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Is FTX Exploring Deals to Buy Robinhood?

Sam Bankman-Fried disclosed a 7.6% stake in Robinhood. Following the report, Robinhood surged over 14%. The cryptocurrency exchange FTX said to consider acquiring the digital trading platform Robinhood, a prominent Magazine reported on Monday. Robinhood has not yet received a formal notice from FTX of any such acquisition and there

June 28, 2022 2 mins read

Australian Crypto Firm Banxa Announces 30% Personnel Layoff

Banxa will allegedly reduce its workforce from 230 to 160 personnel. European Managing Director Jan Lorenc plans to depart the business in European market. According to Banxa, a crypto payments service provider, 30 percent of its workforce will be let off as a cost-cutting measure during the current bear market.

June 27, 2022 1 min read

Three Arrows Capital (3AC) Served With Default Notice by Voyager Digital

Voyager said that it had asked for a partial $25 million USDC repayment by June 24. Alameda has already given Voyager a line of credit to keep solvent. After pledging to prosecute cryptocurrency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC) for unpaid debt, Voyager Digital has followed through. To put it

June 27, 2022 2 mins read

Following Aftermath of Recent Slump Bitpanda Announces Workforce Layoff

The firm is it is cutting its workforce from 1,000 to 730. The rapid pace of recruiting was a miscalculation and unsustainable as per the firm. Crypto industry firms are finding themselves in a terrible situation when crypto winter sets in: laying off employees. Bitpanda, situated in Vienna, Austria, said

June 25, 2022 2 mins read

KuCoin Fails to Comply With Ontario Regulator OSC, Faces Ban

Both Bybit and KuCoin, were found to violate securities laws. Charges of USD 2,000,000 and $96.5K have also been filed against KuCoin. KuCoin has been permanently barred from trading on the Ontario Stock Exchange (OSE) for violating securities laws. OSC announced the news in a press release issued not long

June 23, 2022 2 mins read

FTX Added New Trading Pairs For AVAX, MATIC & TRX

FTX partnered up with BlockFi to offer a new credit line  FTX offers trading opportunities for over 100 cryptocurrency trading pairs. FTX a Bahamas-based centralized cryptocurrency exchange added trading pairs for Avalanche (AVAX), Tron (TRX), and Polygon (MATIC).  The whole cryptocurrency market is facing a downtrend, it lost more than

June 23, 2022 1 min read

Three Arrows Capital (3AC) Might Receive Notice of Default by Voyager Digital

Any failure by 3AC to do the repayment prescribed would constitute an event of default. There has been a revolving line of credit set up for Voyager by Alameda Research. Three Arrows Capital (3AC), a troubled crypto investment business, faces a “notice of default” from Voyager Digital if it fails

June 22, 2022 1 min read

NFT Marketplace OpenSea Reveals Migration to Seaport Protocol

According to OpenSea, consumers using Seaport would save 35% on gas fees. The seaport is neither owned nor operated by OpenSea but instead built on top of it. Tuesday saw the announcement of OpenSea’s migration to Seaport, the most popular non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace by trading volume. A few of

June 15, 2022 1 min read

Reportedly SEC To Start Investigating Exchanges of Alleged Insider Trading

Insider trading on crypto exchanges will be investigated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), according to Fox Business reporter Eleanor Terrett. The Fox News reporter added that the SEC has already issued letters to the top crypto exchanges requesting information on the absence of insider trading safeguards. She

June 14, 2022 2 mins read

American Express Partners With Abra To Offer Crypto Rewards Credit Card

Abra and American Express announced a collaboration at Consensus, a crypto conference in Austin, this week that will see the launch of American Express’s first-ever crypto rewards credit card. More than 60 million American Express cardholders were estimated earlier this year. Now, the network is bringing in crypto benefits for

June 11, 2022 1 min read