On Wednesday, the project announced that it had drummed up $225 million at a $2.5 billion valuation, which makes it the largest funding round for a crypto project in 2023, according to Crunchbase’s ...
Why This Crypto Firm Wants to Invest 60% of Profits into a Universal Basic Income
The intersection of cryptocurrency and social responsibility took center stage in a recent discussion hosted by Roundtable anchor Rob Nelson and featuring JB, the founder and CEO of Kryotech.
Acctual raises $3.85M to help crypto companies better manage their bills
Acctual has raised $3.85 million in seed funding at a $15 million post-money valuation to help crypto startups manage their money, the company’s co-founder and CEO Atikh Bana exclusively told ...
Charlie Munger Had No Love for Crypto
Charlie Munger didn’t pull punches. One of his favorite punching bags was crypto. The vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway wouldn’t hesitate to give his rebuke of digital assets like bitcoin when asked ...
IPO Blasts Into Buy Range, Joining AI Race With Google, Microsoft
Alphabet has the Bard chatbot and Microsoft has Bing powered by ChatGPT. Now, 2021 IPO Monday.com has its own plans for more deeply weaving AI into its productivity platform, fueling a new buy zone ...
From Crypto To T-Bills: Inside Meow’s Hard Pivot
Prudent, because after the collapse of stablecoin TerraUSD in mid-May of 2022, they began hearing rumors that crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital would go bankrupt — which it soon did, eventually ...
Sri Lanka makes debt restructuring deal with Japan, other creditors
Debt-ridden Sri Lanka and its creditor nations, including Japan, reached a basic agreement on Wednesday over Colombo's debt restructuring, a senior Japanese Finance Ministry official said. The ...
Philippines’ SEC to block access to world’s largest crypto exchange Binance
The Philippines' Securities and Exchange Commission has begun the process of blocking access to the world's largest crypto exchange Binance, whose chief last week stepped down and pleaded guilty to ...
Ailing Crypto Firm Zipmex Makes Another Attempt at Restructuring
Ailing crypto exchange Zipmex has proposed to repay creditors about 3.35 cents per dollar of claims initially as part of its latest restructuring offer, according to people familiar with the matter.
Crypto Price Prediction For 2024: Unveiling The Most Promising Cryptocurrency Investments
yPredict ($YPRED) is a new one-of-a-kind token that seamlessly integrates AI and predictive analytics, making it a promising crypto investment. Using its custom-built AI models, yPredict provides ...
Japan has a glut of 8.5 million akiya, empty ‘ghost houses’ left to rot. Now Airbnb wants to fill them with tourists.
Airbnb says it wants to partner with local governments to incentivize homeowners to renovate and turn their empty houses into a source of income.
Japanese bank regulators on alert for SVB-style rate risks
Even as Japan’s biggest banks churn out record profits and anticipate further gains from domestic rate increases, the country’s central bank warned in its recent Financial Stability Report that ...
Nomura eyes extra $100 million wholesale banking cost cuts
CEO Kentaro Okuda said that ensuring the recovery of Nomura's macro products business, where it has a high market share, is an important issues.
Japan’s Nikkei erases early losses as heavyweight stocks gain
Japan's Nikkei share average erased early losses to trade higher on Wednesday, underpinned by the gains in heavyweight stocks, while the yen's rebound against the dollar capped further gains.The ...
Japan’s Nomura to reduce risk assets for wholesale business
Nomura Holdings said on Wednesday it would reduce risk weighted assets by up to 6% for its struggling wholesale business as the top Japanese investment bank scrambles to shore up its capital ...
UPDATE 1-Japan space agency hit with cyberattack, rocket and satellite info not accessed
Japan's space agency was hit with a cyberattack but the information the hackers accessed did not include anything important for rocket and satellite operations, a spokesperson said on Wednesday.