Out of the Twitter Blue
Yesterday Twitter’s board approved a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter and take it private. How did this come about…
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Robinhood Expands Footprint in Crypto
Robinhood has long offered crypto speculation to its users, rolling out crypto purchases for 5 states in February…
Hack and the Beanstalk
A stablecoin protocol running on Ethereum was attacked for $80+ million yesterday. In the aftermath, Beanstalk Farm’s stablecoin, BEAN, has…
Cracking the SEC’s Diary of Deliberations
The legal battle between the SEC and Ripple Labs is back in the headlines. The regulatory agency filed…
The Crypto World Is Going Full Circle
In 2017, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink called bitcoin an “index of money laundering”. Five years later, BlackRock still headed by Fink,…
Nexo Launches Crypto-Backed Credit Card
Back in 2019, Nexo announced that they were collaborating with Mastercard to create a crypto-backed credit card. Most crypto credit…
Binance Gets Green Light in Abu Dhabi
Over the weekend the world’s biggest crypto exchange [by trading volume], Binance, received approval from the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) to operate…
A New Global Hub for Crypto on the Rise?
On Monday 4th April 2022 during the UK Fintech Week, the British Government announced plans to turn the UK into…
King Arthur Swore
Even the guys with the big bucks get tricked sometimes. The latest victim of a crypto hack was DeFiance Capital…
Holy Grain
Here we go a-grain. Commodities and crypto tokens are in the news again with Santander Argentina announcing a partnership with a startup…