The Outdoor Voices founder has a new venture that aims to reward customers with blockchain-based assets. But do brand loyalists really want NFTs?

Regulation is coming for the cryptocurrency market. That's likely a good thing for crypto investors, experts say.

President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday morning to establish the first-ever federal U.S. strategy on cryptocurrencies and any future U.S. central bank digital currency.

There is a new tug of war between centralized finance – government issued money (fiat) – versus decentralized finance – private issued cryptocurrencies that can be exchanged for fiat. Bitcoin is in the crosshairs. It is taking massive fire.

This battle is not new. But it is heating up and defi is losing, don’t let anybody kid you. Sentiment matters. Centralized finance can shut this down. Don’t think it cannot.

The Avalanche Foundation announced incentives worth hundreds of millions of dollars on Tuesday to stimulate new types of development on the Avalanche blockchain.

The so-called Avalanche Multiverse program — funded by four million AVAX tokens (worth around $290 million at current prices) — aims to encourage the growth of subnets on the network.

Emin Gün Sirer has a major beef with the crypto economy: It’s not growing fast enough.

He is an early cryptocurrency innovator who co-founded the blockchain startup Ava Labs with the modest goal of digitizing all the world’s financial assets. But, he believes, the underlying technology of today’s buzziest digital coins are not equipped to handle that kind of volume.

Stablecoins are expanding quickly, but to hear it from John Wu, president of Ava Labs, there's still miles to go before this category of cryptocurrency — which ties its value to that of a government-issued currency — offshoot is widely used in the market.

"We need scalability. Not just tens of millions of people. We need billions," said Wu, president of the New York blockchain company, following a virtual conference with Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire.

In this episode of SPAC #Edge, Mark Yusko speaks to John Wu, a fintech executive and technology investor, who has been in the hedge fund industry for over 20 years. John shares how his competitive nature and ability to analyze, anticipate and visualize the future in his formative years was the pathway to his career in finance and eventually into the SPAC space. You’ll hear John’s take on what makes SPACs so special and how he became interested in them over the years, from 2015 when the rules changed to present day. One of John’s objectives is to allow the average investor to gain access to companies of the future, and in this episode, you’ll get a glimpse of how that’s possible.

CNBC Crypto World features the latest news and daily trading updates from the digital currency markets and provides viewers with a look at what’s ahead with high-profile interviews, explainers, and unique stories from the ever-changing crypto industry. On today’s show, CNBC’s MacKenzie Sigalos breaks down the latest price moves amid rising Russia-Ukraine tensions, and Crypto World explores the growing web3 industry.

John Wu featured at 4:20 and 7:21

Feb 14 . The “Crypto Bowl” featured commercials for multiple cryptocurrency exchanges Sunday night. Coinbase, FTX, eToro, and Crypto.com all aired ads during the Super Bowl.

Feb 1st (CNN Business) Robinhood is still losing money. The platform reported a drop in the number of users in its most recent quarter. Is it time for the struggling online broker to consider a sale?

Even though Robinhood's stock has rebounded a bit in the past few days after reporting its latest financial results, it is still trading at only around $14 a share — more than 60% below the initial public offering price of $38 last year.

Jan 26 (Fortune) - Just a few months ago, Bitcoin was at a record high and celebrities were pitching obscure cryptocurrencies. However, with Bitcoin prices cratering amid to around $36,000 from a record of nearly $68,000, and other digital tokens in freefall, one-time crypto fans are turning into skeptics and reassessing their tolerance for financial risk.

Jan 22 (Markets Insider) - Here's why experts say the crypto market will be just fine despite a possible Russian ban on everything from mining to trading.

Jan 12 (Reuters) - With U.S. cities such as Miami and Austin trying to court digital asset companies, John Wu was unsure whether to make New York City the permanent home of his cryptocurrency and blockchain start-up Ava Labs - until Eric Adams was elected mayor in November.

Though bitcoin supporters have long touted the cryptocurrency as “digital gold,” a store of value and a hedge against inflation, it has recently been trading more in line with risky assets, often in tandem with tech stocks, as investors face macroeconomic uncertainties.

Bitcoin is going higher. But, don't be shocked if it goes a bit lower in 2022. If it does, but it.

The cryptocurrency market never sleeps. Yes, it’s even open at midnight on New Year’s Eve. So let’s pretend you got a $1,000 to invest and you want to up game in the wonderful and crazy world of crypto.

Amongst the competing layer 1 blockchains, Svanevik highlighted Avalanche as a potential threat.

The most recent bitcoin crash has investors once again reconsidering exposure to one of the most volatile asset classes on the markets.

The crypto industry now sprawls well beyond bitcoin and executives expect new uses for the technology to pick up in 2022. New blockchain-based apps, “Web3” and regulation are top of executives’ minds heading into next year.

The 2021 march toward decentralized finance (DeFi) mass adoption has made significant strides.