MoonPay acquires Helio in $175M deal to expand crypto payment services

Adam Cochran, the analyst who predicts Ethereum 2.0 staking will cause a new bull run, released a 109-strong Tweetstorm on April 29, revealing his findings from a manual audit of Ethereum’s 10,000 fattest wallets.The conclusion of the research, also presented in a blog post, is that things are currently looking incredibly bullish for the number…

The United States state of Washington has passed a bill that recognizes and protects the legal status of electronic records pertaining to distributed ledgers like blockchains. The bill, substitute senate bill 5638, was signed into effect by Governor Jay Inslee on April 26, 2019.The original version of the bill had its first reading by the…

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Japan’s 2nd-largest lender by assets, will sign an agreement with SBI Holdings for new smartphone services. 317 Total views 27 Total shares The second largest bank in Japan will sign a deal with SBI Holdings to offer digital banking services available on smartphones.According to an April 27 article in the Nikkei…

SOL price struggles to gain upward traction as DApp volumes plunge, spot ETF odds dwindle, and memecoins fail to rally.

Decentralized finance is quickly maturing. While the total value locked in DeFi is over $45 billion, financial institutions and large corporations are starting to implement DeFi concepts to automate business processes. This is known as “enterprise DeFi.”For instance, invoices and other financial products can be tokenized to ensure that transactions are valid and should be…

Jan Van Eck, CEO of Van Eck Associates, suggested that Bitcoin (BTC) investors have moved to gold during an interview with CNBC published on Jan. 26.Van Eck declared that he thinks “that Bitcoin pulled a bit of demand away from gold last year, in 2017.” Afterward, he concluded:“Interestingly, we just polled 4,000 Bitcoin investors and…

Messaging giant Kik has been embattled in a fierce exchange with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over the last year for a token fundraising run in late 2017. The latest news, confirmed by Kik CEO Ted Livingston, reports that the firm will shut down the Kik app and reduce its staff down…

Advisory firm Valley Capital Partners has invested $3 million into encryption platform-as-a-service StrongSalt.Per a Sept. 26 press release, StrongSalt raised $3 million from Valley Capital Partners in a seed round to further develop its encryption platform designed for developers and enterprises. The startup aims to build an encrypted ecosystem, allowing individuals to keep personal data…