Crypto Trading Firm Auros Secures $17M Investment as It Recovers From FTX Woes

The U.S. Department of the Treasury Wednesday sanctioned several individuals and entities it says are supporting Hamas terrorist operations, including a Gaza-based exchange.Among others, the sanctions targeted Buy Cash Money and Money Transfer Company, a company that the Treasury said had a long history of financing terrorist groups.“The United States is taking swift and decisive

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is considering whether to tax non-fungible tokens (NFT) on a par with other collectibles such as stamps, works of art and fine wine, in a move likely to have an impact on those including the digital assets within their retirement plan, according to a document published Tuesday.

Union Labs, a project focused on blockchain interoperability, plans to integrate with AggLayer, a decentralized service rolled out earlier this year by the developer Polygon Labs that allows for the sharing of liquidity among connected networks.The deal is notable because it could deepen the links between Polygon, one of the biggest Ethereum scaling networks, and

Bitcoin (BTC) will reach an all-time high before the week ends, according to Markus Thielen, head of research at 10x.“Price action during the weekend is always important to follow and while attempts have been made to [liquidate] leveraged long positions, there are no sellers,” said Thielen in a note titled, "Everybody Will Be Astonished by

The Uzbekistan government is welcoming cryptocurrency exchanges to set up shop within the country. An order issued by president Shavkat Mirziyoev on September 2 gives foreign exchanges a number of benefits to begin operating in the country. The document states that cryptocurrency-related income will not be taxed, licensed exchanges running operations with cryptocurrencies and foreign fiat…

markets View Bitcoin’s 165 percent gain so far this quarter is the best second quarter performance on record and the highest quarterly percentage gain since the end of 2017. The stellar gains have bolstered the long-term bullish technical setup. While the relative strength index is reporting overbought conditions, there are no signs of bullish exhaustion…

Eventually, the digital ruble, alongside the development of blockchain, will displace the need for banks, Russian lawmaker Anatoly Aksakov said in a meeting, a local media outlet reported on Tuesday.“As for the role of banks, I think that their role will fade in the future with the development of blockchain,” said Aksakov, the head of

Feb 2, 2020 at 16:20 UTCUpdated Feb 2, 2020 at 16:21 UTCIn “Libre Not Libra: Facebook’s Blockchain Project,” Andreas answers the burning question… Has he tried haggis? Just kidding… He shares his thoughts on the recently released Libra whitepaper, as part of a permissioned blockchain project spearheaded by Facebook. This episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin!…

Web3 workspace and file management application Fileverse raised $1.5 million in a pre-seed round, the firm told CoinDesk Tuesday.Privacy-focused Gnosis Chain and venture capital firm Factor led the investment, according to a press release shared by the firm. Crypto wallet provider Safe, social media privacy solution Mask Network, decentralized file storage Arweave Ecosystem and its