Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
According to recent media reports, six European countries, led by Germany, are working on launching an Anti-Money Laundering (AML) body that will include the cryptocurrency market in its purview. Details remain scarce, but it is known that the initia...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin (BTC) could be seeing renewed interest from big buyers as data shows large tranches of coins leaving major exchange Coinbase.As shown by monitoring resources including Whale Alert and CryptoQuant on March 11, an unknown wallet has received al...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Layer-2 Ethereum scaling solution Polygon has not produced a new block for over 11 hours, with developers attributing the issue to a technical upgrade on the network.On Thursday at 4:20 pm UTC, Polygon network developers notified users on the project...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The United States Department of Labor (DOL) has told 401(k) investors to “exercise extreme care” when dealing with cryptocurrencies and other digital assets citing fraud, theft and financial loss as “significant risks.” In a compliance report release...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
In what ESPN Major League Baseball reporter Jeff Passan called the “biggest news day” of his life, scammers hijacked his Twitter account to promote an NFT giveaway. With the MLB and the Players Association (MLBPA) engaged in a long-winded deadlock ov...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
In what ESPN Major League Baseball reporter Jeff Passan called the “biggest news day” of his life, scammers hijacked his Twitter account to promote a nonfungible token (NFT) giveaway. With the MLB and the Players Association (MLBPA) engaged in a long...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Crypto platform LA Token has become the latest exchange to launch its own blockchain with the LACHAIN network. It hopes to give its users access to decentralized finance (DeFi) products and a bridge between other networks.The layer-1 Ethereum Virtual...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The first 100,000 Jamaican citizens to use the country’s new central bank digital currency (CBDC) known as Jam-Dex will be given a free $16 payment in the hopes of promoting widespread adoption. Jamaican prime minister Andrew Holness first announced...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
United States-based fintech giant Stripe has significantly ramped up its crypto initiatives after it launched a service that enables payments for NFTs and digital assets via fiat currency. Businesses can use Stripe’s new application programming inter...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Prestigious Princeton University has launched an initiative to study the “decentralization of societal power” through blockchain technology in an effort to explore the vast depths of its social capabilities.For the launch, Bloomberg reported that Pri...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Blockchain-data analysis firm Chainalysis announced the fast-tracked launch of two primary sanctions screening tools that will be provided to the cryptocurrency industry free of charge. According to the report provided by Chainalysis on Thursday, the...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
There was no rest for weary crypto traders on March 10 as a blistering 7.9% CPI print emerged as the headline of the day, putting pressure on global financial markets and erasing the previous day‘s gains in Bitcoin (BTC) as the price fell back below...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
After a devastating 50% correction between Dec. 25 and Jan. 25, Polygon (MATIC) has been struggling to sustain the $1.40 support. While some argue this top-15 coin has merely adjusted after a 16,200% gain in 2021, others point to competing scaling so...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
According to a recent report curated by NonFungible, players of the monster-battle nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, game Axie Infinity transacted nearly $3.5 billion worth of NFTs in 2021. This accounts for almost two-thirds of all NFTs transacted in the...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Christopher Wray, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said that fiat was a more likely avenue for Russia to explore in circumventing sanctions, given the United States’ ability to block efforts using crypto.In a Thursday hearing of t...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Nine Republican senators have backed legislation aimed at directing the policy of U.S. government agencies around concerns that China’s digital yuan may be used to circumvent sanctions and compromise users' personal information.In a Wednesday announc...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Brantly Millegan will be staying on as the director of the Ethereum Name Service Foundation after casting more than 363,300 votes against a decentralized autonomous organization proposal to remove him.According to a tally of roughly 3.7 million ENS D...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
This March, Cointelegraph Research will release a 30-page report about GameFi — the term used to describe the marriage of blockchain-based games with decentralized finance (DeFi). The report analyzes five popular play-to-earn (P2E) games, the economi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Waves (WAVES) continued its price rally further into this week, even as its top crypto rivals wobbled between losses and gains elsewhere in the market.A 230% Waves boomThe WAVES/USD trading pair surged by nearly 75% this week to reach around $31, its...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The market capitalization of gold-backed crypto tokens increased by 60% in 2022 to surpass $1 billion for the first time in history, according to Arcane Research in its latest weekly report. Gold shines, Bitcoin disappointsIn 2022, investors have bee...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Crypto market-making firm GSR has partnered with Chainlink to contribute price data to decentralized oracle networks (DONs) to be used within decentralized finance (DeFi) and smart contract applications, highlighting that the blockchain industry is m...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Crypto market-making firm GSR has partnered with Chainlink to contribute price data to decentralized oracle networks (DONs) to be used within decentralized finance (DeFi) and smart contract applications, highlighting that the blockchain industry is m...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Lobbying by the cryptocurrency industry and crypto proponents is booming in the U.S. Congress. According to a report released Tuesday by Public Citizen, the number of lobbyists for cryptocurrency-related issues rose from 115 in 2018 to 320 in 2021, w...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin (BTC) turned back time to February on March 10 as the latest U.S. inflation data sparked a bout of volatility.BTC/USD 1-minute candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewWheat gives Bitcoin a run for its moneyData from Cointelegraph Markets...