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05 May 2022

Fashion Designer Phillip Plein Dives Into Crypto

Many firms are testing the waters in the cryptoverse in order to move the fashion sector into new ideas and trends. Fortunately, the crypto sector has opened its arms wide, ready to accept and flour

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05 May 2022

As the US raises interest rates, Bitcoin and Ether see a potential surge

The Federal Reserve hiked its interest rate by a half percentage point on Wednesday as it works to reduce its $9 trillion asset portfolio. Experts believe that this could bring a huge price surge fo

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05 May 2022

Binance Makes a $500 Million Investment in Elon Musk’s Twitter Bid

Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, appears to be one of the sources of funding for Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter. Musk confirmed the move in a filing with the Securities and Exc

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05 May 2022

Rapper Rick Ross Mocks Crypto Investors

Rick Ross, a popular American hip-hop singer, recently mocked cryptocurrency investors in a viral video, claiming that he does not think they are wealthy. According to the Maybach Music Group CEO

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04 May 2022

India intends to levy a 20% tax on DeFi transactions

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) of India intends to charge a 20% tax on interest received from investments in decentralized finance (DeFi). The Economic Times, a local news outlet, reported

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04 May 2022

JD Vance, a Bitcoin enthusiast, has won the Ohio Senate race

JD Vance has won the Republican Senate primary election in Ohio, establishing him as the GOP's nominee in the highly anticipated Senate contest against Democrat Tim Ryan. Both parties are fielding c

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03 May 2022

Dfinity is suing Meta for using its logo

The Dfinity Foundation, the creator of the Internet Computer Protocol (ICP), has filed a lawsuit against Facebook's parent company, Meta, for using the infinite symbol as its logo. Dfinity claims

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03 May 2022

Algorand to Be The Blockchain Sponsor of FIFA World Cup

Algorand, a blockchain technology business, has signed a sponsorship and technical agreement with the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the world's governing body of associat

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03 May 2022

Cardano (ADA) Market Update 05/03

Cardano (ADA), the native token on the namesake blockchain, recently fell to a more than one-year low due to whale dumping and a larger crypto crisis. However, its reduced prices are drawing substan

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02 May 2022

BAYC raised more than $300m in virtual land sales

Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), a leading non-fungible token (NFT) project, has generated over $300 million in virtual land sales from its metaverse called Otherside. Yuga Labs, the designer of BAYC

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02 May 2022

DeFi Lending Platforms Lost Over $80M in the Recent Attack

DeFi exploits have been a recurrent issue this year, with roughly $1 billion lost in in the first quarter alone. BlockSec, a blockchain analytics and security firm, disclosed a new $80 million DeFi

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18 Feb 2023

Europe Will Continue to Be on Top of Worldwide Web3 Development

Ten of the top 30 web3 cities in the world are located in Europe, demonstrating the region's rapid rise to prominence in web3 technology. According to recent claims made by the European venture capi

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01 May 2022

ApeCoin (APE) Forecast 05/01

ApeCoin (APE) caught its bulls off surprise, with the APE price dropping roughly 40% in three days. The price of APE achieved its second-highest level on April 28, reaching $27.57, a gain of more th

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01 May 2022

Will Elon Musk’s Crypto Be Impeded If He Sells Shares to Fund Twitter?

According to data from the Lead Lag report, Tesla's shares plummeted 5.56 percent on Tuesday as speculations circulated that Musk would be selling part of his huge ownership of the company's stock t

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30 Apr 2022

How the Ripple vs. SEC Case is Going

Judge Analisa Torres has revised a planned timeline in the SEC v. Ripple case in an attempt to conclude hearings before the end of the year. According to the Thursday document, the Judge issued f

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30 Apr 2022

Garlinghouse in Support For United States Crypto Bill

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse praised both Democrat and Republican politicians on Saturday for their efforts to achieve comprehensive crypto regulation in the United States. Garlinghouse's remarks

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30 Apr 2022

Over 60% of Brazil Thinks Crypto is the Future of Finance

According to a research by the crypto exchange Kucoin, more than half of the Brazil adult citizens believe that crypto will eventually take over as a store of value and a means of payment. Brazil

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29 Apr 2022

Bitcoin halving research suggests a bottom of $24,000 before year end

One of the most hotly debated subjects in the crypto industry is the four-year halving cycle for Bitcoin (BTC) and its impact on the leading cryptocurrency's long-term pricing. After failing to r

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29 Apr 2022

Goldman Sachs Now Offering Bitcoin-backed Loans

Goldman Sachs, a Wall Street heavyweight, has made its first Bitcoin-backed loan to a client. According to a Bloomberg article published on Thursday, the banking giant's secure lending facility allo

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28 Apr 2022

Deus Finance hacked for over $13 million

The DeFi protocol, Deus Finance, has recently been attacked, with hackers siphoning out $13.4 million in cryptocurrency, according to blockchain security firm PeckShield, which notified on Twitter i

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29 Apr 2022

Cuba Is Adopting Cryptocurrency Regulation

According to Reuters, Cuba central bank issued new directions for virtual asset service providers operating in the nation in order to tighten control of the crypto industry. Cuban people will be

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28 Apr 2022

Cardano wallet addresses have reached 3.6 million

The Cardano blockchain is gaining traction, with 3.6 million wallets holding its native coin, according to on-chain data aggregator Messari. According to Messari, the majority of these network wa

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28 Apr 2022

Patrick McHenry calls for a separate regulatory body for crypto

Representative Patrick McHenry of the United States has chastised both the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for their handling of digital

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27 Apr 2022

Members of U.S. Congress own nearly $2 million in crypto assets

According to recent statistics from 2iQ Research, more than 20 members of the United States Congress, including Democrats and Republicans, have invested nearly $1.8 million directly in crypto assets

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27 Apr 2022

New York State Assembly New Crypto Legislation

The New York Assembly enacted legislation to prevent new crypto mining operations from opening in the Empire State that use non-renewable energy sources. Assembly Bill A7389C, introduced by Democ

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26 Apr 2022

NFT Purchases Are Soaring!

Despite the current slump in the crypto market, NFT volumes appear to be prospering, according to data. The present boom is being driven by a mix of old and new companies. While most major crypto

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26 Apr 2022

Elon Musk Taking Over Twitter vs. Crypto

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and a billionaire, has acquired Twitter, a prominent social media program. The acquisition comes after the tech mogul turned down an offer to join Twitter's board of dire

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25 Apr 2022

NFTs from the BAYC stolen in an Instagram phishing attack

According to developers at Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), hackers infiltrated the popular nonfungible token (NFTs) collection's official Instagram page on Monday and published links to a bogus airdrop

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25 Apr 2022

Kraken receives full financial license in Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) has granted famous crypto exchange platform, Kraken, a Financial Services Permission (FSP) license to operate as a regulated virtual asset exchange platform

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24 Apr 2022

DEX Lifinity, based in Solana, raises $9.6 million in IDO

Lifinity, a Solana-based decentralized exchange, recently raised $9.6 million in an initial decentralized offering (IDO). The amount was raised by over 2400 contributors who represented wallet addre

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24 Apr 2022

Kevin O’Leary Discusses Bitcoin Mining and the Elon Musk Twitter

Kevin "Mr. Wonderful" O'Leary is a serial entrepreneur, author, and chairman of O'Shares, a wealth management firm, as well as a major cryptocurrency investor. The Canadian-born TV personality is on

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24 Apr 2022

Hoskinsea sells out 80 percent of its token allocation

The largest NFT marketplace on the Cardano network is Hoskinsea. The platform is prepared to implement all of the advanced functionalities of the NFT marketplace, as well as some of its features fro

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24 Apr 2022

What Bitcoin Funding Rates Are Doing to the Market

On April 23, Bitcoin (BTC) consolidated below $40,000 as market expectations favored further losses. Following a bearish BTC/USD after the pair touched $39,200 on Friday's Wall Street open, data

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24 Apr 2022

Grayscale Takes a New Approach To Bitcoin ETF Approval

Grayscale, a digital asset management, has launched a new attempt to obtain the US Securities and Exchange Commission to approve the BTC ETF. The demand for Bitcoin exchange traded funds (ETFs) i

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23 Apr 2022

Binance refutes recent accusations of breach with Russian users

In response to a Reuters investigation published on Friday, Binance, a major global cryptocurrency exchange, vehemently denied it had assisted Russian authorities in tracking down donations to the o

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22 Apr 2022

Twitter and Stripe have launch a USDC compensation program

Twitter and Stripe announced the launch of crypto payouts for Stripe Connect on Friday. According to the two firms, a select set of Twitter producers will soon be able to get their revenues in the f

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22 Apr 2022

Bitcoin (BTC) is outperforming Wall Street’s top stocks

While Bitcoin (BTC) maintained a tight trading range this year, it outperformed several major technology equities. Year-to-date losses at IT behemoths like Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta were

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22 Apr 2022

Binance retrieves back $5.8m in Axie Infnity stolen funds

Binance, a leading cryptocurrency exchange, announced the recovery of $5.8 million related to the recent hack of popular blockchain gaming project Axie Infinity. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) s

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21 Apr 2022

Samsung Electronics Participate in Raising Funds for Metaverse

The largest companies in South Korea, including electronics giant Samsung and investment firms NH Investment and Coentry Investment, have led a $25 million funding round for metaverse startup Double

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21 Apr 2022

Kadena has launched a $100 million Web3 grant program

Kadena, a proof-of-work (PoW) blockchain, has announced a $100 million grant program to encourage Web3 development on its platform, potentially opening the door to more use cases for the layer-one p

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20 Apr 2022

NFT Marketplace Beta Introduced by Coinbase

Coinbase, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, announced on Wednesday that it has launched a test version of its much-anticipated NFT trading platform. Trading on the site will be lim

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20 Apr 2022

Nigeria’s SiBAN Against Unlawful Crypto Stance in the Country

The Stakeholders in Blockchain Technology Association of Nigeria (SiBAN), a group formed in 2018 to encourage blockchain adoption in Nigeria, has contacted public institutions to express their dissa

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20 Apr 2022

Four Indians Arrested For Crypto Fraud of Over $2 Million

Police in the southern Indian city of Bangalore have arrested four people in connection with a crypto ponzi scheme run through an app called ShareHash. Sheetal Bastawad of Belagavi, taxi driver I

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20 Apr 2022

Robinhood Now Owns Crypto Exchange Firm Ziglu

By acquiring the United Kingdom-based crypto asset startup Ziglu, Robinhood, a popular cryptocurrency-friendly stock trading software, is striving for worldwide development. The acquisition of Zi

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20 Apr 2022

Offline Dogecoin Transactions Using Starlink the Next Big Thing?

The Dogecoin Foundation is attempting to use Elon Musk's Starlink satellites to execute DOGE transactions offline. The team is currently laying the groundwork to incorporate Starlink technology t

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18 Apr 2022

Beanstalk ($BEAN) Hacked Over $180 Million

This weekend, a security flaw was discovered in Beanstalk, a decentralized credit-based stablecoin protocol built on the Ethereum network. According to PeckShield, a blockchain security firm, Beanst

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19 Apr 2022

Arthur Cheong Thoughts on North Korean Hackers

According to Arthur Cheong, founder of DeFiance Capital, North Korean hackers are actively seeking to compromise top crypto organizations. On April 15, he disseminated this information via a tweetst

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18 Apr 2022

Here’s How Crypto Company Exmo Exits Russia and Belarus

Exmo, a cryptocurrency exchange based in London, is the latest crypto trading platform to formally suspend operations in Russia and Belarus as a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Exmo annou

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