After securing $1.1 million, Wakweli, a web3 infrastructure protocol that generates certificates of authenticity for NFTs, has completed its first investment round. Many early investors contributed funds to back Wakweli’s idea of a protocol built on a decentralized consensus algorithm known as Proof-of-Democracy (PoD). The blockchain investment company Summit, Funfair
The leading trading platform, Robinhood Markets, revealed in its most recent 10-K filing that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an investigative subpoena regarding its crypto operations. The brokerage received a subpoena from the SEC in December, just after the crypto exchange FTX filed bankruptcy protection on November
After another successful reboot, the Solana blockchain is available again. A bug that slowed the blockchain for hours on Saturday has been fixed. The developers are still keeping an eye on how the network is doing. It was previously reported that the Solana network had an outage on the morning
In an effort to reorganize the company, Dapper Labs will be letting off 20% of its full-time employees, as stated in a letter addressed to employees on Thursday by founder and CEO Roham Gharegozlou. Gharegozlou stated that the company was reorganizing to increase its focus and efficiency. Moreover, it also
The New York and Federal financial regulators have rejected the largest crypto exchange Binance’s $1.2 billion assets acquisition of bankruptcy cryptocurrency lender Voyager Digital. According to a 22nd February document, regulators believed it might be discriminatory and illegal. Binance U.S resubmitted its bid on Voyager after FTX filed for Chapter
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and its chairman, Gary Gensler, have been targeted by the Chamber of Digital Commerce for their “regulation by enforcement” strategy, which poses a danger to the U.S. digital assets market and investors. The Chamber of Digital Commerce argued in an amicus brief in
U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero’s decision to classify Flow’s NBA Top Shot NFTs as securities have caught many off guard. Moreover, the judge’s decision was predicated on the fact that Dapper Labs kept a private blockchain. And limited NFT trading to the Flow platform. The value of these NFTs, sometimes
Kevin O’Leary, of “Shark Tank,” has given his thoughts on the cryptocurrency market after the SEC has taken many enforcement actions. The Shark Tank star tweeted: “Venture funding for new crypto projects is virtually dead and aftermarket trading for existing projects is at massive discounts. Reason? The regulator is now
The minister of technology and science of Zambia, Felix Mutati, has said that the central bank and the Securities and Exchange Commission of Zambia are “testing” technologies to regulate cryptocurrencies. Mutati said on the ministry website that Zambia has to govern this “revolutionary technology.” Because it represents the future the
On Friday, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged ex-NBA star Paul Pierce with crypto breaches. The charges against him center on his promotion of EthereumMax (EMAX) coins on social media without providing the necessary context. The SEC said the ex-player made deceptive claims in a promotion for EMAX.
