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Crypto exchange FTX Trading Ltd. has raised $400 million in a Series C funding round, valuing the company, which has leaned heavily on sports and gaming, at $32 billion. The investment values the crypto exchange at the same level as Deutsche Boerse and more than Nasdaq or Twitter. According to the company’s statement, the round…

Breaking crypto news from the last week (Jan. 22 – 28, 2022): Jan. 22: Trading platform Robinhood has begun rolling out crypto wallets to 1,000 customers. Users from the waitlist are allowed to send and receive their cryptocurrencies from Robinhood to external crypto wallets. By March, 10,000 customers will be testing the wallets before a…

Ukraine is a country of the most amazing possibilities, including three blockchain versions of the national currency being created at once. It’s time for an absolutely amazing story of how, as it turns out, not in every country national banks control local currency. On December 14, we learned that Tascombank – one of the oldest…

In January, global NFT sales volume is hitting new all-time highs of $8.6 billion despite the crypto market’s latest sell-off. According to data aggregator CryptoSlam, global NFT sales have topped previous records with $8.6 billion worth of sales in January, dwarfing the previous high of $4.5 billion set in August. New data from blockchain research…

The unprecedented current economic situation seems to increasingly prove numerous analysts’ predictions and forecasts of market behavior wrong. Let’s take a look at what is happening at the macroeconomic level and how it affects the crypto market. As you may recall, the emergence of Bitcoin (and therefore all cryptocurrencies) was a response to the financial…

Why this downturn is different from 2018. Michael J. Casey, CoinDesk’s Chief Content Officer, shared his opinion in Money Reimagined, a weekly look at the technological, economic, and social events and trends that are redefining our relationship with money and transforming the global financial system. When token markets plunged in 2018 following the initial coin…