News with the tag "Block.one"

Peter Thiel-backed crypto exchange Bullish has obtained licensing approval from the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission for its Hong Kong arm. Bullish Global, the cryptocurrency exchange backed by Peter Thiel, has secured two licenses for its Hong Kong arm, allowing it to offer securities de...

Alan Howard-backed crypto firm Bullish Global is said to be weighing an initial public offering as soon as this year. Bullish Global, a crypto exchange operator, appears to be gearing up for an IPO as the U.S. market warms up to crypto again. Backed by big names like Alan Howard and Peter Thiel, the...

EOS Network has successfully completed its Spring 1.0 upgrade, a hard fork that has introduced 1-second transaction finality to the blockchain network. On Sept. 25, the EOS Network (EOS) announced that the upgrade to Antelope Spring 1.0 is a major…

Bullish by former EOS developer, Block.one, acquires CoinDesk but industry leaders are raising questions around editorial independence

Crypto media firms in 2023 are emerging with new owners. After Foresight Ventures, a Singaporean Web3 venture capital firm acquired a major stake in the publication The Block, a week later, the crypto publication Coindesk was acquired by Bullish, a firm led by former New York Stock Exchange Presiden...

This weekend, bitcoin enthusiasts discussed the latest update to bitcointreasuries.net, which offers a new visual of the various companies, countries and funds with bitcoin on their balance sheets. The site indicates that Microstrategy owns 158,245 BTC, while Block.one, the company behind the develo...

The lead investor in the fund was B1, which committed $50 million, alongside Richard Li’s Pacific Century Group, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss’ firm and Animoca Brands founder Yat Siu.

According to Yves La Rose, the founder and CEO of the EOS Network Foundation (ENF), the blockchain software company Block.one’s failure to financially back the EOS ecosystem after the 2018 initial coin offering (ICO) is one of the many reasons why the community felt compelled to take over. Building ...

Voice has decided to wind down its business just two years after pivoting from a social network to an NFT platform. Voice was initially planned as a decentralized social media network but later “upgraded” into a non-fungible token (NFT) platform…

EOS Network Foundation's founder said the other option is a hard fork to exclude EOS tokens held by B1.