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Finance

Okcoin, Stacks Launch $165M Pledge to Support Bitcoin-Related Projects

The Bitcoin Odyssey is a year-long pledge taken by VC firms to deploy money into solutions that accelerate the adoption of bitcoin.

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Finance

Muneeb Ali’s Trust Machines Raises $150M

Participating investors include Breyer Capital, Digital Currency Group, GoldenTree, Hivemind and Union Square Ventures.

Blockstack PBC CEO Muneeb Ali

Videos

Could NYC Be the Next Crypto Hub?

New York City mayor Eric Adams' crypto ambitions have sent the city racing against Miami to become the next center of the digital asset industry. Muneeb Ali, co-founder of proof-of-transfer blockchain Stacks that runs parallel to the Bitcoin network, and CEO of Hiro, which has helped developed NYCCoin, shares insights into crypto in NYC and beyond.

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What's Next After MiamiCoin and NYCCoin? The CityCoins Project Prepares for the Future

MiamiCoin and NYCCoin have been in the news quite a bit lately after Mayors Francis Suarez and Eric Adams voiced support for those cryptocurrencies, the first to be launched by the platform CityCoins and its communities. These local tokens represent a brand new way to raise revenue for cities and can scale in numerous ways. "Community Crypto" host Isaiah Jackson sits down with Patrick Stanley, one of the CityCoins Community leads, to discuss where the project stands and how it might evolve.

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Markets

Stacks Network’s STX Token Jumps 50% as Bitcoin Struggles Amid Seesawing Fed Rate-Hike Bets

Some believe Jack Dorsey’s exit at Twitter may be a reason for STX’s surge.

STX tops $3 even as bitcoin stagnates

Videos

Expanding the Use Cases of NFTs, Bitcoin’s Blockchain

Hundreds of developers from around the world are building on Stacks, a network of decentralized apps (dapps) and smart contracts atop Bitcoin. But is it a good idea to expand the use of the Bitcoin network, such as minting NFTs?

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Finance

Alex Raises $5.8M to Bring DeFi to the Bitcoin Ecosystem

Alex aims to be a one-stop DeFi platform for fixed-rate and fixed-term bitcoin lending and borrowing.

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Videos

Coinbase Prime Now Supports Stacking for STX

Coinbase Prime, crypto exchange Coinbase's trading platform serving institutional investors, is now introducing a way to passively earn bitcoin using the stacking feature of STX, the token used by the bitcoin-focused Stacks ecosystem. Brittany Laughlin, executive director of The Stacks Foundation, explains how Stacks works and its connection to bitcoin, the Coinbase partnership, MiamiCoin, and the broader crypto industry.

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Stacks Surges After NFT Push, Samsung Next Invests in Sky Mavis

Stacks surges following push into bitcoin non-fungible token (NFT) market. Samsung Next invests US$152 million in Sky Mavis despite Korean NFT gaming ban. China crypto mining clampdown continues to bite. We’ll have more on those stories and other news shaping the cryptocurrency and blockchain world in this episode of “The Daily Forkast.”

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