The tokenization protocol opened its first Hong Kong office last month. United States Treasury tokenization protocol Ondo Finance predicts the conflux of traditional finance with blockchain technology in the coming years and is expanding its own products accordingly. Last month, the protocol opened up its first office in Hong Kong to expand its on-chain treasury...Continue Reading

The investment vehicle is listed on the Nasdaq with the ticker symbol BTFX following the 2023 launch of a similar fund under BTFD. Asset manager Valkyrie has launched a second exchange-traded fund (ETF) linked to Bitcoin (BTC) futures following its listing of a spot BTC ETF in January. In a Feb. 22 announcement, Valkyrie said...Continue Reading

The new service should speed things up for large and/or non-standard Bitcoin transactions. Marathon Digital Holdings, a Bitcoin mining and digital asset technology company headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, recently unveiled a new direct Bitcoin transaction submission service called “Slipstream.” The new service was designed and implemented to facilitate and speed up large and/or non-standard...Continue Reading

The project had been preparing for its listing on crypto exchange Binance for the past two years. Pixel, one of the largest Web3 games by daily active user count, has approached a valuation of $3 billion shortly after its token listing on cryptocurrency exchange Binance. At the time of publication, PIXELs are currently trading at...Continue Reading

Crypto debit cards aren’t new. But Visa supports 40 cryptocurrencies across an enormous network. “That’s a big deal,” said economist William Luther. Converting cryptocurrency to fiat has never been easy, so the recent collaboration announced between Web3 infrastructure firm Transak and credit card giant Visa is probably welcome news — particularly for users of crypto...Continue Reading

A KuCoin representative told Cointelegraph that it is already communicating with users to resolve the cases reported on Reddit. Crypto exchange KuCoin has responded to claims on social media platform Reddit of users being unable to withdraw their funds from the exchange. On Feb. 21, Reddit users started posting claims in the KuCoin subreddit that...Continue Reading

The investment comes as crypto-related venture capital funding started increasing following the approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs. Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced a $100 million funding round in EigenLayer, Ethereum’s largest restaking protocol by total value locked (TVL). The venture firm was reportedly the only investor in the funding round, according to a...Continue Reading

The BNB Chain team said that Aave’s deployment on the network provides their community access to increased liquidity and new lending and borrowing options. Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Aave has deployed its money market protocol on the BNB Chain network as the blockchain expands its DeFi ecosystem. In an announcement sent to Cointelegraph, the BNB...Continue Reading

The ECB executives agree that the expectation of spot ETF approvals drove the price of Bitcoin, but they believe it could turn out to be “a flash in the pan.” The European Central Bank (ECB) has reiterated its anti-crypto stance despite market optimism. The institution is unconvinced by the latest spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) approvals...Continue Reading

Google updates Gemini AI amid controversy over inaccurate imagery, introducing features while addressing concerns over biased historical depictions. Google released two updates to its artificial intelligence (AI) model Gemini amid a storm of controversy on social media over “woke” inaccurate imagery produced by the model.  On Feb. 20 and then again on Feb. 21, Gemini...Continue Reading