2019-3-11 15:30 |
Ground X, the blockchain subsidiary of South Korea's Kakao, has raised $90 million in a private coin offering, Bloomberg says. origin »
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Whale multisig was drained for $27.3 million after a private key compromise, with 4,100 ETH already pushed through Tornado Cash and the attacker still controlling the wallet.
2025-12-19 16:20 | |
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South Korean internet giant Kakao Corp has seen major success during its private initial coin offering (ICO) and will raise more funds this week. Kakao Doubles Down As Bloomberg reported March 10, Kakao, which confirmed it has raised $90 million from token sales, wants to double the figure to $180 million — and could even do so this week.
2019-3-11 14:00 | |
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Private blockchain studio StrongBlock – founded by former execs from Block.one, the company behind EOS – has raised $4 million.
2019-3-8 16:00 | |
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A very high-profile court case involving cryptocurrencies is currently happening in Canada. No, we’re not talking about QuadrigaCX, the exchange which has lost all its funds after its owner died and took the private keys to the clients’ funds with him.
2019-3-6 23:10 | |
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As QuadrigaCX’s legal counsel descends on the courtroom in Halifax, Nova Scotia, for another round of legal proceedings, the court monitor’s third report on QuadrigaCX’s finances — specifically its revelation that the exchange’s cold wallets are empty — lays out some hopeful avenues for fund recovery — and some frustrating dead ends.
2019-3-5 20:20 | |
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Rookie U. S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been dragged into an emerging campaign finance scandal that could potentially compromise her carefully crafted reputation as the ‘people’s candidate,’ as well as call her political platform into question just three months after the 2018 midterm elections that saw her become the youngest-ever female member of Congress.
2019-3-5 05:24 | |
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On February 28, 2019, Bloomberg revealed that GIC Private Limited made up part of the investment team in Coinbase’s 2018 Series E equity round which enabled the San Franciso-based cryptocurrency exchange to raise $300 million and hit a valuation of $8 billion.
2019-3-2 10:00 | |
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GSR To Cut Overstock’s tZERO Investment By 75%, From $404 Million To $100 Million USD A Hong Kong-based private equity company called GSR Capital has decided to diminish its investment in Overstock’s tZERO by an incredible 75%.
2019-3-2 21:32 | |
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Kava Labs recently announced that they have raised $1. 2 Million in funding led by Lemniscap and Digital Asset Capital Management, along with other investors including Xpring of Ripple, Coil Technologies, 2020 Ventures, Arrington Capital, Hard Yaka, Robot Ventures, UniValues Associates, and a number of private investors.
2019-3-1 19:42 | |
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GIC Private Limited, a sovereign wealth fund established by Singapore’s government in 1981 to manage the country’s foreign reserves was among the investors who participated in Coinbase’s $300 million fundraising round last year, Bloomberg reported on Feb.
2019-3-1 15:34 | |
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GIC Private Limited, a Singapore government-owned wealth fund, backed Coinbase’s major funding round last year, say Bloomberg sources.
2019-2-28 15:01 | |
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US cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase received the majority of its $300 million 2018 funding round from a fund owned by the Singapore government, anonymous sources have revealed. GIC Private Surprise Funding Round Participant Speaking to Bloomberg, people “familiar” with the details of the fundraising deal said that GIC Private Limited (formerly Government of Singapore Investment Corporation), invested in the company.
2019-2-28 14:00 | |
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GIC Private Limited, the sovereign wealth fund of Singapore, was one of the investors in Coinbase’s $300 million fundraising round last year, it has now been revealed. While there were other investors in the Series E round, GIC’s participation was closely guarded until now, per Bloomberg.
2019-2-28 13:29 | |
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Token sales have boomed in 2017 and ICOs are becoming an increasingly popular way of fundraising. However, Kik is the first established mainstream company to use this funding model instead of traditional venture capital.
2019-2-27 02:20 | |
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A U.S.-based digital asset startup raises $6.5 million from several companies to launch an institutional crypto wallet that “eradicates the concept of private keys”
2019-2-27 00:25 | |
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In an official statement, Julius Baer, one of the biggest private banks in Switzerland, announced that the company is providing its clients access to cryptocurrencies. Julius Baer is pleased to announce the collaboration with SEBA Crypto AG to provide its clients with access to a range of new digital asset services.
2019-2-26 17:24 | |
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QuadrigaCX Exchange’s founder, Gerald Cotten, passed away more than two months ago, and with his death, the keys to the exchange’s cold storage allegedly went to the grave with him.
2019-2-26 22:21 | |
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A British-American Programmer and the founder of McAfee Association declared with all assurance that one bitcoin will equal a million dollar by the end of December 2020. Speaking in an interview, the programmer said he will eat his private part if his prophecy doesn’t come to pass.
2019-2-23 19:55 | |
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Cryptocurrency wallet service provider Bitgo has secured a $100 million policy through Lloyd’s insurance to cover crypto assets that are completely under the company’s control, such as those held in its business wallet and custody offerings.
2019-2-20 18:30 | |
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BitGo, a crypto custodian backed by Goldman Sachs, is offering up to $100 million in insurance coverage for cold-wallet assets through Lloyd’s. There is no additional cost to BitGo clients. In a press release, the company said the $100 million of insurance coverage protects custodial assets held by BitGo against: Third-party hacks.
2019-2-20 03:50 | |
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There are two primary reasons why storing your private crypto keys in the cloud is a bad idea. First, your cloud provider represents a centralized honeypot that could experience a security breach, allowing cyber criminals to access your data.
2019-2-19 00:19 | |
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The recent scandal of QuadrigaCX in which Canada’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange lost $150 million worth of crypto shocked the financial space. It deteriorated the public image of the cryptocurrency sector overnight as analysts condemned the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars following the alleged death of CEO Gerald Cotten who had sole control over the company’s holdings and user funds.
2019-2-17 15:46 | |
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A group of lawyers from some of Canada’s top law firms convened in a court in Halifax, Nova Scotia, today to secure the right to represent creditors in the ongoing QuadrigaCX litigation.
2019-2-15 01:45 | |
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Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis has completed a $30 million Series B round led by American VC firm Accel and Benchmark, who led the startup's Series A funding in April 2018.
2019-2-15 19:41 | |
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The conspiracy theory surrounding QuadrigaCX began with the December 9, 2018, death of the exchange’s CEO. Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Gerald Cotton, took the only private keys to the grave, depriving users of $190 million in frozen funds.
2019-2-14 14:00 | |
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Institutional capital is making its way to the crypto sector. Morgan Creek Digital Assets co-founder and partner announced that his firm had raised $40 million from several investors including two U.
2019-2-13 14:59 | |
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Even in a bear market, Morgan Creek Digital has no problem swimming upstream. The crypto asset management firm just bagged a $40 million dollar investment and what appears to be the first blockchain/crypto investment by a major pension fund.
2019-2-12 20:51 | |
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Two public pensions from Fairfax County, Virginia’s Police Officer’s Retirement System and Employees’ Retirement System, have invested in Morgan Creek’s new $40 million crypto fund. Anthony Pompliano, a Morgan Creek general partner, said that it is the first case in which public pensions have invested in the cryptocurrency market.
2019-2-12 18:28 | |
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If you followed crypto news this month, you have certainly heard about the Canadian CEO who died and left locked away all the cryptos from his exchange. The case has been getting attention lately a the wallets have over $150 million USD from clients which are completely inaccessible at the moment. The private Indian hospital […]
2019-2-7 21:30 | |
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We have heard what happened with the cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX and all the implications that it has for the virtual currency market. The owner of the crypto exchange, Gerald Cotten, died a few weeks ago without leaving information about the private keys related to the cold storage wallet in which the exchange held most of […]
2019-2-6 18:43 | |
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The Slack IPO, one of 2019’s most hotly-anticipated public offerings, is officially in motion. The widely used business productivity company announced today that it has filed for a direct listing.
2019-2-5 21:45 | |
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Obtaining access to an individual’s private data on sale in the darknet is very common. In August 2018, prominent Chinese hospitality chain, Huazhu Hotels Group fell into the hands of hackers. Personal data of more than 130 million hotel guests was sold at 8 BTC which was approximately $56,000 by then. Recently, OkCoin’s Founder, Star […]
2019-2-3 22:25 | |
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An Italian judge has reportedly ordered Francesco Firano, founder of shady cryptocurrency exchange BitGrail, to repay the $170 million worth of cryptocurrency that went “missing” early last year.
2019-1-28 18:25 | |
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The Kadena private blockchain platform is live on the AWS Marketplace. The project was completed after receiving $12 million from venture capital firms. Besides privacy, the Kadena blockchain protocol emphasizes data security and effective scaling.
2019-1-24 19:27 | |
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CryptoNinjas Totle, a decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator and portfolio manager for ERC-20 tokens has announced the closing of a $1 million private funding round led by leading blockchain industry institutional investors Arrington XRP, NEO Global Capital (NGC),.
2019-1-15 12:27 | |
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Blockchain startups are still a lucrative source for venture capitalists to get in early on different projects, but the last year of the industry has taught these investors to be more cautious. Luckily, they seem quite trusting in Totle, a Detroit-based startup that calls itself the “Kayak of Crypto.” According to recent reports, Totle’s funding […]
2019-1-15 00:24 | |
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Global bank HSBC has processed more than 3 million foreign exchange (fx) transactions using blockchain technology. According to a report, the transactions, completed over the past year, were worth $250bn.
2019-1-14 20:56 | |
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Decentralized exchange Bisq has upgraded its software with an entirely new User Interface (UI) design and the launch of the Bisq Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) on testnet.
2019-1-9 21:05 | |
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Bitcoin Private has been going through a tough period recently, partially due to its failing price and partially due to controversies which included the revelation that more than 2 million BTCP was pre-mined by a malicious actor.
2018-12-30 22:06 | |
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A ground-breaking report from the crypto analysis team at Coinmetrics shows that 2 million Bitcoin Private tokens were covertly pre-mined. The secret pre-mine breaks the 21 million supply cap and throws the Bitcoin Private community into chaos.
2018-12-25 20:17 | |
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Using a Bitcoin codebase, researchers from Coinmetrics.io a cryptocurrency research firm discovered while running an update on Bitcoin private full node, that about 2 million BTCP was inserted into some shielded addresses by BTCP developers during the import of bitcoin to Zclassic(ZCL) a hard fork of Zcash: In verifying these figures, we ran a BTCP […] The post “larger fraud” Bitcoin Private developers manipulated the market with 2 million BTCP, Research Alleges appeared first on ZyCrypto.
2018-12-25 17:30 | |
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The team behind altcoin Bitcoin Private has released an official statement that “approximately two (2) million BTCP coins that were never intended to exist on the blockchain chain were created and moved to a shielded address”
2018-12-25 05:00 | |
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2 million Bitcoin Private tokens pre-mined Crypto data provider Coinmetrics released a report titled “Don’t trust, verify: A Bitcoin Private case study” which revealed some damning information about this popular fork-merge of Bitcoin and ZClassic.
2018-12-25 00:02 | |
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While most of the market is on its way to recovery, one cryptocurrency is still struggling. Bitcoin Private (BTCP), an anonymity-protecting protocol which launched last March, is battling against allegations that developers may have secretly premined two million coins, giving themselves control of nearly ten percent of the total supply.
2018-12-25 21:07 | |
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About $3.672 million of Bitcoin Private (over two million BTCP) have allegedly been secretly coined while importing Bitcoin chain data, a report shows
2018-12-24 17:58 | |
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The creator of altcoin Bitcoin Private (BTCP) was battling accusations his project was a “scam” December 24 after an investigation revealed over 2 million ‘secret’ coins. Coinmetrics: There Are 2.
2018-12-24 12:00 | |
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The Waves Platform has raised $120 million in a private funding round for its new project called Vostok, after which the Waves token price jumped by more than 30 percent
2018-12-20 05:50 | |
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Waves Platform is primarily known for their work as a blockchain solutions developer. However, a recent funding round worth $120 million is allowing them to expand, pushing towards the launch of a project called Vostok.
2018-12-19 21:45 | |
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The Vostok project, a part of Waves (WAVES) ecosystem focused on implementation of Waves technologies in enterprise and government IT-systems, has secured a $120 million funding round from private and institutional investors, the Waves team announced on December 19.
2018-12-19 16:51 | |
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The Klaytn blockchain from the fold of messaging app giant Kakao has launched on its mainnet, with a governing body including big enterprises like LG.
Kakao's blockchain arm Ground X has announced the launch of the test version of its proprietary blockchain network dubbed Klaytn.