A division of Chicago’s First Midwest Bank increased its Bitcoin exposure last month, a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission showed.  BTC institutional watch: In an SEC filing today, First Midwest Bank Trust Division, based in Joliet, Illinois, reported holding 29,498 shares of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust as of June 30. Previously, it reported […]

Remember the Million dollar website? Imagined and brought to live back in 2005 by Alex Tew, the concept was a simple yet powerful one. To raise money for his university education, Alex decided to create a website with a million pixels and to sell the ownership of said pixels as advertising space to individual buyers […]

Coinspeaker First Token to Launch from World’s First BaFin-regulated DeFi Exchange Berlin-based Swarm Markets today announces it will launch its first token, SMT, to power liquidity on the world’s first BaFin-regulated DeFi exchange. The SMT payment token offers rewards to people staking liquidity and 50% discounts on protocol swap fees for those trading on the […]

Coinspeaker DeFi and CeFi Full Aggregator OpenOcean Aggregates Polygon to Expand Its Trading Universe OpenOcean, a pioneering DeFi & CeFi full aggregator that supports interoperability across multiple networks, is delighted to announce the aggregation of Polygon to expand its trading universe and offer users the best prices with low slippage. The decision to aggregate Polygon […]

Coinspeaker Survey Findings Suggests El Salvador Citizens Skeptical of Bitcoin as Form of Legal Currency According to the new survey conducted by the authorities to know the views of its citizens regarding Bitcoin, half of El Salvador citizens have expressed their growing concerns over Bitcoin being made a legal tender in the country and have […]

Coinspeaker Payment Startup Stripe Set to Go Public via Direct Listing Irish-American payment startup and software as a service company Stripe is making plans to make a grand stock market debut according to a Reuters report. Citing two sources familiar with the matter, Reuters said Stripe has employed the services of a Law firm, Cleary […]

Coinspeaker Indonesian E-commerce Unicorn Bukalapak Launches $1.5B IPO Bukalapak, a leading Indonesian e-commerce company, has kicked off one of the country’s largest initial public offering (IPO) that could see the company raise over $1.5 billion from the public. The tech unicorn has experienced a surge in demand over the past few months. Consequently, it has […]

Coinspeaker Virgin Galactic (SPCE) Shares Up 17% Following News of Its CEO Voyaging into Space The investors seem to have expressed their excitement following the news of CEO Richard Branson‘s journeying into space which had made Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc (NYSE: SPCE) shares skyrocket by 17.30% to $52.69. Now in the pre-market, the stock is […]

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), an independent organization responsible for overseeing regulatory compliance in the advertising industry in the U.K., issued a statement today announcing its strategic crackdown on crypto ads. The ASA says that it plans to launch a major initiative to shut down misleading advertorial materials pertaining to crypto and the blockchain space. […]

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), an independent organization responsible for overseeing regulatory compliance in the advertising industry in the U.K., issued a statement today announcing its strategic crackdown on crypto ads. The ASA says that it plans to launch a major initiative to shut down misleading advertorial materials pertaining to crypto and the blockchain space. […]