San Francisco Crypto News

Privacy-centric browser Brave has reached an all-time high of eight million monthly active users and released impressive statistics suggesting its crypto-incentivized advertising model is gaining traction.

Securitize, a blockchain-based digital securities platform, raised $14 million in its latest funding round.

San Fransisco-based digital securities issuing platform Securitize became the first “blockchain-focused agent” to get SEC approval.  The company said this will enable the company to be an official keeper of records for all digital securities registered with the SEC, positioning it as a one-stop digital securities service provider, said the company to CryptoSlate.

Drama around Justin Sun’s lunch with Warren Buffett continues.

Coinbase, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the United States, has on-boarded 5 million new users in the past 10 months and now claims to have over 30 million users.

Jack Dorsey’s open-source Bitcoin initiative, Square Crypto, brings on a former Google project manager as its first hire.

Salesforce, one of the world’s biggest providers of cloud solutions for businesses,  launched its own blockchain platform.

GlobalCoin, Facebook’s own cryptocurrency, will reportedly be announced this month.

Asiff Hirji, president and chief operating officer at Coinbase, is the second high-profile departure at the crypto exchange this month.

Kraken, one of the oldest cryptocurrency exchanges, reached out to its customers via email offering them tokenized stock in the company.

Among mobile web browsers downloads, Brave has pushed its way into third, narrowly behind Google Chrome by Play Store rankings.

Balaji Srinivasan appears to be leaving Coinbase after serving one year as chief technology officer.

Web users can now get paid in Basic Attention Token (BAT) for viewing ads as Brave Technologies has launched its long-awaited ad platform which compensates users for watching ads.

Regardless of how cryptocurrency prices are performing in the open marketplace, there is much going on behind the scenes.

The Internet Archive, a San Francisco-based non-profit digital library—reported receiving $2,500 in Basic Attention Token (BAT) tips.

Brian Armstrong shared a series of tweets indicating that multiple divisions of Coinbase were growing, including its Commerce, Earn, and Wallet services.

On Monday, April 8, San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced the addition of EOS (EOS), Maker (MKR), and Augur (REP) to its professional trading platform, Coinbase Pro.

Previously, institutional investors did not stake their cryptocurrency or participate in governance because of the need to use crypto-custodians.