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Cryptocurrency Worth $435 Million Seized by 12 UK Police Forces in Five Years – Regulation Bitcoin News

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U.K. police have revealed how much cryptocurrency they have seized in the past five years in response to Freedom of Information requests. The London Metropolitan Police seized more bitcoins than other police boroughs. UK Police Reveal Information About Seized Crypto Twelve of the U.K.’s 43 police forces have seized cryptocurrency worth approximately £322 million ($435 million) in criminal investigations in the last five years, New Scientist reported Thursday, citing Freedom of Information (FOI) requests it submitted. Bitcoin made up 99.9% of the cryptocurrencies seized in the U.K. However, Law enforcement…

Leading NFT Marketplace Opensea Raises $300 Million, Firm’s Post-Money Valuation Taps $13.3 Billion – Finance Bitcoin News

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Leading non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace Opensea announced the firm has raised $300 million in a Series C funding round led by Paradigm and Coatue. Opensea’s latest capital raise has propelled the company to a $13.3 billion post-money valuation. Opensea Raises $300 Million, Commands Post-Money Valuation of $13.3 Billion In mid-November, a report authored by theinformation.com’s Kate Clark and Berber Jin explained that Opensea was fielding new investments after investors were allegedly chomping at the bit to fund the project. At the time, Opensea’s estimated valuation was $10 billion and two…

Golf startup putts $10.5 million in NFT sales

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No sector of the economy or indeed life is safe from nonfungible tokens (NFTs) or tokenization. Golf is the latest sport to succumb to the lure of NFTs and a round of decentralization thanks to the efforts of LinksDAO.  In a sold-out NFT drop, LinksDAO raised $10.5 million to fund its golfing aspirations. More than 9,000 “leisure membership” and “global membership” NFTs were purchased on the OpenSea platform, exchanged for Ether (ETH). It would seem that while 2021 was a thriving year of decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) activity, with some…

OpenSea raises $300 million for encrypted digital marketplace

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The nonfungible token (NFT) market is gaining momentum as the next frontier in collectibles, gaming and the metaverse.  To accelerate this vision, OpenSea announced on Jan. 4 that it has secured $300 million in a Series C funding led by Coatue and Paradigm. OpenSea is a digital market based on the Wyvern Protocol, which is composed of custom-built Ethereum smart contracts that are expressly created for buying and selling unique digital assets. The marketplace was established in 2018. With the most recent investment, OpenSea’s value has now surpassed $13.3 billion.…

CFTC Fines ‘Decentralized’ Prediction Market Platform Polymarket $1.4 Million, Shuts Down Noncompliant Markets – Regulation Bitcoin News

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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has ordered a “decentralized” prediction market platform to shut down non-compliant markets and pay a fine of $1.4 million. “Polymarket had been operating an illegal unregistered or non-designated facility for event-based binary options online trading contracts, known as ‘event markets,’” said the derivatives regulator. CFTC Takes First Crypto Enforcement Action of the Year The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has taken the first crypto enforcement action of the year in the U.S. The derivatives regulator announced that it entered an order Monday “filing…

Cardano Records Over 20 Million Transactions Ahead of DEX Launches

The Cardano network remains one of the most stable blockchains in the crypto space. Founded in 2017, the network remains the largest proof of stake network in the industry. It holds the title for the proof of stake network with the highest amount of coins staked, only recently conceding to Solana to become the smart contracts platform with the second-largest amount of coins staked. Nevertheless, Cardano remains a force to be reckoned with and its latest achievement has shown that. Network activity has picked up on the network since the…

Bitcoin Whale Wallet With $150 Million Activated After 8 Years

A good portion of the bitcoin supply has been lost due to holders dying or forgetting their private keys. These coins will never be recovered and are regarded as lost bitcoins. They play into the scarcity factor that drives the value of bitcoin up. It is estimated that 20% of the digital asset has been lost. These could technically still be recovered but it is unlikely since losing a private key means losing the coins held in the wallet. Since so much of the asset is lost, the rest remaining…

Dog-Themed DeFi Project Mysteriously Loses Fundraised $60 Million

A DeFi project that launched on Thursday had raised $60 million overnight during its token sale. However, the funds seem to have disappeared, and no one is sure exactly how. On Friday, investors woke up to the shocking news that their funds had disappeared. Around 13,556.36 ETH, which was worth $60 million at the time, was drained from AnubisDAO’s liquidity pool. Related Reading | DeFi Hack: Vee Finance Losses $35 Million To Hackers Following Mainnet Launch The project, AnubisDAO, was promoted as a fork of OlympusDAO — a cryptocurrency backed by…

El Salvador Calls Another Bitcoin Dip With $25 Million Purchase

El Salvador has once again deepened its bitcoin bet with another purchase. The sovereign nation had made history as the first to officially implement bitcoin as a legal tender back in September. To mark the historical moment, President Nayik Bukele had announced that the country had bought 200 bitcoins. A promise to purchase more followed the purchased and the country had kept to that promise. The country had purchased an additional 250 bitcoins after this. The third buy-in in September brought the total of El Salvador’s holdings to 700 coins.…

Binance 17th Burn Sees ~$640 Million Worth Of Crypto Taken Out Of Circulation

Binance has successfully carried out another quarterly scheduled burn. This marks the 17th routine burn that the cryptocurrency exchange has carried out since it had launched its native token back in 2017. Binance has not missed a single scheduled burn since that time and will continue to carry out these burns every quarter. Binance burns 20% of its quarterly earnings, which suggests how much the crypto exchange has brought in that quarter. The latest burn suggests that the company may have made over $4 billion in the 3rd quarter of…