American professional basketball team Philadelphia 76ers has announced a partnership with the leading cryptocurrency exchange CryptoCom. The initiative will see the popular NBA club launch its non-fungible token (NFT) on the digital asset trading platform. Philadelphia 76ers Partners CryptoCom Announcing the partnership in a press release today, 76ers noted that fans interested in obtaining the...Read More
Following confirmation that AMC would begin accepting Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, and Litecoin for online payment, the company’s CEO has asked the Dogecoin community if AMC should add the meme coin among the cryptocurrency options. Almost 80% Want to Pay for a Movie Ticket With DOGE Adam Aron, CEO of the world’s largest movie theater...Read More
The US Securities and Exchange Commission could greenlight a Bitcoin futures ETF as early as October this year, said Bloomberg’s Senior Commodity Strategist – Mike McGlone. He also doubled down on his $100,000 price prediction for BTC by the end of the year, adding that the cryptocurrency is on its way to replace gold, similarly...Read More
David Ignatius of the Washington Post interviewed SEC chair, Gary Gensler, on the cryptocurrency landscape, his thoughts on his approach to regulating the crypto space. Gensler expresses optimism for the possibilities crypto provides for enhancing finance, but also that he believes most of the space should fall under regulatory supervision – including stablecoins. At the...Read More
The team behind Solana yesterday gave a detailed report on how its validators from all over the world rescued the network from an outage that lasted nearly 18 hours. IDO Bots Responsible for Solana’s Downtime According to the report, the network outage was a result of Grape Protocol’s IDO, which launched on the Raydium exchange...Read More
The major Brazilian bank – BTG Pactual – will enable its customers to trade digital assets directly through a new platform called Mynt. The offering will be available from the next quarter and will include the two leading cryptocurrencies – bitcoin and ether. The New Crypto Opportunity According to a local report, the initiative, which...Read More
A contract address belonging to the DeFi lending platform Vee finance has been exploited with the perpetrator swiping 8,800 ETH and 214 BTC. The attacker has not moved the funds yet, as Vee’s team claiming they have initiated contact to resolve the incident. The protocol announced hours ago that it had halted all services as...Read More
The regulatory clampdown against the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange keeps pressuring the company to stop providing some of its services. The latest to close down are futures, options, and leveraged tokens for Australians. Binance announced earlier on September 21st the latest change in its service offerings affecting Australian users only. As of September 24th at...Read More
The millennial-focused trading portal is edging closer to launching a long-awaited app that will enable its growing user-base to send and receive cryptocurrencies. A beta version of Robinhood’s iPhone app showed the company’s latest upgrades on the new digital asset features, according to Bloomberg. There is a hidden image showing a waiting list for users...Read More
In an update to a blog post from months prior, Coinbase has withdrawn its plans to launch a USDC APY lending program on the platform in response to mounting legal pressure from regulators. Coinbase Bends to the SEC The news was quietly released this Friday when Coinbase updated its June blog post that announced an...Read More
The cross-chain DeFi protocol, pNetwork, has informed that it has become the latest victim of a security breach. By leveraging a codebase bug, the unknown perpetrator has stolen 277 bitcoins. As announced by the team behind the project, the hacker “was able to leverage a bug in our codebase and attack pBTC” on the Binance...Read More
The first nation to legally adopt bitcoin now owns 700 coins after a new purchase, updated the president of the country. This has become another “buy the dip” moment, as BTC’s price dropped to $45,000. El Salvador’s president – Nayib Bukele – took it to Twitter on September 20th to inform that the nation has...Read More
As regulatory pressure mounts in the U.S., policymakers are putting stablecoins at the top of their agendas. Citing “people familiar with the matter,” Bloomberg has reported that officials are crafting a policy framework set to be released in the coming weeks. Their primary concern is ensuring that investors can reliably move money in and out...Read More
Several US state regulators have gone after the popular cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network for failing to comply with local securities laws. The project’s CEO was quick to refute the allegations, promising that all protocol services will remain unaffected for now. US State Regulators After Celsius United States watchdogs have intensified their actions against the cryptocurrency...Read More
The 24-year-old Australian national – Stefan He Qin – will spend the next 90 months in federal prison for defrauding his customers out of $90 million. The courts also ordered him to forfeit nearly $55 million from the embezzled money. The Road to Prison According to a press release from the United States Department of...Read More
The Hedera Governing Council recently announced that it had allocated 10.7 billion HBAR, Hedera Hashgraph’s native token, to fund the development and expansion of the ecosystem. The official announcement revealed that the amount worth approximately $4.5 billion at the current market price ($0.42) represents 20% of the token’s total supply. Interestingly, the value of the...Read More
Coinbase and the U.S. Homeland Security have struck a million-dollar deal to allow the U.S. government to use the exchange’s services to analyze American citizens’ data. According to official documents, The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – a branch of the U.S. Homeland Security Dept. dedicated to cross-border crime and illegal immigration – paid Coinbase...Read More
Major multinational professional services company Ernst & Young (EY) announced the adoption of the Polygon protocol for the deployment of its blockchains to provide faster transactions and lower costs for its enterprise clients who transact on the Ethereum mainnet. EY Clients Can Now Access Polygon Network The “Big Four” consulting firm stated in the press...Read More
Cryptocurrency users who purchased the Apple app “Toast Plus” have had their funds vanish, and they’ve filed a class action lawsuit against the iPhone maker. XRP holders went on the offensive, demonstrating once again the community’s level of organisation. Several XRP investors accused tech giant Apple of permitting criminal actors to steal their funds and...Read More
While worries about Bitcoin’s energy use abound, new analysis shows that the network has already consumed more power than it did during the entirety of last year. Bitcoin’s Rising Power Consumption As reported by Bloomberg, “the network reportedly consumed about 67TWh of electricity in 2020, and its total consumption has already surpassed this in 2021”....Read More
The Smart Contract release was announced on September 12 as part of the so-called Alonzo upgrade by Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK). The quantity of smart contracts that have already been created on the ecosystem demonstrates the developers’ faith in the network. Smart Contracts with a Twist? In less than 24 hours, the platform has...Read More
South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges that cannot meet up with the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) registration exercise are mandated to inform their customers before midnight today that they will be shutting down operations a week before the September 24, 2021 deadline. The affected trading platforms have been instructed not only to inform their customers that they...Read More
This week, even though tumultuous to some extent, was positive for the cryptocurrency market and Bitcoin, particularly in terms of prices. BTC managed to increase by about 2.5%, reclaiming an important level while doing so – $47.2K – an important confluence of technical indicators to consider. It’s still rather early to state it for sure,...Read More
Global payments giant PayPal disclosed on Friday that its customers in the United Kingdom can now buy, sell, and hold multiple cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin and ether, directly from their accounts. PayPal’s Crypto Services Now Available For UK Users “We are delighted to share that all eligible customers in the UK can now buy, hold, and...Read More
DeFi exploits continue as SushiSwap’s CTO Joseph Delong informed that the protocol’s token platform MISO became the victim of a supply chain attack. Early estimations show that the attacker duped more than $3 million in ETH. Delong took it to Twitter earlier on September 17th to indicate that the MISO front end “has become the...Read More
With his approval ratings battered by several failures in the withdrawal from Afghanistan, Joe Biden is turning his attention to massive infrastructure spending and expanding the government’s programs to provide a social safety net for Americans who are struggling. Biden Proposes Tax Hikes to Boost Washington’s Budget If passed, Biden’s tax plan would raise the...Read More
How did the hacker escape the police? -He Ransomware. Jokes aside, the victims of the infamous REvil/Sodinokibi ransomware now have a reason to celebrate, as they can have access to their files again. A few hours ago, the cybersecurity company Bitdefender announced that it succesfully developed a tool to decrypt files altered by the REvil/Sodinokibi...Read More
Nate Chastain, Head of Product at popular NFT marketplace OpenSea, appears to have stopped working with the company after being accused of NFT flipping using insider knowledge. Head of Product is Out Since being called out two days ago, Chastain’s Twitter profile has been updated to include the phrase “Past: @opensea”, suggesting that he is...Read More
Following the implementation of the long-anticipated Ethereum’s London hard fork on August 5, 2021, fresh data shows that more than a billion dollars worth of ETH has become unusable through a burn mechanism. Over 300k ETH Burned According to Dune Analytics, a total of 303,681.05 Ether, which is worth $1.032 billion at the time of...Read More
The ruling Democratic Party of South Korea intends to delay the upcoming taxation policy of digital assets. According to the officials, taxing bitcoin and altcoin investors still lacks proper infrastructure. Delaying The Crypto Taxation The Democratic Party of South Korea has objections in regards to the upcoming law that plans to start taxing gains made...Read More
