Grayscale Investments has launched the Grayscale Future of Finance ETF, according to an announcement issued on Wednesday. The move marks the crypto investment giant’s maiden foray into the exchange-traded fund market.
Grayscale’s new ETF will trade under the GFOF ticker and track the Bloomberg Grays...
Nischal Shetty, founder and CEO of Indian crypto exchange WazirX, has an ambitious goal of building an "infinitely scalable" blockchain and serving billions of users.
To that end, Shetty has unveiled his new project named Shardeum, in collaboration with former NASA engineer Omar Syed. Shardeum is bu...
Crypto analytics platform Dune has entered the unicorn club with its latest $69,420,000 Series B round.
The round was led by hedge fund Coatue and brings Dune Analytics' valuation to $1 billion, confirming The Block's reporting from last month. Existing investors, including Multicoin Capital and Dra...
Crypto exchange FTX is set to acquire Japan's Liquid Group and its operating subsidiaries, one of which runs a licensed crypto exchange in the country.
Liquid Group announced the news on Wednesday, saying that FTX is acquiring Quoine Corporation and Quoine Pte. in Singapore. Quoine was one of the fi...
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02 Feb 2022
MicroStrategy will continue to buy BTC despite 146.6 million in Q4 impairment charges
MicroStrategy plans to continue investing its free flows into bitcoin, and expects its investors to think of it as a vehicle for crypto exposure.
The firm shared its Q4 earnings report today, noting that it acquired 53,922BTC in 2021 at an average purchase price of $48,710. That brings the firm's to...
“Welcome to being in an industry that has arrived,” Darren Soto tells The Block, chuckling about Congress's pace.
Soto (D-FL), a congressman representing the suburbs of Orlando, is specifically talking about crypto mining. It’s an issue that has been ascendant in public awareness as miners have floo...
Popular music festival Coachella has partnered with crypto exchange FTX US to launch an NFT collection, according to a tweet from the festival's official Twitter account.
The NFTs, a limited number of which will drop this Friday, will be on the Solana blockchain. To be eligible for the initial drop...
Quick Take
The IRS is facing a severe backlog of work after a challenging 2021 tax season.
Crypto tax experts say an overburdened IRS mostly means that the usual processes will take longer, but that's not an excuse not to file.
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01 Feb 2022
Astra Protocol sets up a Compliance Hub in The Sandbox virtual world to bring fully decentralized compliance to metaverse users
Zürich, Switzerland, 1st February, 2022, ChainwireAstra Protocol, a cutting-edge legal and compliance layer that brings unmatched assurance to public blockchains, is pleased to announce that it has set up a Compliance Hub in The Sandbox virtual world. The new Compliance Hub will arm the metaver...
Amber Group, a digital asset platform, has announced the acquisition of DeCurret Inc., a Japanese-licensed crypto exchange, the company announced on Tuesday. The acquisition is under Amber Group’s WhaleFin Japan subsidiary.
According to the announcement, the acquisition marks Amber Group’s maiden fo...
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