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Justin Sun, the founder of TRON, invited U.S. President Donald Trump to join him and several other crypto executives on a private lunch with Warren Buffett. Tron famously paid $4.6 million for the charity lunch with the Berkshire Hathaway CEO but postponed it in July due to alleged health concerns. Warren Buffett’s charity lunch could […]

The American singer and producer Akon has resurfaced on the internet after speaking out in favor of Bitcoin. “Nothing backs the dollar” Speaking with Angela Yee and DJ Envy in a radio interview on the Breakfast Club, Akon expressed his views on what makes Bitcoin a better currency than the U.S. dollar. The fact that […]

Nasdaq is adding a new index that is dedicated to blockchain projects in decentralized finance, featuring major cryptocurrencies such as Augur, Maker, and 0x. EXANTE, a European investment services firm that was established in 2011 to offer global multi-asset financial services, partnered with the stock exchange operator Nasdaq to offer the Decentralized Finance Index (DeFix). […]

Despite being invitation-only, Binance’s newly launched testnet futures platform saw 24-hour trading volumes of over $150 million in BTC/USDT contracts. Binance futures testnet platform Announced at the beginning of July, the launch Binance’s futures trading platform has been one of the most anticipated events this summer. The platform would challenge the dominance of the incumbent […]

SEC chairman Jay Clayton remains cautious about approving a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund. VanEck SolidX’s recently launched “limited” BTC ETF has, thus far, had abysmal uptake. “Work left to be done” The industry is making a lot of progress toward a Bitcoin ETF, said SEC Chairman Jay Clayton in an interview with CNBC’s Bob Pisani. However, […]

CasperLabs, a startup attempting to crack the blockchain scalability problem, raised $14.5 million in a series A round to build a faster, safer, and more efficient proof-of-stake blockchain—a lot like Ethereum. Financing innovation The round was led by Terren Fiezer—a financier who has held senior senior executive positions at Goldman Sachs, First Boston, and Drexel […]

Bitcoin is in a consolidation phase and there has not been any significant impulse over the last two months that signals where it is heading next. However, one of the most prominent technical analysts in the cryptocurrency community recently took to Twitter to express his views on BTC’s future. Bitcoin is on the verge of […]

After unidentified criminals used AI-assisted audio deepfakes to steal more than $240,000, former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan suggested that blockchain-enabled phones could be the solution to call authentication. While Srinivasan himself said that the technology is yet to come to life, many argued that such security measures already exist and don’t need blockchain at all. […]

BitMEX, the largest margin trading platform in the cryptocurrency market, is seeing its chief operating officer depart. COO exits BitMEX Angelina Kwan, COO of BitMEX, is currently on “gardening leave” as she plans to leave the company, said a spokesperson related to the matter. This term is used to describe the condition in which an […]

Stellar unveiled its largest airdrop to date, worth over $120 million in XLM. The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) in partnership with Keybase, a free group messaging community and file transfer hub, announced that 2 billion XLM will be given away over the next 20 months. The airdrop will be directed to Keybase’s user base that […]