News and Articles by Anahit

Global investment company SkyBridge Capital, founded and run by financier Anthony Scaramucci started a new investment vehicle focused on Bitcoin mining. According to a US SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) filing, the investment product called SkyBridge BTC Mining L.P. raised around $7 M. The...

Financial infrastructure platform Stripe is adding crypto payouts to Stripe Connect, its solution for enabling payments into marketplaces and software platforms. The social media giant Twitter will be the first to use it to allow crypto payouts. Twitter already uses Connect to offer various...

Blockchain data platform Chainanalys released a report on the crypto gains which says that the year was a strong one for the industry. The report mentions that BTC and Ether built a positive momentum at the end of 2020 and hit new highs in 2021. The Chainalysis team wrote who benefited from the...

American venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is starting a new research hub to study Web3 and crypto. The company released a blog post that says in the last decade crypto and web3 has become as a frontier technology and an independent sector. It unites elements of computer science, economics,...

Global investment bank Morgan Stanley finds that the use of crypto as a payment method can grow. The bank released a report mentioning that few people use crypto to buy goods as costs for transactions are high and merchants don’t accept them for payments. However, that fact is changing, Morgan...

Major crypto exchange Binance revealed limiting services for Russian users after the European Union's new package of sanctions. The company said that it is required to limit services for natural persons and legal entities in Russia that hold crypto assets worth over 10,000 euros (equal to...

Cryptocurrencies have been growing in popularity. According to a forecast by the market research company Insider Intelligence, crypto adoption and usage will continue to rise significantly. This is the company's first forecast on the toptic. The forecast says that payments made in crypto will...

The governance token of the Solana-based STEPN lifestyle app that uses the move-to-earn concept, GMT (Green Metaverse Tokon) hit a new high of 3.81 on April 19. GMT was launched on March 9 through an Initial Coin Offering (ICO), during which the price of the token was $0.01. Since then, the price...

Investing and trading application Robinhood revealed signing a deal to purchase UK-based digital money and crypto firm Ziglu. A blog post published by the company says that with the purchase, customers can buy and sell the eleven cryptos offered by Robinhood and earn income by "boosting"...

The first Bitcoin Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) is expected to launch on the main market of the country, the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) next week. According to the Australian Financial Review, the major equity markets clearing house ASX Clear will announce the launch of the product when...

Solana-based cryptocurrency wallet Phantom now is available on Android. The team launched a mobile app for the IOS system in January. The Android version has the same features as IOS. Users can send, receive, trade, and stake digital currencies including crypto through the apps. Also, they can...

Mohamed El-Erian, economist and the chief advisor at the global financial services provider company Allianz talked about the Fed policy and its possible impact on the Bitcoin price. In a recent interview with Squawk Box, he mentioned the current problems that exist in the economy. According to...

ARB (Association of Banks of Russia) has suggested banning the use of non-custodial wallets for storing cryptocurrencies. This means that users will need to use traditional exchange accounts. ARB also suggested criminalizing the behavior of not providing wallet private keys to licensed agencies. ...

The Ethereum Foundation (EF), a non-profit organization that supports the development of Ethereum, released a report that gives details of its holdings. The team mentioned that decentralized funding is important for Ethereum's future. The 28-page report covers subjects like EF values, future...

Terra blockchain’s stablecoin, UST became the third largest stablecoin with a market cap of over $17.5 bln. Data from CoinMarketCap show that UST has gotten ahead of (Binance USD) BUSD and comes after Tether USDT ($82.7 bln) and USD Coin USDC ($50 bln). UST is a dollar-pegged stablecoin released...

On April 17, Ethereum-based decentralized stablecoin protocol Beanstalk was exploited and lost $182 M as a result. Security, and data analytics company PeckShield tweeted based on Etherscan data that the attacker managed to get away with $80 M and move it via privacy transactions protocol Tornado...

Russia’s Ministry of Finance revealed that it finalized the bill "On Digital Currency." The updated bill includes clarification on crypto trading and mining. Thus, the bill suggests forming regulations for the crypto sector. According to the document, digital currencies can be accepted...

Portugal’s Central Bank has granted a license to Bison Bank to establish the first crypto bank in the country. According to a report by the local media Sapo, Bison Bank is authorized to launch Bison Digital Assets, a company that will deliver custodial and exchange services of cryptos. Thus,...