FinTech
Coinbase extends hiring pause for ‘foreseeable future’ and plans to rescind some offers
Brian Armstrong, cofounder and CEO of Coinbase speaks onstage during ‘Tales from the Crypto: What the Currency of the Future Means for You’ at Vanity Fair’s 6th Annual New Establishment Summit at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on October 23, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. Matt Winkelmeyer | Getty Images Two weeks after […]
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Wall Street and the problem of “way too many publicly traded fintechs”
In this weekly series, CNBC takes a look at companies that made the inaugural Disruptor 50 list, 10 years later. A decade ago, the idea that an investment industry customer preferred to never speak with a human being seemed questionable. But it was among the soundbites from the robo-advisory firm Wealthfront, which came to market […]
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Winklevoss twins’ Gemini cutting 10% of its staff, saying ‘crypto winter’ is here
Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss (L-R), creators of crypto exchange Gemini Trust Co. on stage at the Bitcoin 2021 Convention, a crypto-currency conference held at the Mana Convention Center in Wynwood on June 04, 2021 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Billionaire bitcoiners Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are laying off 10% of the […]
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Do Kwon is unlikely to face prison time for $60 billion UST crypto wipeout — fines and lawsuits are more likely
Do Kwon, co-founder and chief executive officer of Terraform Labs, leaves the company’s office in Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, April 14, 2022. Woohae Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images Do Kwon, the 30-year-old South Korean founder of a $60 billion stablecoin project that imploded last month, has a knack for convincing people to buy […]
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Solana suffered its second outage in a month, sending price plunging
The logo of cryptocurrency platform Solana. Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto via | Getty Images Solana, one of the largest cryptocurrencies after bitcoin and ether, fell more than 12% on Wednesday as its blockchain suffered its second outage in the last month. Validators in the network were not processing new blocks for several hours. Applications built […]
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Former OpenSea employee charged in first-ever NFT insider trading case
U.S. prosecutors are now going after insider trading in the crypto industry. On Wednesday, prosecutors in New York’s Southern District charged and arrested Nathaniel Chastain, a former product manager at the online marketplace OpenSea. The 31-year-old faces one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering, in connection with a scheme to commit […]
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Binance raises $500 million fund to invest in ‘Web3’ as crypto slides into bear market
Binance is the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, handling $490 billion of spot trading volumes in March 2022. Akio Kon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is launching its own venture capital fund. The company’s venture arm, Binance Labs, said Wednesday it has raised $500 million for its debut start-up fund, […]
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Britain plans new safeguards for stablecoins that go bust in wake of Terra’s collapse
The world’s biggest stablecoin, tether, saw more than $10 billion in redemptions in May, fueling fears of a 2008-style “bank run.” Justin Tallis | AFP via Getty Images Britain wants to make sure stablecoins don’t end up threatening the wider financial system following the collapse of controversial crypto project Terra. The government on Tuesday proposed […]
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The luna cryptocurrency has been resurrected after its $40 billion collapse. It’s already crashing
Cryptocurrency markets have seen a steep sell-off after the collapse of controversial blockchain project Terra. Dan Kitwood | Getty Images A new version of the collapsed luna cryptocurrency is already live on major exchanges — and it’s gotten off to a bad start. Last week, supporters of the Terra blockchain project voted to revive luna […]
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Some investors got rich before a popular stablecoin imploded, erasing $60 billion in value
WASHINGTON — In May, the collapse of one of the most popular U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin projects cost investors tens of billions of dollars as they pulled out in a panic that some have compared to a bank run. But before that, the stablecoin known as terraUSD (or UST, for short) and its sister token luna, […]
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