Day: 6 May 2022

The crypto mixer is said to have processed $20.5 million out of the $620 million taken by North Korean Lazarus Group hackers. The United States Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced Friday that it was sanctioning cryptocurrency mixer Blender.io for its role in laundering proceeds from the […]

On May 4, the FOMC voted to raise interest rates by 50 basis points. Here’s why Bitcoin investors need to care about central bank’s policy. Wall Street’s slow embrace of crypto means we all have to start watching the Federal Reserve again. Cointelegraph parsed through the latest Federal Open Market […]

The decentralized space continues its expansion and major brands are adopting Web3 tools, including Google’s cloud unit. Google’s cloud unit announced on Friday the formation of an internal team that will build services for blockchain developers and those running blockchain-based applications. This comes amid an explosion of interest, activity, and […]

The discount brokerage has seen a steep decline in crypto-related revenue over the past 12 months as retail traders exited the market. Digital asset manager Grayscale has made its flagship Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) products available on Robinhood, the popular trading app open to millions of retail users.  Beginning […]

De Beers has launched its long-awaited blockchain-powered Tracr platform to track and manage diamond production. Global diamond mining firm De Beers has launched a proprietary blockchain-powered platform to manage its diamond production and distribution. The firm has long been at work on a blockchain system to trace, record and manage […]

Last month, the watchdog gave the thumbs-up to Teucrium’s Bitcoin futures ETF, which is the first such vehicle to be approved under the ’33 Act. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has given the green light to Valkyrie’s futures exchange-traded fund (EFT) application. This represents another ETF that has […]