11:35 p.m. Japan moves to bring an early end to the state of emergency Thursday in 39 of its 47 prefectures, though greater Tokyo and Osaka will remain on the list of potential coronavirus ... There ... ( read original story ...)
GenScript spin-off Legend Biotech files for a $100 million US IPO
L egend Biotech, a clinical stage oncology biotech being spun-out of GenScript's cell therapy unit, filed on Wednesday with the SEC to raise up to $100 million in an initial publi ... ( read original story ...)
Battered By Coronavirus, Will Hotels And Airbnb Keep An Uneasy Truce?
Meanwhile Airbnb just cut 1,900 jobs, 25% of its global workforce. CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky said in a letter to staff that the company anticipates 2020 revenue to be less than 50% of 2019, ... ( read original story ...)
FalconX raises $17M to power its crypto trading service
Over the last few weeks all eyes in the crypto world have been glued to the halvening, a nigh-religious moment in the blockchain realm. Every once in a while, the amount of new bitcoin mined — ... ( read original story ...)
Telegram Gives Up On Its Blockchain, Crypto Project
TON was the next big cryptocurrency project attached to one of the biggest messaging apps in the world — Telegram — run by Pavel Durov, the expat Russian holed up somewhere between the Caribbean and ... ( read original story ...)
Flipside Crypto and Prysm Group Partner to Deliver Real-Time Economic Analytics for Crypto Projects – and Announce OAN as their First Customer
Flipside Crypto, the leading business intelligence firm for cryptocurrency and blockchain organizations and Prysm Group, the leading ... ( read original story ...)
Akita Michinoku Capital Analysts Reports on JD-Backed Delivery Platform Dada Nexus US IPO Filing
Tokyo based wealth management company, Akita Michinoku Capital, has reported that Dada Nexus Ltd., the JD.Com-backed crowd-sourced delivery platform with headquarters in China, has filed for what may ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Economy Minister Insists Deflation To Be Kept at Bay
Japan’s government and central bank are united in their determination to stop the country sliding back into a negative cycle of falling prices and stagnation, according to economy minister Yasutoshi ... ( read original story ...)
3 Traps To Avoid When Trading Bitcoin And Crypto
While the financial press has always been flooded with histories of dodgy dealings in finance, many of the old scams have long since been driven out of the mainstream system. They are, however, alive ... ( read original story ...)
Japan C.bank, Govt Signal More Steps to Ease Funding Strains
The Bank of Japan will do "whatever it can" to mitigate the growing fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Tuesday, warning that a collapse in global activity has had ... ( read original story ...)
OCC Floats New Payments Charter For Stripe, PayPal, And Crypto Firms
This time, instead of providing a charter for lending, the OCC could potentially offer a ‘payments charter’ that would be of interest to both traditional payment companies such as Stripe and PayPal as ... ( read original story ...)
U.K. Puts Banking at Heart of Objectives for Japan Trade Deal
The U.K. has put financial services access at the center of its objectives for a trade deal with Japan. Trade Secretary Liz Truss set out headline objectives for the talks Tuesday evening, citing ... ( read original story ...)
States’ Rights To Blockchain: The ‘Liberty Cowboy’ That Drove Wyoming To Crypto Paradise
State Representative Tyler Lindholm (R-Sundance) of Wyoming’s 1st District, who led the charge in the Wyoming legislature to transform the state into a crypto paradise, is running for re-election. ( read original story ...)
Crypto Under Corona: From Venezuela to Liberland
How's the global crypto community coping during the COVID-19 crisis? Jeff Wilser checks in with groups in seven locations. ( read original story ...)
Crypto Is at a Critical Turning Point: 3 Factors Why Bulls Will Hold Strong
Bitcoin is approaching a critical turning point that could mark the end of the bull trend. Here's why crypto investors will remain strong. ( read original story ...)
How The Focus On Bitcoin Prices Creates A Different Future For Crypto
The focus on crypto prices and events like the halving, important as they are, overshadow an important trend for the future of crypto. ( read original story ...)