Circle makes a fantastic screen time management tool and today the company announced a round of funding to help fuel its growth. The $20 million series B included participation from Netgear and T-Mobile, along with Third Kind Venture Capital and follow-on investments from Relay Ventures and other Series A participants. With this round of funding, […]
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Coinbase lets you buy and sell USDC stablecoin
A few weeks after Circle announced the launch of USD Coin (or USDC for short), Coinbase also announced that customers can now buy, sell, send and receive USDC on Coinbase. A USDC is a token that is worth exactly 1 USD. Its value is going to stay stable against USD — hence the name stablecoin […]
View More Coinbase lets you buy and sell USDC stablecoinCircle Invest lets you buy cryptocurrency collections
With Circle Invest, Circle has been trying to make it as easy as possible to get started with cryptocurrency trading. And the company wants to go one step further with collections of multiple tokens. When it first launched, Circle Invest was pretty straightforward. You could download an app, sign up and buy Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, […]
View More Circle Invest lets you buy cryptocurrency collectionsCircle launches its stablecoin
When Circle raised its $110 million funding round, the company used this opportunity to talk about its stablecoin — USD Coin, or USDC for short. And you can now buy, sell and send USD Coins on Circle Trade and Circle’s exchange Poloniex. But what is a stablecoin? As the name suggests, 1 USDC is worth […]
View More Circle launches its stablecoinCircle wants more women to invest in cryptocurrency
The earliest adopters of Bitcoin — the libertarian anarchist “cypherpunk” crowd — were mostly men. Today, roughly a decade after Satoshi Nakamoto’s famed white paper was released, the majority of cryptocurrency holders are still men. This poses a problem for the companies betting on the mainstream adoption of cryptocurrency. At this point, they’ve already tapped into […]
View More Circle wants more women to invest in cryptocurrencyCrypto firm Pantera Capital is looking to raise up to $175 million for a new venture fund
Pantera Capital, which has made its mark in recent years by investing early and often in a wide variety of digital assets, is looking to raise up to $175 million for its third venture fund — an enormous jump from the $25 million it deployed for its second venture fund and its $13 million debut […]
View More Crypto firm Pantera Capital is looking to raise up to $175 million for a new venture fundCoinbase is acquiring a securities dealer in order to trade your startup tokens
Every day, tech investors and reporters are pitched on new services that intend to generate digital tokens that its creators expect will trade . . . somewhere. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Coinbase, known currently for trading a handful of the largest cryptocurrencies, wants to be that somewhere. To that end, it’s acquiring securities dealer Keystone Capital, a […]
View More Coinbase is acquiring a securities dealer in order to trade your startup tokensCircle Invest makes it ridiculously easy to invest in cryptocurrencies
Ever wanted to invest in cryptocurrencies, but unsure of how and which coins you should choose?
Circle Invest, a new product by peer-to-peer payments company Circle, makes it incredibly easy to do so.
Previously available as beta, Circle Invest lets you deposit money directly from your bank account and trade 7 cryptocurrencies — Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Monero and Ethereum Classic — for as low as $1.
But a new feature called “Buy the Market” makes it even simpler. You type in the number of USD you’d like to invest, and with a tap Circle Invest automatically spreads that investment across those seven cryptocurrencies, based on each coin’s weighted market cap. Read more…
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View More Circle Invest makes it ridiculously easy to invest in cryptocurrenciesCircle Invest lets you buy the cryptocurrency market
Circle Invest is one of the easiest products when you want to get started with cryptocurrencies. When Circle first launched the app, I compared it to Coinbase. And Circle is making it even easier to get started as you can just “buy the market” now. Circle Invest started with just a handful of cryptocurrencies — […]
View More Circle Invest lets you buy the cryptocurrency marketWith at least $1.3 billion invested globally in 2018, VC funding for blockchain blows past 2017 totals
Although bitcoin and blockchain technology may not take up quite as much mental bandwidth for the general public as it did just a few months ago, companies in the space continue to rake in capital from investors. One of the latest to do so is Circle, which recently announced a $110 million Series E round led by bitcoin […]
View More With at least $1.3 billion invested globally in 2018, VC funding for blockchain blows past 2017 totalsCircle raises $110 million (or 13,300 BTC)
Cryptocurrency startup Circle has raised a $110 million funding round, which values the company near $3 billion. Cryptocurrency mining company Bitmain is leading the round. Existing investors IDG Capital, Breyer Capital, General Catalyst, Accel, Digital Currency Group and Pantera are investing more money. Blockchain Capital and Tusk Ventures are investing in Circle for the first […]
View More Circle raises $110 million (or 13,300 BTC)Circle launches a Coinbase competitor in the U.S.
Circle is launching Circle Invest in the U.S. except in NY, MN, HI and WY. The app is now available in the App Store and Play Store and lets you instantly trade the most popular cryptocurrencies without any fee. Circle Invest isn’t exactly an exchange as the app hides most of the complexities that you […]
View More Circle launches a Coinbase competitor in the U.S.