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Hedge Fund Giant Steven Cohen Dives into Crypto with $21M Funding Round in Messari

Byte, DeFi News / By / September 15, 2021 / , , , ,

In the latest sign that Wall Street big shots love crypto, Point72 Ventures, the early-stage investment firm founded by hedge fund billionaire Steven Cohen, has led a $21M funding round in Messari, the crypto market intelligence provider. It is Point72’s first foray into crypto.  Founded in 2018, Messari compiles and analyzes metrics on the ups …

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Crypto Tax Debate On Capitol Hill Signals Big Changes for DeFi

Byte, DeFi News / By / September 15, 2021 / , , , , , ,

Taxing cryptocurrencies just picked up serious momentum, with potentially serious ramifications for DeFi.  The U.S. Senate’s $1 trillion infrastructure package now under consideration includes a provision that would tax transactions involving Bitcoin and its ilk to raise around $28 billion in funding. That means swapping Ethereum and other DeFi tokens may have to be recorded …

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Freaked Out by DeFi? Swarm Markets Gets Licensed to Win Over Wary Investors

DeFi News, Dive / By / September 15, 2021 / , , , , , ,

When Philipp Pieper and Timo Lehes co-founded Swarm Markets in 2017 in California and then moved to Berlin, they did a strange thing. They knocked on the door of Germany’s financial watchdog, known as BaFin, and said, please regulate us. That’s not supposed to happen in DeFi. The whole idea is to break free from …

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Grayscale’s Most Exotic Crypto Bet is Soaring Yet Not Many are Biting

DeFi News, Op-ed / By / September 15, 2021 / , ,

What a wild moment.  When Grayscale Investments launched its Decentraland trust back in February it was hard to believe that a Wall Street firm with $40B in assets was firing up a vehicle to invest in one of the most exotic experiments in crypto. Created on the Ethereum blockchain six years ago, Decentraland is a …

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