Wallet


Finance

Robinhood Begins Testing Crypto Wallet

Robinhood selected 1,000 customers from a waitlist to test the beta version of the wallet.

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Finance

Strike App Won’t Support Bitcoin in Argentina

The company trumpeted its expansion into Argentina earlier this week, but the Lightning Network-powered app is only supporting Tether’s stablecoin in the country.

Buenos Aires, Argentina (Sasha Zvereva/Unsplash)

Finance

Torus Rebrands to Web3Auth, Raises $13M to Simplify Crypto Logins

The company will use the funding to support its Web 3 plans for providing non-custodial authentication infrastructure for cryptocurrency wallets.

The Torus team (Credit: Torus Labs)

Finance

Coinbase to Integrate Ledger’s Hardware Wallets

The move will give the exchange’s users another way to hold their crypto.

Ledger Nano S hard wallet. (Motokoka/Wikimedia Commons)

Finance

Coinbase Acquires Crypto Wallet Firm BRD for Undisclosed Amount

The price of BRD’s utility token rocketed about 500% following the announcement of the deal.

LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 09: In this photo illustration, a flipped version of the Coinbase logo is reflected in a mobile phone screen on November 09, 2021 in London, England. The cryptocurrency exchange platform is to release its quarterly earnings today. (Photo illustration by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Videos

Cross-Chain Wallet XDEFI Raises $6M to Take on MetaMask, Phantom

Following a $6 million funding round from leading blockchain VC firms and DeFi power users, XDEFI, a wallet that will allow users to interact with nine different blockchains, is looking to challenge incumbent MetaMask’s reign and newer upstarts like Phantom.

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Tech

Liquality Adds New 1-Click Pay Feature, Looks Toward Bitcoin DeFi

The wallet's new feature comes soon after it integrated RSK in an effort to bring more decentralized finance options to bitcoin users.

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Policy

Proposed Crypto Wallet Rule Not Among Those Frozen by Biden Pending Review

Crypto advocates mistakenly hailed the new administration for putting the controversial proposed rule on ice.

The proposed crypto wallet rule is among those frozen by the new Biden administration.

Policy

FinCEN Extends Comment Period for Controversial Crypto Wallet Rule

Critics of the rule said it would be technically impossible for some projects to comply because smart contracts and author-decentralized tools do not have name or address information to provide.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin

Markets

Digital Bank Revolut Taps Fireblocks to Support New Crypto-Based Services

Announced Thursday, Revolut will use Fireblocks’ platform to offer new cryptocurrency services for its retail customers

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