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Separate instances this morning saw a billionaire embrace the crypto sector and a regulator move away from it. One steps into crypto  Dan Loeb, founder and billionaire investor of Third Point, a New York-based hedge fund, said in tweets yesterday that he was “looking into” the crypto sector and assessing the various opportunities it provided. […]

New York-based cryptocurrency asset managers Grayscale bought over 174,000 Litecoin over the past month. This is the equivalent of 80% of all mined LTC in February. In the past month @Grayscale Trust has purchased over 174,000 Litecoin. This is approx 80% of all Litecoin mined last month… pic.twitter.com/5RmDARZ3dy — litecoin (@litecoin) March 1, 2021 As […]

A division of Sony Europe has joined Theta Labs’ Enterprise Validator and Governance Council Program, the firms said in a release shared with CryptoSlate. Another validator Sony Europe’s R&D Center Europe Brussels Laboratory joins the program as an enterprise validator and member of the governing council to participate in strategic technology planning and ensure the […]

BlockDown Conference is set to celebrate its first anniversary with its most ambitious event to date on April 15-16, the firm shared in a release to CryptoSlate. High-profile individuals to attend Called BlockDown ‘4.0,’ the event will be a gathering of the greatest minds in the crypto space, celebrating the bull market of 2021 with […]

Popularly known as “Mr Wonderful,” O’Leary was earlier skeptical about the crypto sector but he seems to have turned around on that thought. Shark jumps into Bitcoin Kevin O’Leary is the latest high-profile investor to do a 180-turn on Bitcoin. He revealed an investment into the asset in a tweet yesterday, despite holding a negative […]

CryptoSlate recently had the opportunity to chat with Grant Blaisdell, the founder and CEO of Copernic Space, a marketplace for “digital space assets and companies.” Grant has been creating ventures at the intersection of new technologies and media in the US and Central Europe since his late teens. An early innovator in applying blockchain technology […]

The Cardano blockchain now hosts over half a million unique wallet addresses, with the number growing each hour. The significant growth in new addresses on the network was partly fueled by the upgrade to Daedalus which will introduce native-asset support to the wallet. The Cardano network sees significant expansion ahead of native asset upgrade With […]

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez addressed Treasury Secretary Yellen’s recent Bitcoin snub, saying he isn’t surprised she is hostile towards the leading cryptocurrency. Expanding further, he said Bitcoin’s separation from the state is why investors flock to it in the first place. And when asked about his apparent tolerance for high-risk, Suarez replied by saying all […]

US bank Citibank said that macro conditions have created a “tipping point” for the world’s largest crypto asset. Opportunity and risks Citibank analysts said Bitcoin is poised to become the world’s “currency of choice” for global trade and that the asset has reached its “tipping point,” as per a research report to clients on Monday. […]

NFTs of NBA Top Shots have taken both the crypto and the real world by storm. And the sales figures prove that. NFT Slamdunk! A basketball-focused collectible card trading game by blockchain games developer Dapper Labs has hit over $230 million in sales, a report by business outlet CNBC said Sunday. For the uninitiated, the […]