Chainalysis Sees Raising $100M in Venture Capital at $1B Valuation: Report

Jun 12, 2020 at 13:48 UTCUpdated Jun 12, 2020 at 14:18 UTCCredit: Andrii Spy_k/ShutterstockTwo blockchain platforms, both proof-of-stake, are trying to stay on the right side of the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) “Travel Rule.” In separate announcements on Thursday, the Algorand and Tezos Foundations said they had linked up with two analytics companies, Chainalysis…

Sep 3, 2020 at 10:46 UTCUpdated Sep 3, 2020 at 10:55 UTCZug, Switzerland (Shutterstock)Authorities in the Swiss canton of Zug plan to begin accepting taxes in cryptocurrency from the start of next year. From next February, citizens and companies based in Zug will be able to pay up to 100,000 CHF (around $109,000) of their…

Tether said it will fight Celsius' "baseless" lawsuit against it and in any scenario Tether token holders will not be impacted. Bankrupt crypto lender Celsius sued Tether for fraudulently securing itself as part of a loan agreement. Tether, the company behind USDT, the world's largest stablecoin by market capitalization, said it will defend itself against

Venture chief Tal Elyashiv thinks his tokenized VC fund can find a foothold on Asian exchanges. (SPiCE)SPiCE Venture Capital has listed its tokenized blockchain fund (SPiCE VC) on Malaysia’s Fusang Exchange as the firm’s director Tal Elyashiv turns to Asia in his hunt for token liquidity. Elyashiv told CoinDesk that Fusang will introduce SPiCE VC…

Its co-founder Ruja Ignatova, known as "the Cryptoqueen," hasn't been seen since October 2017. She was added to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Top Ten Most Wanted list in 2022, with the agency offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to her arrest.

Jan 4, 2021 at 9:25 p.m. UTCCoinDesk 20 Bitcoin Price IndexMarket Wrap: Bitcoin Briefly Drops Close to $28K as Ether Futures Heat UpOver-leveraged bitcoin investors in the derivatives market led to Monday’s sell-off while ether spot and futures markets are starting to get a lot more attention.Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $31,444 as of 21:00 UTC…

Stripe will reintroduce crypto payments later this year, initially only for Circle's USDC stablecoin, on the Solana, Ethereum and Polygon blockchains.The fintech giant stopped supporting bitcoin in 2018 during the first crypto winter.02:12Bitcoin Price Crossed $57K; Is Stablecoin USDC Making a Comeback?02:27Grayscale Begins Trading First Spot Bitcoin ETF; Circle Files for IPO05:04Large Cap Fiat-Backed Stablecoins

Aug 19, 2020 at 20:34 UTCPrices for ren, the token for the RenVM DeFi network, surged by more than 100% over the past week. That’s because the total amount of renBTC, a tokenized bitcoin that is locked in RenVM, broke 10,000 on Monday, according to data collected by DeFi Pulse. The total value locked in…

Stablecoin project TrueUSD said Thursday it had “no exposure” to embattled crypto services company Prime Trust as it raced to shore up confidence in its dollar-backed TUSD.Nevada-based Prime Trust on Thursday shut off all fiat and crypto deposits and withdrawals following an order from state financial regulators, according to multiple clients whose money is now…