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Finance

DeFiance Capital's Arthur Cheong Is Raising Money for a New Fund: Sources

The fund will focus on liquid crypto investments and targets raising about $100 million, a person familiar with the matter said.

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Finance

Fintech App Eco to Convert User Balances From US Dollars to USDC

Eco will use digital settlement-service platform Zero Hash to custody the stablecoins.

Andy Bromberg speaks at Token Summit NYC 2018.

Finance

Steve Cohen-Backed Firm Invests $10M in Web3 Game Marketplace AQUA

The hedge fund billionaire has invested in crypto projects since 2018.

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Finance

Crypto Trading Firm Talos to Expand in Europe, US With New Hires

The trading platform has made three key appointments in sales and business development.

Crypto trading platform Talos announced three new hires to senior roles. (Nicholas Cappello/Unsplash)

Tech

New Cosmos White Paper Revamps Cosmos Hub, ATOM Token

The paper cites interchain security and a new issuance model for ATOM as the keys to pulling the first Cosmos blockchain out of its yearslong identity crisis.

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Finance

Troubled Data Center Compute North Struggled With Crypto Winter. Then Its Relationship With a Major Lender Soured

The company was financed by Generate Capital, which seized the data-center operator’s assets.

Compass' Wolf Hollow site in Granbury, Texas (Compute North)

Finance

FTX Ventures, DCG Back $9.6M Funding for Decentralized Database Solution Kwil

The community-owned platform could make it easier for Web2 developers to move into Web3.

Amy Wu, the head of of FTX Ventures (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

Republican Lawmakers File Amicus Brief in Support of Custodia Bank’s Legal Battle With the Federal Reserve

The Wyoming-based bank filed suit against the Federal Reserve in June, arguing that the Fed’s refusal to make a decision is unlawful and discriminatory against crypto institutions.

U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Policy

EU Finalizes Legal Text for Landmark Crypto Regulations Under MiCA

A leaked draft of the text, reviewed by CoinDesk, shows the rules could apply to algorithmic stablecoins and fractionalized NFTs.

The EU flag (Håkan Dahlström/Getty Images)

Policy

US Treasury Wants Public to Comment on Crypto’s Role in Illicit Finance

The Treasury Department listed a number of questions, asking the general public to weigh in on how it’s approaching cryptocurrencies and their possible role in illegal activities.

The U.S. Treasury Department is seeking public comment on the role of cryptocurrencies in illicit finance, and its own response to this issue. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)