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Armstrong tweets in public airing of Coinbase’s internal discontent
A disgruntled Coinbase employee, identified only as 0x58E3, created a petition on Mirror.xyz on Thursday calling for the removal of three company executives. The petition, titled Operation Revive COIN, has been taken down, but it was captured by the Internet Archive and other websites. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong responded to it at length on Twitter. Coinbase chief operating officer Emilie Choi, chief product officer Surojit Chatterjee and chief people officer LJ Brock were the targets of the call for removal for “executing plans and ideas that have led to questionable results and negative values.” The author listed eight of their failings in detail. They included the unsuccessful Coinbase NFT platform, rescinding job offers to new employees, mismanagement, creating a toxic workplac...
Mastercard to allow 2.9B cardholders to make direct NFT purchases
International payment processing giant Mastercard is expanding its payment network for nonfungible token (NFT) markets and Web3. The financial service provider announced that it has been working on expanding their payment networks to NFTs over the past year. The firm has partnered with a number of leading NFT marketplaces to allow 2.9 billion cardholders to directly make NFT purchases without buying crypto first. Currently, users need to buy crypto to bid on and buy NFTs. However, with the latest Mastercard partnership, billions of cardholders can now bypass the process of buying a transferring crypto to NFT marketplaces. The firm said: “These integrations are designed to make crypto more accessible and help the NFT ecosystem keep growing, innovating and bringing in more fans.” Mastercard ...
Major crypto firms reportedly cut up to 10% of staff amid bear market
Gemini, a cryptocurrency trading platform founded by brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, is the latest industry firm to lay off a significant part of its staff due to unfavorable market conditions. Winklevoss’ crypto business Gemini Trust reportedly cut 10% of its employees amid the ongoing bear crypto market, the founders wrote in a notice to employees on June 2, as Bloomberg reported. As part of its first major headcount cut, Gemini will refocus on products that are “critical” to the firm’s mission, the brothers said, adding that “turbulent market conditions” are “likely to persist for some time.” The notice reportedly reads: “This is where we are now, in the contraction phase that is settling into a period of stasis — what our industry refers to as “crypto winter. […] Thi...
Coinbase introduces Web3 functionality with hot wallet and dApp browser
Select Coinbase users will access Ethereum dApps and NFTs via the Coinbase app The crypto exchange has also temporarily moved away from plans to triple staff following a $420 million Q1 loss Crypto exchange and trading platform Coinbase has announced the introduction of Web3 functionality. A small number of users will be allowed to access products on the Ethereum ecosystem, including decentralised applications such as SushiSwap and non-fungible tokens on marketplaces such as OpenSea and the newly launched Coinbase NFT. According to the official announcement published on Monday, the introduction of Web3 will allow users to explore a new set of opportunities right from the Coinbase app with the new dApp wallet and browser. The capabilities are managed by multi-party computation (MPC) technol...
Crypto-associated stocks hammered as COIN and HOOD drop to record lows
Bad news continues to dominate crypto media headlines and May 12’s juiciest tidbit was the unexpected collapse of the Terra ecosystem. In addition to the weakness seen in equities, listed companies with exposure to blockchain startups and cryptocurrency mining have also declined sharply. Bitcoin mining stocks continue bleeding… Mining investors probably wish they had simply bought bitcoin instead at the beginning of 2022, as most bitcoin mining stocks have underperformed bitcoin by a wide margin. pic.twitter.com/anSoUEoUJ1 — Jaran Mellerud (@JMellerud) May 11, 2022 While it may be easy to blame the current pullback solely on Terra’s implosion, the truth is that the price of Bitcoin mining stocks has largely mirrored the performance of BTC since reaching a peak in November...
Coinbase CEO cites ‘informal pressure’ for withdrawing UPI payments in India
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the exchange faced informal pressure from the RBI to retract its UPI option in India Armstrong holds an even more bullish stance, notwithstanding Coinbase’s reported $430M net loss in Q1 Last month, Coinbase launched UPI payments for Indian crypto users, but before the product could even take off, it was withdrawn as an option, with the crypto exchange offering users no explanation for the rollback. UPI is a widely-used payments infrastructure built by an internetwork of banks. The decision to withdraw the offering had been preceded by a caution by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), which manages the UPI. The organisation denied being aware of “any crypto exchange” using UPI payments. Informal pressure from the RBI Addressing th...
Indian central bank’s ‘informal pressure’ disrupted payments: Coinbase CEO
Just three days after debuting in the Indian market, United States-based crypto exchange Coinbase abruptly stopped using United Payments Interface (UPI), the most popular payment service in the region. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong later revealed that the service disruption was due to an “informal pressure” from India’s central bank. During Coinbase’s 2022 Quarterly Earnings call, Armstrong spoke about the company’s global expansion plans while acknowledging Coinbase’s role in starting the conversation with regulators related to crypto adoption. When asked about the impact of the recent disruption related to offering payment services in India, Armstrong stated: “So a few days after launching, we ended up disabling UPI because of some informal pressure from the Reserve Bank of Indi...
Crypto Biz: The real reason crypto hodlers should care about the Federal Reserve, April 28–May 4, 2022
Wall Street’s slow embrace of crypto means we all have to start watching the Federal Reserve again. Cointelegraph parsed through the latest Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) policy statement on Wednesday to try and uncover some nuggets of useful information. You can think of it as an exercise in financial esoterics to uncover the hidden meaning behind the Fed’s decision-making. As it turns out, the decision to raise interest rates by 50 basis points was already expected, so the actual FOMC document provided very little new information. But, Fed Chair Jerome Powell sparked a late rally in crypto and stocks on Wednesday when he said 75 basis-point increases aren’t on the table. You wanted the institutions to adopt crypto, didn’t you? Now, the asset class is trading almost in lockstep with...
Tumbleweeds blow through Coinbase NFT on its first day: Just $75K in volume
Coinbase, one of the largest crypto exchanges by volume, opened its beta non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace to the public on May 4 with on-chain data showing a maximum of 150 total transactions on the day and $75,000 in USD volume. The transactions captured by Dune Analytics show the total amount which took place through the 0x Protocol, the infrastructure behind Coinbase’s marketplace. Whilst not all transactions are guaranteed to be from Coinbase, since 0x announced its support for NFTs in January it has yet to announce any other partners apart from Coinbase. Number of market transactions on the 0x Protocol. Dune Analytics. The number pales into insignificance compared to expectations arising from the marketplace’s waitlist. More than 8.4 million email addresses signed up for the...
Coinbase’s plans to purchase firm behind Mercado Bitcoin fall through: Report
Coinbase and Brazilian company 2TM, the parent company of Mercado Bitcoin, have reportedly scrapped talks around the crypto exchange purchasing the firm. According to a Tuesday Bloomberg report, 2TM and Coinbase have ended discussions around the United States-based crypto exchange buying the Brazilian company, which was valued at more than $2 billion. It’s unclear what led to the purchase not going through, as 2TM reportedly declined to comment and a Coinbase spokesperson said it was simply “committed to the Brazilian market.” Coinbase and 2TM scrapped talks over a possible purchase by the exchange of the Brazilian cryptocurrency brokerage https://t.co/HmZxDj7Koi — Bloomberg Crypto (@crypto) May 4, 2022 As the parent company of Mercado Bitcoin — one of the largest crypto brokerage firms in...
Coinbase lists Binance USDC and also adds support for ROSE
Coinbase, one of the leading crypto exchanges in the US, announced that it has listed trading pairs of Binance USD (BUSD) and Binance. Besides, On April 11 Coinbase published the list of the top 50 tokens that it was targeting to list during the Second Quarter (Q2) of 2022. Binance USD, a stablecoin that was issued by its greatest competitor Binance and also the fourth largest Stablecoin by market capitalization, was among the tokens to be listed in Q2. Following its listing on Coinbase, BUSD has become the eighth stablecoin to be offered by one of the leading exchanges. However, Coinbase noted that BUSD will not function in its native Binance Chain (BSC) but as an ERC-20 token on the Ethereum (ETH) network. In addition, the exchange also warned its users against sending their assets...
Weekly Report: Coinbase unveils NFT marketplace in beta, Binance chasing regulatory compliance
Coinbase NFT allows waitlisted users to join a beta program of the NFT marketplace Kadena Eco launches a $100 million grant to empower developers to build on the Kadena network a16z has established an academic crypto-research focused lab to solve important problems in the blockchain scene Binance recruits two former regulators to its compliance and surveillance team Australia defines a policy roadmap toward the regulation of crypto assets Here are the top cryptocurrency headlines you might have missed last week: Coinbase NFT launches in beta plans to add users over the coming weeks progressively Coinbase announced mid last week that it started allowing a few members on the waitlist of Coinbase NFT to start using the platform, which is currently in a limited beta stage. Coinbase says t...
