A mysterious Shiba Inu whale has stunned the community by moving 4.64 trillion SHIB tokens, roughly $38 million, between two undisclosed wallets, as per data from etherscan. The activity comes during the relaunch of Shiba Inu’s layer-2 scaling solution, Shibarium. Following the development, data from the Shibarium explorer indicates that the addresses using Shibarium have...Read More
Elon Musk’s recent denial of the speculated “X coin” has ignited discussions within the cryptocurrency community, particularly concerning the fate of Dogecoin (DOGE). This comes after Musk took to the platform, issuing a clear and direct “No” in response to speculations about the platform having an internal token. NEWS: might be looking at launching coin...Read More
Argentina’s technology and cryptocurrency sectors have recently surged with World ID, a project by Worldcoin, reaching an all-time high in user verifications. On Aug. 30, Argentina set a new record with 9,500 citizens verifying their identities through World ID. While this might be considered a growing crypto adoption sign by some, it’s also quite controversial...Read More
Shiba Inu’s ecosystem has gone through quite a bit throughout the past few weeks. It saw what is probably one of the most important releases in its roadmap – the layer 2 scaling solution, thematically called Shibarium. The launch of the network didn’t go without problems, and developers had to temporarily take it private. As CryptoPotato reported...Read More
John Deaton, founder of CryptolawUS and an advocate for XRP holders, spoke out against the SEC’s “aiding and abetting” allegations against Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple. Deaton claims that the situation might have been prevented if the SEC had allowed previous executives Bill Hinman and Jay Clayton to testify sooner. In the Ripple v. SEC...Read More
Data analyzed by the on-chain analytics platform Nansen shows that blue-chip non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are struggling, and their floor prices have plunged significantly. According to the firm, the floor prices of most blue-chip NFTs crashed by more than 25% in the last 30 days. At the same time, the prices of a few collections recorded...Read More
Following an appearance by former President Donald Trump on Tucker Carlson’s X-based interview show, the value of Trump’s baseball card-style NFT collection saw a notable surge. According to reports, the 45,000-card polygon-based Trump Digital Trading Cards’ price increased from 0.1 ether ($150) last week to approximately 0.13 ether ($215) after the viral interview. Trump: “When...Read More
Following successful private testing, the highly anticipated Shibarium (L2) update is scheduled for public release, creating excitement among the community, with some fortunate members having already received bridged $BONE tokens. The news comes after Shiba Inu’s team confirmed the smooth operations of the platform, which is now awaiting its public debut. Since its start, Shibarium...Read More
Jeremy Cahen, the founder of Not Larva Labs, has doxxed Zachary Testa as the alleged founder of the PEPE meme coin. The news comes with a 19% drop in the coin’s price within the last 24 hours. 🚨 @pepecoineth Dox: Here is Zachary Testa aka @degenharambe aka @LordKekLol on TG from Phoenix, AZ. He infamously...Read More
In a relatively surprising series of events, a substantial purchase of XRP tokens totaling $1.5 million was executed, sending ripples (no pun intended) through the cryptocurrency community. This acquisition led to the creation of two notable green candles on the XRP chart – an event that has sparked conversations about a potentially more impressive price...Read More
In 2020, when Elon Musk began endorsing Dogecoin (DOGE) on Twitter (now known as X), a user of the platform, Glauber Contessoto, better known as SlumDOGE Millionaire, decided to invest $250,000 in the meme coin. At one point, their investment skyrocketed to a staggering $3 million, but the crypto enthusiast withheld withdrawing the funds. However,...Read More
In an unexpected move, Coinbase Assets announced the suspension of trading for six cryptocurrency assets on Sept. 6, 2023, at 9 AM PT. Coinbase’s announcement mentioned six tokens, which include BarnBridge (BOND), DerivaDAO (DDX), Jupiter (JUP), Multichain (MULTI), Ooki (OOKI) and Voyager (VGX). We regularly monitor the assets on our exchange to ensure they meet...Read More
Crypto enthusiasts are buzzing with anticipation as XRP seems to approach its third bullish golden cross in history. A golden cross is often used when shorter moving averages surpass or cross long-term moving averages, indicating movement from bearish to bullish. Popular analyst Egrag Crypto on Twitter recently mentioned that the XRP community should prepare for...Read More
Binance, one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges, will soon remove several spot trading pairs from its platform. The removal will take effect on August 25, 2023, at 03:00 (UTC). Binance users are advised to take note of this change and make any necessary adjustments to their trading strategies. The trading pairs that will be...Read More
Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple, and Chris Larsen, the executive chairman, have notified the court that they would be out of the office for two weeks in April. This choice was made in accordance with the court’s instructions on the final pretrial meeting time and date and the final order. Notably, the Ripple executives...Read More
While many believe the 2022 bear market is over, bitcoin recently dumped further south, and now some analysts are speculating that the asset could fall to lows unseen for years. The metrics that could forecast this are the Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) and the Volume Profile Visible Range (VPVR). Recall that BTC became the...Read More
XRP and SHIB whales are inducing ripples in the crypto market, with massive new token purchases igniting speculations of potential price actions in these assets. Data from Whale Alerts reveals a string of significant transactions involving trillions of SHIB moving between wallets. On Aug. 21, an investor and holder of wallet 0xc684d6c5 purchased 4,653,778,173,637 SHIB...Read More
As revealed by Lookonchain, a mysterious user of the decentralized perpetual exchange GMX raked in approximately $1,000,000 after the crypto market crashed in mid-August since they shorted Ethereum at a high price a month ago. The trader opened the short position on July 14, when ETH was worth around $2,000 (per CoinGecko’s data), and closed...Read More
Lookonchain revealed that Andrew Kang (Co-Founder of the crypto-focused venture capital firm Mechanism Capital) lost over $430,000 in a single day after the recent crash of the digital asset market liquidated his long positions. Kang’s positions opened on August 18 included Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Arbitrum (ARB), as he traded with up to 100x...Read More
On Aug. 20, Shibarium, the company behind the popular Shiba Inu cryptocurrency, released an important update on their ongoing development efforts. In a recent blog post, the Shibarium team provided insights into the current status of their blockchain and the steps they are taking to optimize its performance, aiming for a secure public re-launch. Shytoshi...Read More
Ripple’s XRP went through a major crash during the past 24 hours following the broader market downturn, which resulted in over $1 billion worth of leveraged positions being liquidated. While there might be multiple reasons behind the crash, there might also be some silver lining for XRP traders as a new exchange has added an...Read More
Shiba Inu (SHIB), Pepe (PEPE), and Bone Shibaswap (BONE) are among the top five trending coins in the market today. Interestingly, none of them is making the headlines for a good reason. Data from CoinMarketCap indicates the three meme coins are currently all in the red. BONE is down 12.83% in the last 24 hours,...Read More
Shiba Inu’s lead developer Shytoshi Kusama addressed the recent turmoil within the cryptocurrency community regarding the issues that Shibarium’s launch faced. As CryptoPotato reported earlier, the Shibarium launch was faced with some issues, including stuck transactions. Reports started circling around that Shytoshi Kusama acknowledged the problems, also saying that there’s a huge number of ETH stuck in...Read More
The community is eagerly anticipating today’s announcement, and many seem to believe that it will be related to the up-and-coming layer 2 scaling solution developed by Shiba Inu – Shibarium. Meanwhile, Shiba Inu’s marketing strategist took it to X to warn users of potential fraudulent actors, outlining one of the popular attack vectors. Lucie emphasized...Read More
Binance will start with a deposit halt for all trading pairs linked to these tokens, including SNM/BTC, SNM/BUSD, SRM/BUSD, and YFII/USDT, on August 22, at 03:00 UTC. The discontinued services for the three tokens encompass Binance Simple Earn, Binance Loans, Binance Pay, Binance Gift Card, and Binance Trading Bots. While deposits will be halted next...Read More
Famous podcast host and MMA commentator, Joe Rogan, is no stranger to Bitcoin (BTC). Having mentioned it in numerous conversations already, both he and his guests have praised the asset before for its absolute scarcity and freedom-focused properties, while contrasting it against the controlling nature of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). He’s even accepted BTC...Read More
