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In 2021, Venture Capital (VC) firms invested a staggering $33 billion in crypto and blockchain startups, a significant increase from the mere $3.1 billion invested in 2020.

Financial advisors may soon not only get the regulatory clarity they have asked for about cryptocurrencies and digital asset investing – they may also have a timeline for when it will happen.Last month, U.S. President Joe Biden issued an executive order, calling for a coord

Blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies have addressed the ‘trust question’ head-on and provided the much-needed alternative. As the technology got more innovative and sophisticated, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) emerged as a strong challenger to Centralized Finance (CeFi).

The Republican U.S. senator from holds plenty of bitcoin (BTC) and may be the crypto industry’s most prominent advocate in Congress. Here’s what she’s thinking for 2022.The lawmaker has spoken at length about lots of issues on the Senate floor during her first y

The video game industry has been upended this year by the massive success of an open-world role playing game called Elden Ring. The game sold 12 million copies in its first two weeks, numbers Mark Serrels at CNET described as “ludicrous.” The sales are on pace with th

From April 6 to April 9, 2022, Miami played host to a groundbreaking conference: Bitcoin 2022 united industry leaders and political visionaries to elucidate a bright future for the world’s first and most prominent cryptocurrency and help push the economic paradigm it contains. 

Ethereum supporters have some reason to celebrate this week.After yet another delay, the Ethereum network took a step closer to “the Merge” with its first Ethereum mainnet “shadow fork” – a successful test run of the network’s eventual transiti

Imagine a day when, despite being thousands of miles apart, you and your grandchildren can put on visorlike headsets and “walk” together through a digital version of the Smithsonian, Times Square or even your local shopping mall. You’ll be able to watch movies

It’s not that the economy is going through a wringer it hasn’t been through before, but it is still a period of rapid change. Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced consumer prices rose 8.5% for the 12 months that ended in March – the fastest inflation

Clinique had a problem. The brand wanted to “enter the metaverse,” but it didn’t want to do so in a way that was cringey. So, it called a woman named Cathy Hackl: the “Godmother of the Metaverse.”Her credentials? Hackl, the “chief metaverse off

Si quieres tener una idea de cómo las finanzas descentralizadas (DeFi) pueden transformar la industria bancaria, la historia de las telecomunicaciones en los Estados Unidos puede llegar a ser una buena guía.En 1983 el “Sistema Bell” era un monopolio naci

Even before he was the richest man in the world, Elon Musk was something of a wild card.It’s a schtick, at this point (the stuff of Saturday Night Live sketches), but it comes from something real. Where other billionaires tend to take a long-term view of their companies, th

Michael Levy is a non-fungible token (NFT) investor and crypto entrepreneur, currently launching a portal for NFT-collateralized loans called Flowty. But Levy is not a diehard “crypto native” – and that’s exactly what makes him significant.Rather than arri

For most taxpayers, assembling tax returns and filing is a painful process. For those who had crypto activity in 2021, the process can be even more troublesome.Transfers between wallets are common for investors looking to interact with different products offered by crypto exchang

If you want a sneak peek at how DeFi is likely to transform the banking industry, the history of the telecom industry in the U.S. may turn out to be a good guide.In 1983, the “Bell System” was a national monopoly on telecommunications in the United States. This includ

Standing 11 feet tall and glistening in the southern sun, “The Miami Bull” statue has been called both “a crime against god” and “pretty cool.” The robotic reimagining of the Wall Street landmark is 3,000 pounds, made of chrome and fiberglass a

On March 9, the Biden administration issued an executive order directing U.S. regulators to “assess the financial stability risks and regulatory gaps posed by the ongoing adoption of digital assets” and to recommend specific policy, regulatory and legislative actions

Charlie Warzel’s generally quite readable Galaxy Brain newsletter carried a provocative headline this week: “Is Crypto Re-Creating the 2008 Financial Crisis?” Not surprisingly, it turned out to be a rhetorical question. The Atlantic writer’s newsletter ca

The Wall Street Journal on Thursday published a useful dive into meme coin trading. It was pegged to a token called “Will Smith slap inu” that appeared, surged and imploded within a couple of days early last week after the infamous Oscars fracas. “Meme coins&rdq

Crypto banking offers a way to ease into cryptocurrency for those who’ve stayed away from investing in the past because it sounded too complex.