ICO Drops - ICO News & Alerts

2021-02-11 18:20:04 Bitcoin to Come to America’s Oldest Bank, BNY Mellon.
The custody bank plans to eventually treat digital currencies like any other asset.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-to-come-to-america-s-oldest-bank-bny-mellon-11613044810 Open / Comment

2021-02-11 18:14:57 "Just like we accept all kinds of local currency we are going to look at cryptocurrency and or #bitcoin in terms of currency to transact. That's good for business, that's good for our riders and our eaters," says
Uber CEO. "We are just not going to do it as part of a promotion."

https://twitter.com/SquawkCNBC/status/1359864577878609922 Open / Comment

2021-02-11 17:49:56 Waves has published an article on how to maximize the profitability of stablecoins through staking and liquidity providing.

https://medium.com/wavesprotocol/how-to-get-an-apy-of-100-on-a-usd-deposit-45d5ac7a05bf Open / Comment

2021-02-11 17:06:54 Elrond has announced that OpenDAO stable coins will be available for DeFi products on the Elrond Network.

https://elrond.com/blog/elrond-egold-stable-coin-opendao/ Open / Comment

2021-02-11 16:45:35 Bitcoin hits new all-time high of $ 48,399 Open / Comment

2021-02-11 08:40:29 Amazon's Digital and Emerging Payments (DEP) division is hiring developers and engineers for a digital currency project to be launched in Mexico.

https://decrypt.co/57372/amazon-is-hiring-developers-for-a-digital-currency-project Open / Comment

2021-02-11 08:38:23 "This year Mastercard will start supporting select cryptocurrencies directly on our network."

https://www.mastercard.com/news/perspectives/2021/why-mastercard-is-bringing-crypto-onto-our-network/ Open / Comment

2021-02-11 07:59:53 1 billion USDT minted on Tron.

Paolo Ardoino (CTO Bitfinex and CTO Tether) tweeted that "this is a authorized but not issued transaction, meaning that this amount will be used as inventory for next period issuance requests and chain swaps."

https://twitter.com/whale_alert/status/1359587927291011080
https://twitter.com/paoloardoino/status/1359527667180134401 Open / Comment

2021-02-10 21:01:50 Pangolin, a community-driven decentralized exchange (DEX) running on Avalanche that supports all Avalanche and Ethereum tokens, has been launched.
https://twitter.com/avalancheavax/status/1359201504016691201

Prior to that, the Avalanche-Ethereum Bridge was launched.
https://twitter.com/avalancheavax/status/1358824632464334850

AVAX increased by 86% in 24 hours.
The market cap now exceeds $4 billion. Open / Comment

2021-02-10 20:44:56 Celo, a decentralized payments protocol, has closed a $20 million fundraise from investors including Andreesen Horowitz (a16z), Greenfield One, and Electric Capital.

The latest investment brings Celo’s total fundraising to $65 million, with past backers including Jack Dorsey and Coinbase Ventures.

February 10 also marks the official launch of Valora, the first peer-to-peer payments and mobile remittance app built on the Celo platform.

After the news, CELO increased by more than 50%.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/94288/celo-defi-payments-platform-20-million-raise-a16z Open / Comment