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Markets

Crypto Exchange FTX Secures Naming Rights for Miami Heat Arena for $135M

This is the first occurrence of a crypto business winning the naming rights to a major U.S. professional sports venue.

American Airlines Arena, home of the Miami Heat NBA team.

Finance

$80M Deal Gone Wrong: Alameda Research, Reef Finance Spar Over Unloaded Tokens

A scuttled deal between Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research and DeFi upstart Reef Finance offers an inside look at the wild world of OTC trading.

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Markets

FTX in Talks to Sponsor Miami Heat's NBA Arena: Report

The talks are another sign that crypto is breaking into the mainstream in 2021.

FTX is reportedly in talks to rename American Airlines Arena, home of the NBA's Miami Heat.

Markets

Crypto Derivatives Platform FTX Now Supports Deposits via PayPal

The new payment option allows users to deposit many currencies "instantly," the exchange's CEO said.

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Videos

We’d Be Crazy Not to Look Into That: FTX’s CEO on Whether to Take FTX Public

Sam Bankman-Fried of Alameda Research and FTX, reacting to Coinbase’s progress toward becoming a public company, discusses his interest in possibly following suit. The 28-year-old CEO also explained Alameda’s $40M round in Oxygen, which will add a financial layer to a popular maps app.

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Markets

Bitcoin Trades in Record $11K Daily Range After Dropping From $58K

Bitcoin's average daily range to date in 2021 is $3,765.

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Finance

Coinbase, Readying for Public Listing, Gets $77B Valuation From Nasdaq Private Market

Last week’s settlement price of $303 per share would make Coinbase bigger than NYSE-owner ICE.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong

Markets

Centralized Exchange Tokens Hit New All-Time Highs, Again

Exchange tokens reached all-time highs, again.

Binance CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao.

Finance

Blockfolio Apologizes After Racist Terms Posted in Portfolio App

A "Signals" account has been blocked after making racist posts available to all users of the app.

Images of the Blockfolio app from early 2021.

Markets

Interoperability Project Ren 'Joining' Alameda Research

Sam Bankman-Fried's Alameda Research has established ties with RenVM to bring more DeFi assets to the Solana blockchain.

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