Insight from Coinmarketcap suggests that the SHIB/USDT market in Binance has more depth than all other SHIB markets in other exchanges. According to market depth insights from CoinMarketCap, about $775k in funds could induce a 2% surge in price for SHIB on the Binance exchange. Conversely, a deduction of $1.1 million from the SHIB/USDT market...Read More
Ripple – the company behind one of the leading cryptocurrencies, XRP – has announced that it will acquire Fortress Trust. According to a recent announcement, Ripple has agreed to acquire Fortress Trust. Fortress Trust is a well-known financial institution that’s focused on cryptocurrencies. Mainly, it provides Web3 financial, technology, and regulatory infrastructure to blockchain-oriented companies....Read More
The US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) claimed that the notorious North Korea-sponsored hacking syndicate Lazarus Group is responsible for the recent attack on the cryptocurrency sports betting and casino platform Stake. The hack resulted in the loss of over $41 million worth of crypto assets from the gambling firm. Lazarus Group Behind Stake Hack...Read More
The ongoing dispute between prominent figures in the cryptocurrency industry has attracted the attention of United States investigators who were already conducting financial inquiries into one of the most renowned empires in the sector. According to a Bloomberg report, the authorities are currently investigating allegations of fraud raised by Cameron Winklevoss, co-founder of the crypto...Read More
Despite a consistent drop in Litecoin’s (LTC) price, the number of addresses holding the world’s fifteenth-largest cryptocurrency for over 12 months has nearly doubled in the past year. According to the crypto analytic platform IntoTheBlock, the number of long-term LTC holders has just hit five million this week, indicating “growing confidence” in the asset. Five...Read More
An unknown Ethereum address that has existed for over eight years has just made its first transfer for 185 ETH. In another intriguing transfer of the day, 830 BTC were moved from an unknown wallet to Bitstamp. The on-chain monitoring tool Whale Alert outlined the ETH ICO participant and their behavior on September 7. The...Read More
Bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network submitted an “adversary complaint” against EquitiesFirst Holdings on Wednesday, as per the confidential adversary complaint. The moves come as Celsius attempts to recoup assets from the private lender which reportedly owes $439 million. The debt comprises $361 million in cash and 3,765 BTC as of July 2022. EquitiesFirst: The ‘Mysterious’ Debtor...Read More
Ryan Salame, a former high-ranking executive at the crypto exchange FTX, has entered a guilty plea in connection with criminal charges related to the extensive fraud case involving FTX’s founder, Sam Bankman-Fried. As part of the agreement, Salame has agreed to pay $5 million to debtors of FTX, and $6 million in fines to the...Read More
Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm has reportedly pleaded ‘not guilty,’ denying all charges related to money laundering exceeding $1 billion, including allegations connected to a cybercrime group associated with the North Korean government and violations of United States sanctions. Storm, who is a naturalized US citizen and the co-founder of the controversial coin mixer, was...Read More
Chainlink has forged several collaborations with prominent companies but on the price side of things, its native token has yet to recoup its losses. Over the past month, LINK was down by approximately 14%. Surging past the crucial resistance level at $6 was a feat given a broad bearish market for altcoins this week, but...Read More
Chris Larsen, the chair and co-founder of Ripple Labs, has asserted that the United States legal system aims to rectify the missteps in crypto policy made by the Biden administration. He highlighted his company’s partial victory against the Securities and Exchange Commission in July, emphasizing that the regulator faltered on critical aspects pivotal to industry...Read More
The U.S. Financial Accounting Services Board (FASB) has passed a unanimous vote to drastically change the way crypto asset values are recorded on publicly traded companies’ balance sheets. Experts predict the change will make crypto more attractive to hold by exposing big investors to the upside potential of their assets. How FASB’s Change Impacts Crypto...Read More
Blockchain analytics firm Arkham Intelligence has found that on-chain wallets tied to the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) hold more than $16 billion in BTC. In a recent tweet, the crypto data tracking platform said that the trust’s issuer, Grayscale Investments, is the second largest global bitcoin holder, with the assets spread across more than 1,750...Read More
The Bitcoin network is currently overwhelmed with a backlog of unconfirmed transactions, with the average confirmation time hovering above 10.4 minutes. According to Mempool, there are around 560,000 transactions waiting to be confirmed on the Bitcoin protocol, whose memory usage has surged past 300 MB to 1GB, and transaction fees spiked to 20 satoshis per...Read More
Published on the official Twitter of Ripple’s development team, the firm announced an update to the XRP Ledger that will introduce a couple of new features, pending validation from community. The specification is numbered 1.12.0, and it merges the XLS-30 Automated Market Maker and the XLS-39 Clawback spec to the network. Let’s dive in. The...Read More
Shiba Inu’s price has been trending lower for the past week, shedding some 7.2% during that period. The cryptocurrency is down some 15.6% in the past 30 days and around 36% over the past year. We decided to poke ChatGPT on Shiba Inu’s future performance and see if the AI-based language model can make any...Read More
Millions of digital assets have been stolen by cyber adversaries via DNS hijacking attacks for phishing purposes, targeting users’ wallet seed phrases, or creating deceptive webpages that closely resemble legitimate sites. Attacks on Domain Name Systems (DNSs) play a crucial role in the internet’s infrastructure, providing insights into security incidents in Web 2 that have...Read More
Cathie Wood’s asset management firm, ARK Invest, has filed for the United States’ first Ether (ETH) spot ETF weeks after regulators placed the company’s Bitcoin ETF application on the backburner. Fellow investment manager VanEck has submitted a similar 19b-4 application, starting the clock for when regulators must approve or deny each submission. Ark’s Ether ETF...Read More
The leading cryptocurrency exchange – Coinbase – has reportedly started offering crypto loans to US institutional investors. The move could signal the company’s willingness to strengthen its position in America despite the regulatory uncertainty and the issues with local watchdogs. Recall that the US SEC filed a lawsuit against Coinbase in June, accusing the trading...Read More
With crypto market apathy in full effect, decentralized finance (DeFi) activity has plummeted across the board in 2023 – all but in one sub-sector. Liquid staking protocols are approaching an all-time high in total value locked (TVL), having appreciated nearly 293% since their June 2022 lows. The Rise of Liquid Staking According to DeFiLlama, liquid...Read More
Ripple announced on Monday that it has added four new European institutions to its University Blockchain and Research Initiative (UBRI). The partner universities will help promote blockchain research and education across the region. According to Ripple’s announcement, the new universities include Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), EPITA (France), IE Madrid (Spain), and the University of Trento...Read More
On the 29th of August, Jeremy Allaire – the CEO of Circle, the company that mints and holds governance over USDC – announced that the popular stablecoin would be coming to Base and Optimism within a week. The launch was part of Circle’s plan to improve the utility of USDC by bringing the stablecoin to...Read More
Typically, in order to interact with Ethereum, participants have to use the so-called Externally Owned Accounts (EOAs). Today, EOAs are the only way to initiate a transaction or execute a smart contract. Naturally, this puts certain limitations on the way users can interact with the network. A simple example would be that it makes it...Read More
Bitcoin mining company Marathon Digital Holdings announced producing 1,072 BTC in August, which represented a drop of 9% from the previous month due to extreme weather conditions in Texas. Despite the decrease in Bitcoin production, the figure is still five times more than in August of last year. Marathon’s Bitcoin Production: August Edition In its...Read More
Binance will be removing several spot trading pairs in an effort to maintain a high-quality trading market and protect its users. This decision was made following periodic reviews of all listed spot trading pairs, considering liquidity and trading volume factors. Binance has announced that from Sept. 8, it will stop trading on various spot trading...Read More
Under India’s Group of 20 (G20) presidency, the country is finally gearing up to provide the much-anticipated clarity around crypto regulation. As India prepares to preside over the upcoming G20 summit for the first time, the regulation of cryptocurrencies is poised to be a significant focal point. Ahead of the gathering of the world’s most...Read More
Changpeng Zhao – CEO of Binance – dismissed the speculation that the popular TV personality Jim Cramer declared his approval of the largest cryptocurrency exchange. Some crypto proponents joked that this is actually good news for the trading venue, considering Cramer’s controversial statements and predictions in the past. The host of CNBC’s “Mad Money” has...Read More
The team behind the Lido on Solana project is struggling to meet its initial objectives and is looking to the community to fund the project with $1.5 million for growth and development. However, its staking solution on the Solana network could cease if the project does not get financial assistance. A $1.5 Million Budget to...Read More
Decentralized finance (DeFi) cross-chain bridge Synapse revealed that a liquidity provider dumped 9 million SYN tokens, which crashed the price of the native token by over 22% from $0.4 to $0.31 on September 5th. The price has since recovered, and SYN is currently trading at $0.36. The project confirmed that there was no security breach...Read More
On Sept. 5, a ‘Base chain stall’ was reported on the network status tracker. At 21:36 UTC the tracker reported that it was investigating a stall in the production of blocks. “Users may have issues submitting transactions,” it stated before adding that it was actively investigating the issue. Around 20 minutes later it had identified...Read More
