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Cryptocurrency investment firm Polychain Capital is raising $200 million for a second fund aimed at venture investing, a funding goal that would top its first venture fund by $25 million.According to an investor slide deck obtained by CoinDesk, the second venture fund opened at the beginning of 2020 and is
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IOTA Foundation, the nonprofit behind the IOTA distributed network, recommended users close their Trinity wallets Thursday after multiple reports of fund theft. IOTA said it started receiving the reports Wednesday and decided to shut off the Coordinator node in the network for further investigation. The foundation is evaluating an exploit on an
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The growing U.S. workforce and retirement of the boomers will force the Fed to double its balance sheet. The expansion of the Fed’s balance sheet will lead to low or even negative yields. These conditions will drive investors to seek assets that are scarce and bitcoin is the number one candidate. By now,
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Malta-based Binance, one of the world's top cryptocurrency exchanges by trading volume, now allows users put up their crypto holdings as collateral to fund futures trading.Launched soon before press time, the new "Cross Collateral" feature means users can trade futures contracts using assets stored in their Binance exchange wallet as
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A venture capital fund under the management of Sony Financial Ventures (SFV) and Japan-based VC firm Global Brain has invested an undisclosed amount in security token issuance platform Securitize.Announcing the news in a press release Tuesday, San Francisco-based Securitize said the "strategic fundraise" came via corporate VC fund SFV GB
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Not everyone is totally excited about DeFi.Volatile crypto is nurturing its fixed-income side. Crypto lending activity is growing on decentralized finance (DeFi) networks. Staking, where investors reap payments for locking up assets in functions essential to network protocols, is moving into crypto's mainstream, with large crypto exchanges offering staking services
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Gitcoin, BCash and Zcash all try different paths to fund public protocol development, plus the latest in CBDCs from Japan and Cambodia and Andrew Yang on crypto.The best way to fund open-source projects remains a question,and one that - in the context of crypto protocols - has never had higher
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Ethereum, the second most valuable blockchain network in the global market, will see its biggest upgrade ever soon. Chromatic Capital managing director Grant Hummer says if successfully implemented, it will create major improvements that would make the so-called “ETH 2.0” significantly better than the current version.For many years, the Ethereum
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The crypto community wrapped up the year 2019 with a bit of good cryptocurrency news from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). As usual, the agency released its country report for the just concluded year, 2019, dubbed “Technical Assistance Report – Monetary and Financial Statistics Mission.” Only this time, the paper
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A prominent cryptocurrency fund manager and former Wall Street household name is bullish on both Bitcoin and gold. The reason: the U.S. killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani by an airstrike.Related Reading: Bitcoin Poised to Collapse Under $5,000? Market Cycle Fractal Suggests SoBitcoin Bullish Because of Iran?On Jan. 2, U.S. officials confirmed
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