Grayscale Investments enters into cryptocurrency partnership with the New York Giants

Grayscale Investments enters into cryptocurrency partnership with the New York Giants

Grayscale investments, the world’s largest cryptocurrency asset manager, entered into the first-ever cryptocurrency partnership with an NFL Team with a new agreement with the New York Giants.

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EBay cautiously opens door to crypto, NFT transactions

EBay cautiously opens door to crypto, NFT transactions

E-commerce marketplace eBay, in various media interviews this week, suggested it may accept crypto as a payment method in the future.

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SoFi allows customers to redeem cash-back rewards in cryptocurrencies

SoFi allows customers to redeem cash-back rewards in cryptocurrencies

SoFi, the banking, lending, and investing platform that will soon go public via merger with a special-purpose acquisition company, announced that it’s letting its clients redeem their cash back rewards in bitcoin or ethereum.

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JPMorgan Chase on the cusp of launching actively-managed bitcoin fund

JPMorgan Chase on the cusp of launching actively-managed bitcoin fund

Nearly four years after calling bitcoin a “fraud,” JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is apparently having a change of heart.

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PayPal’s Venmo rolls out in-app crypto buying and selling capabilities

PayPal’s Venmo rolls out in-app crypto buying and selling capabilities

Venmo, the popular peer-to-peer payments app owned by PayPal that counts 70M users, today announced that users can buy, hold and, sell cryptocurrency directly within the Venmo app.

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Coinbase poised to go public in watershed moment for crypto industry

Coinbase poised to go public in watershed moment for crypto industry

Banks like JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and Wells Fargo are reporting blockbuster profits today, but their earnings reports are being overshadowed by a milestone moment for the crypto industry as Coinbase – the first major cryptocurrency company in the U.S. to go public – began trading on the Nasdaq.

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Secure messaging app Signal tests P2P payments via cryptocurrency

Secure messaging app Signal tests P2P payments via cryptocurrency

Signal, the messaging app that enables privacy via encryption, is testing a feature in the U.K. that will allow users to send currency to each other through the MobileCoin wallet and cryptocurrency MOB.

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Visa takes leap in settling transactions via USDC stablecoin

Visa takes leap in settling transactions via USDC stablecoin

Payments giant Visa says it’s allowing transactions to settle using cryptocurrency USD Coin (USDC), a stablecoin whose value is tied to the U.S. dollar.

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Coinbase fields customer service complaints as it prepares to go public

Coinbase fields customer service complaints as it prepares to go public

Coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange which recently filed paperwork to go public through a direct listing, is battling a growing number of complaints from clients who say they’re locked out of their accounts or can’t get answers to simple customer-care questions.

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BitClout, a crypto social network, will launch out of beta this week

BitClout, a crypto social network, will launch out of beta this week

BitClout, a crypto social network that allows participants to buy and sell tokens based on people’s reputations, will launch out of beta this week. It is centered around possibilities to invest in a measure of individuals’ credibility and recognition.

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PayPal in talks to acquire crypto custody firm as it expands digital asset capabilities

PayPal in talks to acquire crypto custody firm as it expands digital asset capabilities

PayPal is reportedly planning to buy crypto custody firm Curv, at a price tag of between $200M and $500M, several news outlets reported.

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Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase files to go public

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase files to go public

Coinbase just filed its paperwork to go public through a direct listing, becoming the first cryptocurrency exchange that will list on the Nasdaq.

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Bitcoin transactions drive Cash App activity as Square expands crypto business

Bitcoin transactions drive Cash App activity as Square expands crypto business

While gross payment volume and net revenue fell short of expectations, Square, in its fourth-quarter earnings report, said Cash App monthly users grew to 36 million in December, or 50% year-over-year.

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Richmond Fed appoints bitcoin advocate Sunayna Tuteja as chief innovation officer

Richmond Fed appoints bitcoin advocate Sunayna Tuteja as chief innovation officer

The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond has appointed Sunayna Tuteja, TD Ameritrade’s former head of digital assets and distributed ledger technology, as its chief innovation officer.

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Central bank-backed digital currencies gather momentum in The Bahamas and Sweden

Central bank-backed digital currencies gather momentum in The Bahamas and Sweden

A week after Canada’s central bank confirmed that its plans for a central bank-backed digital currency (CBDC) have accelerated during the pandemic, government-backed digital currencies cleared hurdles in two other markets.

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