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Paychecks can Now be Invested in Bitcoin by Cash App Customers
Michael Willson

Paychecks can Now be Invested in Bitcoin by Cash App Customers

In the event of the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami on Thursday (07-04-2022), Cash App introduced additional functionality for US subscribers. The revelation is very much about allowing the subscribers to invest a proportion of their direct deposit revenues in Bitcoin automatically (BTC). The…

Robinhood Offers Wallet Access to 2M Waitlisted Investors
Michael Willson

Robinhood Offers Wallet Access to 2M Waitlisted Investors

As crypto continues to widen its base across the globe, cryptocurrency firms are doing everything possible to attract new investors, opportunities, and growth within the industry. Joining this list is the popular crypto and stock trading platform Robinhood which is gearing up to launch its digital…

Terra Purchases $200M Worth AVAX; NEAR Protocol Set to Launch Stablecoin
Michael Willson

Terra Purchases $200M Worth AVAX; NEAR Protocol Set to Launch Stablecoin

Thriving as the workforce behind the Terra blockchain ecosystem, the Luna Foundation Guard (LFG) and Terraform Labs (TFL) have jointly acquired $200M worth of AVAX tokens from the Avalanche Foundation. The LFG purchased $100 million worth of Avalanche’s native currency AVAX via its UST stablecoin…

Shopify Teams up with Strike to Offer BTC Payment Services for Merchants
Michael Willson

Shopify Teams up with Strike to Offer BTC Payment Services for Merchants

Popular payment facilitator hailing from Chicago, Strike has locked a strategic pact with globally-acclaimed e-commerce firm Shopify. With this collaboration, Shopify is looking forward to expanding its operational capacities using Bitcoin as a potential payment asset for its users. The partnership…

ESPN and Autograph have Signed the Dotted Line for a Multi-year Deal
Michael Willson

ESPN and Autograph have Signed the Dotted Line for a Multi-year Deal

Thriving as one of the world’s most popular and largest sports firms, ESPN has set its first sail into the pool of Non-Fungible Tokens with its latest expedition. To venture across the fast-growing industry of digital collectibles, ESPN has inked a multi-year deal with Autograph, a popular NFT…

Meta To Launch Digital Token and offer Lending Services On FB, Instagram Report
Michael Willson

Meta To Launch Digital Token and offer Lending Services On FB, Instagram: Report

Taking the global industrial domain in a storm, Facebook’s parent firm Meta is all set to take a long jump in the world of virtual assets and digital currency projects. In its latest expedition, Zuckerberg helmed Meta is planning to launch a highly-anticipated virtual token for its global…

Grayscale DeFi Fund Removes Synthetix and SushiSwap in Quarterly Rebalancing
Michael Willson

Grayscale DeFi Fund Removes Synthetix and SushiSwap in Quarterly Rebalancing

Sensing the dynamics of the digital economy, renowned virtual asset management firm Grayscale Investments has made some significant changes in its crypto funds portfolio. In its first quarterly rebalance of 2022, Grayscale has included three new decentralized assets in three distinct investment…

Starbucks' CEO confirms Entering the Metaverse in 2022
Michael Willson

Starbucks’ CEO confirms Entering the Metaverse in 2022

With Metaverse and NFTs emerging as the next ‘big thing’ of the financial space, multinational firms are taking all the hard pills to gain an edge in this mad race for digital exposure. Joining the list of Metaverse fans is a renowned billionaire businessman and CEO of Starbucks, Howard Schultz who…

Kakao Piccoma Acquires 50% Stake in Japan’s Sakura Exchange Bitcoin Cluster
Michael Willson

Kakao Piccoma Acquires 50% Stake in Japan’s Sakura Exchange Bitcoin Cluster

Thriving as a highly-acclaimed digital comics portal, Kakao Piccoma has purchased a 50% stake in Japan’s Sakura Exchange Bitcoin as part of its latest growth plan. Owned by South Korea’s telecom giant, Kakao Corporation, Kakao Piccoma will use this collaboration as a resource to create a seamless…

UK Shares a Plan to Diversify Its Involvement in Crypto Industry
Michael Willson

UK Shares a Plan to Diversify Its Involvement in Crypto Industry

With crypto gaining mainstream popularity within the multi-billion-dollar worth crypto industry, government authorities are keenly supporting this expansion through well-planned initiatives. The recent country to join this bandwagon is the United Kingdom where the government is looking forward to…