Lightning Labs’ Taro Project Faces Halt as Judge Issues Temporary Injunction for Trademark Infringement

DCG boss Barry Silbert proposed a merger between Genesis and Gemini to the latter’s co-founder, Cameron Winklevoss, during a lunch meeting in Oct 2022.The combined company would be exciting to investors, making it possible to raise $500-$1 billion and take the company public in 24 months, Silbert wrote in an email.Silbert's emails to his team

Jerome Powell is seen prepping markets for a 25 basis point rate cut at the Fed's September meeting The Fed chair is also anticipated to signal a cautious approach to cutting rates further Traditional markets have been in rally mode, but bitcoin continues to struggle More than two and one-half years after starting what became

Crypto insurance protocol Nexus Mutual's builders have requested $153,500 in NXM tokens to fund the next six months of operations.Most of the funds are earmarked for salaries, with the rest going toward travel, infrastructure for the project's Discord server and R&D, according to a blog post. Nexus Mutual is an Ethereum-based insurance alternative that offers

news The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is suing a California resident on charges of selling unregistered securities and conducting a Ponzi scheme disguised as a cryptocurrency. The SEC announced Thursday that it had filed for an injunction against Daniel Pacheco, claiming that he sold unregistered securities through IPro Solutions LLC and IPro Network…

Presidential debates cover the issues that polling shows are most important – immigration, healthcare, the economy, climate change, and more. So why was crypto not mentioned even once? Neither the American public nor the two presidential candidates care very much about crypto, and the debate showed that. Despite the industry narrative becoming increasingly partisan, many

Taiko has raised $15 million in a series A fundraising, bringing its lifetime outside investment total to $37 million.Project claims to be an "Ethereum-equivalent ZK rollup" with "based sequencing" – both tipped as technological breakthroughs – but Taiko faces a crowded field of competitors among Ethereum layer-2 networks.Taiko, a layer-2 scaling solution provider for the

Aug 18, 2020 at 16:13 UTCBlockchain Bites: Hashrates Drop, Bitcoiners Hodl and an Open Letter to BankersFloods are dampening bitcoin mining hashrates, Ethereum Classic may be thrown off its most popular exchange and bitcoin is moving off exchanges. You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup of the most pivotal stories in blockchain and crypto news, and…

India's central bank has reportedly formed a new unit within the organization to tackle research and regulatory frameworks for new technologies including blockchain, cryptocurrency, and artificial intelligence. According to a report from the Economic Times on Monday citing sources familiar with the matter, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) launched the new unit about a…

Spindl, a Web3 startup founded by Silicon Valley veteran Antonio Garcia Martinez, has launched what it bills as the first truly on-chain ad network.Like Web2's off-chain ad networks, this one connects advertisers, publishers, and providers of so-called attribution services that track where customers come from. In this case, the "publishers" are providers of crypto wallets