Christopher Giancarlo, the former Chairman of Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has joined blockchain-focused investment firm CoinFund as a strategic advisor.
Billed to advise the firm on matters relating to policy, Giancarlo will bring years of experience serving as a major figure in the United States regulatory landscape.
“It is a distinct...
Alternative sports organization Fan Controlled Football (FCF) has raised $40 million in Series A funding from crypto and blockchain gaming firms to support the league’s expansion plans, including four new teams and an NFT project. The FCF was founded in 2017 by Sohrob Farudi, Patrick Dees, Ray Austin...
North Korean crypto hackers siphoned off nearly $400 million in crypto through cyber attacks in 2021 according to new data from Chainalysis.The type of crypto stolen has also seen a sea change according to the Jan. 13 report from the blockchain analytics firm. In 2017, BTC accounted for...
Composable Finance, a robust cross-chain and cross-layer infrastructure with intuitive tools for developers, which prides itself as the face of DeFi, has won the 8th slot in the 7th Polkadot Parachain auctions.
With over nine thousand crowd-loan participant contributions which amounted to 6,075,485 DOT valued at over $163 million,...
Leica’s a strange one. It only puts out a handful of cameras every year, and most of them are remixes or minor iterations on previous models. Since 2017 its flagship has been the solid but still somewhat archaic M10, but now the company has revealed its successor: the...
Mike Tyson is living the $DREAMBoxing icon Mike Tyson has stepped into the ring this week, after he shared his enthusiasm for Solana and unveiled a partnership with mental health-focused crypto project TheDreamChain ($DREAM). In the first round, Tyson — who previously launched an NFT project on Ethereum...
Japan-based digital currency trading and exchange outfit DeCurrent Holdings has decided to sell its crypto unit to Hong Kong-based Amber Group.
As reported by Nikkei, the deal is expected to be completed by February and while the monetary terms remain undisclosed, it is expected to be worth millions of...
It’s been a big two years for biotech investors. But if you ask Po Bronson, a partner at SOSV’s IndieBio, this trend was probably a long time coming.
“Often, the implication is that everything must be overpriced,” he tells TechCrunch. “But I think more of it is that some...
The founder of Linden Lab’s virtual online world Second Life Philip Rosedale will be rejoining the project as a strategic advisor to guide its entry to the Metaverse.While he is negative on content interoperability in the Metaverse describing it as “a total fail” he believes an NFT based...
