Polish teenager Iga Swiatek stunned no. 1 seed Simona Halep 6-1, 6-2 to reach the quarterfinals of the French Open on Sunday. The 19-year-old needed little more than an hour to dismantle Halep, a three-time finalist and 2018 champion at Roland Garros. The match served as the perfect revenge for their meeting at the same stage in Paris last year, which Halep won 6-1, 6-0 in just 45 minutes. Fans on Twitter were in awe of Swiatek’s impressive showing. “Best performance of a player in 2020! I’m a super Simo fan but today nothing to do against the perfection in the […]
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An unsurprising statement from a financial regulator is sending some welcome signals that point to a spurt of innovation ahead. The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued a statement earlier this week saying that national banks can provide services to stablecoin issuers in the U.S. This is not a surprise, as banks have been doing so for some time. But they have been doing so under a cloud of regulatory uncertainty. The statement gives the first sign of official clarity on the idea that stablecoins are legitimate representations of value. Acceptance and support Why is this significant […]
APY.Finance, a yet-to-launch decentralized finance (DeFi) yield farming aggregator, announced Monday that it has completed a $3.6M seed funding round joined by investors including Arrington XRP Capital, Alameda Research, Cluster Capital and CoinGecko. Source link
ParaSwap has raised $2.7 million in seed funding from 32 investors including Blockchain Capital, Alameda Research, CoinGecko and more. Source link
NGC Ventures, Hashed, CMS Holdings, Genesis Block and Kenetic Capital also led the round. Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/06/1080383958_0:132:3072:1860_1200x675_80_0_0_dc40c295678aed8053d3567f45e16b7c.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/sport/202009061080383859-top-seed-novak-djokovic-disqualified-from-us-open-fourth-round-for-aggressive-behaviour/ Losing the match, Djokovic, apparently frustrated, hit the ball with the tennis racket without even looking, hitting the female judge who was behind his back. Top Seed Novak Djokovic has been disqualified from the US Open 4th round for inappropriate behaviour. Footage from the scene shows Djokovic hitting a line judge aggressively with a tennis ball, after which she falls to the ground. Djokovic was trailing 6:5 in the opening set against Spain’s Pablo Carreno Busta. Source link
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Amazon has prohibited the import of plant and seed products into the US after Americans received suspicious packages this summer with seeds they did not order, The Wall Street Journal reports. According to the spokesperson, sellers who violate the new guidelines (effective 3 September) could have their Amazon account removed. “Moving forward, we are only permitting the sale of seeds by sellers who are based in the US”, an Amazon spokesperson said as quoted by the newspaper on Saturday. Apart from the import of seeds into the US, the sale of seeds within the US by non-US residents […]
Framework Labs says it’s already playing a key role in projects including Uniswap and Chainlink. Source link
Beijing-based decentralized finance (DeFi) aggregator Bella Protocol announced Monday a $4 million seed round led by Arrington XRP Capital. Source link
The Full Throttle Saloon in Sturgis, S.D., draws a crowd earlier this month during the 80th annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images The Full Throttle Saloon in Sturgis, S.D., draws a crowd earlier this month during the 80th annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images From the early days of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak, states have wrestled with the best course of action for the nation’s imperiled bars and nightclubs. Many of these businesses find their economic prospects tied to a virus that preys on their industry’s lifeblood — social gatherings in tight […]
Blockchain enabled fantasy soccer platform Sorare announced today that it has raised $4 million in a seed funding round led by e.ventures. In an announcement emailed to Coindesk, the firm said that in addition to venture capital investors like e.ventures and Fabric Ventures, a former member of German national soccer team, Andre Schurrle, has also invested in the firm. Using the ethereum blockchain, Sorare generates unique digital trading cards representing professional soccer players that can be traded by users. A user plays as the team manager and can use their five cards to compete in the weekly league competitions. Recently, Sorare […]
Evertas, an insurance provider focused on the cryptocurrency space, has raised $2.8 million in a seed round led by Morgan Creek. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies and blockchain startups. Source link
Binance Labs, the incubation and seed funding arm of the world’s largest crypto exchange, has made its first investment this year, backing decentralized privacy startup HOPR. Announced Thursday, Binance Labs led a $1 million seed round in HOPR, which also saw investment from Focus Labs, Spark Digital Capital, Caballeros Capital and Synaitken. The seed round followed a fellowship award the startup received last year from BinanceX, the exchange’s early-stage developer platform. The investment in HOPR, which takes data privacy to the next level with a token-incentivized mixnet solution, was a long time in the making, explained Binance Strategy Officer Gin Chao. […]
White House economic adviser Peter Navarro added another accusation to a tide of speculation over China’s “fault” in the COVID-19 pandemic from its beginning to its spread across the world. Trump appointee Peter Navarro on Saturday claimed that the Chinese government sent “hundreds of thousands” of its nationals to travel, thus “seeding and spreading” the coronavirus, implying that the Chinese Communist party “is making us stay locked in our homes and lose our jobs”. “I want everybody right here today, as the day before America’s Independence Day, to understand where this virus started — with the Chinese Communist Party that is […]
Man-made disaster: The actions of New York’s governor Andrew Cuomo led to thousands of coronavirus deaths in his state. A memo dated March 25, 2020, ordered state officials to move coronavirus patients to nursing homes. TRENDING: Fulton County DA Announces 11 Charges, Including Felony Murder on the Officer Involved in Fatal Shooting of Rayshard Brooks – Says Brooks Never Informed He Was Under Arrest? It was New York state policy to put the sick patients back in the nursing home. In early May the New York State Department of Health took down their state order demanding nursing homes welcome coronavirus patients. […]
Crypto derivatives platform Seed CX will be axing its exchange arm to focus solely on settlements. Announced Thursday, Seed CX intends to focus on its Zero Hash product, the company’s custody and settlement service. Zero Hash began offering back-office settlement functions for bitcoin forwards contracts in September of last year. “As a start up [sic], you inherently gravitate towards opportunity and that often leads you to take on more, rather than less. However, it is equally important to begin to refine the business focus as certain opportunities develop into a ‘real venture growth business,’” CEO Edward Woodford wrote in a Medium […]