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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Janet Yellen Has Been Lobbying Against Wyden-Lummis-Toomey Crypto Amendment: Report

Senators had hoped to pass the bipartisan bill on Thursday night, but issues remained unresolved around the cryptocurrency regulations.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen

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Hedge Fund Billionaire Steven Cohen's Point72 Leads $21M Funding Round in Messari

Messari will use the funding to triple its engineering and research headcount and beef up its analyst hub.

Point72 Asset Management's CEO Steven A. Cohen.

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FTX Strikes Deal With Yield Guild Games to Sponsor Axie Infinity Players

The deal gives FTX lifetime naming rights to sponsor 137 players from developing countries.

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

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Telecoms Giant Swisscom Launches Chainlink Node for DeFi Data

Swisscom joins Deutsche Telekom in providing data to the oracle service.

switzerland-swiss-flag-bitcoin

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British Fashion Brand Burberry Releases First NFTs

The label said that the digital B Series collection will feature limited-edition product drops.

Sharky B, one of Burberry's new NFTs.

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MakersPlace Raises $30M in Funding Round Led by Pantera Capital and Bessemer Venture

Other investors included rap artist Eminem, Coinbase Ventures and Sony Music Entertainment.

Beeple's "Everydays"

Finance

Chinese Miner The9, KazDigital to Build Crypto Mining Plant in Kazakhstan

The two firms will launch a new mining site in Kazakhstan that will be used to deploy The9's mining machines and potentially other third parties' machines.

mining farm

Markets

Crypto.com Hires Former Spotify Exec as Head of Growth

Henrik Johansson has set himself a target of taking the firm to 100 million-plus users in two years.

Spotify app.

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FinCEN Names New Acting Director to Replace Michael Mosier

National security expert Himamauli “Him” Das will become acting director of FinCEN while a search for a permanent director gets underway.

Michael Mosier will leave FinCEN for a new opportunity.

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Biggest DAOs Now Hold $6B Worth of Digital Assets: ConsenSys

More than $6 billion worth of digital assets are held in the 20 biggest DAOs, according to a report from ConsenSys.

ConsenSys CEO Joseph Lubin (CoinDesk archives)