoto’s Words Come True

For an unconfirmed amount (rumored to be $126 million), Tron did acquire BitTorrent and just like that they had access to more than 170 million monthly users spread across 133 countries complete with a 22 percent upstream traffic.

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Ripple Launches Accelerator Program Worth $300 Million in XRP for New Members of RippleNet

The team at Ripple has announced a new accelerator plan for financial institutions joining RippleNet. The said institutions need to be first in their markets to process and promote commercial payments on RippleNet.

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Ripple Presents Report for Q4 2018: Trading Volume Increased and 30 New Exchanges listed XRP

Ripple just published its Q4 2018 XRP Markets Report, showing that despite the bad behavior of the crypto markets, 2018 was a good year for the company. According to the report, Ripple sold a total of $129.

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Floyd Mayweather-Backed ICO Stox Sued For Misappropriating $30 Million

A Chinese investor has sued Stox. com and its owner Moshe Hogeg, for allegedly misappropriating funds raised during an ICO. Boxer Floyd Mayweather famously backed the Stox ICO, and has subsequently been in trouble with the SEC for other crypto-endorsements.

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RealBlocks Aims to Tokenize Real Estate Investing with Ethereum, Raises $3.1 Million Seed Round

RealBlocks, a platform leveraging the Ethereum blockchain to tokenize equity in real estate, closed a $3. 1 million seed round. The round was led by Science, Inc. , a fund with stakes in digital businesses—such as Dollar Shave Club, and was joined by Anthony Pompliano’s Morgan Creek Capital and several other venture capital funds.

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New Startup From Ethereum Co-Founder Gavin Wood Plans $60 Million ICO: WSJ

Authored by Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood, crypto startup Polkadot aims to raise up to $60 million in a new ICO, the WSJ reports

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ETH Co-Founder Gavin Wood’s Blockchain Protocol Plans $60 Million Second Token Sale: WSJ

Authored by Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood, crypto startup Polkadot aims to raise up to $60 million in a new ICO, the WSJ reports

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Nasdaq Backed Blockchain Project Raises $20 Million in Series B Funding

Nasdaq Ventures has led a series B round of funding for the market-leading smart contracts platform of Symbiont. Other firms that participated in the funding include additional new investors such as Galaxy Digital, Citi, Raptor Group, and others.

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Ether December 2018 On-Chain Volume Falls Short of DAO Hack Figures

On January 21, 2019, Diar, a crypto-focused research group, reported the unlikely rise of ether’s on-chain transaction value on the Ethereum blockchain. Despite the market crash in 2018, the number two blockchain recorded a total movement of 115 million ETH in December last year.

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Indonesia’s Go-Jek Acquires a Major Stake in Ripple’s Partner, Coins.Ph

Coins. ph, the Filipino blockchain start up and Ripple partner has sold a substantial stake of shares to Indonesian behemoth, Go-Jek. In the deal said to be worth $72 million, Go-Jek will have a new-found collaboration with Coins.

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Исследование: в 2018 году скамеры увели $36 млн в криптовалюте Ethereum

В результате различных мошеннических схем владельцы криптовалюты Ethereum лишились в 2018 году $36 млн в долларовом выражении. Это вдвое больше, чем в 2017 году, когда у пользователей было похищено $17 млн, говорится в исследовании аналитической компании Chainalysis.

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A Very Large Crypto Whale is Attempting to Hide Over 5% of Ethereum’s total supply, Worth Over $500 Million

2018 was marked with high volatility and low stability for the cryptocurrency industry. The effect of this was dipped confidence from investors after they had tasted lots of success with cryptos in 2017.

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New Data Reveals Shocking Facts of Cryptopia Hack, Estimated $16 Million Lost in Ethereum (ETH) and ERC-20 Tokens

On January 14, 2019, the New Zealand-based cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia was hacked, marking the first time this year a cryptocurrency… The post New Data Reveals Shocking Facts of Cryptopia Hack, Estimated $16 Million Lost in Ethereum (ETH) and ERC-20 Tokens appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.

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Europol Arrests Suspect Behind the Theft of $11.3 Million in IOTA (MIOTA)

A collaborative effort between the UK’s South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU), the Hessen State Police in Germany, the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) and Europol, has successfully identified and arrested a male suspect in connection with a case of fraud, theft and money laundering that resulted in the theft of around €10 million (Approximately […] The post Europol Arrests Suspect Behind the Theft of $11.

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