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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Finance

Bank of America Approves Bitcoin Futures Trading for Some Clients: Sources

Clients are in the process of being set up, with some already live, according to one of two sources.

Bank of America is the second-largest bank in the U.S.

Markets

Axelar Raises $25M in Series A Fundraising Led by Polychain Capital

The funds will be used to support the network’s integrations and provide more engineering resources for the team.

Polychain Capital founder Olaf Carlson-Wee

Finance

A16z Leads $9M Funding Round for Solana's Phantom Wallet to Go Multi-Chain

The funding will be used to expand the Phantom team, develop new features and expand to other blockchains, said the firm.

Phantom co-founders (left to right) Chris Kalani, Francesco Agosti and Brandon Millman.

Markets

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Seeing ‘Very Little’ Demand for Crypto Lately

Fink said he has been asked about crypto and bitcoin in the past, but not in the last two weeks.

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Markets

France Wants EU to Give ‘Greater Powers’ to ESMA in Overseeing Crypto: Report

France proposed the change as part of a package of reforms to strengthen financial regulation across Europe.

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Markets

Draper Goren Holm Taps Ex-Disney Leader to Manage Events

Matthew Boseo will be responsible for global event production at the Los Angeles-based blockchain venture fund.

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Markets

Mawson Infrastructure Increases Ownership of Luna Squares to 90%

Luna Squares’ site will be used for third-party hosting and Mawson’s proprietary bitcoin mining operations.

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Markets

Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund Becomes SEC Registered Company

The fund joins the company's Bitcoin Trust and Ethereum Trust as reporting products.

Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein

Finance

Orioles Slugger and Cancer Survivor Trey Mancini to Release NFTs During MLB's Home Run Derby

The NFTs were designed in collaboration with TikTok influencer BitBoy Crypto. Proceeds will go to Mancini’s cancer foundation.

Trey Mancini of the Baltimore Orioles

Markets

Sotheby’s Sells Rare Diamond for $12.3M in Crypto

The auction house said "a milestone was reached in the adoption of cryptocurrencies."

101.38 carat D Colour Flawless Diamond (4)