MakerDAO plans to move 1.1 billion USDC into Coinbase custody

    MakerDAO, the issuer of DAI stablecoin, is reportedly moving forward with a proposal to onboard an account to Coinbase prime and transfer about $1.1 billion (33% of its USDC) into custody. The platform could earn around 15 million USDC in annual revenue by moving assets to Coinbase, MakerDAO says. Porter Smith, an a16z deal partner,…

    Crypto Trends Weekly – October 15 – 21

    Breaking crypto news from the last week (Oct. 15 – 21, 2022): Oct. 15: TRON founder Justin Sun announced a merger between the TRON network and the Heco Chain. In his words, the TRON and BitTorrent chain network will merge with developers from Heco. Sun made this announcement a day after revealing his Huobi tokens…

    Crypto Investments Weekly – Oct. 15–21

    Top investment deals across the crypto sector over the last week (Oct. 15–21, 2022): BofA survey: Younger investors are 7.5 times more likely to hold crypto in their portfolios Bank of America’s survey of wealthy Americans revealed that younger wealthy Americans are 7.5 times more likely to hold crypto in their portfolios than investors aged…

    CoinShares releases AI bot to calculate NFT prices, while OpenSea revises its NFT rarity ranking protocol

    OpenSea revises its NFT rarity ranking protocol OpenRarity, launched on Sept. 21, after community controversial feedback. Some community members argued that the new rarity ranking protocol disrupts the market-driven rarity structure for some NFT collections. Meanwhile, CoinShares launch its own experimental AI bot to determine a fair price for some NFTs; however, some users appear…

    Gulf Crypto Insight: Hot crypto news from the MENA region – October 21

    Top crypto news from the Middle East region over the last week (Oct. 15–21, 2022): GITEX Global was held at the DWTC, UAE GITEX GLOBAL (Gulf Information Technology Exhibition) is one of the biggest and a highly influential technology conferences happening since 1981. GITEX 2022 was a five-day event (October 10th-14th) at the Dubai World…

    Ahmed bin Sulayem – the DMCC boss putting Dubai on global business map

    The DMCC boss is indebted to ‘his father and idol, the Dubai Ruler, for taking a chance with him’ in 2001, when he was 23 years old – a story by Joydeep Sengupta on Khaleej Times. Ahmed bin Sulayem, Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC), is a…