February 2020

Polychain Capital, one of the crypto industry’s leading venture firms, is targeting $200 million for its second fund.

The chief of the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has said the company’s approaching shift to blockchain tech could bring opportunities to the wider securities industry. In a results call for H1 2020 Thursday, reported by ZDNet, ASX CEO Dominic Stevens said: “We’re very excited about the long term benefits this Read more…

This is the first new cryptocurrency added by Coinbase Commerce since it added USDC in May 2019.

Paradigm and Pantera Capital led the round, while Polychain Capital, Blockchain.com, Coinbase Ventures and more also participated.

The partnership will see the firms launch a new futures trading platform and provides OKEx with a foothold in a high-potential market.

Now in its second year, the New York State Senate’s Internet and Tech Committee has approved two blockchain bills, which now go to the full Senate for a vote.

Bitcoin is closing on a bullish chart pattern not seen in almost 10 months.

The new fiat funding options come via the exchange’s integration with Israeli payments processor Simplex.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence wants to sponsor a post-doc researcher to study what would happen if the U.S. dollar lost its status as the world’s reserve currency.

The Japanese Yen was able to keep earlier gains versus the greenback during Asian trade on Friday on growing concerns over the spread of the Coronavirus.