Ripple’s native cryptocurrency, XRP, often gets a bad rep for having no real use cases, with some regulators going as far as to call it a security. In a series of tweets recently, the Director of Developer Relations at Ripple, Matt Hamilton, has attempted to set the record straight on the XRP cryptocurrency. XRP’s Use Cases Are “Basically The Same […]

Anthony Scaramucci has again reiterated his stand on why he thinks bitcoin will still hit the $100,000 price target he had earlier set. Scaramucci had put forth this forecast when he was on Yahoo! Finance earlier in the year. The founder explained that bitcoin could easily be trading at $100,000 in 12 months. Anthony Scaramucci who founded Skybridge Capital in […]

The Polish Financial Supervision Authority (UKNF) has issued a warning on Wednesday about Binance, a major cryptocurrency exchange, in the wake of the recent strain of announcements made by other regulators globally. According to the press release, the watchdog noted that as Binance Markets Limited is a cryptocurrencies exchange, such a market “is neither regulated nor subject to supervision” in […]

In mid-May, a report stemming from residents in Shenzhen, China explained that the digital yuan wasn’t seeing widespread participation, which the Chinese government has alluded to in many press releases. Now a handful of China’s state-owned banks have asked staff to recruit 200 to 300 digital yuan users. The banks are also giving away small presents in order to tempt […]

Timothy Massad, who served as Chair of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission between 2014 and 2017, has laid out the reasons why he thinks regulators should approve a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund.  In an opinion piece published on Bloomberg Wednesday, Massad said the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, should approve a Bitcoin ETF in a manner that would […]

London, England, 7th July, 2021, Nafty, a DeFi ecosystem for the $97 billion adult industry, has officially launched the NAFTY token and three adult content platforms. Through its various platforms, Nafty aims to change the way adult creators sell their content and engage with their fans. Nafty has partnered with well-known adult stars to make their exclusive 18+ content available […]

Incomm Payments, a global payments provider with over 500,000 points of distribution, has entered into a partnership with Flexa that allows merchants to start accepting cryptocurrency payments in Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) and dozens of other digital assets.  Stefan Happ, Incomm Payments’ president, said the new partnership will enable merchants to capitalize on growing retail adoption of cryptocurrencies: “By integrating […]

Pleo, a Denmark-based financial technology firm, recently announced that the company has raised $150 million in a Series C funding round. The latest investment round was co-led by Bain Capital Ventures and Thrive Capital. In the recent announcement, Pleo mentioned that it has received a valuation of $1.7 billion. The company’s existing investors including Creandum, Kinnevik, Founders, Stripes and Seedcamp […]