Cyptocurrency
“We are excited to kick our European growth strategy into high gear with this application,” Jeremy Allaire, Circle’s chief executive officer, said in an emailed statement, referring to France’s “comprehensive efforts towards innovation-forward crypto regulation.”
The tie-up with Keyrock, which is based in Brussels, “helps provide our clients with deeper liquidity as the institutional adoption of digital assets continues to grow,” said Frank van Zegveld, head of Europe, Middle East and African sales at Talos.
Interview began in November 2022 to boost transparency in the industry. According to the latest edition, OKX holds $8.9 billion across Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) and Tether (USDT). This puts the reserve ratios of BTC, ETH and USDT at 103%, 103% and 102%, respectively.…
News hodlers experienced 4,065 profitable days — challenging the historical narrative of depreciating volatility in crypto. As a result, holding Bitcoin (BTC) is provably profitable in the long run. Bitcoin’s historical price performance confirms that a hard limit on total supply and…
Money has evolved from simple objects of barter to cryptocurrencies. Money emerged as a means of facilitating trade and cooperation among strangers. As human societies grew more extensive and complex, the need for a common medium of exchange became increasingly important.…
News Source: ConsenSysBefore the partnership, MetaMask users in Nigeria had access to the MetaMask wallet, but the process of buying crypto was costly and time-consuming, MetaMask product manager Lorenzo Santos told Cointelegraph. He stated:“While Moonpay had a card integration feature, about…
News published by Coinbase on March 20. In an 18-page document, the firm focused on how securities law treats services related to validating proof-of-stake protocols. It was written in response to the SEC’s February crackdown on Kraken’s staking program — the…
News announced that ARB — Arbritrum’s new token — would be airdropped to eligible community members on Thursday, March 23. It explained that ARB marks Arbitrum’s official transition into a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), meaning ARB holders can vote on key…
News launching of a token called "LLAMA" without employee approval or support. In response, the parent company of DefiLlama accused “0xngmi and a few team members” to have “gone rogue” by looking to seize DefiLlama’s intellectual property while “inaccurately claiming the rightful…
News $196 million flash loan attack last week, with private discussions now initiated with the exploiter. In an on-chain message to Euler on March 20, days after sending funds to a red-flagged North Korean address, the exploiter claimed they now want to…
Non-crypto related deposits held by former Signature Bank (now Signature Bridge Bank) will be assumed by Flagstar Bank, N.A., a subsidiary of New York Community Bancorp, as of Monday, according to the FDIC. Custodia Bank founder and CEO Caitlin Long reacted.…
After FTX imploded, and as fear among market participants mounted about a full-blown insolvency crisis in crypto, lenders raced to recall outstanding loans to mitigate potential losses. With a significant chunk of funds locked up on FTX, Auros faced a sudden…
Ether, the second largest cryptocurrency in market capitalization, was recently changing hands at about $1,731, down 3% from Sunday, same time. Other cryptos among the top 25 by market value were largely in the red, with APT, the token of layer…
News BTC) posted its all-time high in November 2021.A March 20 update of the Index showed a score of 68, placing it firmly within the "Greed" territory.The Index's score of 66 as shown on March 20. Source: alternative.meThe Crypto Fear and…
News USDC) stablecoin by converting the digital currency into fiat and settling on Mastercard’s network. The card will be accessible through the Stables digital application via mobile wallets.Source: StablesAccording to Mastercard Australasia’s head of fintech, Kallan Hogan, the company’s collaboration with…
“The decision whether to continue with Polygon versus moving to Solana sparked a spirited debate between the pros and cons of each, with support for Solana's runtime, developer community, low transaction fees, and speed contrasting Polygon's centralization, reorg tendency, and user…
News announced on March 20 that it had added support for assets, including nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and soulbound tokens (SBTs), to its protocol. The MantaPay protocol, which initially supported only fungible crypto assets, promises to now allow for privacy-preservation support for NFTs…
The next major line of defense is proper code auditing. This can’t merely be internal auditing done by the developers themselves. Instead, third-party services need to be employed that publish complete and transparent reports on any and all issues found within…
News published by the International Monetary Fund. The unintended impact of a CBDC may be felt particularly acute in the Islamic banking system.The Islamic financial system accounts for less than 2% of global finance, but it is present in 34 countries…
Camelot’s growth comes amid massive interest in Arbitrum’s ARB airdrop coming on Thursday. Camelot is a DEX built on Arbitrum, and users in the Camelot ecosystem are expecting ARB, once airdropped, to be listed on the DEX, which would mean ARB…
"The successful conclusion of this sale represents a watershed moment for the decentralized fundraising space and, we hope, a model for responsible fundraising for projects in the future,” said Coder Dan, co-founder and CEO of Pixelcraft Studios, in a press release.…
However, as of May 2022, after "it became clear that the [two west Texas] facilities would not receive the anticipated power load," Core Scientific stopped making various payments to Priority Power Management, Bros said. Neither firm immediately replied to CoinDesk's request…
News report from The Wall Street Journal, Coinbase users won’t be able to use Signet to send funds outside of banking hours until further notice. The crypto exchange was reportedly looking for another payment network provider and waiting on the outcome…
Newsletter filed a voluntary petition for a court-supervised reorganization under Chapter 11 in the United States Bankruptcy Court. The company is no longer affiliated with Silicon Valley Bank, which operates under the jurisdiction of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and…
Though the case the high court will hear Tuesday involves crypto, it is not itself a crypto case. Instead, this case is a fairly esoteric, procedural argument over whether a lawsuit can proceed in federal court while one party – in…
Opinion Signature Bank and Silicon Valley Bank have left many people in disbelief, with skeptics questioning the stability of the traditional financial system. Cryptocurrency, sadly, did not do much to capitalize on that skepticism, considering Bitcoin (BTC) tanked at the first sign…
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Market Analysis BTC) surpassed $28,000 on March 21, but according to two derivatives metrics, traders aren’t very ecstatic after a 36% gain in eight days. Looking beyond Bitcoin’s stellar performance, there are reasons investors are not fully confident in further price…
News require accuracy and clear language, with no statements on future returns of value. Second, there will be a mandatory warning on all advertising:“Virtual currencies, real risks. The only guarantee in crypto is risk.”In addition, a “broader warning should sum up…
My background is in economics, which was my first love, and with Ethereum [that] was sort of realizing how we can use it for payments and rethinking our financial systems. Art was more like a side hobby and a surprising consequence…
Crypto Stories: The late John McAfee tells the story of how he first found out about BitcoinAfter taking a few years off from investing, Melker found crypto around the end of 2016 and the start of 2017. “It was just very…
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Overall, the data may reflect a need for liquidity among investors, according to CoinShares. Meanwhile, the largest cryptocurrency by market value’s price has surged from a low of about $19,400 in early March to its current level near $28,000. Over the…
News zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM).The partnership sees the two Ethereum layer-2 firms create an “Immutable zkEVM” — a Polygon (MATIC)-powered zkEVM fully supported on Immutable’s Web3 game development platform. Scheduled for a March 27 mainnet beta launch, Polygon’s zkEVM enables…
Price Analysis takeover of the ailing Credit Suisse bank by UBS boosted European equity markets on March 20, but not everyone is happy with the deal. According to the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, the value of additional tier-one (AT1) bonds will…
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"By combining the number one Web3 gaming platform – currently serving hundreds of game studios and millions of players – with Polygon’s best-in-class zkEVM technology, we are building an Ethereum-centric gaming ecosystem that is poised to take Web3 mainstream and bring…
Research decentralized finance (DeFi) is one of the sector’s most prominent use cases with the most substantial adoption. Recent issues in the banking sector, like those surrounding Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse, have caused many to take a second look…
News announced it had recently filed a lawsuit against pNetwork, the cross-chain interoperability bridge used by Gala on the BNB Smart Chain. In November 2022, Gala Games was exploited after an unauthorized wallet address minted over $2 billion in GALA (GALA)…
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News spoke out against the Federal Reserve issuing and controlling a central bank digital currency, or CBDC, in the United States, claiming the initiative would grant “more power” to the government. He cited concerns over inflation in the country, the Fed…
News John Ray's team is suing the Bahamas JPL (FTX Digital Markets)Essentially a dispute over who owns the main exchange.Disappointing they couldn't have worked this out themselves and are now using creditor money on both sides for pointless lawyer battles. pic.twitter.com/PYKoeTFmEz—…
Announcement Cointelegraph’s 2023 Top 100. Cointelegraph unveiled its 2023 Top 100 list of the most impactful heroes and villains in the crypto and blockchain space in February. It was published in batches throughout the month, counting down to the top-ranked profile,…
With hours left in the voting, the subsidies proposal appeared likely to pass. At press time, 27 holders of Origin’s OGN tokens had voted over 1 million tokens in favor of passage, and none against. At least three participating addresses were…
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Event Last year’s event saw around 3,000 summit-goers and featured keynotes and fireside chats from some of the most prominent figures in the industry, such as Binance’s Changpeng Zhao and Tether’s Paolo Ardoino, among many others.Cointelegraph editor-in-chief Kristina Lucrezia Cornèr, head…