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.

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Markets

Dolce & Gabbana Sets Date for Haute Couture NFT Drop

The fashion house's marketplace partner says the NFTs will bring D&G's work "from the physical to the metaphysical."

Fashion designer Stefano Gabbana, actress Sofia Loren and fashion designer Domenico Dolce attend a Dolce & Gabbana fashion show in 2018.

Markets

FTX.US Aiming to Offer Crypto Derivatives Trading in Less Than a Year: Report

FTX's U.S. affiliate has limited offerings, compared with its international counterpart.

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried

Markets

Australia’s Mawson Infrastructure Purchases 17.3K Bitcoin Miners From Canaan

The ASIC miners will be deployed across Mawson’s flagship facility in Georgia and its Australian site from Q4 2021 through 2022.

Cryptocurrency mining machines

Finance

Lending Startup Upgrade Closes $105M Series E Round

The company recently launched a credit card that pays rewards in bitcoin rather than cash.

Renaud Laplanche, co-founder and chief executive officer of Upgrade.

Markets

Fitch Says Germany's ‘Spezialfonds’ Investing in Crypto Face Liquidity Risk

A law passed earlier this year allows Spezialfonds, open only to institutional investors, to invest up to 20% of assets in cryptocurrencies.

Frankfurt, Germany

Markets

Ghana to Test CBDC With German Banknote Printer Giesecke+Devrient

The digital cedi will be tested with banks, payment service providers, merchants, consumers and other stakeholders.

Ghanaian cedis

Markets

Tron Foundation Launches $300M Fund to Invest in GameFi Projects

The Tron Foundation is launching a $300 million fund, Tron Arcade, that will invest in play-to-earn projects over the next three years.

Tron's Justin Sun speaks at Consensus 2019.

Tech

Cross-Chain Wallet Liquality Raises $7M, Eyes Solana, Terra Functionality

The funding round was led by Galaxy Digital and Hashed.

Liquality staffers pose for a distributed team photo.

Tech

Chainlink Integrates Weather Data From the Google Cloud

Google Cloud and Chainlink have been collaborating since 2019 to allow Chainlink to incorporate Google Cloud data.

Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov

Markets

Sphere 3D Acquires Exclusive Rights to Hertford Advisors’ Crypto Mining Assets

Sphere 3D has already bought 60,000 mining machines and plans to buy 160,000 more.

globe, sphere