$4 billion US hedge fund attempts to short Tether’s stablecoin
    15 Mar 2022
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    Fir Tree Capital Management, a $4 billion New York-based hedge fund, is shorting Tether as the largest stablecoin in crypto faces down scrutiny from regulators and fears over ties to the Chinese debt market. According to Bloomberg, Fir Tree has constructed a way to short Tether in an “asymmetric trade.” That means the risk is…

    Web 3.0: Message to Those Lost In the Web. Part 4
    15 Mar 2022
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    The last time you dived headlong into the World Wide Web, you probably did so without as much as thinking about it. It has become natural for us: we are always online, our smartphones stay connected to the web, as do the computers we work on, our smart TVs, etc. And soon, the immersion may…

    Yuga Labs acquires CryptoPunks and Meebits intellectual property
    14 Mar 2022
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    Yuga Labs, the company behind one of the biggest and most valuable NFT collections in the industry, the Bored Ape Yacht Club, announced Friday that it has bought the rights to the intellectual property of the other two most popular collections – CryptoPunks and Meebits – from Larva Labs. Yuga Labs announced Friday that it…

    Crypto Trends Weekly March 5 – 11
    14 Mar 2022
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    Breaking crypto news from the last week (Mar. 5 – 11, 2022): Mar. 5: The global pandemic changed everything for creators: The stay-at-home orders accelerated the shift toward blockchain and Web3 advancement, writes Doug Petkanics, a co-founder at Livepeer, where the team is building a decentralized live video broadcast platform to enable the next generation…

    Web 3.0: Message to Those Lost In the Web. Part 3
    14 Mar 2022
    520 Views

    The last time you dived headlong into the World Wide Web, you probably did so without as much as thinking about it. It has become natural for us: we are always online, our smartphones stay connected to the web, as do the computers we work on, our smart TVs, etc. And soon, the immersion may…

    Roofstock raised $240 million from SoftBank, reaching a $1.9 billion valuation
    13 Mar 2022
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    Roofstock, a digital real estate platform for single-family rental investing, announced closing a $240 million Series E round led by SoftBank‘s Vision 2 fund. With the new funding, Roofstock achieved a valuation of $1.94 billion. The Roofstock platform enables the $4 trillion fragmented, cottage industry of single-family rentals (SFRs) to become a relevant asset class….