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Japanese firm Metaplanet secures $6.8m loan to bolster Bitcoin holdings

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Japanese investment firm Metaplanet has secured a 1 billion yen loan, the entire amount of which will be used to buy Bitcoin (BTC). Details Metaplanet shared in an Aug. 8 post on X show that the lender is MMXX Ventures, which itself holds shares in Metaplanet. The loan term will run for six months starting Aug. 8 and will attract an interest rate of 0.1% per annum. The Tokyo Exchange-listed company is expected to repay the collateral-free loan in one lump sum after the loan period elapses. Were Metaplanet to…

Pan-African Tech Firm Cassava Technologies Launches AI Unit

Africa-focused technology and data services firm Cassava Technologies has created a separate business unit to oversee its artificial intelligence (AI) operations. The AI unit will offer data center, cloud, cybersecurity, fiber connectivity, and renewable energy services. Helping Clients Adopt Generative AI Pan-African technology firm Cassava Technologies is creating a separate business unit to focus on […] Source CryptoX Portal

VC firm Paradigm taps Facebook, Instagram vet David Swain

Crypto venture capital firm Paradigm has appointed David Swain as its new chief marketing officer. Swain previously worked as head of global communications at Instagram and senior director of technology communications at Facebook. He also served as vice president of global partnerships at the social fitness app Strava. According to a report from The Block, Swain was enthused to join Paradigm, citing his extensive experience in the tech sector and his belief in the transformative potential of cryptocurrency. The report further stated that Alana Palmedo, Paradigm’s managing partner and chief…

Research Firm Predicts Bitcoin Breakout For Q4: 4 Key Reasons

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Matrixport, a digital asset financial services group born from Bitmain, an industry leader in Bitcoin mining, projects a bullish breakout for Bitcoin in the upcoming fourth quarter of 2024. In their latest research report titled “Matrix on Target: Bullish Prospects for Bitcoin in Q4,” the firm provides four reasons to be bullish in the upcoming weeks. #1 Narrowing Trading Range Signals Breakout Matrixport’s analysis begins with a technical assessment of the recent Bitcoin price action. Historically, Q3 has posed significant challenges with frequent breakout failures. This year, however, Bitcoin has…

Crypto Lending Firm Morpho Bags $50M in Funding Round Led by Ribbit Capital

“We need to bridge the gap for DeFi and make the actual integration into the fintech world, and Ribbit was an obvious partner for that,” Frambot said. “Already there are incredible synergies in what we could achieve together for potential integrations in the real world, and not just like crypto leverage use case, which is, frankly, most of the use case of DeFi lending right now.” Source

Research Firm Predicts Bitcoin Game Theory Among Nations

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In an analysis released on Monday, ASXN, an emerging crypto research firm, outlines the dynamics of global Bitcoin adoption through the lens of game theory. The report titled “The Game Theory of Bitcoin Adoption Among Nations” provides an examination of how nations can leverage mathematical game theory to strategically adopt Bitcoin. The report follows on the heels of Donald Trump’s announcement at the Bitcoin 2024 conference that he’ll convert all BTC’s owned by the US government through enforcement actions into a “strategic Bitcoin stockpile”. Bitcoin Game Theory Explained The report…

Shiba Inu, XRP Forming Bullish Divergence, Analytics Firm Reveals

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The on-chain analytics firm Santiment has revealed how Shiba Inu and XRP are among altcoins that are seeing a bullish divergence on the MVRV Z-Score. MVRV Z-Score Says XRP And Shiba Inu Traders Are Seeing Losses Currently In a new post on X, Santiment has discussed how the various top coins in the cryptocurrency sector look on the MVRV Z-Score. The “Market Value to Realized Value (MVRV) ratio” is a popular indicator that, in short, measures the deviation between the total value held by the investors of an asset (that…

Solana Sees Arrival of Nomura, Brevan Howard-Affiliated Tokenization Firm Libre

“Solana’s importance to financial services is quite significant around secondary trading,” Sehra said in an interview. “They have developed the chain for capabilities of increasing throughput, so the number of transactions per second, and also the reduction of the latency between transactions. Since we’re planning to launch secondary trading services later this year, we decided to provide access to all of our funds on Solana now.” Source

Bitcoin firm Swan pauses IPO plans, suspends mining arm

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Bitcoin-focused firm Swan is suspending its crypto mining business, pulling plans to IPO “in the near future.” Californian Bitcoin-focused investment firm Swan is halting its plans to go public in the near future and has decided to suspend its mining branch just five months after its launch. In an announcement on X, Swan chief executive Cory Klippsten said the firm is also pulling back from its “accelerated spending plan,” including staff cuts “across many functions.” The Swan CEO explained that the decision was made because the firm doesn’t anticipate “significant…