News April 3, 2023 GMO Financial Holdings Buys 10% of Crypto Hedge Fund AWR Capital for Undisclosed Amount AWR will act as a market maker at GMO Financial Holdings subsidiary GMO Coin, one of the largest crypto and FX exchanges in Japan.
News April 3, 2023 U.S. Banking System Turmoil Has Spurred Bitcoin Outperformance: Coinbase The cryptocurrency’s correlation to the S&P 500 stock index dropped to 25% at the end of March, the report said.
News April 3, 2023 DeFi Tokens, Shiba Inu Clones Populate zkSync as Locked Value Climbs to $100M Ether and USD Coin dominate locked tokens on the upstart network.
News April 3, 2023 Japan Regulator Flags Four Crypto Exchanges Including Bybit for Operating Without Registration Bitget, BitForex and MEXC Global were also named in the Financial Services Agency’s warning letter.
News April 3, 2023 Nomura-Backed Komainu to Offer Segregated Crypto Collateral Product for Institutions Komainu Connect will let clients deploy digital assets in collateralization scenarios, while they remain in segregated custody and verifiable on chain.
News April 1, 2023 Arbitrum’s First Governance Proposal Turns Messy With $1B ARB Tokens at Stake The Arbitrum Foundation would get to side step community governance when issuing “special grants.”
News April 1, 2023 U.S. Government Case Against Voyager-Binance.US Deal Has ‘Substantial’ Merits, Judge Says District Judge Jennifer Rearden put the $1 billion deal on hold but said she’d expedite an appeal to avoid too much delay
News March 31, 2023 ZeroSync and Blockstream to Broadcast Bitcoin Zero-Knowledge Proofs From Space The two partners say using zero-knowledge proofs will allow Bitcoin nodes to sync quickly from anywhere on earth, “even without Internet.”
News March 31, 2023 Bitcoin Miner Marathon Digital’s CFO to Retire After One Year Hugh Gallagher intends to retire effective May 12.
News March 31, 2023 Crypto Market March Roundup: Bitcoin Rises Amid Banking Uncertainties, Macro Headwinds Mask Network’s MASK token surged over 68%, becoming the top-performing token for the month. XRP rose 41%.