Voice goes dark, Chia wants IPO, Hydra hits $3B

3:54 PM • May 28, 2021

—by Protos Staff

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US Senator urges OCC to rescind bank charters of 3 crypto companies

The OCC is looking into whether bank charters given to 3 crypto companies were all good.

Senator Sherrod Brown has asked the OCC to stop issuing bank charters to crypto companies in an open letter to comptroller Michael Hsu.

BitTorrent founder’s Chia crypto listed this month. Now it wants an IPO

The company behind ‘green crypto’ Chia raised $61 million and is eyeing an IPO this year

The company behind so-called ‘green crypto’ Chia raised $61 million and its sights are now on going public before the end of the year.

Block.one sunk $150M into Voice — now it’s an unfinished NFT platform

Block.one is retooling its decentralized social media platform Voice and turning into a NFT platform.

Block.one says its social media platform Voice will totally come back as an NFT-powered system for rewarding content creators.

Dark web marketplace Hydra has now processed $3.2B in crypto

Dark web marketplace Hydra has now processed nearly $3.2 billion worth of cryptocurrency since 2015.

Russian-language dark web marketplace Hydra has enjoyed 600% growth in transaction volumes since 2018, all powered by cryptocurrency.