The country initially announced an airdrop was “confirmed” for donors but canceled the plan 29 hours later
The novel crowdfunding and airdrop underscore potential for traditional organizations to bootstrap mainstream crypto adoption
Of those women, 60% said they plan on buying crypto within the next few months
The Series B round, led by Pantera Capital, raises the company’s valuation to $240 million
The capital raise brings the firm into a bigger playing field alongside major crypto funds such as Andreessen Horowitz, Paradigm and10T Holdings
Total value locked in DeFi protocols has risen 237% from $55.36 billion to $186.55 billion year-over-year, a trend Aligned expects to continue
The company plans to triple its headcount in the next year and double its supported protocols
The platform can be used to send and receive money for investments, payments and subscriptions
The firm’s past CFO Yaron Shalem was suspended from Celsius in November 2021, after he was arrested in Israel on allegations of money laundering, Blockworks reported
The funds will be used to establish a bitcoin reserve for Terra’s UST stablecoin
The crypto platform was founded in 2017 and works with over 1,000 clients in institutional and consumer markets.
Scammers made off with 254 NFTs, including a few Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, according to data from blockchain security firm PeckShield
The unit is FTX’s newest effort to encourage gaming studios to use crypto, blockchain technology and NFTs
A number of funding rounds this week focused on gaming and DeFi, hinting at continued growth and demand for the sectors in the months ahead
The Network of Decentralized Economics (NODE) will kick-start the program with $5 million to creators focused on blockchain gaming, play-to-earn gaming and the metaverse
Founders have asked the firm to take a more active role in managing its tokens — this fund will give it that ability to engage further, it said
Digital Currency Group, Multicoin Capital, Reciprocal Ventures, gumi Cryptos Capital, NGC Ventures and HashKey provided the capital to accelerate growth on The Graph