2020-5-7 12:35 |
U.S. and Israel-based firms were charged for promoting fake investment schemes and defrauding customers of $15 million.
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The Tron Foundation is once again mired in controversy over an unverified claim that it secured a $2 million grant from a federal relief program for small firms hit by the pandemic.
2020-5-7 15:49 | |
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UK cryptocurrency and blockchain startups are turning focus back to conventional means of raising capital, as initial coin offering (ICO) coffers dry up. According to a new report, initial coin offering (ICO) funding last year plunged 71% to £200 million ($250 million) from £700 million ($875 million) a year earlier.
2020-5-3 04:28 | |
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Bitcoin mining firms are expected to take a blow due to the global coronavirus crisis. In the case of Ebang, that may not necessarily be the case, as an IPO has been filed with the SEC. It is commendable to see Bitcoin mining firms look toward the future during these uncertain times.
2020-4-29 00:00 | |
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dForce, Chinese decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, has secured $1. 5 million in its seed funding round led by several venture capital firms including Multicoin Capital, Huobi Capital, and others.
2020-4-16 23:00 | |
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In a crypto Ponzi scam that saw 150 US investors lose $35 million, Wells Fargo Advisors has been mentioned in a class-action lawsuit filed by the victims. Wells Fargo Advisors is a subsidiary of Wells Fargo and ranked as number nine in the list of the largest brokerage firms in the United States. The firm […]
2020-4-8 00:35 | |
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Thousands of mining firms across Asia are sailing in troubled waters. With Bitcoin‘s price hitting a 10-month low, 2.3 million S9 miners were wiped out in China recently. Source: Bitcoin HashraThe post Bitcoin: Miners are most bullish; investors and hodlers come next appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-4-6 11:00 | |
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Binance, one of the world’s largest crypto exchange firms, is in the process of acquiring the famous CoinMarketCap. The deal is expected to be closed with Binance parting with almost $400 million, according to a post by The Block.
2020-4-1 16:09 | |
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Binance and WazirX plan to donate up to $50 million to Indian blockchain startups after the Supreme Court lifted a central bank ban on financial services for these firms.
2020-3-17 07:00 | |
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Tokenomica, a Malta-based bitcoin/cryptocurrency exchange company, announced today that it has received a €1. 5 million investment from Wise Wolves Group; and the firms will partner to develop a facility for the automated issuance, offering, and trading of tokenized assets.
2020-3-13 15:46 | |
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Zabo, which claims to be able to link bank accounts to crypto wallets directly, raised $2.5 million from Moonshots Capital and other firms to build out its engineering team and customers.
2020-3-6 18:15 | |
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Polychain Capital, one of the crypto industry's leading venture firms, is targeting $200 million for its second fund.
2020-2-15 18:33 | |
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Polychain Capital, one of the crypto industry's leading venture firms, is targeting $200 million for its second fund.
2020-2-14 18:33 | |
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Oil-giant subsidiary Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures has made a $5 million investment in Vakt, a commodities post-trade processing platform built with blockchain tech.
2020-1-29 13:45 | |
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Lightnet, the company behind the Velo Protocol, has just raised $31.2 million from some of Asia's biggest firms.
2020-1-13 13:57 | |
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2020 is fast approaching and the last decade will be behind us. Throughout the last ten years, the biggest unicorn firms were born like Uber and Airbnb. However, even though Bitcoin isn’t a company, the best investment of the decade belongs to the decentralized cryptocurrency Satoshi created.
2019-12-27 05:20 | |
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Supply chain fintech startup Tradeshift, which boasts two million firms on its platform, says it's slashed the cost of cross-border transactions between buyers and suppliers using the public ethereum blockchain.
2019-12-18 17:00 | |
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Alchemy, one of the fastest growing blockchain oriented startups, recently held its Series A funding and managed to raise $15 million. This is a big milestone for the blockchain infrastructure provider in an era where most crypto oriented firms are opting to outsource FinTech development.
2019-12-18 16:47 | |
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As per an all new press release issued by energy provider ComED a couple of days back, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) has just released a number of grants (estimated to be worth $1.05 million) for organizations working to create a blockchain-based energy transaction platform. ComEd is one of the 4 firms to […]
2019-8-12 18:29 | |
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Czech regulators plan to impose a fine of up to half a million euros on crypto firms should they fail to register their operations with the national Trade Licensing Office
2019-8-8 11:12 | |
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A new database called the Blockchain Litigation Database is making easier for law firms to provide legal services to crypto-sector clients concerned about compliance issues with the SEC and CFTC.
2019-8-7 23:12 | |
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Law firms lead by EY are now demanding $1.6 million from Quadriga CX. The Canadian cryptocurrency exchange, now bankrupt, lost more than $190 million in January
2019-8-2 21:57 | |
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In the long case of QuadrigaCX, there are many creditors and firms that have been seeking retribution from the now-defunct exchange. In an effort to reconcile these funds, Nova Scotia Supreme Court Judge Darlene Jamieson approved over $1.
2019-8-1 00:29 | |
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A Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge approved more than $1.6 million in fees for the companies appointed to recover funds on behalf of QuadrigaCX's former users.
2019-7-31 20:30 | |
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US authorities have arrested the operator of a Bitcoin escrow company for defrauding two firms of $7 million. Jon Barry Thompson – a Pennsylvania man who is the director of the Bitcoin escrow firm Volantis – has been arrested and charged with two counts of wire fraud and two counts of commodities fraud, the US […] The post Justice Department Slaps Escrow Firm Director in $7 Million Bitcoin Fraud appeared first on CCN Markets
2019-7-27 16:46 | |
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Five years ago, global funding for the femtech sector had barely reached $100 million total. But now the femtech industry is set to see a huge increase with more than $400 million funneling in — the largest amount of funding the industry has ever received.
2019-7-17 16:41 | |
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A recent bill, “Keep Big Tech Out Of Finance Act,” recommends prohibiting giant tech firms from serving as financial institutions or launching their own cryptocurrency. Likely geared toward Facebook, the bill was reviewed by Democrats that oversee the House Financial Services Committee.
2019-7-16 18:38 | |
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A new startup based in San Francisco, Near Protocol, was recently able to raise $12. 1 million tokens during its latest venture capital funding round. The two companies that helped to raise more money were two venture firms, Accomplice and Metastable Capital, a hedge fund.
2019-7-11 17:53 | |
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Reports confirm Cailu, a Chinese blockchain media firm, raised $10 million USD in a series A round funding led by one of the top VC firms in Singapore, GCBI Ventures. The blockchain firm aims to improve the media content sharing protocols on the internet using the funds raised. The Series A round included a Singapore-based […]
2019-7-7 19:22 | |
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San Francisco is home to the tech elite, and is one of the most expensive places to live in the world, thanks to scores of tech firms moving in over the past couple of decades. Now, Google wants to make it a little more affordable.
2019-6-19 11:15 | |
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By CCN Markets: In the wake of high-profile hacks such as the $44 million recently removed from Binance’s coffers, BitGo CEO Mike Belshe spoke at Coindesk’s Consensus 2019 on matters including security and how this is hindering the will of institutions to involve themselves in Bitcoin and other digital assets.
2019-6-17 12:58 | |
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Facebook has begun assembling a who’s who of big tech companies to back its soon to be unveiled cryptocurrency, GlobalCoin. The likes of Mastercard, Visa, Uber, and PayPal are all backing the social media giant’s upcoming digital coin due to be unveiled later this month, and officially rolled out next year, reports The Wall St Journal.
2019-6-14 11:49 | |
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Combining security, convenience, and seamless user experience has been one of the major dilemmas in the digital assets space. Since Bitcoin’s inception, a little more than ten years ago, startups all over the world have set out to solve this problem.
2019-6-12 17:00 | |
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USB Group AG, a Swiss multi-national investment bank and financial services company, will be using its own digital currency for cross-border payment settlements. A report published by MarketWatch stated that a total of fourteen firms have developed a coin named, Utility Settlement Coin [USC], and among those firms includes leading banks of the United States, […] The post Swiss multi-national investment bank, USB introduces Fnality International with investment of $63.2 million appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-6-4 01:30 | |
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UBS Group AG, a Swiss multi-national investment bank and financial services company, will be using its own digital currency for cross-border payment settlements. A report published by MarketWatch stated that a total of fourteen firms have developed a coin named, Utility Settlement Coin [USC], and among those firms includes leading banks of the United States, […] The post Swiss multi-national investment bank, UBS introduces Fnality International with investment of $63.2 million appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-6-4 01:30 | |
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The banking industry is hell-bent on taking over the nascent blockchain and cryptocurrency market. A group of financial firms led by UBS Group AG is eyeing blockchain technology for settling cross-border trades worldwide with its own “Bitcoin-like” token.
2019-6-3 13:22 | |
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Arival Bank aims to serve crypto firms rejected by traditional banks and is crowdfunding $3 million on Circle's SeedInvest platform.
2019-5-31 11:00 | |
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The cryptocurrency industry is certainly not new to collaborations and projects, all being run by many different firms with the aim of creating many solutions never before thought of, pushing for renewed faith in adoption or maybe even trying to outdo a competitor.
2019-5-29 02:09 | |
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By CCN: Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested a suspect who allegedly operated a bitcoin mining investment scam, according to Dutch daily De Gelrderlander. The fraudulent scheme which was reportedly started in 2017 earned the man named Berry van Mourik at least €2 million ($2.
2019-5-22 14:11 | |
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Embattled cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex raised $1 billion in 10 days with an initial exchange offering (IEO), money it hopes will alleviate concerns of its financial stability. Bitfinex CTO Paolo Ardoino tweeted Monday that private firms, both inside the cryptocurrency sector and out, had contributed more than $100 million each throughout the fundraising.
2019-5-14 16:09 | |
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Tether has taken a lot of heat for admitting it is running a fractional reserve. There’s no doubt that Tether’s unregulated nature makes this approach risky and that its lack of transparency is unsettling, but the entire modern banking system is architected on fractioned assets.
2019-5-13 16:37 | |
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Several major cryptocurrency traders have reportedly begun discussing plans to enact an industry-wide blacklist of suspicious actors, to stem the tide of scams, theft and fraud in the crypto space.
2019-5-10 15:52 | |
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It has been one of the dominating revelations in recent times for the crypto industry. The $850 million Bitfinex-Tether scandal has grabbed all the headlines in the past month. Since the New York Attorney General announced an investigation into the two firms, the industry has waited with bated breath to see where this latest scandal […] The post The Bitfinex Scandal Continues: Is Binance Tanking Tether to Launch Its Own Stablecoin? appeared first on NullTX.
2019-5-7 00:41 | |
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In a bid to carry out their agendas, crypto firms have turned to lobbying. Citing statistics from the Federal Electoral Commission (FEC), news platform Roll Call reported that fintech firms spent $42 million as lobbying expenses in Q1 in 2019 alone.
2019-5-3 18:27 | |
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On April 24, 2019, the first bitcoin ATM in the Islamic Republic of Iran was revealed at the 12th International Exhibition of Exchange, Bank and Insurance in Tehran.
2019-4-27 21:31 | |
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North Korea could pose a threat to countries across Southeast Asia as it looks to exploit cryptocurrency exchanges due to gaps in regulatory frameworks, according to a new report.
2019-4-25 17:04 | |
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Japan‘s top financial regulator has raided two cryptocurrency exchanges to enforce anti-money laundering rules, Reuters reports. Financial Services Agency (FSA) agents inspected digital asset firms Huobi Japan and Fisco Cryptocurrency Exchange to make sure appropriate customer protections were in place.
2019-4-23 17:28 | |
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Venture Capitals, technology firms and financial institutions are actively investing in blockchain technology startups building infrastructure for the cryptocurrency industry, though they are still wary of bitcoin and altcoins due to their volatile nature, according to a Reuters report on April 18, 2019.
2019-4-20 01:00 | |
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ZenGo Cryptocurrency Developer Raises $4 Million To Launch Wallet Without Private Keys Cryptocurrency developer Kzen raised $4 million from electronics giant Samsung and other notable firms, industry news outlet The Block reported on April 17.
2019-4-20 21:36 | |
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There are many cryptocurrencies – including bitcoin – that have grown tremendously in value over the years. As a result, there are blockchain and cryptocurrency-focused funds and firms that have emerged from the United States, or their respective countries.
2019-4-19 20:00 | |
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