Square CEO Jack Dorsey announced on Twitter the fintech company to create a new standalone business that will act as a platform for developers to build decentralized finance (DeFi) projects based on Bitcoin. The new business will combine the efforts of CashApp, Seller, and Tidal in the same goal of decentralized financial services. Dorsey named…
Crypto app CryptoSpend announced Wednesday that Visa to issue a physical debit card that will allow Australians to spend their Bitcoin at local shops. Sydney-based digital assets startup gets approval from the global payment giant to release a spending card down under. According to the Australian Financial Review, CryptoSpend co-founders said that the new card…
Elon Musk continues his peculiar tweets about altcoins like Dogecoin, but investors should treat them very carefully. It looks like the days of easy money from the coin pumps are gone, but Dogecoin remains in the top 10 cryptocurrencies list. They say all good things come to an end, and the Elon Musk-inflicted Dogecoin pump…
Gemini, the crypto exchange of Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, plans to surpass Binance and become the largest crypto exchange by volume, despite Binance’s daily spot trading volume exceeding Gemini’s by over 100 times. However, given the recent regulatory scrutiny against Binance, embracing regulation could give a competitive advantage to rival exchanges. As Bloomberg reported, Gemini…
The British police confiscated £180 million or about $250 million worth of digital assets as part of a thorough investigation for money laundering. The operation was marked as the largest seizure ever executed in the United Kingdom. That’s a record for the Metropolitan Police service, which oversees law enforcement for the Greater London area, breaking…
The digital ownership conferred by blockchain will allow the Metaverse to fulfill its true potential as community-owned and community-governed, writes Yat Siu on Cointelegraph. Every day, we hear of more involvement by big industry players (for example, Epic Games and Roblox) as we creep closer to the Metaverse, a shared persistent virtual environment of interconnected…