Crypto payments firm Mesh announced on Tuesday it has raised $82 million to expand its stablecoin-based payments settlement network globally. The series B round was led by Paradigm, with ConsenSys, QuantumLight, Yolo Investments, Evolution VC, Hike Ventures, Opportuna and AltaIR Capital participating. Most of the capital raise was settled in PayPal’s PYUSD stablecoin, according to … Read more
ATME, a digital assets exchange licensed by the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB), said on Tuesday it has completed its first tokenized real-world asset (RWA) issuance starting with gold-backed tokens. The tokens, available to accredited investors, each represent one kilogram of gold stored in custody, according to the press release. Investors can trade these digital … Read more
National securities exchange Cboe is asking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to allow staking in several spot ether (ETH) exchange-traded funds (ETFs), sending the price of token 2% higher over the past 24 hours. Before the funds launched in July, several issuers included staking in their applications. However, the SEC later required them … Read more
“Is it safe?” For any crypto investors with any cash remaining, that’s the key question following the collapse in prices. 10X Research’s Markus Thielen had been correctly bearish headed into this latest downturn and he’s not yet ready to buy the dip. Like the speculative bubble in DeFI/NFTs that collapsed following the 2021 bull market … Read more
Bitcoin (BTC) held by Mt. Gox, the defunct crypto exchange that imploded in 2014, was on the move again on Tuesday following last week’s maneuver, a potential sign of resuming creditors payout after distributing crypto assets worth billions last year. A Bitcoin address linked to Mt. Gox transferred 11,834 BTC, worth about $930 million, to … Read more
Robinhood’s (HOOD) crypto trading volumes took a steep hit in February, tumbling 29% from the previous month in a retail-trader-led decline that might carry a message for other platforms including Coinbase (COIN). The month-over-month drop to $14.4 billion outpaced declines in equities and options trading, which each fell 1%. Even so, the figure was more … Read more
One of the foremost projects aiming to increase the speed of the Ethereum network is ramping up its work on the world’s original blockchain: Bitcoin. Ethereum layer-2 Starknet, in partnership with BTC wallet Xverse, is aiming to deliver a “full DeFi experience to Bitcoin users.” Xverse said it will “achieve Bitcoin’s DeFi take-off moment,” through … Read more
After years in which crypto insiders desperately sought to get the attention of the U.S. Congress, the pro-digital-assets witnesses at the latest congressional hearing on stablecoins include a senior executive from the Bank of New York Mellon Corp. and a Davis Polk & Wardwell lawyer who spent his career representing Wall Street. As congressional momentum … Read more
Paraguayan agencies are ready to integrate the crypto sector. All that’s missing is the legislation. That’s according to Juan Carlos Reyes, the president of the Comisión Nacional de Activos Digitales (CNAD), the agency in charge of regulating cryptocurrencies in El Salvador. “From my perspective, Paraguay seems to have the groundwork laid for supervision, regulation, and … Read more
Solana’s SOL entered murky waters as Monday’s broad crypto-market drop sent the token of the high-speed, low cost blockchain diving as much as 8% to $124. That’s less than the realized price of $134 for the first time since May 2022, according to Glassnode data. The realized price is the average cost basis of all … Read more
