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Finance

Bakkt App Will Allow Users to Spend Crypto on Cantaloupe's Retail Network

The new partnership will mean bitcoin and loyalty points can be used to buy items at more than a million Cantaloupe retail devices.

Bakkt President Adam White

Finance

Sotheby’s to Accept Crypto as Payment for Banksy Artwork

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is partnering with the auction house for the groundbreaking sale.

"Love is in the Air" by Banksy displayed in London in March.

Finance

Mastercard Survey Offers Tentative Encouragement for Crypto Adoption

The payments giant polled 15,569 consumers in 18 countries; 40% said they plan to use cryptocurrency in the next year.

Mastercard

Finance

EBay CEO Hints at Crypto Payments, NFT Sales

But don’t hold your breath: “We have no immediate plans,” a spokesperson said of crypto payments following Jamie Iannone’s appearance on CNBC.

Ebay Packing Tape

Finance

Coinbase Debuts 'Buy With PayPal' Feature (but Read the Fine Print)

The integration could lead to massive, and avoidable, costs for users who don’t pay attention to Coinbase’s fee schedule.

Coinbase Global Debuts Initial Public Offering At Nasdaq MarketSite

Markets

PayPal-Owned Venmo Adds Bitcoin Buying and Selling

Customers will be able to buy and sell crypto on Venmo for a fee starting from $1.

Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images

Finance

Celo Network Adds Deutsche Telekom as Partner; German Telco Buys ‘Significant’ CELO Position

Big companies buying bitcoin for their balance sheets is so last year.

Deutsche Telekom owns the T-Mobile brand.

Markets

Former Citigroup Chairman Joins Board of Crypto Payments Firm Celo

Dick Parsons could bring a critical eye to some of the decentralized finance protocols that look like structured products, said Celo co-founder Rene Reinsberg.

Former Citigroup Chairman Dick Parsons

Markets

Turkey to Ban the Use of Crypto for Payments; Bitcoin Falls

The measure, to go into effect April 30, comes as the use of crypto had risen due to a plunge in the price of the lira.

Istanbul, Turkey image via Sabino Parente/Shutterstock

Finance

Cardano Venture Fund Makes First Investment: $500K in Payments Firm COTI

Rather than reinventing DeFi on a faster version of Ethereum, Cardano is doing something different, said COTI CEO Shahaf Bar-Geffen.

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson