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Blockchain smartphone startup Sirin Labs laid off a quarter of its workforce, Israeli business media Globes reported on April 15.Per the report, the startup admitted to having laid off 15 of its 60 employees and having overestimated the sales of their Finney blockchain smartphone. A spokesperson for the company reportedly said that it will now…

Four collaborative NFTs launched by musician Two Feet and visual artist FEWOCiOUS have generated more than $1m in Nifty Gateway’s largest auction of 2021 so far. 1668 Total views 8 Total shares The auctions were organized by Illumino, an NFT-focused firm seeking to bring “tastemakers and artists” together to launch innovative art on-chain. Illumino was…

Ripple co-founder and executive chairman Chris Larsen has made a full recovery from COVID-19. In a tweet on April 2, he thanked those working on the frontline against the virus, and also called for recovered patients to donate blood for use in antibody transplants.Larsen had not publicly shared the fact that he had been diagnosed…

Crypto custody company Anchorage now offers a crypto brokerage service, acquiring Merkle Data to further the service. Anchorage has introduced an institutional crypto trading service called Anchorage Trading, and has acquired institutional-grade risk management and analytics software company Merkle Data to enhance the endeavor, Anchorage co-founder and CEO Nathan McCauley said in a Jan. 15 post…

Almost 23% of Digital Currency Group (DCG)'s portfolio firms think asset tokenization will be the next major use case for blockchain. According to DCG’s 2019 annual survey, close to a quarter of 60 polled portfolio companies believe blockchain will be mainly deployed in asset tokenization, while 30% of respondents see the technology’s future use cases in payments.Other…

During a period of hyperinflation in 2013, “my Venezuelan mother asked me to send money to Caracas, the country’s capital,” Hervé Larren recalls. However, bank transfers were not possible between the two countries.  Busy with work in New York, he told a friend that he planned to fly to Caracas — carrying cash for his…

Top Stories This WeekPayPal Invests in Digital Identity-Focused Blockchain Startup in Apparent FirstGlobal online payments firm PayPal has invested in startup Cambridge Blockchain, a firm that focuses on leveraging the tech in order to give users more control over their digital identities. The investment, whose amount is undisclosed, is part of an extension to a…

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has officially announced a Blockchain Policy Forum in a release on the OECD website August 28.The OECD states that the event will be held in Paris September 4-5 and will mark the first major international event of its kind, dedicated to blockchain technology. Organizers plan to focus…

The meme-based cryptocurrency has exploded on Twitter over the past 24 hours, mirroring the rapid appreciation in DOGE price. 4205 Total views 41 Total shares Dogecoin (DOGE), a meme coin created as a joke, has seen a groundswell of Twitter activity in the past 24 hours after attention was thrown on the coin by the…