Japan-based banking giant Nomura, announced today that its digital assets subsidiary, Laser Digital, has made a strategic investment in Infinity, a non-custodial interest rate protocol built on Ethereum. Infinity’s wholesale exchange, the first of several planned infrastructures, provides inter-exchange...
A former executive of FTX allegedly earned profits for a charity by purchasing discounted FTX tokens, FTT, before they became available to the public at $0.05 per unit, according to a report citing anonymous sources. Ruairi Donnelly, the former...
The unique drop, which involves multiple steps, begins on Jan. 17 with a free mint for existing Bored Ape Yacht Club/Mutant Ape Yacht Club holders called Sewer Passes. These tokens are the key to unlocking a skill-based game called...
The Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority, one of the country’s financial regulatory agencies, has granted the local arm of crypto exchange Binance approval to manage and trade digital currencies. According to a Jan. 11 announcement, Binance said that following “months of...
Back in 2021, and heading into 2022, there was a dominant crypto narrative around the idea of Ethereum killers. This referred to rival Layer 1 blockchains that were geared towards smart contract transactions and could be used for all...
Though Cardano (ADA) has been gaining traction for a while, the recent accumulated momentum has garnered active buys as data shows the rising accumulation of ADA. ADA’s movement to the upside since last December totaled 30%, as new whales...
Decentralized finance (defi) and smart contract platform tokens rallied on Monday morning (ET) and the total value locked in defi jumped above the $40 billion zone for the first time since mid-December 2022. The top smart contract platform coins...
The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for Jan. 9, 2023. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets. Source link
Crypto conglomerate Digital Currency Group, or DCG, are under investigation by the United States Department of Justice’s Eastern District of New York (EDNY) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), according to a Bloomberg report. The authorities are digging...
The downsizing wave that swept through the cryptocurrency industry in 2022 is still on track as Seychelles-based cryptocurrency exchange, Huobi, has disclosed its plans to prune down its workforce by 20%. Huobi told Reuters on Friday that it intends...