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Financial privacy is becoming more difficult to maintain than ever as we become increasingly dependent on online platforms for our everyday needs. However, there are ways to enhance your financial privacy when you want to make payments without disclosing your identity. In this article, we will show you how to send money anonymously using a variety of methods. We have primarily focused on cryptocurrencies, although we also provide a method for making traditional payments anonymously. How to send money anonymously? Below, we’re featuring four methods you can use to send money anonymously or make payments online without disclosing your identity.…
Although Bitcoin (BTC) has already gained nearly 70% in 2024, shares of Argo Blockchain, a cryptocurrency mining company publicly listed in London and the USA, are scraping the bottom, falling by 55%. The company’s solution to some of its problems and shareholder discontent is selling its data center in Mirabel, Canada. The company’s London branch (LSE: ARB) announced the finalization of this move on Thursday. At the same time, the miner issued over 460,000 new ordinary shares. The plan to sell a data center in the Quebec region was first announced almost two months ago. The transaction, which yielded a…
MyShell, a Tokyo-based decentralized AI platform used to create “AI girlfriends,” has raised $11 million in pre-series A funding for its AI app-building ecosystem. The investment, which brings MyShell’s total funding to $16.6 million, was led by Dragonfly, with additional participation from Delphi Ventures, Bankless Ventures, Maven11 Capital, Nascent, Nomad Capital and OKX Ventures. The round also attracted support from individual investors such as crypto investor and thought leader Balaji Srinivasan, NEAR’s Illia Polosukhin and Paradigm’s Casey K. Caruso. MyShell pitches itself as an ecosystem for AI creators to develop and deploy applications. The new funds will be used to…
VNX, a company based in Liechtenstein, has issued the first stablecoin anchored to the Swiss Franc on the Stellar network. Moreover, at the launch of the new stablecoin VNX Swiss Franc (VCHF), it joins VNX Euro (VEUR), both accessible on the crypto-exchange BitStamp. VNX launches stablecoins on the Stellar network anchored to the Euro and the Swiss Franc VNX: the first stablecoin on the Stellar network anchored to the Swiss Franc OKX and the removal of the USDT stablecoin for users in Europe VNX launches stablecoins on the Stellar network anchored to the Euro and the Swiss Franc VNX, a…
MicroStrategy (MSTR) and Coinbase (COIN) have the most possibility of a short squeeze – or a rally spurred by short sellers getting out of their bearish bets – S3 Partners said in a report. The total short interest in crypto stocks is $10.7 billion, with MicroStrategy and Coinbase making up 84% of these bearish bets, the report added. The short sellers are piling into the crypto-linked stocks, wagering that they are primed to reverse their year-to-date jump in prices. However, the trade has become so crowded that it primed these stocks for a short squeeze, said data analytics firm S3…
In a strategic move to outmaneuver its rivals, Aave (AAVE) has launched “Merit,” a new reward program, on Tuesday at 18:00 UTC. This program is aimed at Aave’s most loyal users. Merit rewards actions beneficial to the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO). This initiative focuses on genuine contributions rather than generic incentives. Aave Penalizes Engagement With Non-Aligned Products Through Merit Airdrop Merit went live, distributing 280 Wrapped Ethereum (WETH) to select borrowers. Furthermore, an airdrop for Aave’s stablecoin – GHO borrowers and stakers is on the horizon. The success of Merit is evident, with around 200,000 Ethereum (ETH) moving from other…
Following the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) legal action against Kucoin and its founders, analysts from Nansen specializing in real-time onchain data revealed that Kucoin experienced a withdrawal of $99 million in Ethereum-based assets and $109 million in outflows from various EVM-compatible chains. Ethereum and EVM Chains See $200 Million Outflow From Kucoin On a Tuesday, Damian Williams, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the indictment of Kucoin and its founders. U.S. authorities allege that Kucoin breached the Bank Secrecy Act and failed to implement requisite anti-money laundering measures. At 2:10 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on…
BlackRock’s first tokenized asset fund is off to a strong start, garnering a significant market share of the blockchain-based tokenized U.S. Treasury market just a week following its debut. Blockchain data shows that BlackRock’s BUIDL raked in $245 million of deposits as of Wednesday. Its strong introduction propelled the fund into second place among peers, trailing only Franklin Templeton’s Franklin OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund (FOBXX), which has $360 million of deposits, according to rwa.xyz data. BlackRock was the latest high-profile entrant to crypto’s tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) boom, with digital asset firms and global banks such as HSBC,…
Starknet’s 2024 roadmap calls for the addition of parallel transactions starting in the second quarter. Developers behind the project also released plans for measures to cut fees. Starknet is the biggest in a category of layer-2 networks known as ZK rollups. The developers behind Starknet, the Ethereum layer-2 network whose $2.3 billion STRK token airdrop last month captivated crypto markets, plan to add a design feature known as “parallelization” – one of the factors that reportedly makes rival blockchain Solana popular as a venue for fast, cheap transactions. The feature will go live as part of an upgrade set for…
Paradigm-backed NFT card game Parallel has secured $35 million from a group of investors to expand the universe across new platforms. Parallel, a sci-fi NFT card game, that supports the Ethereum blockchain and the Base layer-2 chain, has completed another financing round, bagging in $35 million from a pool of investors. In an X post on Mar. 28, the game developers said the funding was supported by Distributed Global, The Operating Group, VanEck, Solana Ventures, Base Ecosystem Fund, and Amber among others. $𝟯𝟱𝗠 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗹 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼𝘀 We are excited to announce our latest funding round! Our team is…