Tag: crypto

Japanese shares extended gains to a third session on Tuesday, as a strong Wall Street finish overnight and expectations of robust corporate earnings lifted sentiment, and as investors snapped up ... ( read original story ...)

The boost a weak yen gives to Japan's export volumes has declined compared with the past, as manufacturers target shipments to high-end, state-of-the-art products overseas rather than compete with ... ( read original story ...)

The news will no doubt revive questions about the formation of a bubble in the cryptosphere: FTX Trading, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, saw its valuation gain $7 billion in just over ... ( read original story ...)

While I was preparing this week’s newsletter about the cultural economics of cryptocurrency and blockchain, crypto trading tanked. Suddenly, my concerns about how different groups of people have ... ( read original story ...)

Lennon’s son mints Beatles NFT’s, Portnoy buys the dip in Bitcoin and an economist draws parallels to cryptocurrency and the housing crisis. Watch the Crypto Minute Monday. ( read original story ...)

What are the keys to ensuring Tokyo's growth as a leading global financial city? Hideto Fujino, representative director, chairman, president, CEO and chief investment officer of Rheos Capital Works ... ( read original story ...)

Bank of Japan’s (BOJ) former head of financial settlements has changed his mind about creating a central bank digital currency (CBDC). What happened: According to a Japan Times report, Hiromi Yamaoka ... ( read original story ...)

Hiromi Yamaoka believes that applying interest raytes to CBDCs could end up triggering fears over the stability of Yen’s value ... ( read original story ...)

Cryptocurrency exchange FTX has been valued at $32bn in a new funding round announced on Monday, as blue-chip investors continue to pile into the hype-fuelled sector. Japan’s SoftBank and Canada’s ... ( read original story ...)

We’re taking a look at the biggest crypto scams of the month. And it should probably be noted this isn’t necessarily a comprehensive list. These are just the largest scams we came across. Be careful ... ( read original story ...)

Ukraine was hoping to be the main DeFi hub of the world, but will rising border tensions stop their ambitious crypto plans from coming true? ( read original story ...)

Binance on January 29 also restricted 281 personal Nigerian accounts, with approximately 38% of these at the request of international law enforcement. ( read original story ...)

US-based crypto as a service platform Fireblocks raised $550 million in Series E funding, quadrupling its valuation to $8 billion from six months ago. ( read original story ...)

Since the beginning of the year, the market value of cryptocurrencies has decreased by approximately $500 billion, plummeting from $2.2 trillion to $1.68 trillion. ( read original story ...)

In its third funding round in six months, FTX Trading, one of the world's busiest cryptocurrency exchanges, has raised another $400 million in new investments, the firm announced Monday morning, ... ( read original story ...)

Terraform Labs' luna coin fell sharply on Monday as controversy enveloped DeFi platform Wonderland, denting related tokens in the ecosystem. ( read original story ...)