Earlier this week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rejected two applications for bitcoin spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs). One of the firms, Grayscale Investments, responded by filing a lawsuit... Read more »
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FTX US deal with troubled crypto lender BlockFi floats acquisition with ‘up to’ $240M purchase price
Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX is taking advantage of rampant instability in the crypto lending market to assert itself while propping up major institutions. The company’s US-based arm has a deal... Read more »
Bastian Hasslinger Contributor Share on Twitter Bastian Hasslinger is an investor at Picus Capital. He is building Picus’ Berlin office focusing on early-stage technology ventures. Under normal circumstances, the... Read more »
Image Credits: Spotify Which song will save you from Vecna? In partnership with Netflix, Spotify has launched a personalized “Stranger Things” playlist dedicated to Season 4 Volume 2, which... Read more »
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Future COVID-19 vaccine boosters won’t have to go through a traditional, lengthy clinical trial process to attain emergency use authorization in the U.S., according to a report in Reuters.... Read more »
According to a report by Capchase comparing more than 400 SaaS startups to unicorns that reached the public markets in the last two years, the top performers “are handily... Read more »
It may feel like it’s been a few years since OpenSea announced the funding round that pushed its valuation to the $13 billion mark. It was January. At the... Read more »
