The committee, which will have management oversight over the firm, includes Morehead, longtime partner Paul Veradittakit, and Jasper Lewitton, who joined Pantera last summer as president. Lewitton’s work history includes a decade-long stint at Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates. Source CIOCryptoFirmJoeyKrugLosesPantera CryptoX Portal
In a new interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box, hedge fund veteran Ray Dalio says Bitcoin (BTC) is getting more attention than it deserves. The founder of asset management firm Bridgewater Associates says that what Bitcoin accomplished in the last 12 years is amazing, but investors still have better choices than putting their money on the benchmark cryptocurrency. “It’s a tiny thing that gets disproportionate attention. You know the value of Bitcoin is less than a third of the value of Microsoft stock. You can go into industries. Biotech and many…
The community of Dogecoin (DOGE) competitor Shiba Inu (SHIB) is petitioning Binance to list a crypto asset that was recently designated as the governance token of its upcoming decentralized finance (DeFi) platform. In a new petition on Change.org, the SHIB army is asking the world’s largest crypto exchange platform by volume to list Bone ShibaSwap (BONE), the network’s utility token. “This petition is designed to kindly request of Binance to please list Bone Token to trade… BONE is a governance token of Shibaswap ecosystem which will allow the Shib Army…
The committee, which will have management oversight over the firm, includes Morehead, longtime partner Paul Veradittakit, and Jasper Lewitton, who joined Pantera last summer as president. Lewitton’s work history includes a decade-long stint at Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates. Source
The National Bank of Kazakhstan (NBK) has launched a digital tenge pilot project, according to a report published jointly by the bank and Binance on Feb. 3. The report looked at global approaches to digital asset regulation, the digital asset industry and decentralized finance (DeFi) in Central Asia and the Commonwealth of Independent States in particular. In his introduction to the report, NBK Deputy governor Berik Sholpankupov wrote about the bank’s vision of a “collaboration between Traditional Finance and DeFi” that could increase financial inclusion and support international trade. He…
The January rebound in equities and knockout employment report may have undermined a few buy-bitcoin narratives, but the real value proposition behind bitcoin lies far beyond Wall Street in emerging markets, where bitcoin is in strong demand. Original
Following a request from FTX lawyers to subpoena FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) and members of his family, the U.S. Trustee appointed by the Department of Justice has filed an opposition to the request. The U.S. Trustee explained that the motion would duplicate the efforts of the federally appointed independent examiner. U.S. Trustee Argues for Limiting Duplicative Efforts in FTX Bankruptcy Investigation About a week ago, lawyers representing FTX debtors filed a motion with the bankruptcy court to subpoena and question Sam Bankman-Fried’s (SBF) inner circle and family members. The…
United States lawmakers with the Senate Banking Committee have scheduled a second hearing exploring the impact of a crypto market crash. In a Feb. 3 announcement, Senate Banking Committee Chair Sherrod Brown said senators would convene on Feb. 14 in a hearing titled “Crypto Crash: Why Financial System Safeguards are Needed for Digital Assets.” The hearing will come two months after lawmakers met and discussed the collapse of crypto exchange FTX in a Dec. 14 hearing. As the second hearing is scheduled for the Senate Banking Committee following the start…
Already a bull on MicroStrategy, Canaccord Genuity upped its price target on the stock to $400 from $372 following the news. “We believe the company’s relatively conservative strategy of keeping most of its holdings unencumbered has been prudent,” wrote analyst Joseph Vafi and team. “Institutional investors are continuing to work on their Bitcoin and overall digital-asset strategies, in our view. As such, we expect to see continued mainstream adoption, which we believe bode well for the medium term and supports our view that BTC is biased higher over time.” Source
press release PRESS RELEASE. Foxify have just confirmed a brand partnership with Tyson Fury in an industry leading move. It comes following the hype of the brand reveal in January. The two-time world heavyweight champion is undefeated, with a legion of fans that follow his extraordinary career. What is Foxify? From the founding team of MDB (Make DeFi Better) comes the next generation of peer-to-peer trading, a unique platform that is yet to be seen in the DeFi space: Foxify.Following from previous successes, the team brings you their latest innovation,…