Tanzeel Akhtar

Tanzeel Akhtar has contributed to The Wall Street Journal, BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, Forbes Africa, Financial Times, The Street, Citywire, Investing.com, Euromoney, Yahoo! Finance, Benzinga, Kitco News, African Business Magazine, Hedge Week, Campden Family Office, Modern Investor, Spear's Wealth Management Magazine, Global Investor, ETF.com, ETF Stream, CIO UK, Funds Global Asia, Portfolio Institutional, Interactive Investor, Bitcoin Magazine, CryptoNews.com, Bitcoin.com, The Local, The Next Web, Mining Journal, Money Marketing, Marketing Week and more. Tanzeel trained as a foreign correspondent at the University of Helsinki, Finland and newspaper journalist at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. She holds a BA (Honours) in English Literature from the Manchester Metropolitan University, UK and completed a semester abroad as an ERASMUS student at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She is NCTJ Qualified - Media Law, Public Administration and passed the Shorthand 100WPM with distinction. She does not currently hold value in any digital currencies or projects.

Tanzeel Akhtar

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Finance

Yield Guild Games Taps HaloDAO to Help Gamers Put Earnings in DeFi

The agreement with HaloDAO will give gamers a chance to ape into yield farming and other aspects of decentralized finance.

Axies from the play-to-earn game Axie Infinity.

Finance

Turkish Central Bank to Research Benefits of a Central Bank Digital Currency

The bank has not made a final decision regarding the issuance of a digital Turkish lira but expects results from the pilot study to be announced in 2022.

Turkey Flag 3D Rendering on Blue Sky Building Background

Finance

A16z-Backed TrustToken Acquires EthWorks

Following the purchase, TrustToken plans to expand EthWorks’ open-source projects, including Waffle and useDApp.

(Joshua Hoehne/Unsplash)

Finance

FTX to List Chiliz Tokens for Sports Fans

The crypto exchange will begin by offering the fan tokens for Italy’s Inter Milan and Turkey’s Galatasary Sports Club.

Josep Pont (left) and Alexandre Dreyfus (right) at the signing of the official agreement in Barcelona. Courtesy of the companies

Finance

Blockchain Analytics Startup Amberdata Raises $15M in Funding Round Led by Citigroup

The firm will use the funds to double its research and development headcount and expand internationally.

Tongtong Gong, Amberdata's chief operating officer (Richter Frank-Jurgen via Flickr)

Finance

Interactive Brokers Launches Crypto Trading Through Paxos

Clients will be able to trade and hold bitcoin, ether, litecoin and bitcoin cash through Paxos.

Paxos

Finance

SEC Settles With Media Companies for $539M Over Alleged Illegal Digital-Asset, Stock Offerings

The SEC estimated thousands of investors purchased GTV stock and digital assets dubbed G-Coins or G-Dollars.

SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission

Finance

MicroStrategy Buys 5,050 More Bitcoins

The business-intelligence software company said it owned 114,042 bitcoins as of Sept 12.

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Policy

Ukraine Parliament Passes Measure to Regulate Cryptocurrencies

The bill needs to be signed by the country’s president to take effect.

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Finance

Cere Network Raises $31M in Funding Round Led by Republic, Polygon

Funding will be used for new hires, developer network growth and app development.

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