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US seizes $225M crypto, victims reimbursed

Fintech startup Defy snaps up $5.5Mn to create India’s first social crypto exchange platform

2021 has been kind to the startup sector in India, clocking many…

Faze Technologies, that lets fans use NFTs for sports, raises $17.4Mn in fresh fundraise

Faze Technologies has raised $17.4 million in its latest seed funding round,…

RBI deems 2018 circular against cryptocurrency no longer valid, says banks can no longer use it to try to halt crypto trading

Cryptocurrency has not had an easy time in India. Not only was…
Coinbase

Polygon, India’s own crypto, crosses $10 billion market cap

Polygon, India’s very own offering to the blockchain market, has officially crossed…
Tesla

Tesla buys $1.5 billion in bitcoin, plans to start accepting it as a mode of payment soon

Elon Musk and Co. never seem to stay out of the headlines.…
Coinbase

Coinbase to suspend trading in XRP cryptocurrency from Jan 19 in light of SEC lawsuit against Ripple

This Tuesday, Coinbase chief legal officer Paul Grewal said in a blog…

Donald trump’s campaign website briefly hacked by crypto scammers

Ahead of the US presidential elections on November 3, Republican candidate and…

Telegram to pay $18.5 million in fines to SEC as its cryptocurrency service TON goes down

Telegram’s Pavel Durov’s plans of running his own cryptocurrency platform are officially…

Facebook announces ‘Novi’, its rebranded digital wallet for users to hold and send ‘Libra’ cryptocurrency

Facebook is rebranding the ‘Calibra’ digital wallet that it had earlier proposed…

CoinDCX lands $2.5M in fresh round as India sees surge in cryptocurrency trading amid COVID-19 lockdown

India does not have a lot of companies around cryptocurrencies or their…

Reserve Bank of India clarifies no restrictions on banks providing accounts to crypto traders

While the provision of bank accounts for cryptocurrency traders has been a…

Reddit experiments with Ethereum powered “Community points” to promote quality content on platform

As explained correctly in a slideshow by Reddit, the average user has…

CoinDCX bags $3 million in funding as India opens regulatory gates to cryptocurrency trading

Less than 3 weeks after Supreme Court of India’s historic judgement to…

Binace Group sets up $50 million India fund to invest in blockchain startups solving industrial, social problems

Binance Group, which runs one of the largest digital asset exchanges globally,…

Another volatile day for Bitcoin, touches $4400 before recovering as investors continue to pull out from risk assets

A new week, a new beginning- not for the cryptocurrency market though,…

RBI could seek review of Supreme court’s decision to lift the ban on cryptocurrency

In a historic verdict, India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday lifted the RBI’s…

India’s Supreme Court ends 2018 cryptocurrency ban imposed by Reserve Bank of India

In a landmark judgement that would possibly usher in a new era…

India’s Inter-ministerial Committee proposes ban on cryptocurrencies within the country

What has been a speculation for quite some time, has now been…

Facebook won’t offer Libra until it receives appropriate approvals, says Calibra’s head David Marcus

Last month, Facebook announced its digital currency Libra, which is set for…

US Congress formally asks Facebook to halt the development of ‘Libra’

US lawmakers have formally asked Facebook to freeze the development on its…