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Warner Music Group to Launch ‘Concert Theme Park’ in Sandbox Metaverse
Warner Music Group (WMG) is entering the metaverse with a music-focused theme park in The Sandbox, the company announced Thursday.WMG is...
Matter Labs, BitDAO Back $200M DAO for ZkSync
Matter Labs, the organization behind Ethereum layer 2 scaling protocol zkSync, has announced a $200 million decentralized autonomous...
Crypto Exchange Apifiny Going Public Through $530M SPAC Merger
Apifiny Group, a digital asset trading network for institutional investors, announced plans to go public through a reverse merger with...
Sunacrip Revokes Licenses Of Two Cryptocurrency Exchanges In Venezuela
Sunacrip, the Venezuelan cryptocurrency watchdog, has suspended the operating licenses of two exchanges for lack of compliance with...
CoinTracker Raises $100M as Crypto Tax Season Heats Up
Crypto tax software developer CoinTracker raised $100 million from venture backers, entering growth mode just as the 2022 tax season is...
Wonderland Rattled After Cofounder Tied to QuadrigaCX Alleged $190M Exit Scam
Wonderland’s TIME tokens fell 32% in European hours after blockchain sleuths revealed ‘Sifu,’ a core member of the founding team, was...
Mobile-First Blockchain Celo Launches Stablecoin Tied to Brazilian Real
Phone-focused blockchain Celo launched cREAL, a stablecoin pegged to Brazil's local currency the real, the platform announced Thursday.As...
Crypto Custody Firm Fireblocks Raises $550M at $8B Valuation
Cryptocurrency custody firm Fireblocks has raised a $550 million funding round, valuing the technology provider at over $8...
Bitcoin dips 8% from highs as trader demands BTC bulls reclaim $37.5K
Bitcoin (BTC) climbed down from multi-day highs on Jan. 27 as the aftermath of the latest United States Federal Reserve meeting saw bulls...
Coinbase Still the ‘Blue Chip Way’ to Gain Crypto Growth Exposure, Goldman Says
Shares of Coinbase have fallen around 45% after earnings alongside a similar sized fall in crypto market cap, due to expectations of...
Bitcoin, Ether Traders Lose $200M to Liquidations in Choppy Market
Futures traders betting on the upside for bitcoin and ether lost a cumulative $204 million to liquidations as prices dipped over the past...
Here is why recently launched BSC metaverse coin CryptoSword (SWD) is up over 400% today
While crypto markets have been trading sideways over the week, several metaverse coins have seen significant price gain, with CryptoSword...
US Sentences Bitcoin Seller to 1 Year in Jail for Defrauding Investors
A bitcoin seller has been sentenced to one year and one day in jail for defrauding customers, according to a notice by the U.S. Department...
Solana, Avalanche Post Biggest Declines After Hawkish Fed Outlook
The slight recovery in the crypto markets this week all but retracted as major cryptocurrencies dipped up to 7% in the past 24 hours amid...
Market highlights January 27: Cryptos receding again, markets react to Fed decision
Though things were looking better for cryptos over the last couple of days, this morning the crypto markets were once again...
Bitcoin to Remain Choppy as 'Fed Put' Expires: Analysts
Bitcoin's near-term prospects look bleak after the U.S. Federal Reserve set the stage for a more aggressive withdrawal of liquidity,...
What is GrimaceCoin, can you buy it, and where? Here’s all you need to know
GrimaceCoin was created after a McDonald’s joke tweet. While that’s not phenomenal, it gained almost 286,000% in a few hours....
You can now buy Numeraire, which surged 38%: here’s where
Numeraire is an Ethereum-based platform allowing developers and data scientists to experiment and create machine learning models with...
Ankr is up 10% in the last 24 hours: here are the best places to buy Ankr now
Ankr is gaining on news of a partnership with chain agnostic bare metal company Maxihost to promote Web3 growth among other reasons. The...
Precious Metals, Cryptocurrencies, Stock Markets Falter Following Powell’s Rate Hike Statements
Equities, crypto markets, and precious metals did well during the early morning trading sessions on Wednesday, just before the U.S....
Utility Seeks $800,000 From Russians Mining Crypto With Cheap Power
The main utility company in Irkutsk is looking to collect almost $800,000 from owners of crypto farms that have allegedly caused a spike...
Dvision Network 2nd LAND Sale to Be Held on OpenSea and Their Native Marketplace
PRESS RELEASE. Not too long ago, Dvision Network had successfully initiated their LAND sale, and now it is time for the second sale to...
Crypto money laundering up by one third in 2021 but still below record
A new Chainalysis report has revealed that $8.6 billion in value was laundered through cryptocurrency in 2021. It marks a 25% increase...
ETH to hit $20 trillion market cap by 2030: Ark Invest
A new report from Cathy Woods’ ARK Invest forecasts Ethereum (ETH) will meet or even exceed a $20 trillion market cap within the next 10...
Nigerian Lawmakers Urged to Consider Regulating Crypto Industry After Proposal to Jail Ponzi Operators
The leader of the Nigerian blockchain association, Senator Ihenyen, has implored the country’s lawmakers — currently pushing...
Diem to Sell Assets to Silvergate Bank for $200M: Report
The Diem Association, the Meta Platforms-led enterprise that was looking to issue a new, user friendly stablecoin, is selling its...
Tesla’s Latest Financial Statement Shows Bitcoin Worth $1.26 Billion
Elon Musk’s electric car company, Tesla, did not sell any bitcoin in the fourth quarter, according to the company’s latest...
Coinbase Close to Listing Solana Ecosystem Tokens: Sources
Coinbase is readying its trading rails for Solana ecosystem tokens, four sources familiar with the plans told CoinDesk.The U.S.-based...
A Struggling South Korean Museum is Auctioning National Treasures; Meet the 2 DAOs Trying to Buy Them
South Korea’s oldest private art museum will be auctioning two sculptures designated as “national treasures” by the South Korean...
Ripple Scores $15 Billion Valuation — CEO Says Financial Position Is Strongest Ever Despite SEC Lawsuit Over XRP
Ripple has bought back shares from its Series C funding round, which raised the company’s valuation to $15 billion, according to...
Altcoins book 40% gains after Bitcoin and the crypto market enter a relief rally
Crypto investors are beginning to feel a sense of hope once more on Jan. 26 as the wider cryptocurrency market is seeing green and Bitcoin...
Polygon (MATIC) sees a strong oversold bounce after $250B crypto market rebound
Polygon (MATIC) emerged as one of the best performers among high-ranking cryptocurrencies on Jan. 26 as the price rose nearly 17% to reach...
The Sandbox Looks to Boost Metaverse Startups With $50M Incubator Program
Metaverse darling The Sandbox is launching a $50 million incubator program in partnership with venture accelerator Brinc, the company...
Ethereum bulls aim to flip $2.8K to support before calling a trend reversal
The dire predictions calling for the onset of an extended bear market may have been premature as prices appear to be in recovery mode on...
First Mover Asia: Interest Rate Hikes in the Future? Crypto Rally Shorts Out
Good morning. Here’s what’s happening:Market moves: Bitcoin gave up early gains after Powell’s hawkish comments.Technician's take:...
Global Crypto Owners Predicted to Surpass 1 Billion This Year
The number of global crypto owners is expected to exceed one billion by the end of the year, according to a report by Crypto.com....
Tesla Reports Bitcoin Holdings Were Unchanged in Q4
The value of the bitcoin holdings of Tesla (TSLA) at the end of the fourth quarter remained unchanged from the end of the previous quarter...
NFT ‘ETH in Mellieha’ Set to Go on Auction for Legal Rights to Number Plate
ETH in Mellieha is the latest in a long line of NFT experiments that aim to challenge traditional values and concepts of art and...
El Salvador's Battle With the IMF Is Bigger Than Bitcoin
This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Abra and FTX US.Download this episodeWhen Nayib Bukele announced that El Salvador...
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Rally Fades After Fed Signals Upcoming Rate Hike
Bitcoin experienced sharp price swings on Wednesday along with most traditional assets. The spotlight was on the U.S. Federal Reserve,...
Valkyrie Files for ETF That Invests in Firms That Derive 50% Revenue From Bitcoin Mining Industry
The digital currency asset manager Valkyrie has applied for an exchange-traded fund (ETF) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission...
Crypto Infrastructure Firm Blockdaemon Raises $207M at $3.25B Valuation
The unicorn valuations are still here despite the crypto market's current sea of red, with Blockdaemon being the latest example.The...
SEC Scrutinizing Crypto Firms Over Interest Paying Services: Report
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is probing crypto exchanges Voyager Digital and Gemini Trust and crypto lender Celsius...
SundaeSwap Switcheroo Leaves CardStarter Users With Losses, Spreading Cardano Discord
A falling-out between two startup projects on Cardano has spilled out onto social media, reaching such rancor that the blockchain's...
Study Shows Dogecoin, XRP Saw Largest Network Fee Increases Last Year
There’s been a lot of action in the world of cryptocurrencies over the last 12 months and a myriad of metrics have changed. A...
Bitcoin Oversold Bounce Faces Resistance at $40K-$43K
Bitcoin (BTC) rose from deeply oversold levels over the past two days, indicating renewed buying after a sharp sell-off. The...
IMF wants El Salvador to drop Bitcoin as legal tender
El Salvador adopted Bitcoin as legal tender in September 2021 and wants to build a ‘Bitcoin city’. The IMF says the...
For Enterprises, Privacy Is the Critical Blockchain Feature
Blockchain privacy is really hard.Central to the magic of blockchain technology is the consensus algorithm, the tool that maintains the...
Technical Analysis: Cosmos Decline Continues, as Polygon Surges
Ahead of Wednesday’s FOMC meeting, cryptocurrency markets were once again trading higher, with polygon (MATIC) being one of...
Fed Keeps Interest Rates at Zero, Says Hike Appropriate ‘Soon’
The U.S. Federal Reserve said Wednesday it would hold interest rates near zero, even as it edges closer to removing some of the...
RLY Backer SuperLayer to Bring Social Tokens to Solana
Projects expanding from Ethereum to faster and cheaper blockchains like Solana have been a common occurrence in recent months, and social...
Price analysis 1/26: BTC, ETH, BNB, ADA, SOL, XRP, LUNA, DOGE, DOT, AVAX
Bitcoin (BTC) and most major altcoins have bounced off their strong support levels but could the rally sustain to the extent that traders...
How to Build Full Blockchain Apps with Zero Blockchain Development Experience
Blockchain technology stands to revolutionize a wide range of industries, and many companies are eager to move their operations on-chain....
FTX US Raises $400 Million in Series A, Trading Platform’s Valuation Now $8 Billion
On January 26, the crypto asset exchange FTX US revealed it raised $400 million in a Series A financing round stemming from investors like...
Criminals Still Find It Easier to Hide in Fiat Than Crypto
Contrary to popular lore, cryptocurrencies are not a haven for anonymous criminals.In fact, because of smart blockchain analytics, it’s...
Building Your Brand, Then Building a Brand: Using the Power of Influence to Start a Business
There’s no guidebook, no course for marketing in the social media age. Yet platforms like Facebook, TikTok and Instagram have proved to be...
What Today's Fed Decision Could Mean for Crypto
At 2:30 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday, the Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) will announce the decisions reached during its latest...
Miners Remain Unfazed by Crypto Sell-Off, Expect More M&A
The stocks of publicly traded crypto miners have slumped amid the recent sell off in bitcoin and the broader market as the U.S. Federal...
Vladimir Putin Offers Hope for Crypto in Face of Central Bank Call for Ban
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for a consensus between his country's government and central bank following the latter's...
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta in Talks to Sell Assets in Crypto Project Diem: Report
Meta, formerly Facebook, is reportedly in talks with investment bankers to sell its assets in the cryptocurrency project Diem, formerly...
SEC Delays Decision on Bitcoin-Related ETFs From Ark 21 Shares, Teucrium
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has again delayed decisions on whether to approve or reject bitcoin-related exchange...
What Is Ethereum?
Ethereum is a blockchain-based software platform that is primarily used to support the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency by market...
Tether's New Accounting Firm Is the Old One, With Baggage
Meet Tether’s new accounting firm, same as Tether’s old accounting firm.U.K.-based mid-tier firm MHA MacIntyre Hudson, announced Jan. 14...
What Happens When All Bitcoin Are Mined?
The supply of bitcoin is limited to a final cap of 21 million. This is determined by bitcoin’s source code which was programmed by its...
Crypto News Roundup for Jan. 26, 2022
This episode is sponsored by Kava.Today's Stories:Dogecoin Leads Gains in Major Cryptos Ahead of Fed MeetingStock Futures Rise After a...
Railgun Aims for Private DeFi With $10M Backing From DCG
Digital Currency Group (DCG), the parent company of CoinDesk that hit a $10 billion valuation late last year, has entered into a strategic...
What Does It Mean to Burn Crypto?
“Burning” crypto means permanently removing a number of tokens from circulation. This is typically done by transferring the tokens in...
Don’t Let Web 3 Repeat Web 2’s Mistakes
Crypto has undergone an impressive spate of growth recently. We’ve gone from a few hundred users of non-fungible tokens (NFT), a couple of...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: ETH Nears 10% Gain, BTC Inches Toward $40,000
Days after falling to a 6-month low, bitcoin rose for a second consecutive session, as prices slowly approached its key level of $40,000....
How Bitcoin Contributions Funded a $1.4M Solar Installation in Zimbabwe
South Africa’s Sun Exchange, a solar power investing community that uses bitcoin to raise capital and to make payments to its investors,...
Why TVL Matters in DeFi: Total Value Locked Explained
Total value locked (TVL) is the overall value of crypto assets deposited in a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol – or in DeFi protocols...
How to Create Luxury NFTs: A Template From Malta
Professionals in the luxury goods market have been thinking hard about how to transfer their largely physical business into the new...
What Is Zcash? The Privacy Coin Explained
In a world where our personal information, interests and activities are being increasingly tracked and documented, it’s little surprise...
Thailand Announces Cryptocurrency Will Be Regulated as Means of Payment
Thailand has announced that cryptocurrency will be regulated as a means of payment for goods and services “to avert potential...
Winklevoss-Owned Gemini Galactic Snags FINRA Broker-Dealer Approval
Gemini Galactic Markets, part of the Winklevoss twins’ crypto conglomerate Gemini, has been approved for FINRA (Financial Industry...
EverRise Expands DeFi Security Infrastructure to Fantom and Avalanche
PRESS RELEASE. EverRise, the blockchain bridging and security solution provider that brought the buyback to crypto, expanded to the Fantom...
Fantom (FTM) is a massively undervalued ‘multi-billion-dollar L1’ project, says analyst
Fantom (FTM) ranks fourth among the largest blockchains in decentralised finance (DeFi) by total value locked. Capriole founder Charles...
Kazakhstan Shuts Down Crypto Mining Farms Till February
Data centers minting cryptocurrencies in Kazakhstan were cut off from the nation’s power grid this week and will remain unplugged...
Money Laundering Picks Up Steam on DeFi Protocols: Chainalysis
Money laundering through decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols is gaining popularity with cybercriminals, according to new research from...
Dogecoin spikes after Elon Musk ask McDonald’s to accept DOGE payments
After a sharp drop in the last two weeks, Dogecoin is now green. It jumped 10% yesterday and it’s still rising today. At the time of...
Samsung Provides a Glimpse Into the South Korean Metaverse and NFT Craze
At the very beginning of 2022, South Korean tech giant Samsung announced its foray into the metaverse and a new “NFT Aggregation...
Coinbase Shares Are Very Unattractive Heading Into First Half, Mizuho Securities Says
Renewed signs of a “crypto desert” coupled with declining yields make Coinbase especially unattractive heading into the first half of this...
Market highlights January 26: Cryptos stage comeback, oil and commodity stocks take UK100 higher
The crypto market was in the green over the past 24 hours, as the majority of top 10 cryptos were higher at time of writing. The UK100...
‘Ethereum’ vs ‘Eth 2’: What’s in a Name?
The Ethereum Foundation announced in a blog post that it is nearly time to put an end to “ETH2” and the nomenclature that seems to...
Valkyrie Applies to List Bitcoin Miners ETF on Nasdaq
Crypto asset manager Valkyrie has applied to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to list its exchange-traded fund (ETF)...
BTC price hits $38K as Bitcoin analysts focus on weekly close
Bitcoin (BTC) staged new retests of $38,000 resistance on Jan. 26 as optimism increased over a potential recovery to $40,000 and higher....
NFT Platform TRLab Raises $4.2M to Diversify Its Artwork Collection
TRLab, a platform for collecting art in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), raised $4.2 million in a funding round, according to a...
Binance to Reinstate Payments From EU's SEPA Platform: Report
Crypto exchange Binance is about to reinstate payments from the European Union's Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), according to a...
Belarus to Remain Crypto-Friendly as Ally Russia Mulls Blanket Ban
Authorities in Belarus have no intentions to adopt stricter rules for the country’s crypto space. That’s despite neighboring...
Dogecoin Leads Gains in Major Cryptos Ahead of Fed Meeting
The broader crypto market recorded its second day of growth ahead of a U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) statement on Wednesday. Prices of...