Telegram this week raised $210 million in a bond offering from investors including founder and CEO Pavel Durov. Among them, Pavel Durov bought about a quarter of the bonds, investing tens of millions of dollars in Telegram's growth. Pavel Durov said he spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the app over the past 10 years to keep it running.

Telegram this week raised $210 million in a bond offering from investors including founder and CEO Pavel Durov. Among them, Pavel Durov bought about a quarter of the bonds, investing tens of millions of dollars in Telegram's growth. Pavel Durov said he spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the app over the past 10 years to keep it running.

Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken more than doubled its share of U.S. spot trading volume to an 18-month high. The growth coincides with increased interest in the Kraken Pro app, which allows users to spot trade, margin trade, and stake. From January to June 2023, the number of users of the platform increased fivefold. Additionally, Kraken’s market share of euro-supporting trading platforms has risen from 35 percent to just over 50 percent in the past 12 months, according to Kraken product direc...

Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken more than doubled its share of U.S. spot trading volume to an 18-month high. The growth coincides with increased interest in the Kraken Pro app, which allows users to spot trade, margin trade, and stake. From January to June 2023, the number of users of the platform increased fivefold. Additionally, Kraken’s market share of euro-supporting trading platforms has risen from 35 percent to just over 50 percent in the past 12 months, according to Kraken product direc...

Barclays said in a research note on Monday that the U.S. Southern District Court's ruling in part in favor of Ripple has a "progressively positive" effect on Coinbase. “Given that tokens may not be securities in some circumstances, we see this ruling as a progressively positive factor for Coinbase and may also provide more clarity for future token offerings,” the bank’s analysts wrote. Spend". They maintained their rating on Coinbase at underweight with a price target of $70. According t...

Barclays said in a research note on Monday that the U.S. Southern District Court's ruling in part in favor of Ripple has a "progressively positive" effect on Coinbase. “Given that tokens may not be securities in some circumstances, we see this ruling as a progressively positive factor for Coinbase and may also provide more clarity for future token offerings,” the bank’s analysts wrote. Spend". They maintained their rating on Coinbase at underweight with a price target of $70. According t...

Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) has officially launched on Avalanche, Ethereum, Optimism and Polygon mainnets. CCIP is currently in the "mainnet early access" phase and has been adopted by Synthetix and Aave. On July 20th, CCIP will be open to all developers on five testnets including Arbitrum Goerli, Avalanche Fuji, Ethereum Sepolia, Optimism Goerli, and Polygon Mumbai.

Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) has officially launched on Avalanche, Ethereum, Optimism and Polygon mainnets. CCIP is currently in the "mainnet early access" phase and has been adopted by Synthetix and Aave. On July 20th, CCIP will be open to all developers on five testnets including Arbitrum Goerli, Avalanche Fuji, Ethereum Sepolia, Optimism Goerli, and Polygon Mumbai.

International standard-setters on Monday called for stricter rules to protect the assets of cryptocurrency customers and avoid conflicts of interest, following multiple allegations of bad conduct during the cryptocurrency's recent tumultuous year. The Financial Stability Board (FSB), comprising regulators from more than two dozen jurisdictions including the US, EU, China and the UK, has issued recommendations to ensure "coherent and comprehensive" regulation of the industry. The recommen...

International standard-setters on Monday called for stricter rules to protect the assets of cryptocurrency customers and avoid conflicts of interest, following multiple allegations of bad conduct during the cryptocurrency's recent tumultuous year. The Financial Stability Board (FSB), comprising regulators from more than two dozen jurisdictions including the US, EU, China and the UK, has issued recommendations to ensure "coherent and comprehensive" regulation of the industry. The recommen...

In response to the joint action "Thunder 2023" in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao to combat organized crime, the Hong Kong police successfully dismantled a cross-border money laundering group on the 13th of this month. It was suspected of laundering more than 100 million yuan in fraud. A mastermind and two key members. One of the key members is a college student who is mainly responsible for purchasing virtual currency. The police received tip-offs at the end of April this year, alleging that ...

In response to the joint action "Thunder 2023" in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao to combat organized crime, the Hong Kong police successfully dismantled a cross-border money laundering group on the 13th of this month. It was suspected of laundering more than 100 million yuan in fraud. A mastermind and two key members. One of the key members is a college student who is mainly responsible for purchasing virtual currency. The police received tip-offs at the end of April this year, alleging that ...

Twitter will soon share ad revenue based on profile page views, which should double total ad revenue. Only views from authenticated users are counted. According to previous news, Twitter officially announced the launch of the Creator Advertising Revenue Sharing Program, and creators can get advertising revenue sharing from replies to posts.

Twitter will soon share ad revenue based on profile page views, which should double total ad revenue. Only views from authenticated users are counted. According to previous news, Twitter officially announced the launch of the Creator Advertising Revenue Sharing Program, and creators can get advertising revenue sharing from replies to posts.

Venture capital firm Polychain Capital, which raised about $200 million in the "first close" of its fourth fund, still plans to raise about $400 million in total for the fourth fund. The new funding has brought about a reorganization of Polychain's small team of about 25 people, about 15 of whom are focused on research. As the company gears up for its fourth round of funding, three people on the research team were laid off while another was added, according to people familiar with the ma...

Venture capital firm Polychain Capital, which raised about $200 million in the "first close" of its fourth fund, still plans to raise about $400 million in total for the fourth fund. The new funding has brought about a reorganization of Polychain's small team of about 25 people, about 15 of whom are focused on research. As the company gears up for its fourth round of funding, three people on the research team were laid off while another was added, according to people familiar with the ma...

Fantom founder Andre Cronje said in response to user questions on the forum that the failure of Multichain was a "major blow." Previously, the Multichain team had made many guarantees about server decentralization, access, and geographical distribution. All options are currently being explored and working with relevant organizations to restore the asset, possibly even using Foundation funds. No confirmation can be made until more data is available. But we won't let it go and will do what...

Fantom founder Andre Cronje said in response to user questions on the forum that the failure of Multichain was a "major blow." Previously, the Multichain team had made many guarantees about server decentralization, access, and geographical distribution. All options are currently being explored and working with relevant organizations to restore the asset, possibly even using Foundation funds. No confirmation can be made until more data is available. But we won't let it go and will do what...

Ethscriptions creator Tom Lehman said that Ethscriptions.com was hacked, and about 123 individual addresses lost a total of about 202 Ethscriptions. In terms of value, it is unclear how much the attack caused. But in the past month, some Ethscriptions have sold for as much as 5 ETH, or about $9,600, according to OpenSea. Lehman claimed responsibility for the attack, explaining that the vulnerability can be traced back to a smart contract created by him and Indelible Labs co-founder Michael Hi...

Ethscriptions creator Tom Lehman said that Ethscriptions.com was hacked, and about 123 individual addresses lost a total of about 202 Ethscriptions. In terms of value, it is unclear how much the attack caused. But in the past month, some Ethscriptions have sold for as much as 5 ETH, or about $9,600, according to OpenSea. Lehman claimed responsibility for the attack, explaining that the vulnerability can be traced back to a smart contract created by him and Indelible Labs co-founder Michael Hi...

The eligibility criteria for LIBERTAS OMNIBUS NFT airdrop objects is that addresses interact with at least one of the top 100+ zkSync NFT collections. All 179,365 recipients were then programmatically generated based strictly on the above eligibility criteria. The list is then sorted alphabetically in preparation for bulk distribution. Due to sorting reasons, the first batch of address scores all start with 0x0. The 179,365 list pairs were random due to automatic selection. However, zkSync ad...

The eligibility criteria for LIBERTAS OMNIBUS NFT airdrop objects is that addresses interact with at least one of the top 100+ zkSync NFT collections. All 179,365 recipients were then programmatically generated based strictly on the above eligibility criteria. The list is then sorted alphabetically in preparation for bulk distribution. Due to sorting reasons, the first batch of address scores all start with 0x0. The 179,365 list pairs were random due to automatic selection. However, zkSync ad...

Spacemesh, an open-source programmable cryptocurrency platform, tweeted that the mainnet is up and running, and users need to uninstall the previous version of smapp and use the latest version v1.0.3. Spacemesh is an open source programmable cryptocurrency platform whose algorithm is optimized for home PCs without the need for mining machines. After the mainnet goes live, any user with a standard consumer-grade PC can mine and earn Smesh coins.

Spacemesh, an open-source programmable cryptocurrency platform, tweeted that the mainnet is up and running, and users need to uninstall the previous version of smapp and use the latest version v1.0.3. Spacemesh is an open source programmable cryptocurrency platform whose algorithm is optimized for home PCs without the need for mining machines. After the mainnet goes live, any user with a standard consumer-grade PC can mine and earn Smesh coins.