Bitpanda, the Austrian investment platform, has acquired British crypto and DeFi custodian Trustology for an undisclosed sum.
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Crypto trading firm Amber Group has announced a $200 million raise led by Temasek, the Singapore-based sovereign wealth fund.
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Some details about the Intel Bonanza Mine bitcoin miner have come to light including the hash rate delivered by the new hardware.
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An artist has turned parts of a blown up Lamborghini into 999 NFTs, critiquing crypto’s obsession with getting rich.
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Kookmin Bank, South Korea’s largest bank by net assets, is launching crypto investment products targeted at retail investors.
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Spotify could be taking its first steps into crypto, according to a job listing posted on Linkedin.
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Russians who fail online tests may soon not be able to buy more than $630 in cryptocurrencies based on a new draft crypto regulation.
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California became the latest state last week of the current legislative cycle to weigh allowing residents to pay for government services in the form of crypto.
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A company looking to seed Web3 penetration in Sub Saharan Africa via a superapp has raised $7.5 million from early backers.
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Quick Take
- Solana is a layer-1 blockchain platform designed for decentralized applications featuring high throughput and low costs.
- Even though there were technical hiccups in the past six months, Solana’s projects are receiving increasingly more attention and capital from private investors.
- In total, The Block has recognized and mapped out 500 projects across 14 verticals.
- This ecosystem map serves as an UPDATE to the previous Solana map
