Crypto startup funding eclipses $100B

Kelly Loeffler, the CEO of institutional trading platform Bakkt, announced that former cybersecurity expert at IBM, Cisco and Endgame Tom Noonan will become the chairman of its board of directors. The development was reported in a Medium post published on March 29.Per the announcement, the founder, chairman and CEO of the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) and…

OPNX CEO Leslie Lamb said the exchange planned to launch claims trading aimed at helping users from bankrupt crypto platforms including FTX and Celsius. 227 Total views 3 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTSu Zhu and Kyle Davies, founders of the collapsed hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC),…

Opinion by: Mateusz Kara, co-founder and CEO of Ari10 President Donald Trump’s return to office has signaled a new era for crypto in the US, but the country has much to do to catch up with Europe. Trump has outlined grand plans and made sweeping promises to transform the US into a crypto haven. At

Could blockchain fight against state-sponsored censorship in a post-coronavirus era? 1591 Total views 19 Total shares As people continue to rethink topics like technology development, economic measures and freedom of speech because of the COVID-19 pandemic, blockchain has now emerged as a solution for many issues. Iva Wisher, co-founder of Ignite, a decentralized microblogging platform,…

Polymarket is believed to have hired CTFC enforcement head James McDonald to handle the probe. 886 Total views 8 Total shares New York-based decentralized prediction market Polymarket has come under investigations from the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).According to an Oct. 23 report from Bloomberg citing anonymous sources, the CFTC is investigating whether…

Genesis said it will take additional weeks to carve out a recovery path for its lending business. 1245 Total views 5 Total shares Own this piece of crypto history Collect this article as NFTCrypto lending platform Genesis has informed its customers that its withdrawal freeze is likely to last “additional weeks” amid efforts to stave…

As decentralized finance continues its victorious march — although the road is sometimes bumpy — some significant questions on its nature remain. How can DeFi applications be protected from becoming nonoperational under extreme stress? Is it really decentralized if some individuals have way more governance tokens than others? Does the anonymous culture compromise its transparency?A…

The governing body for the aragonOS DAO-creation tool will wind down, transferring its assets to token holders. 267 Total views 1 Total shares The governing body for the aragonOS software will dissolve, distributing most of its assets to token holders in the process, according to a Nov. 2 blog post. The body, called the Aragon