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Crypto trading platform CrossTower is launching a capital markets desk for institutional clients.Leading the desk is securities industry veteran Greg Bunn, who’s being hired as CrossTower’s chief strategy officer. Previously, Bunn served as global head of counterparty strategy at foreign exchange giant Citadel, and he also worked in senior roles
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Bitcoin is trading at over $20,000, but the start of what might be the first real correction since
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An Evercore analyst named PayPal as the top payments stock and said its recently launched cryptocurrency offering could boost margins. Source
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Cybersecurity specialist Kaspersky foresees a rise in crypto crime ahead, as the COVID-19 epidemic hits national economies.In a report on financial threats for 2021, based on data and patterns from this year, the company said Monday that attacks aimed at stealing bitcoin will “become more attractive as many nations plummet
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Russian prime minister Mikhail Mishustin has appeared to express support for the further development of the local cryptocurrency market.At a recent governmental meeting held on Nov. 26, Mishustin proposed the introduction of legal protections for crypto holders in the country in order to contribute to the growth of the new
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Lisbon-based non-fungible token (NFT) platform Mintbase has closed a $1 million seed funding round.The round, led by Chinese venture capital firm Sino Global and with participation from D1 Ventures, Block Oracle Capital, Arweave and angel investors, is meant to help Mintbase stand out from a growing pack of NFT platforms.“Being
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Stealth-mode crypto custody specialist Shard X has claimed a breakthrough, being the first company to successfully run math-heavy, multi-party computation (MPC) on hardware security modules (HSMs).So why does this alphabet soup of security tech matter? In summary, HSMs are a battle-tested way to store private keys, particularly popular in consumer products
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Beam, the crypto project utilizing privacy tech, has announced the imminent launch of a confidential defi network called
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Bitcoin’s hashrate bounced 30% Wednesday from quarterly lows on Nov. 2 as miners brought ASIC machines back online after relocating them out of China’s Sichuan province as the wet season ended in late October, as CryptoX previously reported. Bitcoin’s mining difficulty registered a record-setting percentage decrease on Nov. 3 – the
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Lending and borrowing rates on all the top decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms are dizzyingly variable.Enter Notional, a new protocol that lets users lend and borrow crypto at fixed rates. After 10 months in stealth, the platform launches in beta on Ethereum today. The startup also announced Monday a $1.3 million
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