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Fundraising

Pompliano Joins Board of Blockchain-Based Lending Firm After $103M Raise

Nathan DiCamilloDec 5, 2019

Blockchain-based consumer lender Figure added Morgan Creek Digital’s Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano to its board following a $103 million funding round.

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Matter Labs Unveils Layer-2 Scaling Solution for Ethereum Payments

William FoxleyDec 5, 2019

Matter Labs released Thursday the testnet of ZK-Sync, a privacy-minded scaling tool meant to help blockchains boost transaction speeds.

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Lending

Crypto Lender BlockFi Rolls Out Zero-Fee Trading for Bitcoin, Ether, GUSD

Anna BaydakovaDec 5, 2019

BlockFi, the cryptocurrency lending service, is expanding into trading with an unusual, zero-fee model.

Circle

Circle Co-Founder Sean Neville Steps Down as Co-CEO

Nikhilesh DeDec 5, 2019

Sean Neville, co-founder of Circle, is stepping down as co-CEO six years after founding the crypto trading and payments startup with Jeremy Allaire.

Tokens

What Twitter Meme Wars Say About Crypto’s Reliance on Figureheads

Leigh CuenDec 4, 2019

Cryptocurrency has strayed from its anonymous roots. Today, cults of personality and public histrionics define the sector.

Microsoft

Microsoft Teams up With Enjin to Offer Crypto Collectible Rewards

Daniel PalmerDec 5, 2019

Do good work, earn a "badger." That's the idea behind a new incentives scheme launched by Microsoft in partnership with blockchain gaming project Enjin.

Crypto Derivatives

Ex-Morgan Stanley Executives Launch Crypto Derivatives Platform in Singapore

David PanDec 5, 2019

A team of Morgan Stanley veterans have launched a crypto derivatives trading platform, claiming it is faster and more secure than some of the market’s biggest players.

Prices

Bitcoin’s Rejection at Key Price Hurdle Puts Short-Term Bull Trend at Risk

Omkar GodboleDec 5, 2019

Bitcoin sharp rejection at resistance around $7,800 has weakened the short-term bullish outlook.

Mining

Canadian Government-Assisted Bitcoin Miner Files for Bankruptcy Owing Millions

Daniel PalmerDec 5, 2019

Great North Data, a firm that ran bitcoin mining and AI processing data centers in Canada, has filed for bankruptcy owing millions to creditors including government agencies.

Gaming

ChromaWay Doubles Down on Gaming With Antler Interactive Acquistion

David PanDec 5, 2019

ChromaWay will add Antler's game catalog to its own Chromia blockchain with the acquisition.

Regulation

Top US Financial Regulators Urge Monitoring of Digital Assets, Stablecoins

Bradley KeounDec 5, 2019

A panel of top U.S. financial regulators urged federal and state officials to monitor risks from digital assets like bitcoin.

Podcasts

MARKETS DAILY: Is Bitcoin Market Manipulation Profitable?

Adam B. LevineBradley KeounGalen MooreDec 4, 2019

With markets recovering, we take a look at Bitcoins' recent behavior and wonder whether it's still a safe haven? Later, we're joined by Galen Moore for quick discussion on alleged bitcoin market manipulation...

Mining

Litecoin’s Mining Power Tanks to Lowest in Year Following Price Plunge

Omkar GodboleBradley KeounDec 4, 2019

Litecoin’s price plunge in recent months has whittled away the profitability of mining the cryptocurrency, leading to a shakeout among operators.

Politics

Georgia Governor Appoints Bakkt CEO Loeffler as New US Senator

Nikhilesh DeDec 4, 2019

It is unclear who will helm Bakkt after CEO Kelly Loeffler joins the U.S. Senate on Jan. 1.

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Insurance

Chinese Insurance Giant Ping An’s Blockchain Arm Reveals Terms for $468M IPO

Daniel PalmerDec 4, 2019

OneConnect Financial, the blockchain and AI subsidiary of China’s top insurance company Ping An Insurance, has set the terms for its planned NYSE listing.

Markets

Bear Trap? Bitcoin Slips to One-Week Low Amid Low Volumes

Omkar GodboleDec 4, 2019

Bitcoin's recent $780 pullback lacks volume support from sellers and may be short-lived.

Hacking

North Korean Hacking Group May Be Behind Malware-Laden Fake Crypto Site

Daniel PalmerDec 4, 2019

A new and hard-to-detect macOS malware variant has been discovered lurking on a fake cryptocurrency trading site.

Payments

MUFG Plays Down Reports of Digital Currency Launch

Daniel PalmerDec 4, 2019

Japan's MUFG Bank and Recruit Holdings were said to be launching a digital currency as part of a new payments venture. MUFG has now put that claim in doubt.

Markets

Bitcoin No Longer Looks Like ‘Digital Gold’ by One Measure

Sebastian SinclairDec 4, 2019

If "digital gold" means "assets where investors park money during financial market turmoil," then bitcoin doesn't fit the bill as well as it used to.

UK

Gemini Hires Former Starling Bank Founder as Managing Director of Europe

Nathan DiCamilloDec 4, 2019

The exchange hired Julian Sawyer, former co-founder and chief operating officer of a U.K. digital bank, to shape the exchange’s strategy in the region and manage European hiring.

State Street Bank

State Street Slashes DLT Developer Team as Bank Rethinks Blockchain Strategy

Ian AllisonDec 3, 2019

State Street Bank has cut over 100 blockchain developer jobs as part of a pivot from transforming its plumbing with DLT to supporting digital assets.

North Korea

Freedom Fighter or Fool? Jury’s Out on Arrested Ethereum Developer Virgil Griffith

Leigh CuenDec 3, 2019

The case offers a litmus test of sorts: Was Griffith's appearance in North Korea a brazen violation of economic sanctions or a noble act of spreading ethereum's gospel of global reinvention?

Ethereum

Ethereum Devs Reconsider ‘Difficulty Bomb’ Timing as Hard Forks Loom

William FoxleyDec 3, 2019

Developers may punt a network feature two years down the road to avoid complicating ethereum's transition to proof-of-stake (PoS).

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