Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
In his monthly crypto tech column, Israeli serial entrepreneur Ariel Shapira covers emerging technologies within the crypto, decentralized finance and blockchain space, as well as their roles in shaping the economy of the 21st century.In the year 202...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Staking has been used fluently to describe several actions within the world of crypto, from locking your tokens on a decentralized finance (DeFi) application or centralized exchange (CEX) to using tokens to run a validator node infrastructure on a pr...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin (BTC) bulls kept up the pressure on April 20 as the Wall Street open saw a return to $42,000.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView$42,000 proves troublesomeData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/U...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
I arrived in Tbilisi, Georgia, near Russia’s southern border, in late February — just a few days after Russian forces invaded Ukraine. I had been reporting on crypto and blockchain from St. Petersburg, but after the war started, staying there had bec...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Many Ukraine-based businesses have had to shutter or suspend operations following the outbreak of the conflict with Russia on Feb. 24, but some in the cryptocurrency space have been able to keep running, albeit with many staff in bomb shelters, scatt...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Crypto exchange Coinbase’s nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace has moved into beta more than six months after the company announced it planned to open a waitlist for the site.According to a Wednesday blog post, the crypto exchange said beta testers f...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Forty crypto companies cosigned an open letter to the European Parliament, European Commission and other principal EU institutions with a call to ensure common-sense regulation, standardized compliance procedures and an innovation-friendly business e...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Russia's Federal Tax Service (FTS) has joined the debate around crypto regulation in Russia with an unexpectedly blunt proposition — to let Russian companies use digital currencies as a payment method when transacting internationally.On Wednesday, lo...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
MakerDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) serving the popular DeFi lending protocol Maker, has announced an upcoming deployment schedule on the decentralized zero-knowledge (ZK) Ethereum rollup, StarkNet.Expected to become fully operati...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
In the last few months, the standoff between the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) and the country’s Ministry of Finance over crypto regulation has become the key regulatory plot for the Russian crypto community to follow. Simultaneously, however, another...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
ApeCoin (APE) price has exploded higher on anticipations that it would become a de-facto payment token in an upcoming metaverse land sale.APE price swelled nearly 28% in one day to reach over $17 per token on April 20. The rally came as a part of a r...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The number of adults in the United States who will use crypto to make purchases in 2022 will increase to 3.6 million, according to a research firm.A report published by Insider Intelligence shows that crypto's value as a means of payment will go up b...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Puerto Rico has become the fourth jurisdiction in America to grant a money transmitter license to Binance.US, the American arm of the crypto exchange Binance. Other states that haveissued operational licenses to Binance.US include Wyoming, Connecticu...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Beanstalk Farms, a credit-based stablecoin protocol exploited for around $76 million in crypto on April 18, has offered a bounty of 10% if the attackers return the funds. The offer was posted on the company’s Twitter and sent to the attackers via an...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
India’s 30% crypto tax came into law on March 31 and was effective April 1, despite warnings from several stakeholders about its possible ill impact on the budding crypto industry. As predicted, within just a couple of weeks of the new crypto tax law...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Aura FAT Projects Acquisition Corp. (AFARU), a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), has closed its initial public offering (IPO) on Nasdaq and raised $115 million, focusing on crypto industry assets.The Cayman Islands-incorporated SPAC raised...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Financial regulators have greenlit Australia’s first Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) to begin trading on April 27, and the Australian Financial Review reports it could see up to $1 billion in inflows.An ETF is a regulated exchange-traded fun...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The native token prices from multiple projects that employ Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution Optimism have spiked around 20% amid rumors that the network will soon launch a token and airdrop it to the community. Optimism is a layer-2 scaling solution...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
A new report by blockchain analytics firm CipherTrace highlights the growing role that privacy-focused cryptocurrencies such as Monero are playing in the rising tide of ransomware.“Current Trends in Ransomware” delves into trends observed during 2021...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
A new report by blockchain analytics firm CipherTrace highlights the growing role that privacy-focused cryptocurrencies such as Monero are playing in the rising tide of ransomware.“Current Trends in Ransomware” delves into trends observed during 2021...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
A top official from the United States Secret Service (USSS) says the agency can track the flow of Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies in a similar manner to email addresses, and it has seized more than $102 million in crypto across 254 cases sin...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The stock market has once again made crypto look stable by comparison with the Netflix stock price dropping 25% in after-hours trading tod.The news that sparked the dramatic tumble was the revelation on Tuesday that the streaming service has lost 200...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Activity on the Cardano blockchain is starting to heat up, with 400 new projects in the works along with 100,000 new wallets being created over the past month. According to a Tuesday Twitter post from Cardano creators Input Output (IOHK), there are n...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Crypto-focused venture firm Framework Ventures has raised $400 million in new funding to invest in early-stage companies across the Web3, blockchain gaming and decentralized finance (DeFi) industries. The completed funds raised will go toward “FVIII,...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
According to the International Monetary Fund's Global Financial Stability report released Tuesday, the war in Ukraine — following hard on the heels of the coronavirus pandemic — has led to a tightening of global financial conditions. Rapid changes in...