VC Roundup: Blockchain startups remain popular among investors in August

For the Hong Kong-based spot Bitcoin ETFs to compete with their US counterparts, they will need to attract more retail and institutional investors.

Telegram Open Network is off to a very uncertain future. Earlier this week, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced his company’s “active involvement with TON” was over, following a drawn-out legal battle with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.The project remains decentralized, however. Although TON lost its main ideologist, an independent community of validators has…

Binance said it revised operations to comply with EU standards after carefully considering feedback from the community and several projects. 926 Total views 1 Total shares Binance has decided to reverse its plan to delist several privacy coins in Europe after revising operations to comply with local regulations.In a comment from the cryptocurrency exchange received…

Travala, a service that allows its users to pay for hotel stays with cryptocurrency, will now let its customers reserve any hotel that is bookable through Booking.com.Travala announced in a press release on Nov. 25 that it has already integrated Booking’s accommodations to its platform. The new feature will purportedly allow users to book 90,000…

Fickel is one of the world's wealthiest cryptocurrency investors, currently holding more than $4.8 million worth of Ether.

Civic Wallet is a multi-signature non-custodial wallet that now comes with a $1,000,000 guarantee from Coincover.Civic Technologies (CVC) has been known in the crypto space as one of the leading providers of decentralized identity and is now purportedly the first company to offer a non-custodial wallet with $1,000,000 protection. The wallet is currently in private…

Bitcoin (BTC) enters the last full week of July on an uncertain footing as $30,000 becomes resistance.In what promises to be an exciting — but perhaps nerve-racking — week for traders, BTC price action is staring down a combination of volatility triggers.Chief among these is the United States Federal Reserve’s decision on interest rates, this…

Runes recovered to account for the lion’s share of transactions on the Bitcoin network.

Launched in April, the USDC Pools were previously accessible only to non-U.S. accredited investors. 194 Total views 5 Total shares Blockchain institutional capital marketplace Maple Finance has secured an exemption from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to offer its one-month U.S. Treasury yields to accredited investors in the U.S.Before the Aug. 9…