Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have issued an alert on North Korean state-sponsored cyber threats that target blockchain companies in response to the Ronin Bridge hack last month....
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Andre Cronje, former Fantom Foundation technical adviser and Yearn.finance founder, resurfaced on Monday via Medium after announcing his departure from the DeFi and crypto space last month. In a post titled “The rise and fall of crypto culture,” Cron...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Ranking member of the United States House Financial Services Committee Patrick McHenry and ranking member of the Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship and Capital Markets Bill Huizenga sent a letter Monday to Securities Exchange Commi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Ranking member of the United States House Financial Services Committee Patrick McHenry and ranking member of the Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship and Capital Markets Bill Huizenga sent a letter on Monday to Securities Exchange Co...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
In a statement published by former video-game giant Atari on Monday, the firm says it has, effective immediately, terminated all license agreements with its joint venture partner ICICB Group and its subsidiaries. Previously, the two had jointly creat...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Ethereum's long-awaited transition away from proof-of-work (PoW) mining has recently suffered another delay and is expected to occur in the second half of 2022.Ethereum developer Tim Beiko stated on April 13 that "it won't be June, but likely in the...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Bitcoin (BTC) and most major altcoins have started the new week on a soft note and the Crypto Fear and Greed Index has dropped into the “extreme fear” zone, suggesting that investors are still nervous.Bitcoin has declined about 17% year-to-date while...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Last week was the Paris Blockchain Week, and the epicenter of crypto policy and regulatory conversation moved to the French capital accordingly. Cointelegraph reported extensively from the ground and ran a series of interviews with some of the crypto...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
As adoption takes off, the crypto industry is exerting increasing influence on American society. This can be seen in its lobbying efforts and political action committees, for example, as well as its own organizational efforts, such as forming busines...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Protect Our Future, a political action committee set up in January, with backers including FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, has spent more than $9 million to support candidates running for seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.According to expenditure...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Bitcoin (BTC) dipped below $40,000 support on April 18, and the two-week 15% correction was enough to prompt predictions of $30,000 prices in the near term. Meanwhile, regulatory uncertainties continue to be a key concern for investors, including the...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
As told by Monero (XMR) developers over the weekend, on July 16, the Monero network passed a community consensus to initiate a mainnet hard fork at block height 2,668,888. The popular privacy coin's hard fork will include increasing the chain's ring...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
WonderFi Technologies, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, plans to continue its expansion in Canada by purchasing the Coinberry crypto exchange for $38 million. The platform will be the second regulated crypto exchange under WonderFi once the a...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
In an interview with Cointelegraph reporter Joe Hall last Tuesday, David Olsson, global head of institutional distribution at BlockFi, shared his insight on the state of institutional adoption of cryptocurrencies. BlockFi is a financial services comp...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Play-to-earn (P2E) games continue to dominate the crypto industry as more than half of the active wallets tracked by Dappradar have connected to blockchain-based games in the first quarter of 2022. Games like Axie Infinity — even with last month’s ca...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Thailand-based Gulf Energy has made strategic investments in cryptocurrency exchange Binance US and signaled its pursuit of a joint venture with the global Binance exchange as part of a targeted effort to gain exposure to the digital asset market. Gu...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Decred (DCR) prices soared by as much as 45% on April 18 before paring some gains as traders bet on a major hard fork that aims to prevent pump-and-dump schemes by miners. Key Decred network upgrade in three weeksDCR rallied by nearly 45% to over $86...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Nonfungible tokens (NFTs) have come a long way in a relatively short period of time. In 2017, the NFT project CryptoKitties made headlines as the largest decentralized application on the Ethereum network. While CryptoKitties accounted for a notable p...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Bitcoin (BTC) is in line for a relief bounce but still risks dropping all the way to $30,000 before May, a new analysis warned on April 18.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView$30,000 dive is April "risk"Data from Cointelegraph...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The decentralized finance (DeFi) world saw another week of increased on-chain and developer activity while token prices entered the second week of the bear market, with many of the tokens bleeding in double digits over the past week. MetaMask expande...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
London-based cryptocurrency exchange Exmo is the latest crypto trading platform to formally suspend its business in Russia and Belarus due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.Exmo is selling its digital asset business in Russia and Belarus to a Russia-ba...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
It has long been believed that investors possessing inside knowledge help drive cryptocurrencies’ price volatility, and a number of academic papers have been published on this topic. This is why Coinbase’s intention to regularly publish in advance a...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
While many gamers are critical of blockchain-based gaming, Myspace co-founder Chris DeWolfe believes adoption is on the way as the business model inherently provides players more control over their in-game experiences.DeWolfe, who is now the CEO of g...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Major developer platform GitHub has reportedly blocked more than a dozen accounts of Russian developers associated with organizations sanctioned by the United States government. The sanctioned accounts include some of the largest banks in Russia — Sb...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The Iranian government will increase the penalties for the use of subsidized energy in crypto mining. The move marks another step in tightening mining regulation in the country, which had faced energy shortages in recent years. Citing the country’s P...