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Markets

UCSF Hospital Paid $1.14M in Bitcoin After Ransomware Attack

Ransomware group Netwalker is believed to be behind the attack on UCSF, which temporarily restricted access to the medical school’s data.

Malware

Markets

US Soccer Players Can Be Collected, Traded in Tokenized Fantasy Game

MLS fans will now be able to collect and trade digital cards representing league players and use them to play fantasy soccer games run by the firm Sorare.

Red Bull Arena (Paul Lowry/Wikimedia Commons)

Finance

Swiss Equity Firm Makes First Crypto Investment With SPiCE VC Stake

Swiss private equity firm VIVA Investment Partners AG is leaning into crypto funding through a new stake in blockchain venture capital firm SPiCE VC.

SPiCE VC founder Tal Elyashiv (CoinDesk archives)

Markets

Kadena Launches Blockchain App to Verify COVID-19 Tests

Hybrid blockchain maker Kadena wants to verify COVID-19 testing kits by recording their provenance on its network.

The Kadena team

Markets

Circle, Coinbase Bring USDC Stablecoin to Algorand's Blockchain

The CENTRE consortium is teaming up with the Algorand Foundation to launch the USDC stablecoin on the Algorand network.

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire.

Policy

BitLicense Recipients

A list of all New York Department of Financial Service BitLicense and limited purpose trust charter recipients.

(Raoyang Yang/Shutterstock)

Finance

Swiss Tech Firm Metaco Taps Blockchain Think Tank to Bolster Services

Digital asset infrastructure provider METACO is partnering with the Frankfurt School Blockchain Center to bolster its service offerings using the think tank's research.

Frankfurt, Germany

Finance

Crypto Trading Platform CrossTower Raises $6M in Seed Round

CrossTower has raised $6 million in seed funding, with entrepreneur Gerard Lopez leading the round.

coins

Markets

Thai Central Bank Taps Cement Company for First Digital Currency Payments

The Bank of Thailand is integrating a CBDC payments system into the financials of the country’s oldest cement company in an extension of its Inthanon project.

Thai baht

Markets

Kin Community Approves Move From Stellar Fork to Solana's Blockchain

Devs, node operators and the Kin Foundation board have approved its move from a fork of the Stellar blockchain to Solana's network.

The Kin cryptocurrrency was launched by the social media app Kik back in 2017. (Sharaf Maksumov / Shutterstock)