State of Wisconsin Investment Board reports over $321M BTC exposure

Blockchain Capital and 1kx co-led the Series A round that will back the development of a new computing chip focused on data privacy.

South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb will open a new platform in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), local news outlet The Financial News reported Feb. 12.The UAE-based platform is reportedly to be developed in partnership with Abu Dhabi-based firm Nvelop and will function as a springboard for Bithumb to expand into other countries in the Middle…

Decentralization is part of the cryptocurrency industry’s core, with various protocols trying over time to achieve the level of decentralization that Bitcoin (BTC) managed to get as it grew organically from a white paper published to a mailing list to a new asset class.Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols have brought the idea of decentralization to a…

There are currently 38 projects deployed on the Ethereum layer-2 network. More are expected as attention shifts to scalability. 341 Total views 15 Total shares Automated market maker and decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Balancer has officially deployed on Optimism, the highly touted Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution, in a move designed to enhance user functionality by…

Japanese multinational holding conglomerate SoftBank Corp. and American telecoms-focused blockchain firm TBCASoft are to lead a new blockchain-based digital identification study group under the canopy of the Carrier Blockchain Study Group (CBSG). The development was announced in a SoftBank press release on Feb. 26.As previously reported, CBSG — a global blockchain consortium of telecom carriers…

For the past few days, Bitcoin price (BTC) has ranged between $7,400 to $7,100 and it seems bears are keen to push the price back below $7,000 before this week closes. Earlier in the week, MATIC made headlines after dropping more than 60% in the span of a few minutes and a few other Binance IEO…

Analysts predict a short-term drop to $46,000 for BTC before it resumes its uptrend, which could see its price rise to $60,000 by February. 592 Total views 5 Total shares The bearish pressures facing the cryptocurrency market at the end of 2021 have continued into the first week of 2022 after the price of Bitcoin…

The supply chain tracking project has a comfortable cushion in its Foundation treasury, but expenditures were very low through the first quarter of 2022. 254 Total views 28 Total shares The VeChain Foundation has released its financial report for Q1 2022 showing that the project amassed an impressive $1.2 billion war chest but only spent…