Crypto-Powered Fantasy Football League to Raise $100 Million in ICO

Arival bank founders Slava Solodkiy, Igor Pesin and Jeremy Berger — courtesy of ArivalCrypto-Friendly Arival Bank Is Launching Today for Those Willing to Disclose Their BagsAfter two years of laying the groundwork, crypto-friendly Arival Bank is launching in beta Thursday. (Yes, even a bank can “launch in beta” these days.) To be precise, Arival is…

May 13, 2020 at 14:09 UTCUpdated May 13, 2020 at 14:30 UTCCrypto derivatives exchange Phemex is swapping out its existing trading fee structure for a new subscription model it says will make frequent trading more accessible. The Singapore-based exchange, which only launched in November, said its new Premium subscription model would encourage clients to trade…

“Indeed, cash poses a greater challenge to law enforcement than cryptocurrency in unhosted wallets," wrote Judge Zia Faruqui in an opinion on a forfeiture case.(Tingey Injury Law Firm/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)Jan 14, 2021 at 3:47 p.m. UTCUpdated Jan 14, 2021 at 3:55 p.m. UTCDC Magistrate Judge Calls Unhosted Wallet ‘Horror Story’ a ‘Fiction’Federal Magistrate Judge…

First Mover: Bitcoin Cash’s Halving Was Dull – Bitcoin’s May Be Much the SameBitcoin's upcoming halving – a once-every-four-years reduction in the supply of new units of the cryptocurrency – has got traders, analysts and gawkers abuzz over the potential price impact. German bank BayernLB predicted last year that bitcoin's halving could drive its price to…

Some traders warned of a further market-wide pullback if bitcoin lost the $69,000 level in the coming days.Dogecoin jumped 6%, while Bitcoin Cash saw a 13% rise ahead of an expected halving event on April 4, which historically has preceded a bull market for the token.Bitcoin (BTC) prices were little changed over the past 24

Startup fintech Republic Crypto plans to host its soon-to-launch revenue-sharing tokenized security on the Avalanche blockchain, the company told CoinDesk Friday.The asset, called R/Note, will be the vehicle through which Republic distributes stablecoin dividends to investors who bought a slice of the upside in the company's venture portfolio. Every time Republic exits a particularly successful

news Crypto security company Curv has obtained up to $50 million of insurance coverage for its institutional customers from reinsurance giant Munich Re. The coverage, announced Friday, is an add-on to the Tel Aviv-based Curv’s Institutional Digital Asset Wallet Service, “Curv will have the financial capability to pay for losses of crypto assets,” the partners said…

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