Big Investors Deny Involvement In Crypto Miner Bitmain’s Pre-IPO Funding

First MoverSign up here for First Mover, a daily newsletter about the latest moves in crypto markets.The Latest News on the Bitcoin ETFFranklin Templeton's Bitcoin ETF Now the Cheapest After 10 Basis Point ReductionAfter initially revealing their fees on Monday, several providers then reduced them spying the impending battle for market share that would ensue

Gulf Binance, a joint venture between crypto exchange Binance and Gulf Energy’s innovation arm Gulf Innova, has received a digital asset operator license in Thailand, according to a Friday press release.The rubber-stamp from Thailand’s Ministry of Finance will allow the firm to advance plans to open a regulated crypto exchange and broker in the southeast…

news The government of South Korea’s capital city has committed to invest 1.2 trillion won ($1.07 billion) by 2022 via an investment fund for startups, including those working with fintech and blockchain. The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced the news Monday, stating that via the Seoul Innovation Growth Fund, which launched last year, it will invest…

Nigeria’s Central Bank has directed institutions in the financial space to identify persons or entities transacting in or operating four unlicensed crypto exchanges – Binance, Bybit, KuCoin and OKX.The latest action comes after an ongoing saga between Binance and Nigeria’s government.The Central Bank of Nigeria issued a directive on Tuesday asking financial institutions to identify

news A 20-year-old man has been formally charged in a New York Supreme Court indictment over SIM-swapping identity and crypto theft. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced Friday that Dawson Bakies, a resident of Ohio, is charged with stealing identities and the cryptocurrency holdings of over 50 victims across the U.S. from October to December…

Traders have sent millions via a one-way bridge to Base blockchain in the hopes of unearthing handsome returns – even as the blockchain has not been officially open to the public yet.The landscape is filled with rug pulls and scams so far, however, doling out tears instead of dreams to many.The lure of meme-coin fortunes…

Argentina's recently elected president devalued the nation's currency by more than 50% and announced spending cuts, but, possibly to the dismay of cryptocurrency enthusiasts, Javier Milei did not – yet, at least – turn his enthusiasm for bitcoin (BTC) into an official government policy.In slashing the peso's value to 800 per U.S. dollar from less

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Friday its systems and devices were not breached by the party responsible for tweeting out a fake bitcoin ETF approval announcement earlier this week.On Tuesday, the SEC's official X (formerly Twitter) account, @SECgov, tweeted that the agency had approved a number of spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) applications

Bitcoin financial services firm Onramp's asset management platform has opened for business with BitGo among its custodians.Austin, Texas-based Onramp launched a spot bitcoin (BTC) trust in April targeting high-net-worth investors.As with the trust, Onramp is harnessing multisignature (multisig) security, in which several custodians control the private keys to the bitcoin being held. The asset manager