The Portland Trail Blazers, an American professional basketball team competing in the National Basketball Association (NBA), is moving into the cryptocurrency industry with a new partnership. The NBA announced Thursday that the Trail Blazers has landed the league’s first jersey patch sponsorship program with StormX, a blockchain company allowing users to earn crypto rewards by completing micro-tasks or shopping at […]

Decentralised Finance (DeFi) saw exponential growth in 2020 and 2021 promises to be yet another defining year. What’s particularly exciting is how DeFi has coincided with broader trends in banking and the rise of fintech 2.0 and neobanks. Fintech 2.0 places power in the hands of the customer and traditional banks beginning to lose market share with their outdated models. […]

On CoinGeek Pulse’s 50th episode, we are taking a closer look at one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, the most controversial and influential figure in the space, and a comic book giant. Binance is in hot water after regulators from around the world issued warnings against the company. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned consumers that Binance doesn’t […]

The race amongst smart contract platforms has well begun! While Ethereum, Cardano are the most talked-about, Solana has been the dark horse of the race. Now that the market is picking up steam after a major sell-off, it is time to track which one leads the race in terms of price action and growth. Ethereum(ETH) Ethereum after breaching the psychological […]

An oversubscribed funding round has netted the Mintable nonfungible token (NFT) minting platform and marketplace a cool $13 million. The Series A funding round for the Singapore-based startup included some big name participants including Ripple, mobile and blockchain gaming developer Animoca Brands, and Metapurse, the world’s largest NFT investment fund. Ripple put out an announcement stating that Mintable plans to […]

U.K.-based blockchain company Argo Blockchain (LSE: ARB) announced it secured a £14 million (US$20 million) loan agreement to continue the build-out of its West Texas data center.  The loan agreement is for a six-month term financed by digital currency financial services firm Galaxy Digital LP. Argo backed the loan using a portion of its BTC holdings as collateral, thus avoiding having […]

Binance Indian exchange WazirX has partnered with blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs. The collaboration is expected to increase the security capacity of India’s largest exchange and help detect crypto fraud transactions.  WazirX partners with TRM Labs Indian news outlet the India Times reported the development in a publication today. WazirX revealed that the partnership would help monitor, investigate and reduce […]

Because of its volatility, the Bitcoin market is a new market every day. The outcome is always surprising, no matter how well one predicts the future. This time, though, the situation appears to be a little different, since Bitcoin may have just verified top analysts’ notion. BTC’s price increased on the 4-hour chart, and it also performed well on other […]