Blockchain security firm CertiK has raised $24 million in new funding from Tiger Global and GL Ventures.
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Quick take
- Frameworks for on-chain governance are a topic of ongoing experimentation and innovation.
- The limitations of purely on-chain governance present opportunities for exploring novel social coordination mechanisms.
- Yearn, Maker, and Synthetix have some of the most elaborate social governance mechanisms and will be examined here.
Bitpanda, the Vienna-based investment platform, has closed a $263 million Series C round at a valuation of $4.1 billion.
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BinanceUS has a new interim CEO after the abrupt exit of Brian Brooks.
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Biden will cement Behnam’s place in the CFTC leadership. An official announcement will come in the near future.
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Quick Take
- A months-old partnership between Silvergate and the Diem Association has apparently hit regulatory headwinds.
- Now Novi, Facebook’s crypto wallet subsidiary, is looking for a different stablecoin.
The price of SOL, the native asset of the Solana network, hit an all-time high on Monday — and market watchers say several catalysts appear to be at play amid the run-up.
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Bluesky, the decentralized social media initiative unveiled by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey at the end of 2019, has a project lead, according to a Monday announcement.
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Crypto staking services provider Figment has raised $50 million in a round co-led by Senator Investment Group and Liberty City Ventures.
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Poolin’s mining relocation outside China has come with a hefty price increase: a 40% and 100% jump for BTC and ETH mining’s energy costs per kWh.
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