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What the heck is a Hashmask?
Quick Take A new non-fungible token (NFT) project, Hashmasks, is entrancing collectors with its colorful and mysterious works of art. The...
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Crypto investment firm Arca files with SEC to create a bitcoin trust
Crypto investment firm Arca is moving ahead with plans to create a bitcoin trust, according to a Thursday filing published by the U.S....
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Coinbase Company Intelligence Report
Quick Take This research report is part of a new series produced by The Block Research to provide insights and due diligence on some of the...
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Bids for digital artist Beeple’s 5000-day collection are nearing $2 million in Christie’s auction
A collection of artwork created by popular digital artist Beeple has already received a bid of nearly $1.8 million in an auction hosted by British...
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Crypto custodian and bank Anchorage raises $80 million in a Series C funding round
Cryptocurrency custodian and banking company Anchorage announced Thursday that it raised $80 million in a Series C funding round. The round was...
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Coinbase’s SEC filing reveals new details about its acquisitions of Tagomi, Xapo and Neutrino
The S-1 filing of crypto exchange Coinbase was published on Thursday, revealing an unprecedented degree of detail about the U.S.-based firm's...
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NFT marketplace Sorare raises $50 million in Series A led by Benchmark
Sorare, the platform for creating and trading football non-fungible tokens (NFTs), has raised $50 million in Series A. The round was led by...
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Coinbase says it holds bitcoin as an investment on its balance sheet
Crypto exchange operator Coinbase has revealed that it holds bitcoin and other crypto-assets as an investment on its balance sheet. "Since our...
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Stakeholder buy-in, clear policy objectives among preconditions for a digital dollar, Fed analysts say
A new paper published by the Federal Reserve on Wednesday lays out some of the preconditions by which the U.S. central bank might consider...
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Ethereum scaling startup Optimism raises $25 million Series A led by a16z
Optimism, a startup focused on the scalability of the Ethereum blockchain network, has raised a $25 million Series A funding round led by...
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An outage at the Fed leaves multiple crypto exchanges unable to settle
An outage at the Federal Reserve is creating settlement issues for many financial institutions and exchanges. The Fed's service status page...
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Crypto asset manager CoinShares to IPO in Sweden
CoinShares, Europe’s largest crypto-focused asset manager, has quietly kicked off a share issue ahead of a planned public offering on the Nasdaq...
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dYdX’s perpetual contracts are now available to trade via Ethereum scaling solution StarkWare
Decentralized derivatives exchange dYdX announced Wednesday that its perpetual contracts are now available for trading on Ethereum Layer-2 scaling...
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DeFi protocols’ revenues
Quick Take Many DeFi protocols are generating revenue successfully. Most of the revenue still goes to the protocols’ supply-side,...
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Alameda leads $40m investment in DeFi prime brokerage Oxygen
Alameda Research, the crypto trading firm, has led a $40m investment in Oxygen, a Switzerland-based DeFi prime brokerage. MultiCoin, Genesis...