Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Officials representing the United States government have reportedly urged Japan’s licensed cryptocurrency exchanges to stop doing business with Russia, seemingly as part of the country’s economic sanctions.
According to a Thursday report from the Fi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Those of us anxiously awaiting a summer relief rally for Bitcoin (BTC) may have to wait a little while longer. The bear market is still cleansing us of our excess — and revealing the most toxic players in our industry. I’ve talked to you about Terra...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Cointelegraph had the opportunity to chat with Jason Fung, former head of gaming at TikTok, about his new company Meta0, why he decided to make the leap into Web3 and what he feels the future has in store for him.
The former gaming head expressed a...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Tether’s Bitcoin (BTC)-denominated loan to Celsius Network has been fully liquidated without a loss, easing concerns that the stablecoin issuer may have oversized exposure to the embattled crypto lender.
In a statement issued Friday, Tether explaine...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
On Friday, Web3 subscription and ticketing solution provider Revuto announced a novel subscription model for Netflix and Spotify, using a nonfungible token (NFT) solution.
Revuto said it would offer a lifetime digital subscription for Netflix and Sp...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Ashley Alder, the CEO of Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission, will become the next chair of the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority.
In a Friday announcement, the U.K. Treasury said it had appointed Alder to chair the country’s fi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Crypto and Know Your Customer (KYC) guidelines seem to be an unhappy marriage — pseudonymity in the digital currencies’ DNA doesn’t match the old-school centralized protocols of traditional finance, but cohabitation is inevitable for the maturing in...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Traditional venture capital funds drive valuations through multiple funding rounds. Startups aim for initial public offerings or other exits. Then the sharemarket decides upon a more realistic valuation.
But in cryptoland, tokens introduce market c...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Ongoing strife in the cryptocurrency space has forced Compass Mining to lay off 15% of its employees while top executives and staff take major pay-cuts.
The firm announced its decision to downscale its workforce in a bid to weather difficult market...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
BNB and its role in the blockchain ecosystem
Binance Coin (BNB) is the Binance ecosystem’s native cryptocurrency. Launched in 2017, BNB was originally presented as an ERC-20 token on the Ethereum blockchain with a total supply of 200 million. In 201...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Web3 community members are fighting back against the United States Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade.
On June 24, the landmark court case, which previously assured the right to have an abortion, was overturned, sparking a backlash amon...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Bitcoin (BTC) may be down 70% from its November 2021 peak, but its rebound move in the past three weeks is raising the possibility of more upside in Q3.
Bitcoin eyes 30% price rally
At the core of the bullish argument is a technical pattern called t...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Bitcoin (BTC) sets people free. At least, that was the story at Lebanon’s first Bitcoin-themed escape room in Beirut.
Lebanese Bitcoiners from the group Bitcoin du Liban took on the latest Bitcoin education challenge — Bitcoin Escape the System. Th...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Virginia’s Fairfax County continues to be a prominent public institutional investor in the cryptocurrency space and is set to diversify its portfolio with a move into yield farming.
As previously reported, global asset managers VanEck announced that...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Banking Circle, a European bank focused on cross-border payments, is adopting a major U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin for payment rails.
The firm officially announced on Friday the adoption of the USD Coin (USDC) on its platform as a payment acceptanc...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Crypto exchange Binance has been registered as a virtual asset service provider (VASP) by the Bank of Spain. This allows the exchange to offer custody and crypto exchange services in the country legally.
Binance said in an announcement on Friday th...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Crypto exchange Binance is now registered as a virtual asset service provider (VASP) by the Bank of Spain, allowing the exchange to offer custody and crypto exchange services in the country.
In an announcement on Friday, Binance said that its Spani...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Bitcoin (BTC) is on track for its biggest weekly gains since March, but not everyone is convinced that good times will last.
BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView
Crypto sentiment highest since early May
Data from Cointelegra...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Shiba Inu (SHIB) has grown stronger against its top "memecoin" rival Dogecoin (DOGE) in the last two months, in part due to the token's periodic token burning events and a flurry of project announcements that promises to boost its utility.
Why is th...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
A United States-based lobbying group has raised a voice against developing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the United States. The National Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions (NAFCU) believes the project’s cost outweighs the “hy...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
As Web3 adoption goes further and more beginners enter the space, hackers are becoming more active, with more phishing attacks being recorded in the latest quarter of 2022 and social media being noted as a major platform of choice for conducting the...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
A Dune analytics platform user has found that more than $18.5 million worth of Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) and Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC) nonfungible tokens (NFTs) have been marked as stolen or flagged for suspicious activity on OpenSea to date. ...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Decentralized finance (DeFi) giant Aave has unveiled plans to launch an overcollateralized stablecoin called GHO, subject to the community decentralized autonomous organization’s (DAO’s) approval.
The announcement was made by Aave Companies — the ce...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Consumer confidence is considerably higher among crypto owners than the average American adult, with crypto owners sitting 16.4 points higher on the consumer sentiment index.
A Thursday report from research firm Morning Consult shows that although...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Solana Labs is the latest crypto company to be hit with a lawsuit accusing it of promoting an unregistered security.
The class action was filed on July 1 by Roche Freedman LLP and Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky in the district court for the nort...