Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The Meter Passport token bridge platform has incurred $4.4 million in losses due to a smart contract hack, which also caused Hundred Finance to lose $3.3 million through under-collateralized loans.Meter.io’s Meter Passport (MTRG) is a token bridge th...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
By 2026, 25% of people will spend at least one hour a day in the Metaverse for work, shopping, education, social, and entertainment purposes, according to new research.The Feb. 7 report by technology research and consulting company Gartner found that...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
By 2026, 25% of people will have spent at least one hour a day in the metaverse for work, shopping, education, social and entertainment purposes, according to new research.The Monday report by technology research and consulting company Gartner found...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
True Names Limited, the nonprofit behind distributed domain protocol Ethereum Name Service, announced it would be ending its contract with director of operations Brantly Millegan after many uncovered his previously posted anti-LBGTQIA tweets.On Feb....
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The DeFi lending and borrowing market has grown significantly in volume as new lending protocols continue to attract capital and NFT-backed loans become more popular. According to Dune Analytics, the top three platforms in terms of market capitalizat...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The mood across the cryptocurrency ecosystem has shifted to cautious optimism on Feb. 7, as Bitcoin (BTC) bulls managed to bid its price back above support at $44,000 with the help of several positive developments, including the announcement that “Bi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin is the currency of the Internet: a distributed, worldwide, decentralized digital money. Unlike traditional currencies such as dollars, bitcoins are issued and managed without any central authority whatsoever: there is no government, company,...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Several cryptocurrency exchanges and advocacy groups across different countries have banded together to form a coalition intended to fight market manipulation.In a Monday announcement, market surveillance firm Solidus Labs and exchanges including Bit...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The play-to-earn (P2E) gaming sector of the cryptocurrency ecosystem has been one of the sectors most resilient to the volatility and price declines in the past couple of months as gamers are jumping on the ability to earn income while playing tokeni...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
From NFL players accepting their salaries in cryptocurrency and Tom Brady founding his own nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace to the NFL providing Super Bowl attendees with customized NFTs, the National Football League and the blockchain community s...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Every global event or major political crisis these days can trigger a digital asset-related conversation. As China welcomes the world’s top athletes to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, showing off ultra-high-tech facilities and sports infrastructure...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Ripple (XRP) price rose by nearly 30% in less than a week amid positive sentiment around the court case, in which the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) claims that Ripple sold XRP as illegal securities.SEC vs. Ripple Judge Analisa Torres...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Big Four auditor KPMG’s Canadian operation has officially added Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) to its corporate treasury, joining other major companies in converting a portion of its fiat holdings into digital assets. The decision to add Bitcoin and E...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
It’s a shot in the arm for Google Cloud users at risk of cryptocurrency mining attacks. The Security Command Center Team has created a threat detection service to shield “poorly configured” accounts that attackers use to mine cryptocurrency. In a blo...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Crypto asset manager Valkyrie will have an exchange-traded fund (ETF) with exposure to Bitcoin mining firms available for trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market starting Tuesday.A spokesperson for Valkyrie told Cointelegraph that the firm’s Bitcoin Miner...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Martin Gruenberg, the acting chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or FDIC, named “crypto-assets” among the agency’s key priorities in 2022, alongside addressing financial risks associated with climate change and promoting amendments...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Layer-2 scaling solution Polygon has raised $450 million in a funding round that was backed by some of blockchain’s biggest venture funds — offering further evidence that major investors are looking to support the future of Web3 development. The inv...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Ownership is one of the most critical aspects of nonfungible tokens (NFT). They are a representation of the evolution of execution and ownership of art, content, music, in-game assets, etc., since they are digital assets with distinctive identities t...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin’s (BTC) price inched higher over the weekend as bulls try to enforce a trend change while bears attempt to stall the relief rally. On-chain monitoring resource Whalemap highlighted that $38,000 is the critical zone for the whales during any c...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Zero-knowledge applications platform Aleo has raised $200 million in a solid investment round, pushing the company forward and supporting its goals to develop products and services that encourage and assist developers in building applications on top...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The first blockchain school in the Middle East will open in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, according to an announcement by the BSV Blockchain Association. The new institution will reportedly provide training and development tools for government organizations...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Elon Musk’s electric vehicle maker Tesla was holding about $2 billion worth of Bitcoin (BTC) by the end of 2021, according to official records.The “fair market value” of BTC held by Tesla as of December 31, 2021, was $1.99 billion, the company said o...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin (BTC) continues to linger just below $43,000 on Feb. 7 as markets gear up for what promises to be a lively week.Another step up overnight took BTC/USD briefly over $43,000 before consolidating with $42,000 as support, data from Cointelegraph...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Former Manchester United legends Gary Neville and Paul Scholes are teaming up to launch a one-of-a-kind sports-centric DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) that would allow fans to make investments alongside these legends.The sports investment...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Shiba Inu (SHIB) looks poised to undergo sharp price corrections after rallying nearly 75% in almost two weeks.SHIB’s price rallied to mid-January highs On Monday, the memecoin climbed to $0.00002961, its best level since Jan. 18, amid renewed buying...