Daily Crypto News | 09.03.2021
1- Norweigan energy service provider Aker Solutions’ CEO Billionaire Kjell Inge Rokke has established a crypto investment company Seetee.
2- Cryptocurrency derivatives exchange Bybit appoints Daniel Lim to lead Bybit’s legal and compliance team.
3- The New Taipei Prosecutors Office is accusing the Chinese crypto mining machine manufacturer Bitmain of illegally setting up companies in Taiwan poaching more than 100 Taiwanese engineers.
4- According to the Seychelles Financial Services Authority, Huobi is not a registered company with the regulators and does not hold any license.
5- Switzerland’s largest department store chain Manor debuts Bitcoin gift cards.
6- Korean cryptocurrency exchange BitHumb is enhancing its Anti-Money Laundering measures by restricting accounts that are registered in Financial Action Task Force’s “increased monitoring” country list.
7- According to a report by Bloomberg, on a Nasdaq private auction market last week, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has reportedly traded for a price between $350 and $375 per share, scaling up the pre-IPO valuation to between $90B and $100B.
8- Keep Network and NuCypher will be merging their protocols on a new network called “Keanu.”
9- Southeast Asia’s first Bitcoin fund BGBF-I has officially launched.
10- Former DC artist, José Delbo has auctioned 914 NFTs, making $1.85M in four days.
11- Crypto investment company BlockTower Capital launches a $25M fund for DeFi projects.
12- Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will donate the money from his recently sold “first tweet NFT” to a non-profit organization GiveDirectly.
13- Wirex Launches Debit Card in UK and EEA supporting 18 crypto and traditional currencies.
14- Taco Bell sells 5 fastfood-themed NFTs.
15- DeFi platform DODO is hacked for $3.8M worth of tokens.
16- Binance is leading a $2M funding round for OpenOcean.
17- Bitcoin is up 5.0% at $54,463.
18- Chiliz (CHZ) is the highest gainer in the top 100 list with a 46.4% daily profit.
19- UniSwap (UNI) is the highest loser in the top 100 list with a 1.5% daily loss.
20- $BTC = $BTC | 1 Satoshi is 1 Satoshi.
