Kaiko acquires Vinter to secure lead in crypto indexing, analytics

South Korean business-to-business fashion platform Sinsang Market has joined the Terra Alliance ecosystem, a stablecoin-focused association of large e-commerce companies.As South Korean economics-oriented newspaper EconoNews reported on Aug. 3, the partnership between Sinsang and Terra aims to create a payment system that deploys Korean mobile payment service CHAI. CHAI utilizes Terra’s blockchain technology to ensure…

Large funding rounds are still few and far between in Web3, according to Crunchbase.

Celsius is expected to grow its assets under management by 25% annually through 2025, according to Alpha Sigma Capital. 486 Total views 7 Total shares Using 2020 financials obtained from Celsius, Alpha Sigma Capital has determined that the crypto company has an implied value of $3.13 billion, which is approximately three times greater than its…

Microsoft has released the new Azure Blockchain Development Kit for the Ethereum blockchain, according to an announcement from Microsoft Azure blog Build Azure on May 6.The new offering is reportedly an extension to Microsoft’s source-code editor Visual Studio Code, and has been designed to aid developers who are building apps using Microsoft’s newly-released blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS)…

BTC price action in 2022 is being accompanied by seriously old coins leaving hibernation after ten years or more. 824 Total views 18 Total shares Bitcoin (BTC) is seeing some of its oldest coins come back to life after a decade lying dormant.The latest on-chain data reveals that two-year BTC price lows have reawakened the…

Russia’s largest bank, the state-owned Sberbank, has pioneered a blockchain solution for repurchase agreements — also known as repo.According to a Sberbank announcement on Nov. 19, the bank has been awarded a patent for the solution, which uses smart contract technology to automate repo transactions between parties.Repo marketsRepurchase agreements are widely used in wholesale funding…

In this week’s newsletter, read about how the word “metaverse” placed second in Oxford’s Word of the Year. Check out how Meta is pushing forward its metaverse plans amid doubts and how the nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace Magic Eden announced a tool to enforce royalties. In other news, find out how the Opera Crypto Browser…

Bitcoin's price is down 6.5% in two days, and validating a bear flag puts the BTC price at risk of a deeper correction. 2528 Total views 151 Total shares Bitcoin (BTC) price has declined by more than 6.5% over the last two days after rallying to $88,000 at the beginning of the week. Data from