French Central Banker Advocates For Blockchain-Based Settlements in Europe

news Blockchain investment firm Pantera Capital is leading a $4.5 million seed round in Staked, a startup that provides institutional investors with the technical infrastructure for non-custodial staking services. Other participants in the round include Coinbase Ventures, Global Brain, Digital Currency Group, Winklevoss Capital, Fabric Ventures and Blocktree Capital. “You’ve got $25 billion of stake-able crypto that’s coming…

news Xpring, Ripple’s grant network for developers launched last May, is stepping into the $140 billion global gaming industry. The project has partnered with the gaming blockchain startup Forte to create a $100 million fund to support game developers, the companies announced on Tuesday. According to a report in the Verge, all of the money…

Mar 25, 2020 at 13:50 UTCUpdated Mar 25, 2020 at 14:59 UTCThe International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) thinks global stablecoin initiatives might be subject to securities laws, according to a new report.Published Monday, the 31-page examination of regulatory issues around stablecoins – cryptocurrencies with prices pegged to a low-volatility asset reserve – stressed that…

The price of gas continues to rise on Ethereum, squeezing smaller retail traders using DEXs.Feb 8, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. UTCCardano, Polkadot Market Caps Surpass XRP as Some Bet on Alternatives to EthereumCardano (ADA) and polkadot (DOT) are now fourth- and fifth-most valued crypto assets, respectively, after they both surpassed XRP in market capitalization earlier…

The backing will help Terraform Labs build more apps on its Tendermint-based blockchain.Terra co-founders Daniel Shin and Do Kwon(Terraform Labs)Jan 26, 2021 at 3:00 p.m. UTCGalaxy, Coinbase Bet $25M on DeFi Using Terra StablecoinsTerraform Labs has raised $25 million in a new round from Galaxy Digital, Coinbase Ventures, Pantera Capital and others.The stablecoin for e-commerce…

Oct 23, 2020 at 11:31 UTCRipple CEO Brad Garlinghouse (Zack Seward/CoinDesk)Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has given more insight on the company’s possible move away from the U.S., saying that the legal status of the XRP cryptocurrency is key.Talking to CNBC Friday, Garlinghouse said his blockchain payments infrastructure company could potentially move to London where XRP…

Mar 20, 2020 at 19:05 UTCUpdated Mar 20, 2020 at 19:16 UTCAn off-the-cuff conversation about state power, nuance in an age of tribalism and where bitcoin meets politics, with Peter McCormack. For more episodes and free early access before our regular 3 p.m. Eastern time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox,…

CoreWeave, the specialized cloud service provider and Ethereum miner, has raised $50 million from Magnetar Capital to provide high-performance computing infrastructure.“With this new round of growth financing, CoreWeave will expand its offering to make high-performance computing available at the industry’s best performance-adjusted cost on a vastly broader scale,” CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator said in a…

The TON blockchain created by messaging app provider Telegram is suffering its second outage in as many days. "Block production issues began at 19:19 UTC" the team behind the project told users in a message posted to Telegram and X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday during U.S. afternoon hours. "The disruption appears to be due to