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Acorns Hires Former Amazon Executive as President, Hints at Crypto Options

Acorns, a popular investing and savings app, announced a former Amazon lead as company president and head of day-to-day operations.Sponsored Sponsored Earlier today the financial services app revealed David Hijirida as the new president. Hijirida was an executive at Amazon and CEO of the digital bank Simple Finance. During his 12 years at Amazon, he managed global payments and advertising.  This new hire comes as Acorns expected a public listing later in the year. The public listing is with the intentions of accelerating its mission of wealth building and overseas

Knit Finance and Kyber Network Team Up for Liquidity Solutions

DeFi News Knit Finance and Kyber Network are teaming up for a strategic collab. The collab will create market options and boost liquidity for both platforms’ assets. Both networks’ assets will also be able to operate on multi-chain. Decentralized Protocol Knit Finance is teaming up with Kyber Network, a liquidity hub, for a strategic partnership. This collaboration will see the latter’s native token integrated into the Knit Finance multi-chain platform. Moreover, the partnership will create market options and boost liquidity for both assets. Knit Finance will also add liquidity for

First Million-Dollar NFT Sale for Solana, and It’s for a Degenerate Ape

Today, Degen Ape #7225 became Solana’s first million-dollar NFT sale. In the last few weeks, the blockchain platform’s NFT ecosystem has exploded. NFT intends to reduce its mint pricing in order to keep the prices low. The first million-dollar NFT sale has occurred on the Solana blockchain. Moonrock Capital, a blockchain advising business, bought one of the Degenerate Ape Academy NFTs for 5,980 SOL ($1.1 million) on Saturday. Moonrock purchased Degen Ape #7225, a scarred zombie ape with a halo, a gold tooth, and a brain in its mouth. According

These factors were key to taking the steam out of Bitcoin’s ‘frenzied crypto-rally’

Volatility in the cryptocurrency world is real, there’s no doubting that. While some expected it to be a relic of the past, it came to the fore a few days ago after Bitcoin dropped below $45,000, taking the rest of the market with it. Now, different people have attributed different reasons to the aforementioned drop. A recent Twitter thread from a Singapore-based crypto-fund firm is a case in point. According to the same, the United States played a major role in driving or rather, aggravating this volatility. QCP Capital argued

VortexDeFi: One-stop DeFi asset management solution

The DeFi market is booming and while the space has seen an increase in the number of users, they can feel overwhelmed with the number of options available. While choosing a DeFi platform a user needs to consider factors such as the safety of their funds, APY yields combined with the ease of using the platform. Vortex DeFi offers its users a one-stop solution as an aggregator that provides seamless consolidated access to protocols such as Aave, Compound Finance, and YFI. What is Vortex DeFi? Vortex DeFi is a web-based

NFT Heroes: Fitting the framework of the growing NFT avatar market

NFT marketplace NFT STARS has announced the launch of its NFT avatar collection – SIDUS: The City of NFT Heroes. The collection features 7,500 unique characters developed in partnership with over 200 modern artists from the international collective NFT256. SIDUS differs from dozens of other collections by combining the functionality of a gaming DAO metaverse, a yield farming service, and a digital art collection, all into one. The NFT Heroes collection comes forth at the perfect time, when NFT avatar projects are on the rise and the NFT market, as

Finding the Best PR and Marketing Agency for Your Blockchain, NFT, and DeFi Projects

Blockchain technology and its underlying use cases are currently the “talk of the town.” With each passing day, its popularity has grown, especially since introducing cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and, more recently, Ethereum. Everyone wants a piece of the action and wants to learn about and understand the technology heralded as the world’s future. Unfortunately, due to this technology’s technicalities, blockchain, despite being very popular and innovative, can be pretty challenging to understand. Several blockchain-based startups have emerged over the years, but most of them have failed due to an

Tai Hing Announces 2021 Interim Results

HONG KONG, Aug 27, 2021 - (ACN Newswire) - Tai Hing Group Holdings Limited ("Tai Hing Group" or the "Group"; stock code: 6811), a multi-brand casual dining restaurant group with roots in Hong Kong and a network of more than 220 restaurants in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Macau, and Taiwan, has just announced its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2021 ("1H2021" or the "Review Period").RESULTS HIGHLIGHTS-- Revenue increased by 16.4% to HK$1,532.7 million in 1H2021 (1H2020: HK$1,316.9 million) though both markets in Hong Kong and Mainland China still saw challenges

Lyra Plunges into Layer 2 Options Pool with Offering for Hedge Hungry Investors

With the market for Layer 1 tokens such as AVAX red hot this month, it would be easy to overlook a development on the Layer 2 side of the DeFi universe. Yet three days ago Lyra, a cryptocurrency options platform, released a new offering that will let investors trade on Layer 2, a catch-all term for applications that improve the scale and speed of blockchains tied to Ethereum.Launched on Optimism, a Layer 2 protocol, Lyra uses an automated market maker to help traders buy and sell calls and puts, which