Australia baseball team the Perth Heat on Tuesday (Nov. 16) partnered with Bitcoin payments company OpenNode in a move to allow the club to accept Bitcoin payments and send Bitcoin payouts to players and staff through the Lightning Network. In addition to paying players and...
The global FinTech startup and stablecoin issuer Circle Internet Financial has launched Circle Ventures, a new project designed to invest in “compelling, early-stage blockchain projects and companies.” The company announced the launch in a news release Tuesday (Nov. 9), saying that the projects and companies...
Lottery.com Inc. announced on Monday (Nov. 8) that it is working on a platform to operate lottery, sports betting, sweepstakes and other forms of online gaming and to enhance the company’s API capabilities. The multi-year project, called Project Nexus, is in the early stages. The...
Sequoia Capital has invested in a $1 million-plus token fundraising round for decentralized finance (DeFi) lending project Parallel that puts the Polkadot-based protocol’s value at $250 million, CoinDesk reported Monday (Nov. 8). Sequoia made its investment less than two weeks after it said it will...
Cost savings for banks using Blockchain technology in cross-border settlements will grow by 3,330% by 2030, according to a new report from Juniper Research. The report, released Monday (Nov. 8) shows those savings rising from $301 million in 2021 to $10 billion in 2030. It...
Artist Beeple, who sold a digital collage at Christie’s for $69 million this spring, plans to sell a 7-foot-tall real-life sculpture named HUMAN ONE on Nov. 9 for about $15 million through Christie’s, according to a Thursday (Oct. 28) report in The Wall Street Journal....
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has asked asset manager Valkyrie Investments not to go forward with plans for a leveraged bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported. Valkyrie Investments, which was looking to roll out a fund that would “amplify the...
Mobile banking platform BlockBank, which combines decentralized finance (DeFi) and artificial intelligence (AI) technology, on Tuesday (Oct. 26) announced it will unveil its mobile and web-based app by the end of this year, according to a Bitcoin.com report. BlockBank’s app will bring together traditional finance...
Bitcoin fell around 87 percent last week on Binance’s U.S. exchange, a Bloomberg report says. The price went to around $8,200, when previously it had sat at $65,000. Binance was the sole venue where this happened – on that venue, the level also snapped back...
