Month: January 2022

Near Foundation Raises $150 Million to Bolster Web3 Adoption – Altcoins Bitcoin News

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On Thursday, the Near Foundation announced the project has raised $150 million from strategic investors such as Three-Arrows Capital, a16z, Mechanism Capital, Dragonfly Capital, and Circle Ventures. Following the announcement, the Near protocol’s native crypto asset jumped more than 7% against the U.S. dollar. Near Foundation Gets a $150 Million Capital Injection The team behind the sharded Near blockchain protocol, a proof-of-stake (PoS) network, has raised $150 million in capital in a recent finance round led by Three-Arrows Capital. According to the funding announcement, Mechanism Capital, Dragonfly Capital, a16z, Jump,…

Crypto Options Market Starting to Have Material Impact on Spot Market: QCP Capital

While a correlation between equities and crypto has become more apparent during the last year, Singapore’s QCP wrote that there is a limit to this correlation because of the increasing importance of the crypto options market. As the bitcoin and ether markets followed the bearish sentiment of the equities market as the week began, bitcoin and ether tumbled below $40,000 and $3,000 respectively. QCP wrote that they believe there was a bounce-back because of the number of strikes at the $40,000 mark for bitcoin, and the $3,000 mark for ether,…

DeFi 3.0 – A Pathway Forward

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The decentralized finance (DeFi) sector is easily one the most potent and promising parts of the world’s growing finance industry. As the name implies, decentralized finance removes central authorities and intermediaries from the sector, granting the public direct access to financial products at the best possible rates. Essentially, banks and other financial institutions can no longer exert their control over the market, putting the power into the hands of everyday individuals. There are several advantages to using DeFi. One of the most noticeable is the autonomy it provides the public.…

Bitcoin ETF Launch Hype Fades as Funds Slip in Value, BTC Futures Open Interest Down 38% in 2 Months – Finance Bitcoin News

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Following the charged-up debut of the Proshares bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), Valkyrie’s bitcoin futures ETF and the Vaneck bitcoin strategy ETF, interest in these types of funds seems to have faded a great deal. After the Proshares bitcoin ETF BITO reached an all-time high on November 10, the ETF is down 39% over the last 64 days. Valkyrie’s bitcoin ETF has also shed 37% in value over the last two months. Bitcoin Futures ETF Lull Continues A large portion of the cryptocurrency community was very hyped up for years about…

How NFTs Help Shape the Future

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NFT stands for Non-Fungible Token – Non-Fungible meaning unique, and token meaning record of ownership stored on a blockchain. Put together, an NFT is a record of ownership of a unique item that’s stored on a blockchain. While NFTs had their start in generative art, their use cases have expanded to include other digital items like metaverse land, blockchain game characters, and music. Further, a process called tokenization allows the ownership of physical items to be encoded into blockchains, expanding NFT use cases even further to include things like merchandise,…

Kingdom Karnage Raises $2M From Animoca Brands, Enjin and DFG to Boost GameFi Features – Press release Bitcoin News

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press release PRESS RELEASE. United Kingdom — January 13th, 2022 – Kepithor Studios has announced a set of innovative new GameFi mechanics coming to its turn-based NFT battle game, Kingdom Karnage. The game will introduce new play-to-earn opportunities for its players, powered by its upcoming KKT token, which has received investment from Animoca Brands, Kriptomat, ExNetwork, MyMetaverse, DFG, Jsquare and many others. The team intends to build a bridge that will allow the KKT token to move from Binance Smart Chain to Enjin’s Jumpnet where users can transact with zero…

Tether freezes $150 million in USDT

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Tether has added three more Ethereum addresses, holding more $150 million worth of the USDT stablecoin between them, to its blacklist. As a centralized company, Tether is able to blacklist addresses it believes are involved in crime, money laundering — or for any other reason it chooses. This is the first time Tether has blacklisted an address in 2022 but it added 312 addresses to the blacklist last year and has added 563 all up since it first did so on Nov. 28, 2017. Tether has not revealed why the…

Fan Controlled Football raises $40M to expand league with Bored Apes and Gutter Cats

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Alternative sports organization Fan Controlled Football (FCF) has raised $40 million in Series A funding from crypto and blockchain gaming firms to support the league’s expansion plans, including four new teams and an NFT project. The FCF was founded in 2017 by Sohrob Farudi, Patrick Dees, Ray Austin and Grant Cohen and hosted its debut season inside a bubble environment in Atlanta amid the pandemic last year. The FCF features an indoor version of American football in a seven vs seven-player format, and the games are streamed live on Twitch.…

Robinhood hits new low as FTX US and Bitstamp USA move into stocks

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Crypto exchanges FTX US and Bitstamp USA are working on offering stock trading, which would be a further blow to Robinhood as its share price slumps to new lows. FTX US President Brett Harrison tweeted on Tuesday that the crypto exchange is “hard at work on stocks,” commenting that a launch would be coming in “a couple months.” We’re hard at work on stocks! Features we’re planning for day 1: -Live BBO and historical candles-Stock screening/search functionality-Basic fundamentals (market cap, P/E ratio, dividend yield)-Portfolio performance tracking, order/trade details What else…