Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Global diamond mining firm De Beers has launched a proprietary blockchain-powered platform to manage its diamond production and distribution.The firm has long been at work on a blockchain system to trace, record and manage its diamond mining, product...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Japanese conglomerate Sony Electronics collaborates with blockchain video delivery network Theta Labs to launch nonfungible tokens (NFTs) that can be viewed in mixed reality through Sony's Spatial Reality Display, a monitor that lets people perceive...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea suffered a server breach on its main Discord channel, with hackers posting fake "Youtube partnership" announcements.A screenshot shared Friday shows fake collaboration news, accompanied by a link to a phish...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Thursday was a bloodbath for traditional and cryptocurrency markets. On the worst day of trading since 2020, Bitcoin (BTC) dropped over 7%, while the Nasdaq slipped over 5%. Many hoped for capitulation in the trade and crypto markets, and although th...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Top golfers from Africa and Europe will be eyeing lucrative Bitcoin (BTC) payouts at the end of the 2022 season after a new sponsorship of South Africa’s Sunshine Tour.The year-long season sees golfers compete for the top spot on Sunshine Tour’s over...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has given the green light to Valkyrie’s futures exchange-traded fund (ETF) application. This represents another ETF that has been approved by the SEC, which has previously accepted futures ET...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin (BTC) dipping below $36,000 “smells like capitulation,” one trader says as suspicion mounts over United States stock markets.In a tweet on May 6, Cointelegraph contributor Michaël van de Poppe suggested that the BTC price was at least giving...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Collectors of nonfungible tokens (NFTs) have already sent more than $37 billion in value to NFT marketplaces this year as of Sunday, a figure that nearly exceeds the total amount in all of 2021. According to a report from Chainalysis, investors sent...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The Central Bank of Argentina (BCRA) has put the kibosh on financial institutions offering crypto trading only days after two of the country’s largest banks signaled they were opening up to digital assets.On Thursday, the BCRA said the move was to mi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Iconic rapper Ice Cube — also known as O’Shea Jackson Sr. — has jumped on the Dogecoin (DOGE) bandwagon with his endorsement of an “incredible and historical” DOGE transaction. Cube’s entry into the wild world of Dogecoin is related to the BIG3 baske...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville from Alabama has unveiled a new bill he calls the Financial Freedom Act to allow Americans to add cryptocurrency to their 401(k) retirement savings plan unencumbered by regulatory guidance.The new bill is Tubervill...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Hop Protocol, a cross-chain bridge designed to facilitate the quick transfer of tokens between different Ethereum layer-2 scaling solutions, has unveiled a new governance model alongside an airdrop that will see early users receive 8% of the total su...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Twitter’s decentralized social media project Bluesky has released its first batch of code and also committed to content moderation on the network. Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey first announced Bluesky back in late 2019, but the project went independ...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has ordered a total of $30 million civil monetary penalties from the three co-founders of BitMEX crypto derivatives exchange, including former CEO Arthur Hayes.Hayes, Benjamin Del...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Coinbase, one of the largest crypto exchanges by volume, opened its beta nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace to the public on Wednesday, with on-chain data showing a maximum of 150 total transactions on the day and a $75,000 volume.The transactions c...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
SpongeBob and Warhammer mobile game scores Polygon partnershipFree-to-play mobile games publisher Tilting Point has entered a multi-year partnership with Polygon Studios to launch 10 Web3 games over the next two years. Polygon Studios and Tilting Poi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The battle to attract stablecoin liquidity has been a trending theme across the cryptocurrency landscape for the past year, especially as decentralized finance users have come to realize the hefty APY that can be earned on dollar-peg assets.While Cur...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Decentralized finance firm Qredo has received approval for registration as a Bitcoin (BTC) service provider in El Salvador.In a Wednesday announcement, Qredo said the Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador accepted the crypto firm's registration as a re...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Despite bouncing from a 45-day low on April 30, Ether (ETH) price is still stuck in a descending channel and the subsequent 9% gain over the past four days was just enough to get the altcoin to test the pattern's $2,870 resistance.Ether/USD price at...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Kristin Johnson, one of five commissioners currently serving at the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or CFTC, has announced that a CME Group executive director with experience in crypto will be joining her staff.In a Thursday annou...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin (BTC) hit its lowest level in over two months later on May 5 as Wall Street trading saw volatility return with a bang.BTC/USD 1-day candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewDXY celebrates as stocks, crypto tumbleData from Cointelegraph Mar...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
In May 2021, OpenSea closed out nearly $140 million in total volume. Fast forward a year and the most dominant nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace closed over $880 million in less than a week partially because of the Yuga Labs’ The Otherside mint. A...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Anthony Scaramucci, the founder of the hedge fund SkyBridge Capital, thinks that the next United States presidential candidate will likely be pro-cryptocurrency, given that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently announced the appr...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Luna Foundation Guard (LFG), a Singapore-based nonprofit tied to the Terra Luna ecosystem, has raised another $1.5 billion to further expand its already hefty Bitcoin (BTC) reserves.The raise allowed LFG to acquire 37,863 BTC via over-the-counter swa...