Judge nods Robinhood’s $9M ‘refer-a-friend’ lawsuit settlement

The Anchorage cryptocurrency custodian for institutional investors launched following a $17 million funding round led by venture fund Andreessen Horowitz, a press release states Wednesday, Jan. 23.According to the announcement, PayPal co-founder Max Levchin’s SciFi VC, venture company Khosla Ventures, Mark McCombe of investment firm Blackrock, and others also took part in the series A…

Developer 1st Playable has denied rumors one of their games was used to hijack Nintendo’s Switch console to mine Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.While the recent Nintendo release, Cooking Mama: Cookstar, is connected to blockchain technology —  it’s not in the way some players have speculated. Addressing the rumors on Twitter, 1st Playable said there was absolutely…

Stellar's CTO and co-founder is now building a team of industry experts and engineers to pioneer a new frontier of space exploration. 377 Total views 8 Total shares Blockchain technology pioneer Jed McCaleb is shifting some of his focus to a new frontier, space.The prominent crypto billionaire announced the launch of his new venture “Vast”…

The outcome will give a good indication of where AAVE token holders stand ahead of the upcoming ETH hard fork. 95 Total views 3 Total shares Aave token holders have been asked to take part in an Aave Request for Comment (ARC) that would require them to "commit" to Ethereum’s proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus.The ARC, proposed…

President Joe Biden has ten days, excluding Sundays, to decide whether he wants to follow through on his threat to veto H.J.Res.109.

Alan Greenspan, the former chair of the United States Federal Reserve (Fed), has said there’s “no point” for central banks to issue their own digital currencies.According to a CNBC report on Nov. 11, Greenspan made his comments during the annual economic outlook conference hosted by Chinese financial magazine Caijing.No point in Libra eitherGreenspan’s argument reportedly…

KodakONE — the developer of a blockchain-based image rights platform licensed by photographic industry giant Kodak — has reportedly generated over $1 million in licensing claims for image rights during a limited beta test of its platform. The news was reported by blockchain news source Breaker Mag on Jan. 8.As Cointelegraph previously reported, the KodakONE…

The Fold app, a mobile shopping app that supports Bitcoin’s Lightning Network enabling users to withdraw funds to an external Bitcoin (BTC) wallet, has raised $2.5 million and added a fiat currency payment option. In a Sept. 25 blog post, Fold’s editor, Will Reeves, informed the public that the app’s users can now spend both fiat…