The Case for Crypto continues... |
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We are excited to see a Third crypto-focused fund, at a whopping $2.2 billion from Andreessen Horowitz, highlighting the next generation of visionary crypto founders. |
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Finnovant believes capital commitments of this enormous size will help bring more attention and momentum to the entire crypto ecosystem. Finnovant shares the same belief that the next wave of computing innovation will be driven by crypto and especially with innovations in governance, networks, and the distribution of economic benefits to all participants. Read full article on wired.com HERE |
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Blogpost: Chris Benedict Finnovant Global Sales Lead Coinbase, founded in 2012, is one of the most well-known and popular cryptocurrency exchange sites in the world (Investopedia, 2021). Organizations hoping to sell their cryptocurrency to investors consider a listing on Coinbase to be a major win. When a crypto is listed on Coinbase, the event often creates enough buzz that, at least |
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temporarily, the crypto’s price per coin will increase – sometimes substantially. A whole new generation of day traders keep close track of when cryptocurrencies will make their Coinbase debut. Buy low, sell high. Last April, 2021, Coinbase went public and was the first major crypto exchange in the United States to do so. Coinbase shares are traded on Nasdaq; their stock ticker symbol is, quite fittingly, COIN (FastCompany, 2021). Coinbase’s route to becoming publicly traded was not your typical Initial Public Offering or IPO. Instead, Coinbase chose direct listing, with shares being sold by its employees and existing investors. On its first day as a publicly traded company, shares of COIN reached a high... (click HERE to read entire blog post) |
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Blogpost: Sandra Mathews Finnovant Marketing Director Not long ago, one of the greatest concerns of those using personal computers (or PCs) to access the internet was the potential for picking up a computer virus. The day before I presented my master’s thesis, my computer came down with the wazoo virus and I spent the entire night before one of the most important moments of my life manually deleting the word “wazoo” from my thesis. Super annoying? Yes. Life altering? No, not really. Fast forward to the 21st century and here we are with hackers disrupting supply chains, interfering in politics, filing fraudulent unemployment claims, fraudulent insurance claims, “bombing” Zoom meetings, holding us hostage with ransomware, using bots to influence opinions – and stealing data about all of us that was supposed to be private. Did we not see this coming? I recall being skeptical about whether I was inviting thieves into my life when I first started using the internet – especially after the “wazoo” situation. But a few years in and I was using social media, paying bills online, and, eventually, applying for a home loan online. I even had a few doctor’s appointments online during the pandemic, and I signed up to be able to view my medical records online - which probably contain 10 times more personal data about me than my home loan application. (click HERE to read entire blog post) |
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