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Cointelegraph 2023 Top 100 finale: First place goes to…
Who takes the cake as the prime mover of the crypto and blockchain sector for 2023? The answer is more of a “what” than a “who.” Good Ol‘...
Bitcoin price stays under $24K as PCE data helps US dollar to near 7-week highs
Bitcoin (BTC) stayed lower at the Feb. 24 Wall Street open as United States macroeconomic data showed inflation biting back. BTC/USD...
Crypto Policy: Kenyan Senate Ready to Engage Central Bank
The Kenyan Senate’s Information, Communication and Technology committee has said it is ready to engage the Central Bank of Kenya...
Eclipse to Launch Rollup Blockchain for Polygon Network with Solana Compatibility
Customizable rollup provider Eclipse announced that the startup is launching a scaling solution that is compatible with Solana and...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: BTC Falls Below $24,000 Ahead of US Consumer Sentiment Data
Bitcoin fell back below $24,000 on Feb. 24, as markets anticipated the release of the upcoming consumer sentiment figures from the United...
Nigerian Central Bank Seeks New CBDC Tech Partner — Bank Urged to Improve E-Naira User Experience
More than a year after it launched its central bank digital currency with partner Bitt Inc, the Central Bank of Nigeria is reportedly...
YFI price hits $10k as Yearn Finance announces new liquid staking product
Yearn Finance token YFI rose to highs of $10,405 on Binance. YFI traded around $7,400 earlier in the week before surging on news the Yearn...
Binance Looking to Hire Developers, Support Staff in Romania
Global crypto exchange Binance is now hiring IT specialists and customer service representatives for its operations in Romania. The...
Google Cloud to Become Tezos Validator and Offer Validation Services
Google Cloud, the remote services division of the software giant, has announced a partnership with blockchain company Tezos to become a...
Montana’s ‘right to mine’ crypto bill moves closer to passing as law
A cryptocurrency mining rights bill with laws that would prohibit the discrimination of crypto miners is one step closer to fruition after...
Tencent to Offer Metaverse-Building Services for Asian Markets
Tencent, the Chinese software and tech company, has announced its metaverse suite of services designed to target Asian markets. The...
Aussies revealed as prime targets of Israel crypto scam syndicate
Australian residents have been identified as one the primary targets of a sophisticated network of cryptocurrency call-center scammers —...
US May Consider Alexander Vinnik for Prisoner Exchange With Russia, Lawyer Says
Crypto exchange BTC-e’s alleged operator Alexander Vinnik may be a candidate for prisoner swap between the United States and Russia....
MEXC Global publishes proof of reserves after monthlong testing
On Feb. 22, cryptocurrency exchange MEXC Global released its proof-of-reserves (PoR) snapshot after 45 days of testing. In a document seen...
Crypto Exchange Coinbase Launches Ethereum L2 Scaling Network Called Base
The cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has announced the deployment of Base, an Ethereum layer two (L2) scaling network, after developers...
How Fantom and Optimism’s DeFi and DApp development directly affects FTM and OP price action
The price action of Optimism (OP) and Fantom (FTM) tokens have been quite identical since the last quarter of 2022. The difference is,...
Bitcoin bears attempt to pin BTC price under $23K ahead of this month’s options expiry
Bitcoin’s (BTC) 16% price gain between Feb. 13 and Feb. 16 practically extinguished the bears’ expectation for a monthly...
Hong Kong crypto frenzy, DeFi token surges 550%, NBA China NFTs — Asia Express
Our weekly roundup of news from East Asia curates the industry’s most important developments. Hong Kong moves bullish On Feb. 20, the...
Block’s Q4 Bitcoin revenue down 7% on crypto price decline
Jack Dorsey’s payment company Block Inc. reported $1.83 billion of Bitcoin (BTC) revenue from its Cash App business unit in the fourth...
US Lawmaker Launches CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act to Protect Americans’ Right to Financial Privacy
U.S. Congressman Tom Emmer has introduced the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Anti-Surveillance State Act “to halt efforts of...
Russian Founders of Defi Platform Forsage Indicted in $340 Million Crypto Ponzi Scheme
Four Russians have been charged in the U.S. with operating a crypto pyramid and Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors of millions of...
Optimism price prediction: OP spikes after Coinbase launches Base on OP stack
Optimism token OP rose 16% after Coinbase announced the launch of its L2 platform on OP stack. OP price hit highs of $3.10 on Coinbase,...
‘Stupid money’ Ethereum investor loses over $2M in six months — 3 lessons to learn
An anonymous Ethereum investor has lost more than $2 million trading Ether (ETH) since Sep. 9, 2022, on-chain data shows. Buying Ethereum...
Developers Propose Cross-Chain Bridge for XRPL Network to Enhance Blockchain Interoperability
Software engineers and members of the development lab Ripplex want to create a cross-chain bridge for the XRPL network to bolster...
Former Cohasset High School Employee Accused of Stealing Thousands in Electricity to Mine Bitcoin in School Campus Crawlspace
A former school assistant facilities director in Cohasset, Massachusetts, has been accused of operating a cryptocurrency mining operation...
Polygonscan went down, causing unwarranted concern of blockchain outage
Layer-2 scaling solution Polygon (MATIC) has not processed a block in over an hour and a half, leading some to believe that the blockchain...
Arbitrum’s Daily Transaction Count Surpasses Ethereum for the First Time Ever
According to statistics recorded this week on Tuesday and Wednesday, the layer two scaling project Arbitrum’s transaction count has...
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Faces New Charges in Multi-Billion Dollar Fraud Case
Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the disgraced co-founder of FTX, faces four more charges after a new indictment was unsealed on Wednesday. The...
Trustlessly purchasing an NFT on Flare using the token of a different blockchain.
Dubai, UAE, 23rd February, 2023, Chainwire The layer-1 for data, Flare, just completed a live demonstration of new interoperability...
New York Attorney General Sues Crypto Exchange Coinex — Claims Trading Platform Offers Unregistered Securities
New York Attorney General Letitia James has sued cryptocurrency exchange Coinex “for failing to register as a securities and...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: ETH, BTC Rebound Following Fed Minutes
Ethereum rebounded on Feb. 23, as markets reacted to the latest Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) minutes. The minutes showed that the...
Amp price prediction: technical analysis points to a brief pullback
Amp price bullish momentum continued on Thursday as the bullish momentum continued. It rose to a high of $0.0067, the highest point since...
Only 0.04% of Ethereum validators have been slashed since 2020, says core dev
The Ethereum ecosystem has seen only 226 validators slashed since the launch of the Beacon Chain on Dec. 1, 2020 — amounting to just 0.04%...
Report: Chipper Cash Lays Off More Workers — Crypto Department Still Operational, Says CEO
The Nigerian fintech, Chipper Cash, recently said it has let go of more employees and that this step has been taken to help the firm...
XRP/USD price forecast amid a +13.19% YTD performance
Ripple’s rally lags behind other cryptocurrencies’ rallies for 2023 A bullish flag pattern suggests more upside Once the...
Crypto Groups on Russian Social Media Hit by Bots Discrediting Bitcoin
Social media groups devoted to cryptocurrencies in Russia have been attacked by bots in what looks like a campaign against bitcoin and the...
Briton Wanted by US for Advising North Korea on Crypto Arrested in Russia
A British national wanted with a red notice from Interpol for consulting North Korea on cryptocurrencies has been detained in Moscow. U.S....
TUSD Leverages Chainlink Proof of Reserve for Real-Time Verification of Stablecoin Minting
On Wednesday, the stablecoin project Trueusd announced that it is leveraging Chainlink Proof of Reserve (POR) technology to provide...
Tencent Cloud signs multiple collaboration agreements with blockchain firms
According to a press release on Feb. 22, Tencent Cloud, the cloud computing branch of Chinese internet giant Tencent, announced that it...
Rep. Maxine Waters says all US regulators ‘better get together on crypto’
California Representative Maxine Waters, ranking member of the United States House Financial Services Committee, has called for...
Indian Finance Minister Pushes for International Cooperation on Crypto Regulation — Discusses Awareness Campaign
Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has stressed the importance of international cooperation in order to regulate the crypto...
World Wide Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Says Crypto Is ‘Really Dangerous’ but Can Be Useful for Remittances
World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee says cryptocurrency is “really dangerous” and “only speculative.”...
Federated Learning Consortium (FLC) for Decentralized AI to Launch in Hong Kong, Led by Phoenix and APEX Technologies
PRESS RELEASE. After over a year of preparation and restructuring, decentralized and privacy-enabled AI organization Federated Learning...
Federal Judge Rules NBA Top Shot NFTs May Be Considered Unregistered Securities
A federal judge, Victor Marrero, ruled on Wednesday that the NBA Top Shot non-fungible tokens (NFTs) issued by Dapper Labs may meet the...
Breaking: Polygon blockchain reportedly suffers network outage
Layer-2 scaling solution Polygon (MATIC) has not processed a block in over an hour and a half, leading some to believe that the blockchain...
Luxor Technologies Acquires Ordinalhub to Provide Tools for Bitcoin-Based NFTs
With Bitcoin-based digital collectibles becoming a popular trend, the full-stack bitcoin mining services company Luxor Technologies has...
Bitcoin Lightning Network growth is organic, coming from real-world adoption
The capacity of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network (LN) recently surpassed an all-time high of 5,000 Bitcoin (BTC). The Lightning Network is a...
Price analysis 2/22: BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, ADA, DOGE, MATIC, SOL, DOT, SHIB
The United States equities markets saw their worst performance of 2023 as concerned investors dumped stocks on Feb. 21, fearing continued...
US Federal Trade Commission Investigates Marketing Schemes of Crypto Firm Voyager
According to a court document filed recently in the Voyager Digital bankruptcy case, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is...
Ankr price prediction: ANKR outlook after Microsoft and Tencent partnerships
Ankr (ANKR) price is up 70% this past week, while positive news has helped its value more than double on the 30-day timeframe. Ankr has...
Bitcoin Soars Over $25K, MEXC (MX) Rockets To All-Time High in 2023
PRESS RELEASE. With Bitcoin surging to reach a new 2023 high, MX has been the top performer in exchange tokens, with a 7-day growth of...
BIS General Manager Casts Doubt on Stablecoins, Claiming Tokens Do Not Benefit From Regulations or Central Planning
According to Agustin Carstens, the head of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), cryptocurrencies have lost the...
How to trade bull and bear flag patterns?
In technical analysis, a flag pattern indicates short-term price movements inside a parallelogram coounter to the previous long-term...
US lawmaker introduces bill aimed at limiting Fed’s authority on digital dollar
Minnesota Representative Tom Emmer has introduced legislation in the United States House of Representatives that could limit the Federal...
Bitcoin must leverage $1T central bank liquidity to beat sellers — research
Bitcoin (BTC) hodlers need to watch the central banks of China and Japan as well as the United States as BTC/USD battles “huge”...
Biggest Movers: LTC Snaps Losing Streak, SOL Moves 7% Lower
Litecoin snapped a four-day losing streak on Feb. 22, despite cryptocurrency markets mostly trading lower. The token rose for the first...
How to create NFTs on the Cardano blockchain
Cardano is a proof-of-stake (PoS) platform launched in September 2017 by Ethereum co-founder Charles Hoskinson. In September 2021, Cardano...
Can Bitcoin price hold $24K as stocks correlation hits lowest since 2021?
Bitcoin (BTC) wicked to five-day lows on Feb. 22 as a comedown for United States equities continued. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart...
Luxor Mining acquires OrdinalHub amid Bitcoin-based NFTs hype
The launch of Bitcoin Ordinals back in January created a stir within the crypto community on their place within the Bitcoin (BTC)...
Litecoin Network Adopts Ordinal Inscriptions, Following Bitcoin’s Lead
Following a growing trend of Ordinal inscriptions on the Bitcoin blockchain, the technology has been ported to the Litecoin network, and...
Security team creates dashboard to detect potential NFT hacks in OpenSea
A wallet security team released a real-time dashboard that lets community members detect, track and monitor potential nonfungible token...
Breakdancing medic’s NFT auctioned at Sotheby’s — Grant Yun, NFT creator
Artist name: Grant Riven Yun Location: Milwaukee Date minted first NFT: Feb. 3, 2021 Which blockchains? Ethereum, Counterparty (Bitcoin)...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: BTC Falls Below $24,000 Ahead of FOMC Minutes
Bitcoin extended recent declines on Feb. 22, as markets prepared for the release of the latest Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)...
TrueUSD the first USD-backed stablecoin to use Chainlink ‘Proof of Reserve’ to mint
TrueUSD will use Chainlink Proof of Reserve (PoR) in minting the TUSD stablecoin. It is the first stablecoin to use Chainlink PoR in...
Should crypto investors care about the US stock market?
Without the US stock market outperforming, the cryptocurrency market would have difficulty delivering a positive return in 2023 S&P...
Paraguay to Become Top Bitcoin Mining Hub in Latam According to Insight Group
Paraguay, one of the smallest countries in Latam, has the conditions needed to become the next Bitcoin mining hub in the region, according...
Smartest man in the room has a warning about Bitcoin prices
Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson is seen as one of the best analysts in Wall Street. He warned that the S&P 500 is ripe for another...
Mr․ Satoshi Is The New Premium Bitcoin Apparel Store You Do Not Want to Miss
A new player has entered the Bitcoin apparel market and is quickly making a name for themselves. Founded by Bailey Jakob, an...
LinksDAO likely to put in ‘compelling offer’ to buy Scottish golf course
The decentralized autonomous organization-operated golf startup, LinksDAO, may soon put in an offer to purchase the newly marketed Spey...
Ethereum Shapella upgrade gets new date, making way for un-staking ETH
Ethereum core developer Tim Beiko announced the Shapella (Shanghai/Capella) upgrade is scheduled for Feb. 28. The Shapella network upgrade...
Bank of Japan to Launch Digital Yen CBDC Pilot Later This Year
The Bank of Japan is preparing to launch a pilot test for a digital yen, its central bank digital currency (CBDC), later this year....
Lebanon Financial Crisis: Banks Torched After Pound Taps New Low Versus the US Dollar
The Lebanese pound’s fall to its lowest ever versus the U.S. dollar, 80,000 to 1, has piled more misery on residents whose local...
Solana Spaces will close New York and Miami stores 7 months after opening
Solana Spaces will close down its two Solana (SOL)-themed, community-oriented retail stores in New York City and Miami at the end of the...
Kraken CEO: Regulators Let Bad Guys Get Big and Blow Up to Serve Their Agenda
The CEO of crypto exchange Kraken, Jesse Powell, says U.S. regulators “let the bad guys get big and blow up because it serves their...
Kevin O’Leary Warns US Crypto Regulation Getting ‘Very Aggressive’ — ‘You’ve Got to Stay out of the Way of SEC’
Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary, aka Mr. Wonderful, has warned that U.S. crypto regulation is “getting very, very...
US Markets Tumble as Real Estate Weakens, Putin Suspends Nuclear Treaty, Morgan Stanley Warns of Stock Market ‘Death Zone’
On Tuesday, all four major U.S. benchmark stock indexes fell as real estate data showed home sales dropped by 0.7% last month and Russian...
Cosmos Interchain Foundation allocates $40M for ecosystem development in 2023
According to a medium post on Feb. 20, the Interchain Foundation (ICF), a non-profit organization behind the creation of the Cosmos (ATOM)...
Ethereum derivatives data suggests $1,700 might not remain a resistance level for long
The price of Ether (ETH) rallied 18% between Feb. 13 and Feb. 16 but has since been range trading near the $1,700 level. Despite the...
Binance Increases USDC Holdings as BUSD’s Market Cap Slides Lower
Eight days ago, Paxos announced that the company would no longer mint the stablecoin BUSD. Since then, the coin’s market...
NFT aggregator Blur eyes 30% price pump by March amid airdrop euphoria
Blur’s BLUR token could rise by up to 30% by March 2023 owing to a mix of technical and fundamental factors. Blur airdrop hype Blur...
Deutsche Bank completes trial of tokenized investment platform
According to a report on Feb. 21, Deutsche Bank Singapore and Memento Blockchain have successfully completed the proof-of-concept phase of...
How to build a crypto portfolio without spending any money or time trading
Starting to invest in cryptocurrency does not necessarily require connecting with a bank account or spending fiat to purchase Bitcoin...
Most Retail Crypto Investors Lost Money Over the Last 7 Years, According to BIS Analysis
According to data from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), published in the latest BIS Bulletin No. 69, researchers assessed...
Bitcoin can hit $40K before BTC price sees ‘harsh correction’ — Analyst
Bitcoin (BTC) faced selling pressure at the Feb. 21 Wall Street open as United States’ stock markets opened down. BTC/USD 1-hour candle...
Ethereum price rally hit crucial resistance as institutional investors are in ‘wait and see’ mode
Ether (ETH) fell short of a bullish breakout based on technical and on-chain analysis, suggesting that the consolidation below the $2,000...
Original Bitcoin Wizard Artist Raises Nearly $150,000 in BTC via Lightning, Despite Criticism From Bitcoin Maximalists
On Monday, crypto proponent Udi Wertheimer shared a story on Twitter explaining how he and the Taproot Wizards helped an artist who...
Biggest Movers: BCH Hits Fresh Multi-Month High, Whilst MATIC Extends Declines
Bitcoin cash jumped to a fresh seven-month high on Tuesday, as prices rallied, despite bearish sentiment increasing. Today’s move...
Cointelegraph 2023 Top 100: Diving into the top 10
Feb. 21 lifts the curtains on numbers 4–10 of the most impactful crypto and blockchain sector players, according to Cointelegraph’s 2023...
Gamers made up nearly half of all blockchain activity in January: DappRadar Report
Play-to-earn blockchain gaming experienced a downturn over the last year as gamers prioritized improving the gameplay experience. However,...
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