The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday reluctantly approved the first exchange-traded funds that hold bitcoin, saying it is still deeply skeptical about cryptocurrencies and that its decision did not mean it approves or endorses bitcoin.
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Duke University professor Dr. Campbell Harvey posed the question of “non-fungible tokens” (NFTs) as concert tickets at a recent Hyperledger meetup in Raleigh. Hear what he had to say about how NFTs could remove ticket-broker middlemen like Ticketmaster.
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Those digital asset trends are “100% based on greater fool theory,” the Microsoft co-founder said earlier this week at a TechCrunch conference, referencing the notion that investors can make money on worthless or overvalued assets as long as people are willing to bid them higher.
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Tim Sweeney took to Twitter to state that a cryptocurrency marketed by a Twitter account @fortnite_token is a ‘scam,’ adds there is no connection to Epic Games.
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A former employee at digital marketplace OpenSea has been hit with the first-ever charges related to an alleged insider trading scheme involving digital assets, authorities announced earlier this week.
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GameStop shares jumped as much as 20% Friday morning after the Wall Street Journal reported the company is creating a nonfungible token, or NFT, marketplace.
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In October, an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that pegged bitcoin futures launched, making it the first cryptocurrency ETF. Expect more of these — and even more esoteric ETFs — in 2022.
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Transmira, Inc disclosed this week that the Raleigh-based company is raising a $2.6 million seed funding round, noting the company already has investors committed to the round.
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The auction house has partnered with The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to sell NFTs created from digital artworks Andy Warhol created in the 1980s.
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