Crypto News Roundup for Nov. 5, 2021

Jun 2, 2020 at 14:00 UTCUpdated Jun 2, 2020 at 14:07 UTCOpen Interest in Ether Options Hits Record High on DeribitDerivative contracts on ether are more popular than ever, as evidenced by record open positions in options listed on the Panama-based derivatives exchange Deribit. Open interest, or the number of contracts outstanding and not yet…

Software development company Alluvial has raised $12 million in a Series A funding round to further development of Liquid Collective, a liquid staking protocol. Ethereal Ventures and Variant co-led the fund with participation from Brevan Howard Digital, Avon Ventures, Nascent Capital, a_capital, Robot Ventures, Fenbushi, IOSG and Blockdaemon, among others.Participation in ETH staking has increased…

Jan 20, 2020 at 18:48 UTCUpdated Jan 20, 2020 at 18:49 UTCOpen interest in bitcoin futures listed on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) have doubled in the first few days of the year, as noted by data analytics firm Skew.About $235 million worth of positions (5,329 contracts) were open on the CME on Jan. 17…

AT&T image via Jonathan Weiss / Shutterstock AT&T’s Cybersecurity Branch Breaks Down Crypto Miner Threat to Email ServersAT&T's Alien Labs is dipping its toes into cryptomining malware analysis with a new technological breakdown of how a monero miner infiltrates networks. Released Thursday, the report by security researcher Fernando Domínguez provides a step-by-step walkthrough of how one…

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Decentralized GPU-based rendering solutions provider Render Network's native cryptocurrency RNDR has rallied in sync with technology stocks this month, defying the broader crypto market lull.Data from TradingView show RNDR has gained 6.5% to $2.55, with prices hitting a 13-month high of $2.93 early this month. Wall Street's tech-heavy index Nasdaq has gained nearly 8%. Meanwhile,…

A 23-year-old woman from Sydney, Australia, has been arrested over the alleged theft of cryptocurrency worth over $300,000 at the time. The unnamed woman is said to have stolen 100,000 XRP in January from a wallet owned by a 56-year-old man, according to a report by ZDNet on Wednesday. She was apparently arrested by police…

news Wladimir van der Laan, the lead maintainer of bitcoin’s most widely used software, has harsh words for those engaged in an ongoing debate about whether the cryptocurrency’s finite supply will ever be increased. A soft-spoken developer from The Netherlands, van der Laan is usually hesitant to enter the fray. Yet, he responded fiercely to…

NEWS Sep 26, 2018 at 10:00 UTC Blockchain startup Bitwala has raised €4 million in new funding that will help develop a planned blockchain bank account offering. VC firms Earlybird and Coparion took part in the round, according to a September 25 blog post from the Germany-based payments company. The funding will be used to continue development of its…