Following last month’s listing of Shiba Inu (SHIB) on its platform, Coinbase has now overtaken TikTok to become the number 1 app on Apple’s AppStore. In essence, this makes buying cryptocurrency a more popular activity than using social media… or pretty much anything else in the world. How it started How it's going pic.twitter.com/7xCGmnHljI — Fred Ehrsam (@FEhrsam) October 28,…
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A new startup boasting backing by major digital exchange Coinbase hopes to distribute cryptocurrency to people around the world in a very unconventional way – by scanning their eyeballs. Worldcoin (not to be confused with existing crypto project worldcoin.global) has developed a spherical device that can uniquely identify a person by scanning their iris. The device can then send cryptocurrency…
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Coinbase users in the U.S. can now buy Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies easier than ever via a PayPal integration. In an announcement posted on its official blog earlier today, Coinbase details how its U.S users can top up their crypto holdings directly from their PayPal accounts. The added feature means users will no longer need to enter their bank or…
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One of the world’s most popular and leading cryptocurrency exchanges, Coinbase, recently announced it will be listing a $100 billion IPO on the NASDAQ stock exchange this week. The news has reignited Bitcoin’s relatively stagnant price which has been hovering around the $59,000 level for the past month. Today it cracked a new all-time high (ATH), breaking through the previous…
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MATIC, the token of recently renamed Polygon Technology, has hit a new all-time high today following the announcement that it will be listed on major crypto exchange Coinbase. After starting the day on 0.23c, MATIC rapidly made gains over the past 24 hours, tapping out at a new all-time high near $0.34. That represents 30 percent in gains just today,…
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The US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin recently announced the proposal of new rules to regulate the use of non-custodial cryptocurrency wallets. The new rules would require that anybody sending more than $3,000 in crypto must provide their identity and the identity of the recipient. Additionally, wallet providers must report any transaction exceeding $10,000 to the necessary regulators. Such rules already…
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From today you can transfer Kyber Network (KNC) tokens into your Coinbase Pro account before trading goes live at 9 AM PST tomorrow. Initial trading pairs will be against the US dollar (KNC/USD) and Bitcoin (KNC/BTC). According to Coinbase, the launch of KNC on its platform will occur in 4 stages: Transfer-only (starting today), post-only (limit orders, no matches), limit-only,…
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Coinbase Custody, the custodial arm of crypto exchange and wallet provider Coinbase, has become the worlds largest crypto custodian following the acquisition of crypto wallet and storage competitor Xapo’s custody services. Following the completion of the deal, Coinbase Custody now manages upwards of $7 billion in digital assets, the largest volume of any cryptocurrency custody provider. The deal, which…
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Ethereum-powered layer-two scaling solution Matic Network (MATIC) has today announced Coinbase Ventures, the venture capital arm of top-tier cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, as an investor in its seed round. Matic Network – which utilizes sidechains for off-chain computation while ensuring asset security using the Plasma framework and a decentralized network of proof-of-stake validators – announced the Coinbase Ventures investment news via…
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San Francisco-based crypto exchange and wallet provider Coinbase has partnered with card issuer PaySafe for the launch of its own VISA debit card. Dubbed Coinbase Card, the card will be associated with a users Coinbase account via a separate Coinbase card app that is available for both iOS or Android. The cards can be used to withdraw cash at any…
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