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Last month, Blockworks hosted its Digital Asset Summit (DAS) at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London, England. During this event, builders, financiers and enthusiasts gathered to speak about the new world of finance and cryptocurrency that’s still developing. At the time, the markets were...

Tezos (CRYPTO: XTZ) and Aave (CRYPTO: AAVE) tokens have been introduced to the trading platform Robinhood Markets Inc. (NASDAQ: HOOD), enabling users to purchase and trade the cryptocurrencies. Robinhood tweeted the announcement on Monday, along with a link to a web page displaying the newly...

A house in South Carolina was just sold on OpenSea as a nonfungible token for 175,000 USD Coin (CRYPTO: USDC), changing the way real estate is bought. USDC is a stablecoin, pegged to the US dollar. See More: HOW TO MINT NFTS The trade was facilitated by Roofstock...

Just hours after the Solana-based DeFi platform Mango suffered a $100 million exploit, the alleged hacker has now proposed an ultimatum to the community.  What Happened: According to the proposal posted on Mango’s governance platform, the hacker wants Mango to use its $70 million...

The theft of about $160 million from algorithmic market maker service Wintermute was caused due to a “human error,” the company’s CEO Evgeny Gaevoy on Wednesday explained the attack vector was associated with Wintermute’s Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) vault, used for on-chain...

MakerDAO co-founder Rune Christensen has reached out to the community in light of recent conversations of decoupling its native token from USD Coin (CRYPTO: USDC) amid the sanctioning of Tornado Cash to explain why free-floating Dai (CRYPTO: DAI) may be the only option for the decentralized...

Bankrupt crypto lender Voyager Digital has announced the sale of its entire stake in cryptocurrency platform Coinify for $2 million. Voyager, which filed for chapter 11 in July, acquired Coinify in August last year for $15 million in cash, plus 5.1 million Voyager common shares. Coinify, a...

Fabrizio D'Aloia, the founder of Italian digital gambling firm Microgame, has been granted permission to undertake a lawsuit via NFTs against anonymous parties. What Happened: The U.K.’s recent ruling permits wallet addresses to be used in legal proceedings against anonymous parties. The...

Jeremy Allaire, co-founder and CEO of global fintech firm Circle, refuted rumors of a potential USDC (CRYPTO: USDC) collapse. What Happened: Following the recent crypto market crash, Allaire addressed the USDC’s potential de-peg in a series of tweets on July 2. It is "understandable why...

Stablecoins have dominated the headlines in the world of cryptocurrency this week with the crash of several coins. The downward moves and negative connotations building for stablecoins could spell trouble for a SPAC deal that involves a leading stablecoin company. What Happened: A SPAC deal ...

The start of 2022 has seen SPAC mergers called off and the valuation of some deals lowered. On Thursday, a previously announced SPAC merger announced an increased valuation. Here's what investors need to know.  What Happened: Circle announced the termination of an existing merger agreement...

Trading platform company TradeStation Group announced a SPAC merger Thursday that could help grow the company’s brand awareness, customer accounts and revenue. The SPAC Merger: TradeStation announced a merger with Quantum FinTech Acquisition Corp (NYSE: QFTA). The deal values the company...

WonderFi Technologies Inc (NEO: WNDR), a platform providing the masses exposure to a finance model that replicates market-making, borrowing, lending and exchanging without expensive institutional middlemen, begins trading on the Neo Exchange on Tuesday, Aug. 31. As part of the development...

Requisite Capital Management's Bryn Talkington said she bought stock and call options in Visa Inc (NYSE: V) Friday on CNBC's "Fast Money Halftime Report." "Visa is becoming the epicenter of a lot of blockchain," Talkington told CNBC. The company recently invested in...

A leading digital currency company that created the USD Coin announced a SPAC merger Thursday morning. The SPAC Deal: Circle announced a SPAC merger with Concord Acquisition Corp (NYSE: CND) valuing the company at $4.5 billion. A PIPE of $415 million is included as part of the SPAC merger and...