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מטבע טתר USDT קריפטו

Lutnick, Tether, and Trump: A crypto market power trio

01.12.24|Viki Auslender

How politics and business connections are shaping the future of cryptocurrency.

דונלד טראמפ ו מטבע ביטקוין

"We have a bitcoin president!" The real winner in the US election

11.11.24|Viki Auslender

Crypto market executives poured $245 million into the US presidential election, and the result is a House of Representatives that overwhelmingly supports the industry. Now their expectation is for legislation tailored to their needs.

תחנת צ'יינג שסוחרת ב ביטקוין ברחוב דיזינגוף 99 תל אביב

Crypto profits slip through cracks as Israel lacks tax controls, State Auditor says

07.11.24|Viki Auslender

From 2018 to 2022, just 500 crypto transactions were reported instead of the expected 200,000, costing the state billions in tax revenue, according to the State Auditor’s report.

משה חוגג יושב ראש ו בעלים של ביתר ירושלים

Moshe Hogeg’s ‘Tomi’ crypto meltdown marks yet another fall

26.09.24|Almog Azar

Investors burned again as Hogeg’s latest crypto adventure ends in disaster, with a 96% value drop.

Mapping Israel's Web3 ecosystem: The startups leading the decentralized revolution

“Based on current trends and the momentum in the market, it's expected that over the next 12 to 24 months, at least 20 Israeli Web3 startups will successfully raise Series A and B funding rounds,” said Tomer Niv, crypto and Web3 Investor at Entrée Capital.

בלוקצ'יין קריפטו מטבעות דיגיטליים 3

Hypernative raises $16 million Series A to make crypto safer

The Israeli startup’s system has helped to save more than $100 million worth of customer funds to date.

Tax Authority's crypto push falls short of expectations

28.08.24|Almog Azar

Voluntary disclosure yields just NIS 30 million, far below projections.

דונלד טראמפ ב וועידת הקריפטו

Make Bitcoin Great Again: Crypto industry unites around Trump

29.07.24|Viki Auslender

The Republican presidential candidate attended a crypto conference in Nashville over the weekend, reversing his previous stance by supporting the community he once dismissed. Kamala Harris also hopes to win votes this way, distancing herself from President Biden's rigid stance against the industry.

5 Israeli crypto blockchain startups that raised money in 2024

Utila, Lava Network, Fhenix, Oobit, and WaveBL have all raised funding this year to revolutionize the blockchain ecosystem

Bring’s mission to offer cashback to web3 at scale

The company has raised a total of $1.1 million to bridge the gap between the crypto ecosystem and traditional finance

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The Midas of chips does it again with Astera Labs

28.03.24|Elihay Vidal

Also on our AI-native show: Foundational nets $8 million in Seed funding to bring AI agents into data engineering and could personalized and innovative birth control be the next FemTech frontier?

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Israel's booming crypto ecosystem revealed

26.03.24|Elihay Vidal

Also on our AI-native show: Nvidia CEO promises to support both Israeli and Palestinian employees and FundGuard nets $100 million for AI-powered investment platform

Israel's crypto ecosystem

Mapping Israel’s booming crypto ecosystem

25.03.24|Sebastian Lehrer

Against all odds, and amid the war, the Israeli crypto market is flourishing, driven by the bull market that followed the approval of the first Bitcoin ETF. Over $100 million has been raised by startups since October 7th, with the first Decacorn of the local industry also emerging, according to the Israeli Ecosystem Map published by VC Collider

"Since the hack I've become completely paranoid": The story of how one crypto trader lost $70,000 on Binance

21.03.24|Viki Auslender

Trader doomxbt’s Binance account was drained, with little response or help from the platform. The price of Bitcoin is soaring, but the world's crypto exchanges remain unregulated, and platforms like Binance continue to place full responsibility for loss or theft on users

Blockaid founders

Israeli startup helped save Coinbase users over $75 million from being stolen in five months

The integration of Blockaid’s solution stopped nearly 800,000 wallet connections to malicious dApps - all by scanning and analyzing 114 million transactions and dApp connections

First ever Israeli shekel-backed stablecoin approved for pilot launch

Israeli crypto financial services company Bits of Gold, operating under the Israeli Capital Market, Insurance and Savings Authority, announced it has received the regulator’s approval to launch its Shekel-backed 'stablecoin' pilot named BILS

Utila nets $11.5 million Seed funding for institutional crypto operations platform

The Israeli startup’s platform allows institutions and developers to manage their digital assets with its non-custodial, secure, and chain-agnostic wallet

Crypto mobile payment app Oobit raises $25 million Series A

The Israeli-founded startup allows crypto holders to tap and pay at more than 100 million retailers globally where Visa and Mastercard are accepted, while merchants receive fiat currency

מלחמת עזה מחבלי חמאס חוצים את גדר המערכת ל עוטף עזה על גבי אופנועים 7.10.23

The limits of high-tech solutions were exposed for all to see in 2023

31.12.23|Viki Auslender

There is a need to move beyond blind faith in technology, considering the societal implications and responsibilities associated with technological innovations

מטבעות קריפטו ביטקוין את'ר צניחה ירידת מחירים

Crypto's not for everyone, which is why it needs to be institutionalized

28.11.23|Viki Auslender

Binance, the largest crypto exchange in the world, will pay a huge fine of $4.3 billion. Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the collapsed FTX, is headed to prison for decades. Celsius was revealed to be a house of cards and went bankrupt. Despite this, the crypto market is actually making its way to the next step: institutional adoption