Jacquelyn Melinek

Amid signs of life in the NFT market, an NFT-focused startup, Thred, launched today to help users discover new collections, the company exclusively told TechCrunch. “We think of it like a Yelp, Tripadvisor or Zillow of the space,” Ben Straley, founder and CEO of Thred, said to TechCrunch. Straley has...

Rule aims to keep customer assets segregated appropriately to protect users Jacquelyn Melinek 9 hours The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proposed a new rule on Wednesday that may back crypto companies further into a corner as regulators continue to crack down on the space. The SEC voted 4-1 for a proposal...

The cryptocurrency is still down from a year ago, but experts see it as a market recovery Jacquelyn Melinek 8 hours Last year was tough for cryptocurrency markets as many prices plummeted. But bitcoin has had a strong rally so far this year, and some mining experts see this as an...

It appears the NFT market is slowly getting back on its feet. Trading volumes rose for two months straight, with January scoring the highest volumes since June last year, according to the Dapp Industry Report: January 2023. The growth in January marked a stark difference from the trend of...

Delphia, a mobile investment platform, is facing a lawsuit and allegations that its co-founder and CTO Cameron Agius-Westland sexually assaulted and harassed a former employee, according to a complaint filed on Monday and shared exclusively with TechCrunch. The complaint alleges that on August 17, 2022, Westland “sexually assaulted and...

Immunefi’s Crypto Losses 2022 report found over $3.9 billion was “lost” last year. While that might seem like a whopping amount of capital to lose track of, it’s down 51.2% compared to 2021, when over $8 billion was stolen, the report found. Crypto losses are defined as a combination...

Thanks to a months-long shakeout, the crypto market experienced one of the most drastic drawdowns in its history in 2022. But questions are arising about when (if?) major cryptocurrencies will recover. The global crypto market capitalization, which makes up the total value of all crypto assets (including stablecoins and...

The market is “on its knees” but will “bounce back," experts say Jacquelyn Melinek 9 hours Even as Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of the collapsed crypto exchange FTX, was arrested and denied bail earlier this week, the questions around the case — and what lies ahead — continue to linger. “The...

Ray: 'I don’t trust a single piece of paper in this organization' Jacquelyn Melinek 10 hours The U.S. House Financial Services Committee held a hearing Tuesday morning focused on FTX’s collapse, mere hours after the crypto exchange’s former CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, was arrested in the Bahamas. Bankman-Fried was originally scheduled to testify...

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) was the fastest growing crypto market in 2022, according to a new report by Chainalysis. Users in the region transacted $566 billion in cryptocurrency between July 2021 and June 2022, up 48% from a year earlier, the report found. In comparison, crypto...