This is the first round led by Haun’s firm, which launched in March after she left her role as general partner at a16z.
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has slapped the founders of crypto exchange BitMEX with a $30 million civil monetary penalty.
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Quick Take
- There was a big focus on regulatory hires last month, with many big steals from regulatory agencies.
- There was also a lot of marketing activity, as crypto firms splurge on sports advertising.
Block said Thursday that Cash App saw $1.73 billion worth of bitcoin sales during 2022’s first quarter.
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Through the new funding, Untamed Planet is going to partner with nWay to create a conservation-oriented game called Untamed Metaverse.
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Quick Take
- Development in the Arweave ecosystem builds on the native decentralized data storage capabilities of the network to unlock new use cases.
- Arweave is used as a storage layer for archiving on-chain data of several public blockchain networks as well as a data persistence solution for dapps, oracles and NFT metadata.
- Scalability solutions like bundling technology help increase network throughput and provide a better user experience.
- Profit-sharing communities and tokens provide a sustainable and more equitable approach to rewarding dapp developers and their community contributors.
Former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes is asking for probation with the ability to travel rather than serving time.
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LootRush, a platform that aims to improve user access to blockchain games, has raised $12 million in seed funding.
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Cryptocurrency prices fell across the board on Thursday, with bitcoin dropping as much as 7% — a move that came in tandem with a broader decline in financial markets. Bitcoin’s price dropped down from about $39,500 at 9 a.m. ET to as low as $36,863.93 as of 1 p.m. ET, according to Coinbase data. At […]
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Prices for GPUs have been steadily declining for the past few months, as demand from Etherium miners seems to be dwindling.
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