Biconomy raises $11.5 million through the sale of CoinList tokens
Biconomy, a multichain transaction network, announced Thursday that it had completed a public token sale of its BICO cryptocurrency, onboarding more than 12,500 new tokenholders in the process. CoinList , a token listing platform, handled the public auction, which raised a total of $11.5 million. The sale attracted over 850,000 people, making it the longest […]
Bistroo, a food marketplace, now accepts cryptocurrency payments
Bistroo, founded in the Netherlands, is one of the first foodtech firms to use cryptocurrency as a payment method. It also developed a native coin and a cryptocurrency enthusiast community. The Bistroo team, a peer-to-peer food delivery ecosystem, has made an official announcement that it will begin taking cryptocurrency as a payment mechanism. Crypto Payments […]
Alchemy raises $250M in a new funding round
Crypto initiatives, as well as the blockchain infrastructure companies that underpin them, have exploded in 2021, the latest example is Palo Alto-based Alchemy, which only went public a year ago and has just announced a $250 million investment round. Nikil Viswanathan and Joe Lau, both Stanford graduates, founded Alchemy after working at Facebook and Pinterest […]
Thailand’s largest shopping mall to experiment with digital currency
Central Retail Corp., a major retailer in Thailand, is experimenting with digital currency among its employees. According to a Bloomberg article, after the sandbox phase is completed, the retail giant aims to expand the service to consumers and the wider public. The “C-Coin ,” a blockchain-based cryptocurrency, is being offered to 80,000 Central Retail Corp […]
El Salvador acquires another 420 BTCs
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele is on a BTC buying spree, moreover, there are no signs of it coming to an end in the near future. According to a tweet from Bukele, the government took advantage of the latest Bitcoin decline by depositing 420 BTCs into its treasury earlier today. “It was a long wait, but worth […]