Paddy Baker

Paddy Baker is a London-based cryptocurrency reporter. He was previously senior journalist at Crypto Briefing.

Paddy holds positions in BTC and ETH, as well as smaller amounts of LTC, ZIL, NEO, BNB and BSV.

Paddy Baker

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Merkado

Binance Launches $50M 'Blockchain for India' Fund

Binance and WazirX plan to donate up to $50 million to Indian blockchain startups after the Supreme Court lifted a central bank ban on financial services for these firms.

Mumbai, India (Credit: Shutterstock)

Merkado

Bitcoin Sinks Below $5K Despite Fed Reserve's Slashing of Interest Rates

The Fed's cutting of interest rates to zero has done little to calm the markets.

Federal Reserve building

Merkado

Investors Can Hedge Long-Term Risk With New 2-Year Bitcoin Derivatives

Quedex's new bitcoin derivatives contracts, which expire in December 2021, saw more than $5 million in volume last weekend.

Rock of Gibraltar

Patakaran

Chase Bank Settles Suit Over 'Sky-High' Credit Card Charges for Crypto Purchases

The bank had allegedly charged the plaintiff over $160 in fees and interest for regularly purchasing cryptocurrencies with his credit card.

Credit: Daryl L / Shutterstock

Pananalapi

IOTA Founder Personally Refunding Hack Losses to 'Safeguard' Project's Remaining Reserves

Using his personal holdings will help protect the IOTA Foundation's 12-month runway, according to David Sonstebo.

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Merkado

US Court Fines ICOBox $16M for Securities Violation in SEC Case

The SEC won a default judgement against ICO-as-a-service platform ICOBox and CEO Nikolay Evdokimov.

SEC (Image via Mark Van Scyoc / Shutterstock)

Pananalapi

Paradigm Labs Shuts Down, Says It Was 'Too Early' for DeFi Boom

Paradigm said it found it difficult "carve a viable niche" the rapidly evolving DeFi space.

Blackmoon claimed it would be the first exchange to support gram tokens after Telegram launched its blockchain platform. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Merkado

Europe's New AML Rules Made Crypto More Attractive to Institutions, Says Boerse Stuttgart Exec

Europe's fifth anti-money laundering directive seems to have increased institutional interest in crypto, says Ulli Spankowski, Boerse Stuttgart's chief digital officer.

Boerse Stuttgart location in Gustav-Heinemann-Platz.

Pananalapi

Securitize Launches Tokenized Platform to Revitalize Japan's Rural Property Market

The platform has been set up to help reinvigorate smaller towns and villages in rural Japan.

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Merkado

Pitch Deck Says Solana Is Courting Dish Network, Kik for Its 'Web-Scale' Blockchain

Solana is looking to raise up to $12M at a $125M valuation, touting potential relationships with Dish and Kin in a pitch deck seen by CoinDesk.

Dish Network and Kin are both looking to build on top of Solana's protocol, according to a pitch deck reviewed by CoinDesk. (Image via Jonathan Weiss / Shutterstock)