Eight years ago, Fred Wilson, a co-founder of New York-based venture capital firm Union Square Ventures, invested $2.5 million in then-unknown crypto exchange Coinbase—and that recently became the company’s most profitable exit, Bloomberg pointed out yesterday.
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Turkey considers crypto regulation following the collapse of two exchanges
Turkish authorities are planning to start regulating the cryptocurrency space in the country after two local crypto exchanges allegedly conducted an “exit scam” within a week, as per a report on business news outlet Bloomberg yesterday.
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Balancer teams up with Gnosis to develop a ‘gasless’ Ethereum DEX
Balancer Labs, a leading automated market maker (AMM) within the Ethereum ecosystem, has teamed up with Gnosis to develop a new decentralized exchange (DEX).
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Crypto market returns into green zone after last week’s dip
Monday’s trading session has marked a return to form for Bitcoin (BTC) and other top cryptocurrencies, mostly offsetting the losses incurred by the last week’s slump, according to crypto metrics platform CoinGecko.
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Korean tax officers seize $22M in crypto directly from exchange accounts
South Korea’s Seoul metropolitan government has seized 25 billion won ($22 million) worth of crypto from tax evaders—directly out of their exchange accounts, local news outlet Yonhap reported yesterday.
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62 detained in Turkey a day after alleged $2 billion crypto ‘exit scam’
Turkish police have detained 62 people across eight provinces in connection to an ongoing investigation into local crypto exchange Thodex going dark, news agency Associated Press reported today.
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South Korea aims to “pay special attention” to Bitcoin and crypto transactions
South Korea’s regulators have announced a new crackdown on crypto-related illegal activity amidst the ongoing digital assets trading boom, local news outlet Yonhap News Agency reported today.
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Verto.exchange founder explains why he built the first DEX on “permaweb” protocol Arweave
CryptoSlate recently had the opportunity to chat with Tate Berenbaum, the founder of Verto.exchange, a decentralized trading protocol built on top of Arweave.
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This DEX is bringing DeFi to the $90 billion Cosmos (ATOM) ecosystem
Decentralized exchange Gravity DEX will hold a testnet competition for its Cosmos-based protocol, it said in a release yesterday.
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Earnings release shows Coinbase made more in Q1 2021 than all of 2020
Crypto exchange Coinbase posted its earnings this morning and showed strong revenue numbers ahead of its April 14 public listing, documents show.
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