What a Schwab-TD Ameritrade Merger Would Mean for Crypto

ACT, a memecoin based on a Discord server featuring AI chat bots, has risen by 1,720% after being listed on Binance. Trading volume has topped $350 million on Binance and Raydium, its market cap has increased from $20 million to $422 million. Market depth remains low on all exchanges with further volatility expected. 02:38 'High

news Investors in the “clink” token launched by Korean social media firm Cyworld earlier this year are up in arms over the firm’s abrupt closure. As reported in The Korea Times, Cyworld shut down on Oct. 1 without warning, leaving clink investors uncertain if their holdings continue to have any value. Adding to the mess, two…

Solana-based automation tooling startup Clockwork’s time is up.The Multicoin Capital-backed project’s founder Nick Garfield said Sunday that he and his team were “stepping away from active development of the protocol” and will shut off its infrastructure on Oct. 31.Clockwork built tech to facilitate payroll payments and other regularly-occurring transactions that smart contracts – the backbone…

Aug 20, 2020 at 12:00 UTCBlockFi co-founders Flori Marquez and Zac Prince (BlockFi)BlockFi Raises $50M From Universities, NBA Star, Others as Crypto Lending SoarsAfter $50 million in fresh capital, crypto lender BlockFi has now raised nearly $100 million in the past 12 months. Announced Thursday, the latest round, a Series C, was led by Anthony…

news Blockport, a cryptocurrency exchange based in the Netherlands, has been been forced to close due to lack of operating capital, but it’s vowed to return. According to a filing reported by The Next Web, the official operating entity, Blockport BV, was declared bankrupt in a court in Amsterdam on May 21. The platform ceased services…

Crypto investment products lost about $726 million last week, with bitcoin funds registering losses of $643 million, CoinShares said. Spot bitcoin ETFs in the U.S. extended their losing streak to eight days for the first time since they listed in January, according to Bloomberg. Digital asset investment products suffered their highest net outflows since March

NEWS Oct 23, 2018 at 15:00 UTC Japanese financial services giant SBI Group has partnered with a blockchain security startup to develop a digital wallet for its recently launched cryptorrency exchange. The Denmark-based startup, Sepior, announced in a press release Monday that SBI has licensed its proprietary "threshold signature" wallet technology for integration with its VCTRADE exchange…

Can decentralized finance (DeFi) address its hacking problem with another layer of decentralized tech? Israeli cybersecurity firm Ironblocks' new network is betting on it. On Wednesday, the firm is beginning a phased roll-out of a new Web3 security layer it's developing, called Venn. The transaction pre-screening network seeks to create "a new economy" for crypto

news Venture-backed startup Veil has acquired Predictions.Global, the leading site for exploring data on Augur prediction markets. “It’s certainly been the most used and popular third party-developed Augur product thus far,” Veil co-founder Paul Fletcher-Hill told CoinDesk in an email. Veil called Predictions.Global “the CoinMarketCap for the Augur ecosystem” in an announcement post on Medium. Augur…