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2022-04-27 20:24:50 SkyBridge announced plans to invest most of its assets in cryptocurrency

The digital assets sector has the prospect of tremendous growth, the hedge fund believes

Hedge fund SkyBridge Capital intends to move most of its assets under management into cryptocurrency, as it sees the prospect of "tremendous" growth in this sector. Currently, the company hold almost $3.5 billion under management in digital assets, including bitcoin, Ethereum, Algorand and cryptocurrency stocks.

SkyBridge expects its focus on cryptocurrencies to triple its assets to $10 billion, and according to Anthony Scaramucci, head of the company, it may be a leading crypto-asset manager in the future. 打开/如何

2022-04-26 18:50:48 Nike and RTFKT presented their first NFT collection

The giant Nike and RTFKT studio showed the world their first joint collection of non-fungible tokens on the Ethereum blockchain. The digital sneakers are inspired by the Nike Dunk silhouette.

In February 2022, an airdrop of MNLTH - NFT in the format of Mystery Boxes was held among holders of tokens from Project CloneX and other collections from RTFKT. A few months later, holders of the latter were allowed to open their "boxes." 打开/如何

2022-04-25 18:44:00 TON appeared on the CoinEx cryptocurrency exchange

Although the exchange is not the largest and the trading volume is estimated at $65 million, but it is among the top 100 exchanges.

With a stable TON exchange rate of ~$2, trading on the exchange for TONUSDT exceeded $6. Perhaps, this is due to technical works, as a consequence of which the possibility of TON deposit to users' wallets is closed for the time being. 打开/如何

2022-04-24 19:59:48 Coinbase started the beta version of its own NFT-marketplace

For now, the site is only available to a limited number of users, also at this stage NFTs based solely on Ethereum are posted.

According to the developers, users may connect any wallets to the site, including Coinbase Wallet or MetaMask. At this stage, only Ethereum tokens can be paid for, but later fiat payments, such as Mastercard, will be added. 打开/如何

2022-04-23 19:40:36 Green mining company Crusoe raises $350 million

Crusoe Energy Systems Inc. closed a $350 million Series C funding round that uses energy from burning associated petroleum gas to mine bitcoin. The round was led by G2 Venture Partners. 打开/如何

2022-04-22 18:57:18 Over $4 million stolen from Terra users in a fishing attack

The criminals used Google's advertising tools and launched fake campaigns to steal the digital assets of their users.

The malicious ads appeared in the first place for the search query "Terra" on Google. These links redirected users to a fake domain that offered to connect their Terra wallets.

Trusting customers entered a passphrase to access the vault, after which they were deprived of all their cryptocurrency assets.

As a result, the hackers managed to steal about $4.31 million in cryptocurrency. All the funds were stolen between April 12 and April 21, 2022, and were transferred to a single wallet from 52 different sources. 打开/如何

2022-04-21 19:35:58 BTC legalization "killed" El Salvador's relationship with the IMF

After the recognition of BTC as legal tender, El Salvador was unable to find common ground with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and negotiations with it are "virtually dead". This was stated by the former head of the Central Bank, Carlos Acevedo.

We’re talking about the agreement with the IMF on the allocation of financial assistance. According to the former chairman of the Central Bank, the cryptocurrency initiative has cost the country a lot by "killing" relations with the fund.

Another proof that the global global financial system still rejects the world of decentralized finance. That's okay, we'll wait. 打开/如何

2022-04-20 19:51:55 KuCoin announced the launch of a fund for the creators of NFT

The $100 million fund led by the exchange is called Creators Fund. Its main goal is to provide financially for NFT startups at an early stage of development. The initiative is a collaboration between KuCoin's venture capital arm and its marketplace of non-interchangeable tokens, Windvane.

The fund's first step will be to bring 99 popular NFT artists to Windvane, which will provide an opportunity to connect well-known studios and creators with the audience of the marketplace and KuCoin as a whole. 打开/如何

2022-04-19 18:30:18 Ethereum's transition to the PoS consensus could take place in the third quarter of 2022

"It won't be June, but likely in the few months after. No firm date yet, but we're definitely in the final chapter of PoW on Ethereum," said Ethereum developer Tim Beiko. 打开/如何

2022-04-18 18:27:52 Bitstamp asked customers to disclose the origin of their assets

In a letter, the exchange demanded customers to disclose the origin of the fiat and digital assets deposited on the platform.

Among the documents that can serve as proof are screenshots of wallets, credit card statements, invoices and contracts with payment in cryptocurrencies. 打开/如何