UN Agency Accepts First Crypto Donations To Assist Ukrainian Refugees
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), a UN refugee agency, has accepted its first-ever crypto donations for humanitarian help to Ukrainians fleeing the country’s turmoil. Since the war began, Ukraine has received over $100 million in cryptocurrency donations, which have proven crucial to the country and its people. Binance Charity donated $2.5 million […]
Goldman Sachs To Offer OTC Ethereum Options Trading To Clients
Goldman Sachs has announced that it will offer its clients Ethereum (ETH) over-the-counter (OTC) options trading. Client interest in the token is growing, according to the investment bank, as it prepares to switch to a proof-of-stake (PoS) model. The move comes after the bank completed an OTC options trading for Bitcoin (BTC), a first for […]
Sky Mavis Raises $150M to Refund Users
Sky Mavis, the company behind the popular play-to-earn game Axie Infinity, announced on Wednesday that it has received $150 million in a round sponsored by Binance to compensate users for funds lost in the $625 million Ronin attack. A16z, Dialectic, Paradigm, and Accel were among the investors in the round. Validator nodes on the company’s Ronin […]
Ukraine To Auction NFT Donations
Ukraine is preparing to launch a website where it will auction off roughly 300 non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that have been donated to the country. A CryptoPunk was among the given NFTs, according to Etherescan transactions, and was transferred to the country’s official Ethereum (ETH) address in early March. According to a report, Alex Bornyakov, Ukraine’s […]
Litecoin Partners with Antpool, Announces LTC Lab Formation
Litecoin has announced the formation of LTC Labs in collaboration with Antpool, one of the world’s leading digital currency mining platform, to form a digital currency research Laboratory. The major focus of Litecoin labs will be “research and information of anonymous transactions, decentralized applications, the evolution of digital currency, wallets and other projects focused on growing […]