Day: July 26, 2024

Steven Fulop, the mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey, has announced that the city’s pension fund will allocate a portion of its investments into Bitcoin ETFs. Fulop also expressed his long-standing belief in cryptocurrency, although he had not publicly mentioned Bitcoin or other assets before July 25. Jersey City Updates Paperwork with SEC In a July 25 post on X, Mayor Fulop announced that they are updating paperwork with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to allow Bitcoin ETF investment. Not my normal subject matter in a post…

Hardware wallet provider Ledger has released a new touchscreen wallet following the introduction of its first touchscreen model, Ledger Stax. On July 26, Ledger announced that its new Ledger Flex device is now for sale. In a statement sent to Cointelegraph, Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier said Flex and Stax “mark the new standard for Ledger devices.” Ledger’s new hardware wallet, Ledger Flex. Source: Ledger The executive claims that the products retain “the same uncompromising security” but feature a more intuitive interface. Ledger wallets allow passwordless logins Gauthier also highlighted that,…

[PRESS RELEASE – Belgrade, Serbia, July 26th, 2024] One of the most popular tap-to-play games on Telegram, Dotcoin, is launching on the Venom blockchain. Dotcoin, with over 20 million active users, finds the highly scalable Venom Network an ideal host for the game. Released earlier this year on the Telegram messaging app, Dotcoin allows players to tap-to-earn in-game currency through a simple interface featuring a single dot. The game’s interface is simple, featuring a single dot on the screen, which players can tap to earn the in-game currency. Recently, a…

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has bolstered its board of directors with three new appointments, including a senior OpenAI executive who served as a political strategist to United States President Bill Clinton in the 1990s.  In a July 25 statement, Coinbase said it had appointed Chris Lehane as one of 10 directors on its board. Lehane served as Clinton’s Democrat strategist in 1992, shortly before Clinton began his two-term tenure as US President between 1993 and 2001. He also played a crucial role in helping home-sharing marketplace Airbnb become a legal operator in…

Hashdex, a crypto asset management firm, has filed its registration statement, S-1, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for its Hashdex Nasdaq Crypto Index US ETF. Notably, the move is a step in its plans to be the first index-based crypto ETF in the U.S. that will track some digital assets in the Nasdaq Crypto US Settlement Price Index. Hashdex’s Crypto ETF Awaits SEC Nod According to the firm’s S-1 filing, the Sponsor will shift to a sample replication strategy if any crypto asset apart from Bitcoin and Ethereum…