Funding

Circle, the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, officially announced today the successful $222 million funding round for its new Layer 1 blockchain project, Arc.

A review of the top 5 most impactful cryptocurrency news stories from that week from Coinidol.com.

Decred (DCR) is a decentralized cryptocurrency that was launched in February 2016. A look in DCR token by Coinidol.com.

The token sale session for Pledged Capital is live now on the P2PB2B exchange.

Belarus' Public Accounts Committee is accusing foreign actors of funding unrest and protests inside the country. Now the committee is arguing that these actors are using a local cryptocurrency exchange to transfer funds to protesters.

(At 15:00 on August 27th NY Time) Love Earth Coin (LEC) community members in North American visited the United Nations headquarters in New York.

The Australian government is working its way from traditional to blockchain technology. The Morrison government keeps pouring funds into blockchain research. On July 13, it announced fresh funding of AU $5.6 million, about $4.2 million to support the two mega blockchain pilot projects that will put Australia on the path to blockchain development.

Criminals commonly use cryptocurrency to carry out illicit activities such as money laundering, funding terrorism activities, buying and selling narcotics and many others. According to the new report by the UN, hackers have been attacking exchanges to steal the cryptocurrency and then use it to fund nuclear weapons development. North Korea is leading the game.

The protesters that stormed the Capitol received Bitcoin donations worth around $550,000. Does that mean someone is funding domestic extremists to bring the country’s economy down?