News and Articles by Anahit

Lugano, a city in southern Switzerland’s Italian-speaking Ticino region is adopting tax payments with crypto. The city teamed up with the developer of USDT stablecoin, Tether Operations to manage transactions. Due to this step, citizens can pay yearly taxes and city services in Bitcoin, USDT and...

Ethereum-based virtual environment The Sandbox has revealed a cooperation with Cube Entertainment, a Seoul-based record label/talent management firm. With this step, The Sandbox will boost K-culture content, focusing on metaverse and non-fungible token possibilities. Animoca Brands, the company...

The European Union is considering new measures to make sure that Russia can't use digital assets to circumvent economic sanctions. During a video call held on March 2, EU finance ministers and other officials discussed the risks that digital assets could allow Russia to bypass restrictions. The...

LUNA, the native coin of the Terra blockchain now is the second largest crypto asset by the total value staked. Data from Staking Rewards, a research platform focused on yield-generating assets, reveals that Terra now comes after Solana as the 2nd largest Proof of Stake (PoS) network. At present,...

Senators Elizabeth Warren, Elizabeth Warren, Sherrod Brown, and Jack Reed wrote a letter to the Secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellen inquiring about the progress that the agency has in monitoring and enforcing sanctions compliance by the crypto sector. Also, Senators expressed their concerns...

The Securities and Exchange Commission studies the NFT (non-fungible token) market to see whether the sales comply with the agency's rules. A Bloomberg report, citing people familiar with the subject, says that the focus of the probe is to see if certain NFTs and digital assets can be used to...

An early-stage venture capital company, looking to invest in crypto, blockchain, fintech, and marketplaces, Electric Capital announced raising $1 B. The VC will use the funds to invest in programmable money and web 3. The sum includes a $400 M fund closed the previous year and $600 M raised last...

The CEO of the largest crypto exchange by volume, Binance, said that it would be unethical for Binance to block all Russian accounts. In an interview with Bloomberg, Changpeng Zhao (CZ) said that the exchange follows sanctions rules very closely, and whoever is targeted by sanctions won't be able...

Ken Griffin, the CEO of American hedge fund and financial services provider Citadel announced that the company is considering entering the crypto market and offering clients digital assets services this year. In a recent interview, he said that the growth of the crypto sector proved that his...

Animoca Brands, leading gamification, blockchain, and AI company makes its services unavailable for Russian users as the number of sanctions against the country is increasing for invading Ukraine. In an interview with Bloomberg, Animoca co-founder Yat Siu said that the step will affect subsidiaries...

Adam Aron, the Chief Executive Officer of the movie chain, AMC Entertainment, wrote on Twitter that Dogecoin and Shiba Inu payments will be available soon. The option will become available on the website by March 19 and it will go live on mobile applications by April 16. AMC partners with crypto...

Jacob Cantele, the lead of operations at the popular crypto wallet, MetaMask (Consensys) talked about the project and development plans. The wallet started in 2016. Now the number of monthly average users is around 21 million. MetaMask also plans to launch its token. The first time the company...

The Canadian branch of KPMG, a global network of professionals that provides audit, tax, and advisory services, has acquired an NFT from the collection World of Women (WoW) along with an Ethereum Name Service domain name. KPMG (Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler) is one of the Big Four accounting...

Bitcoin price surpassed $44.000 for the first time since February 17 as the demand for crypto has increased amid the Russian Ukrainian war. In the last 24 hours, the price of Bitcoin rose by 14% and currently stands at around $43.300. Ethereum increased by 11%, reaching $2.900. The total global...

Local media of India reports that the Supreme Court urged the Indian government lawyers to clarify if cryptocurrencies are legal or not. The legal status of the sector is uncertain as there is no regulatory framework but on the other hand, the Ministry of Finance imposed a 30% taxation rule on...

Bank of America released a note with the title "Digital Assets: In the Flow,” writing that it doesn't see a crypto winter as the market is active both in adoption and in project developments. Crypto trading analysis of individual and exchange wallets reveals a “lack of directional...

Leading e-commerce firm eBay considers adding crypto as a means of payment. The president and CEO of the firm, Jamie Iannone said in a phone interview with the financial news provider TheStreet that eBay aims to be the online shopping platform for generation Z and millennials. eBay might make a...

Mykhailo Fedorov, the Vice Prime Minister, who is also Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, turned to major cryptocurrency exchanges, asking them to block all Russian and Belarusian users. He wrote on Twitter that it's essential to ban not only politicians but all users. I'm asking...