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Vlad Tenev Robinhood

Robinhood Considers Adding More Crypto Services

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The CEO of the trading services provider Robinhood, Vlad Tenev talked about the company's plans regarding cryptocurrencies in a video published on Youtube. He answered the questions of the users. Tenev announced that the app has seen 6 million new clients. Now the team wants to invest a large...

Ethereum locked in DeFi

The Amount of Ethereum Locked in DeFi Reaches New Highs

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Data from DeFiPulse shows that the amount of Ethereum locked in DeFi protocols and smart contracts has surpassed a new all-time high of 9.6 million. Calculating with the current price, it's equal to around $16.5 B. This is around 8.3% of the token's overall supply, which is nearly 115 million...

Jerome Powell about digital currencies

Jerome Powell Notes Digital Currencies and Fiat Can Coincide

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US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell stated that in the following years state-released digital currencies and CBDCs can perform side by side with fiat banknotes. He expressed this view during a virtual payment summit held in Basel, Switzerland. CBDCs are powered by blockchain to reach...

SBI crypto bitcoin mining

SBI Holdings' BTC Mining Pool is Open

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Tokyo-based financial services company SBI Holdings' subordinate SBI Crypto has enabled its BTC mining pool for the masses. This makes it possible for both individuals and companies to mine BTC and other crypto assets via the pool. SBI Crypto started functioning in 2017. It has suggested...

LIndsay Lohan Tron NFT

Lindsay Lohan to Release Her NFT on Tron

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American star Lindsay Lohan aims to issue NFTs on the Tron network. She is a famous actress, singer, songwriter, businesswoman, and television celebrity. Lohan and Justin Sun are going to talk about the details of the collectible on Clubhouse today. I'm going to be on CH w/ @justinsuntron...

Morgan Stanley to offer BTC funds

Morgan Stanley Offers Wealthier Clients Access to BTC Funds

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Multinational investment bank Morgan Stanley enables customers who correspond specific points to reach Bitcoin funds. The establishment will introduce 3 of them: two from Galaxy Digital and one from NYDIG and Franklin Square Holdings. Access to these supplies is only possible for the customers...

FIreblocks raised $133 M in Series C

Crypto Custody Fireblocks Raised $133 M in the Series C

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New York-based crypto security provider Fireblocks informed about the finalization of Series C financing. The company boosted $133 M. Round C was lead by fund manager Coatue, the fintech-centered venture capital Ribbit and expansion capital company Stripes. Thus, Fireblocks' summative venture...

UK Bitcoin ad

UK Advertising Standards Authority Banned "Tricky" BTC Ad

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UK advertisements regulator forbade a newspaper ad given by crypto trading platform Coinfloor. The reason for the ban was the irresponsible promotion of BTC as an investment to pensioners. The ad was posted in a December release of the local newspaper the Northamptonshire Telegraph. A member of...

Meitu $40 M in BTC and ETH

Tech Firm Meitu Invests Another $49 M in BTC and ETH

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Image editing software organization Meitu stated investing around $28.4 M in Eth and $21.6 M in BTC. The name of the application is translated as "beautiful face" from Chinese. It is widely used in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan with nearly 300 million monthly active users, according to its...

Grayscale new crypto trusts

GrayScale Adds Five Altcoin Trusts

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Today major crypto investment manager GrayScale issued 5 additional altcoin trusts. They are LINK, BAT, MANA, FIL, and LPT. The entity disclosed its plans to launch these products in January. Along with these additions, the number of GrayScale's crypto trusts reached...

Cardano guide

What Is Cardano? What Are the Features Making It Special?

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Cardano is a blockchain protocol fueled by the Proof of Stake mechanism. It allows managing nodes, developing smart contracts, and dApps. Cardano is the primary blockchain based on peer-review and academic approaches. This suggested instead of creating a white paper make certain that specialists...

Musk decided not to sell the NFT

Elon Musk Changed His Mind About Selling an NFT

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Business magnate Elon Musk decided not to sell the NFT he posted on Twitter although there was a $1 M bid. The bid proposal came from a Twitter user with the name @SinaEstavi. On Tuesday afternoon Musk wrote not feeling right selling the collectible. Actually, doesn’t feel quite right selling...

BTC mining rewards March 2021

BTC Miner Revenue Hit a New High of $52.3 Million

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Mining Bitcoin became more rewarding. Data from blockchain analytics protocol Glassnode shows that a few days ago the revenue hit a new all-time high of $52.3 M daily. Glassnode wrote that this amount is a positive indicator of Bitcoin network security. On-chain transfer fees paid based on...

Visa crypto wallets

Visa Aims to Enable Crypto Trading via Its Credit Card

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Major financial services company Visa continues to be interested in the crypto industry. Recently, in a podcast with Fortune's Leadership Next the CEO of the firm Al Kelly talked about Visa's plans concerning digital assets. During the discussion, Kelly said that the team intends to bring out two...

JPMorgan crypto clearinghouse

JPMorgan in Search of Crypto Clearinghouse

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Wall Street financial services provider JPMorgan views possibilities of cooperation with a crypto clearinghouse to form liquidity. The news was announced by Forbes on March 15. Commonly shoppers of crypto assets need to store their capital with over-the-counter (OTC) or off-exchange desks before...

NFT search volume

Google Search Volume of "NFT" Beat a New All-Time High

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Interest around NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) has been rising. This fact has its reflection on Google Search volumes. The indicator hit a new all-time high seeing 25x growth since January 2021. The number of users of NFT networks surged to a record high of 398,800 in terms of a week since March 8. As...

Musk represents an NFT

Elon Musk Sells a Track About NFTs as an NFT

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On March 15, business magnate Elon Musk shared a video on Twitter writing that he is selling a musical composition on NFTs as an NFT. At the moment, the video already has 7 M views. The NFT represents a techno record and includes the words "HODL", "vanity trophy" and...

TRON active users

The Number of TRON's Active Accounts Broke Above 25 Million

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DeFi platform Tron has been attracting more users. According to data provided by TRONSCAN, the entire number of active accounts hit 25 million. Statistics refers also to DApp Chain (Sun Network), which is 2-way pegged to Tron. The blockchain is one of the most used public networks presently....

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