Upon the announcement of the United Kingdom budget for 2020, Chancellor Rishi Sunak commissioned Ron Kalifa to conduct an independent review of the U.K. fintech sector. On Friday, eight months …
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Everything You Need To Know About The Coinbase Direct Listing
Coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange, filed its S-1 on Feb. 25 to go public via direct listing on Nasdaq. In the lead-up to the IPO, Coinbase shares traded on the Nasdaq …
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Banks will have to work with crypto, e-money and CBDCs to survive
Image a scenario where you need different messengers to send different types of messages — for example, WhatsApp for text messages, Viber for audio, Telegram for video, etc. Rather inconvenient, …
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Unknown client from Russia stacked 20,000 Bitcoin miners in Siberia
Russia has reportedly imported thousands of cryptocurrency mining devices amid a massive surge in the crypto market. A senior executive at BitRiver, the largest crypto-mining colocation services provider in Russia, claimed …
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A new Rhode Island House introduces ‘vital’ blockchain growth act
A new bill introduced to the Rhode Island state legislature aims to boost the state’s economy by opening up the “Ocean State” to blockchain innovators. Dubbed the Rhode Island Economic …
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Solana will host a DeFi hackathon offering a $200,000 prize pool
Solana has announced an upcoming DeFi hackathon offering $200,000 in seed funding from the Solana Foundation. The hackathon, which is scheduled to take place from Feb. 15 through March 1st, …
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EY collaborates with major Chinese blockchain projects to expand its blockchain deployment
Ernst & Young, one of the world’s largest professional services networks, is expanding its blockchain services in China in partnership with major local blockchain projects. According to a Feb. 5 …
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China’s blockchain service network announces Cosmos integration
Cosmos becomes the first public blockchain to be added to the China-only version of the Blockchain-based Service Network.
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Alameda Research & FTX exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried amassed a fortune
FTX exchange CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is worth an estimated $10 billion according to a New York Magazine interview. SBF, as he is known in crypto circles, spoke to the publication …
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