Dan Tapiero Launches $200M Fund to Invest in Crypto Companies

Dogecoin (DOGE) is down 10% this year, with most of the bearish pressure on the leading meme crypto coming during European hours, according to data tracked by Velo Data app.DOGE's cumulative year-to-date returns during European and U.S. trading hours were -44.44% and -25%, respectively. Meanwhile, the cumulative return during the Asia-Pacific day stood at a…

Dec 17, 2019 at 12:00 UTCUpdated Dec 17, 2019 at 12:04 UTCThis post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Russell Okung, "The Bitcoin Cleats Guy," is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, social activist and Super Bowl champion left tackle…

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.ARK Invest bought COIN low and sold it high this week.On Tuesday, Cathie Wood’s fund sold 160,887 shares of COIN for $13.5 million when the…

Fireblocks, an enterprise-focused crypto infrastructure firm, has disclosed a set of vulnerabilities – collectively referred to as “BitForge” – impacting a variety of popular crypto wallets that use multi-party computation (MPC) technology.The firm has classified BitForge as a “zero-day” – meaning the vulnerabilities hadn’t been discovered by developers of the affected software prior to disclosure…

Jan 30, 2020 at 20:00 UTCGitcoin, BCash and Zcash all try different paths to fund public protocol development, plus the latest in CBDCs from Japan and Cambodia and Andrew Yang on crypto.The best way to fund open-source projects remains a question,and one that - in the context of crypto protocols - has never had higher…

news Switzerland’s SIX stock exchange has just lost a key executive in charge of its digital assets exchange, SDX. As reported by SwissInfo.ch on Thursday, SDX CEO Martin Halblaub has announced he will be departing the exchange just eight months after taking on the role. A disagreement over the future direction of the in-development exchange is…

Jul 23, 2020 at 20:31 UTCUpdated Jul 23, 2020 at 20:32 UTCSource: CoinDesk 20 Bitcoin Price IndexMarket Wrap: Bitcoin Hits 1-Month High; DeFi Value Locked Hits $3.3BThursday was an up day for both bitcoin and ether prices. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $9,590 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. EDT). Gaining 2% over the previous 24…

news Nearly $1 million worth of ether (ETH) left QuadrigaCX and went to other cryptocurrency exchanges in December, the same month its CEO died, a CoinDesk review of public blockchain data shows. In a series of transactions sent from QuadrigaCX’s hot wallet (meaning one connected to the internet), more than 9,000 ETH moved from the…

news Blockchain firm Zamna has raised $5 million in a seed funding round led by VC firms LocalGlobe and Oxford Capital for the continued development of its airport security system. Formerly known as VChain Technology, Zamna’s round was joined by International Airlines Group (IAG), the parent firm of British Airways. IAG is an existing investor…