Wallet

Mesh (formerly Front Finance), a startup developing a service to help customers transfer and manage digital assets like crypto, has raised $22 million in a Series A funding round led…

Mesh, which helps people manage their digital assets, raises $22M

MetaMask, the world’s biggest self-custodial hot (internet-connected) wallet with over 22 million users, has added the option for users to convert cryptocurrencies into fiats like USD, as a growing list…

MetaMask now allows crypto cash-out to PayPal and banks, but fees could be high

While a plethora of products have been developed to meet the crypto needs of consumers, there are limited options designed to assist enterprises in managing digital assets. Many companies thus…

MPCVault’s crypto wallet for businesses hits $500M AUM in 7 months

Cryptocurrency mobile wallet Zengo has introduced a handful of new features combined with a new premium subscription called Zengo Pro that costs $20 per month. This new, optional subscription brings…

Crypto wallet Zengo launches pro subscription with additional security features

If you own a non-custodial crypto wallet like MetaMask, you know the headache of keeping your 16-word seed phrase safe. That’s the responsibility that comes with having full control over…

Backed with $3M, Soul Wallet aims to bring self-hosted crypto wallets to the next billion

Meet Tweed, a startup coming out of stealth today that has been working on a white-label cryptocurrency wallet and payment solution. With Tweed, companies can generate wallets for their users…

Tweed is a crypto wallet API to add a web3 flavor to any web service

After trying for years to replicate the success of its QR code-enabled payments solution overseas, Ant Group seems to have finally found a path to scaling. Instead of going after…

Ant’s global play is to be a payments aggregator and it now reaches 1B users

Crypto enthusiasts promise to build a decentralized money system that allows people to freely trade without any intermediary intervention. It’s a rosy picture, but recent events of security vulnerability indicate…

Safeheron secures $7M to make private keys safer for crypto wallets

Imagine paying millions of dollars for a JPEG of a monkey just to have it stolen from your digital wallet. That’s exactly what happened to actor Seth Green, who ended…

Upstream’s new vault could help NFT holders sleep at night

Solana, an increasingly popular blockchain known for its speedy transactions, has become the target of the crypto sphere’s latest hack after users reported that funds have been drained from internet-connected “hot”…

Thousands of Solana wallets drained in multimillion-dollar exploit

The crypto hardware wallet industry, somewhat eclipsed as crypto exchanges gained in popularity, may be due for a gradual comeback. As some centralized crypto exchanges experienced difficulties in operations while…

As Crypto exchanges struggle in a bear market, are hardware wallets about to make a comeback?

More venture capital keeps trooping into Africa’s B2B e-commerce retail, a space where startups are digitizing informal trade to get thousands of merchants to operate more efficiently. This time, it’s…

Namibian B2B e-commerce retail platform JABU raises $15M led by Tiger Global

OpenSea, the largest NFT marketplace, acquired NFT aggregator Gem.xyz (Gem) to “better serve” its more experienced users, the company said in a blog post. The deal, which comes a few…

NFT aggregator Gem.xyz acquired by OpenSea shortly after ousting co-founder for sexual misconduct

Group-financing platform Braid is trying to make transactions work for various entities, from shared households to side hustles to creative projects.

Braid aims to untangle pooling money with friends

Apple today announced that Arizona will become the first U.S. state to offer residents the ability to digitally store their driver’s license or state ID in Apple’s Wallet app. The…

Arizona becomes first state to offer driver’s license and state ID in Apple Wallet

Companies across the board are fighting to recruit and retain employees as the war for talent rages on. Employee benefits are no longer viewed as a cookie-cutter, standard set of…

Forma raises new funding to make employee benefits more flexible

While Coinbase is better known for its cryptocurrency exchange, the company has also been working on a couple of self-custody wallets under the Coinbase Wallet brand. This type of wallets…

Coinbase will let you view your NFT collection in its browser wallet

At Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference in June, the company teased its plans to incorporate support for home, office and hotel keys into Apple Wallet, as well as state driver licenses.…

Apple launches support for hotel keys in Apple Wallet, initially with Hyatt Worldwide

As crypto proponents look to onboard a new generation of users, one of the major consumer onramps has been a host of consumer wallet apps with slick interfaces. Today, Coinbase…

Coinbase acqui-hires team behind BRD crypto wallet

Apple has delayed the release of a feature that will eventually allow you to store your ID in the company’s Wallet app. Apple says that functionality will now arrive sometime…

Apple delays release of digital ID cards to 2022

French startup Ledger has raised a $380 million Series C funding round led by 10T Holdings. Following today’s funding round, the company has reached a valuation of $1.5 billion. Other…

Ledger raises $380 million for its crypto hardware wallet

A security breach at cryptocurrency platform Roll allowed a hacker to obtain the private key to its hot wallet and steal its contents — worth about $5.7 million. In a…

$5.7M stolen in Roll crypto heist after hot wallet hacked

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has confirmed a “large scale” data breach, in which hackers stole more than $40 million in cryptocurrency

Binance says more than $40 million in bitcoin stolen in ‘large scale’ hack

KZen, a company run by former TC editor Ouriel Ohayon, has raised $4 million in seed to build a “better wallet,” obviously the elusive Holy Grail in the crypto world.…

KZen raises $4 million to bring sanity to crypto wallets

Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange based on volume, has made its first acquisition after it snapped up mobile wallet company Trust Wallet. The deal is undisclosed, but Binance confirmed…

Crypto exchange Binance buys Trust Wallet in first acquisition deal

The Opera Android browser will soon be able to hold your cryptocurrencies. The system, now in beta, lets you store crypto and ERC20 tokens in your browser, send and receive…

Opera adds a crypto wallet to its mobile browser

In what amounts to be an amazingly nefarious bit of malware, hackers have created an exploit that watches 2.3 million high-value crypto wallets and replaces the addresses in the Windows…

New malware highjacks your Windows clipboard to change crypto addresses

As promised earlier, Target today launched its own mobile payments system with the introduction of “Wallet” in the Target app. Wallet, as the name implies, allows Target shoppers in-store to…

Target launches its own mobile payments system with debut of ‘Wallet’

Digital-only UK “challenger” bank, Starling Bank, has added support for Apple Pay — meaning its customers can now add their Starling debit card to their Apple Wallet and make contactless…

UK’s digital-only Starling Bank adds Apple Pay support

In a hole in your pants there lived a wallet. Not a nasty, dirty, wet wallet, filled with the receipts and cigarette papers and an oozy smell, nor yet a…

The Baggizmo Wiseward is more than a wallet