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New York Judge Orders Terraform Labs to Comply With SEC’s Investigative Subpoenas
A recent court filing stemming from the Southern District of New York shows that a U.S. district judge has ordered the crypto startup...
Mexico’s third-richest Billionaire: Don’t sell your Bitcoin during the dip
The Mexican billionaire believes BTC price will bounce higher long term, stating on Twitter that those who “buy and hold” onto...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: BTC, ETH Prices Lower for a Sixth Straight Day
Bitcoin was trading lower to start the week, as markets were anticipating the release of U.S. president Biden’s executive order on...
Georgia punches well above its weight for Bitcoin mining: Report
At first glance, the pint-sized Republic of Georgia is an unlikely suspect for Bitcoin (BTC) mining activity. An underdog for mining, the...
Snoop Dogg Drops 10,000 Playable Sandbox Avatar NFTs – Mint a Unique Doggie and Explore the Metaverse in Style
With the memory of The Sandbox Alpha release still fresh and the funky music from the Snoop Dogg concert still lingering in their minds,...
Bitcoin network activity down 30% from highs as ‘tepid’ demand mimics mid-2019
Bitcoin (BTC) is now seeing “tepid” demand just three months after hitting its latest all-time high, according to on-chain analytics firm...
Kazakhstan likely to lose Bitcoin hash rate leadership in next index update
Kazakhstan, one of the world’s top Bitcoin (BTC) mining locations, is likely to lose its BTC hash rate share leadership in the next hash...
Crypto winter 2022: Here’s what crypto industry veterans expect
As the total cryptocurrency market capitalization dipped below $2 trillion last week, major crypto executives have been increasingly...
BTC price falls below $38K as Tencent leads worst China tech rout since July
Bitcoin (BTC) kept falling lower on Feb. 21 as $38,000 became the latest level to fail the test for bulls. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart...
Meta’s Horizon Worlds Userbase Grows Tenfold in Three Months
Horizon Worlds, one of the flagship metaverse apps that Meta has released, has reached a monthly userbase of 300K users on its platform....
How to Recover $100 Billion in Lost Crypto Wallets – KeychainX CEO Robert Rhodin Explains
KeychainX AG is a Swiss based crypto recovery company helping people access lost crypto since 2017. The company also has a patent pending...
Russian Social Media Network Vkontakte to Introduce NFT Support
Russia’s largest social media network, Vkontakte, has announced it’s going to introduce support for blockchain and NFTs. The...
Top cryptos in the green, US markets in turmoil
Most top cryptos by market cap are in the green. EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson says Europe is open to cryptocurrency,...
‘Coin days destroyed’ spike hinting at BTC price bottom? 5 things to watch in Bitcoin this week
Bitcoin (BTC) heads into the last week of February lower but shows signs of strength as a key support level holds. After a nervous few...
Intel unveils 2nd-gen Bonanza Mine chip for efficient Bitcoin mining
Computer chip manufacturing giant Intel Corporation has shared details of a new mining chip that will be coupled with a high-performance...
No end to Quant’s gains in sight: top places to buy Quant
Quant launched just under four years ago with the mission to link blockchains and networks globally without reducing network efficiency...
President of Central Bank of Peru Criticizes Crypto, Citing Lack of Intrinsic Value and Climate Change
Julio Velarde, the president of the Central Bank of Peru, attacked the value of cryptocurrencies and referred to negative effects they are...
You can now buy Bitgert, which added 46% to its value today: here’s where
Bitgert bills itself as a crypto engineering organization, which has developed the fastest blockchain with speed of 100,000 TPS...
Radicle is soaring today, up 44%: here’s where to buy Radicle now
The live Radicle price today is $7.29 with a 24-hour trading volume of $306.5 million. Radicle is up 44.50% in the last 24 hours. If you...
Saudi Arabia Princess on NFTs: ‘They Are the Next Medium of Artistic Expression’
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are a new medium of artistic expression that gives artists the freedom and the ability to reach a diverse...
Animoca Brands Acquires Australian Game Developer Grease Monkey
Animoca Brands, the noted investor in non-fungible token (NFT) and metaverse projects, has acquired Melbourne-based motorsport games...
SCARY (SCY) price jumps by more than 1000% over the weekend: what is fuelling the Bull Run?
SCARY (SCY) outperformed the majority of cryptocurrencies over the weekend by rallying by more than 1000% while the majority of coins...
Hoo’s First Stage of Token-Repurchase Program Completed With Over 400,000 HOO Token Added to Its AMM Liquidity Pool
PRESS RELEASE. On February 17th, 2022, Hoo announced the completion of the first-stage token-repurchase plan on HOO Token with a...
Binance.US Hires Former Société Générale and Gemini Exec as Chief Compliance Officer
Tammy Weinrib will have a focus on know-your-customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) programs. Source
Former Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Launches DAO to Advocate for Web 3
Lobby3 will “prioritize and propose new policy, and aggregate new ideas that need to be top of mind for our leaders.” Source
Crypto Lender Nexo Terminates Interest Payments on New Deposits From US Clients
Following the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charging the crypto lending platform Blockfi with failing to register its...
JPMorgan Opens a Lounge in the Metaverse After Stating the $1 Trillion Market ‘Will Likely Infiltrate Every Sector’
Global Investment bank JPMorgan says, “The metaverse will likely infiltrate every sector in some way in the coming years, with the...
Mexico’s Third Richest Billionaire Says Buy Bitcoin, Forget About Selling, You’ll Thank Me Later
The third-richest billionaire in Mexico, Ricardo Salinas Pliego, advises to buy bitcoin, keep buying while the price is still low, and...
Sequoia Capital Looking to Raise Up to $600M for New Crypto Fund
The venerable venture capital firm is launching its first crypto-specific fund. Source
US President Biden to Issue Executive Order on Crypto This Week: Report
U.S. President Joe Biden is reportedly expected to issue an executive order on cryptocurrency this week. It will direct a wide range of...
Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, LEO, MANA, KLAY, XTZ
Russia’s massive build-up of soldiers, warplanes, equipment and extended military drills near Ukraine’s borders increased fears of a...
Play-to-Earn Blockchain Game Axie Infinity Surpasses $4 Billion in All-Time NFT Sales
This week, Axie Infinity, the blockchain-based online video game crafted by the Vietnamese software studio Sky Mavis, surpassed $4 billion...
3 macro factors could push Bitcoin to $10,000 by 2023, says Stifel strategist
Bitcoin price decline to lows of $10,000 by next year amid Federal Reserve monetary tightening, said Stifel strategist Barry Bannister....
Opensea CEO Dismisses $200 Million Hack Rumor, Claims Incident Was a Phishing Attack
Opensea co-founder and CEO, Devin Finzer, has denied rumors that the non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace’s codebase was breached...
The Metaverse will bring a further erosion of privacy
Unlike some of my peers in the technology space, I don’t see the Metaverse as a virtual world in which we work, socialize and shop....
Webbland Metaverse Sales Jump 126% as 2 Penthouses Sell for Six-Figures
While blockchain virtual worlds have seen significant demand during the last few months, an “interoperable pixel metaverse”...
SafeMoon pump and dump lawsuit targets Jake Paul, Soulja Boy, and others
A new class-action lawsuit demands a jury trial against A-list celebrities and social influencers for their alleged participation in a...
Motorcycle expert turns passion project into sports analytics platform on blockchain
Skill sets gained from working on trading strategies, technology, data science and a personal passion for motorcycle racing made Scott...
We are all going public: Privacy rules, tax shelters and the future history of art
After a banner year of 2021 for individual object sales through nonfungible tokens (NFTs), 2022 is poised to be the year of MetaFi. A...
Bakkt Expects to Post Losses in 2022 as Investment Ramps Up
The digital asset platform said it plans to spend $150 million to $170 million this year in future growth initiatives, including expanding...
OpenSea suffers phishing attack, users lose NFTs
World’s leading NFT marketplace acknowledged an attack but denied it had been hacked for $200 million worth of NFTs. OpenSea...
Bulgarian Stock Exchange Launches 8 Crypto ETNs
Bulgarians can now invest in crypto assets through their country’s stock market. The Bulgarian Stock Exchange has recently launched...
Cryptocurrency Trading Platform Uphold Reshuffles Top Brass
Uphold COO Simon McLoughlin takes over as CEO as long-serving chief J.P. Thieriot becomes the firm’s vice chairman. Source
Who Audits the Auditors? Smart Contract Audit Token (SCATDAO) to Hold a Public Sale on KICK․IO
PRESS RELEASE. The world of audit has always had an inherent problem, the conflict of interest that comes from paying for audit services....
BTC helps our effort to unseat a 20+ year incumbent: Aarika Rhodes on Bitcoin Day
Aarika Rhodes, an elementary school teacher-turned congressional candidate, recently featured in the Bitcoin Day Sacramento 2022 event to...
Bitcoin price dips below $38K as crypto sentiment nears ‘extreme fear’
Bitcoin (BTC) saw its first dive below $38,000 in over two weeks on Feb. 20 as macro triggers rattled low-volume weekend markets. BTC/USD...
Fireblocks to Acquire Crypto Payment Platform for a Reported $100 Million
Digital asset custody service provider Fireblocks has announced it will acquire First Digital, a fellow Israeli company, for $100 million....
Can Bitcoin break out vs. tech stocks again? Nasdaq decoupling paints $100K target
A potential decoupling scenario between Bitcoin (BTC) and the Nasdaq Composite can push BTC price to reach $100,000 within 24 months,...
Report: Blockchain and Crypto VC Investments Grew Almost Tenfold During 2021 in Latam
A new report issued by LAVCA, the Association for Private Capital Investment in Latin America, has found that the venture capital (VC)...
Want to weed out ransomware? Regulate crypto exchanges
Just between July 2020 and June 2021, ransomware activity soared by a whopping 1,070%, according to a recent Fortinet report, with other...
BTC helped us unseat a 20+ year incumbent: Aarika Rhodes on Bitcoin Day
Aarika Rhodes, an elementary school teacher-turned congressional candidate, recently featured in the Bitcoin Day Sacramento 2022 event to...
Despite Recent Threats From Canadian Officials, ‘Real Crypto’ or Decentralized Assets Cannot Be Frozen
Over the last week, there’s been a lot of discussion about Canada ‘freezing’ digital currency accounts that are...
Veteran Trader Peter Brandt Warns Bitcoin’s Price Corrections Can Be Lengthy
Veteran trader Peter Brandt has warned that bitcoin’s price corrections have taken many months in the past and it may take some...
Web3 might be crypto’s key to the mainstream market
2021 has been a significant year for crypto with no fungible token (NFT) being awarded word of the year, decentralized finance (DeFi)...
First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Slips Below $43K as Ukraine Shadows Financial Markets
This week’s rally in crypto markets appeared to be cooling as skepticism grew over Russia’s pullback from Ukraine. Source
Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary Expects Bitcoin to ‘Appreciate Dramatically’ in 2-3 Years
Kevin O’Leary, aka Mr. Wonderful, has shared what he thinks the price of bitcoin will be in the coming years. He said when...
Elon Musk Reveals Dogecoin Will Be Accepted at Tesla’s New Futuristic Diner, Drive-in Theater
Elon Musk has revealed that Tesla’s upcoming futuristic diner and drive-in theater, planned for the Hollywood area, will accept the...
BlockFi settles with the SEC, Russia’s CBDC trials begin and Cointelegraph releases its 2022 Top 100 list: Hodler’s Digest, Feb. 13-19
Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst)...
Cosmos (ATOM) remains above the crucial support zone and could surge 18% in the coming days
Cosmos (ATOM), like other major coins, is feeling the heat from the rising tensions in Eastern Europe. The coin has seen some decline over...
Ethereum (ETH) falls below the important $2800 support zone – how far can bears take it?
At the start of February, we saw the entire crypto market rebound sharply. Ethereum (ETH) was one of the key performers and at one...
Is Avalanche (AVAX) heading for $110 in the near term?
Avalanche (AVAX) closed Friday’s session trading on the red and has continued that weakness well into Saturday. The coin has fallen...
Fed Bans Senior Officials From Cryptocurrency Investing
The Federal Reserve has banned its senior officials from investing in cryptocurrency. “Officials covered by the new rules will have...
Clarity pushed back: Russian government fails to forge a consolidated stance on crypto regulation
On Feb. 18, the Russian Ministry of Finance kicked off public consultations on the rules of cryptocurrency issuance and transactions....
Mining worldwide: Where should crypto miners go in a changing landscape?
One of the main themes among the crypto community in 2021 was China’s aggressive policy toward mining, which led to a complete ban on such...
As Virtual Real Estate Gets Pricey Terrazero Technologies Provides Metaverse Mortgages
While the metaverse has become very popular, virtual land sales have seen significant demand in recent times. Virtual real estate has...
More playing and less earning will make better Metaverse games
If you’re not keen on joining Mark Zuckerberg in the Metaverse, I have bad news for you: You’re already there. You don’t need a virtual...
Crypto Exchange Binance Joins Expert Center at Russian Banks Association
Digital asset exchange Binance has become the first crypto company to support the Association of Banks of Russia in efforts devoted to...
Alium Finance Introducing Hybrid DEX Liquidity to Address Liquidity Limitations, Trade Your Favorite Crypto With Unlimited Liquidity
PRESS RELEASE. Using the latest Developments on the Decentralized Finance Market Alium introduces the Hybrid Liquidity Model, allowing...
Bitcoin inactive supply nears record as over 60% of BTC stays unspent for at least 1 year
Bitcoin (BTC) may be struggling at $40,000 but fresh data is reinforcing the fact that hardly anyone is interested in selling. Data from...
Demand for Gold-Backed Tokens Brings Premiums as Precious Metal’s Value Jumps Higher
While stocks and cryptocurrency markets have floundered during the last week, the price of the precious metal gold has increased in value...
Sell of risks for Ripple (XRP) continue to build – Here is why the coin could hit $0.6
After reporting some significant gains at the start of February, Ripple (XRP) has seen a period of price retracement that has given bears...
Shiba Inu (SHIB) could swing up by 16% despite some significant sell-off in recent days
The crypto market has slowed a bit over the last few days. Meme coins, as you would expect have taken a hit. In fact, Shiba Inu (SHIB),...
US Billionaire Mark Cuban remains bullish on Polygon (MATIC) despite recent price weakness – here is why
US billionaire and entrepreneur Mark Cuban has remained bullish on Polygon (MATIC) even as the altcoin reported some price weakness in...
Technical Analysis: THETA, GALA, and SAND Lead Weekend Crypto Bears
THETA, GALA, and SAND were some of Saturday’s biggest cryptocurrency casualties, as an onslaught of bearish pressure pushed prices...
Huobi opens deposits for BabyDoge Coin (BabyDoge) – The coin surges by nearly 13%
Huobi has announced that it is now offering support for BabyDoge Coin (BabyDoge). Huobi users will now be able to buy and sell the meme...
The crypto world should know about longevity
As the first month of 2022 drew to a close, the internet was abuzz with trend predictions for the year ahead. Bloggers, Twitter...
Cardano (ADA) climbs after losses in two straight sessions – Is there enough growth upside
Cardano (ADA) has seen a lot of volatility in recent weeks. After hitting new lows during the January crypto slump, the coin has recovered...
Russian Finance Ministry to Draft 2 Crypto Laws as Central Bank Prepares Own Bills
The Russian Ministry of Finance has proposed the adoption of two pieces of legislation aimed at regulating cryptocurrencies. The drafts...
Binance Coin (BNB) could retest $475 in the coming days – How to play this uptrend
Despite the increased volatility in the crypto market, Binance Coin (BNB) appears to be holding steady. The coin has seen quite some...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: ETH Remains Below $2,800 to Start Weekend
Ethereum was trading below $2,800 to start the weekend, as crypto bears extended recent market sentiment. Bitcoin was also under $40,000,...
Coinbase to Allow Remittance Receivers in Mexico to Cash Out in Local Currency
Coinbase, a leading U.S.-based exchange, has announced it will now allow remittance receivers in Mexico to cash out the funds received...
What is the Near Protocol, and how does it work?
What is Near protocol blockchain? Near Protocol is a decentralized application (DApp) platform that focuses on usability among developers...
Multichain recovers $2.6M stolen funds, to reimburse losses on condition
After a month-long fight against an ongoing exploit, cross-chain router protocol Multichain announced the recovery of nearly 50% of the...
Flutterwave Raises $250 Million in Series D Funding Round, Startup Now Valued at Over $3 Billion
Fintech startup Flutterwave announced recently that it has raised $250 million from its Series D funding round. The funding round, which...
Cardano to Reach $58 by 2030 According to Finder’s Poll
The case of Cardano and its price potential has been examined by Finder in its latest panel poll. According to the opinion of the analysts...
OpenSea smart contract upgrade to delist inactive NFTs on Ethereum
OpenSea, one of the most popular nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace, has rolled out an upgrade to its smart contract, a proactive measure...
UAE Prepares to Launch Nationwide Crypto Licensing System in Line With Global Standards
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is getting ready to start issuing federal licenses to cryptocurrency service providers in the first...
FBI Launches ‘Virtual Asset Exploitation Unit’ With Specialized Team of Crypto Experts
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has launched a new unit to tackle crypto exploitation. The new team will work with the National...
Decentralization revolutionizes the creator’s economy, but what will it bring?
From video game enthusiasts monetizing their passions as shout casters to fashion influencers supercharging their careers into...
American Truckers Are Planning a Convoy to Washington, Group Raises Over $100K
While the Canadian government and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau try to quell the demonstrations in Ottawa by sending police to the...