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21 Predictions for Crypto and Beyond in 2022
2021 has been the cryptocurrency industry’s biggest year ever. Not just because token prices went up, which some did by thousands of...
Pakistan Freezes Over 1,000 Accounts and Cards Used For Crypto Trading
Authorities in Pakistan have reportedly moved to seize hundreds of bank accounts and cards belonging to cryptocurrency traders. According...
Bitcoin ‘died’ 45 times in 2021 as media still eager to post BTC obituaries
As Bitcoin (BTC) was hitting new historical highs above $68,000 this year, global cryptocurrency naysayers were increasingly blasting BTC...
Bitcoin gains after $46K drop as ‘bottoming out’ continues into 2022
Bitcoin (BTC) recovered from fresh lows on Dec. 30 as markets remained undecided on their end-of-year trajectory. BTC/USD 1-hour candle...
MicroStrategy purchases 1,914 Bitcoin, now holds almost $6B in crypto
Business intelligence firm MicroStrategy has added $94 million worth of Bitcoin (BTC) to its holdings after purchasing the crypto asset at...
Little forkers: BCH and BSV get crushed by Bitcoin price in 2021
Bitcoin (BTC) looks set to beat its forked versions Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Bitcoin SV (BSV) in terms of price-performance in 2021, market...
Justin Kan’s Gaming NFT Platform Goes Live, Rebounding From $150K Discord Exploit
Since announcing plans to launch his gaming NFT marketplace Fractal earlier in December, Twitch co-founder Justin Kan has been one of the...
2021’s Digital Asset Shuffle: A Myriad of Crypto Market Cap Positions Moved Chaotically This Year
2021 has been a bullish year for crypto assets. While prices have risen a great deal, the top ten and top twenty rankings in terms of...
NFT Project Bored Ape Yacht Club Spawns ‘Left-Facing’ Copycats
It’s a Bored Ape face-off.On Wednesday, two Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) parody projects gained momentum on crypto Twitter, igniting...
Privacy Coin Issuer: Nothing’s Encrypted Until End Points Are Encrypted
Roughly $13 billion is afloat in the privacy coin market, but are holders of these tokens really getting what they’re paying for? That...
Mexico Plans to Issue a CBDC by 2024, Government Confirms
The Central Bank of Mexico (Banxico) plans to launch a CBDC by 2024, the Mexican government confirmed in a tweet on Wednesday...
Gamers Rally Behind ‘More Than Gamers’ NFT Project and Its Metaverse Roadmap
With non-fungible token (NFT) trading volumes back on the rise, project More Than Gamers (MTG) is garnering buzz for its ambitious...
Tom Shaughnessy on the Big Metaverse Bet
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeOn this episode of “The Breakdown’s” “End of Year Extravaganza,” NLW is joined by...
Umee Buckles Down for Mainnet With $32M Token Sale on CoinList
Umee raised $32 million from community members who piled into the chain-hopping network’s UMEE token ahead of mainnet launch, slated for...
Blockchain stays even if most projects fade, says Reddit co-founder
Alex Ohanian says that even if a majority of crypto projects and companies disappear, the underlying blockchain will remain and power the...
One Big Regulatory Question Holds Advisors Back From Crypto
The biggest regulatory question for advisors concerning digital assets today is: Are they securities or not?Digital assets are still quite...
Close to $50 Million in Bitcoin From 2011 Moved for the First Time in 10.5 Years
On December 29, two addresses from 2011 containing 500 bitcoin each transferred 1,000 coins for the first time in 10.5 years. Furthermore,...
The Psychology of Meme Coins, From Actual Investors
Everyone wants to believe in something. Enter memes, the supposed future of money according to enthusiastic crypto investors and, of...
MicroStrategy Buys Another $94.2 Million of Bitcoin
MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR), the business-intelligence software company that’s taken to accumulating bitcoin, said it bought 1,914...
Brian Kelly on 3 “under-the-radar” metaverse tokens to watch in 2022
The investor says Axie Infinity, The Sandbox, and Decentraland could explode again amid network growth and the metaverse hype. “Fast...
Russia’s Largest Bank Introduces First Blockchain Focused ETF in the Country
Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, has introduced what it said is the country’s first exchange-traded fund (ETF) to provide exposure to...
Cardano vs. Ethereum: Can Ada Solve Ether’s Problems?
Cardano is a decentralized, open-source blockchain network that launched in September 2017. Like Ethereum, Cardano supports smart contract...
Iran Allows Renewable Power Plants to Supply Crypto Miners With Electricity
Authorities in Iran have decided to permit power generation plants using renewable sources to sell electricity to licensed cryptocurrency...
Algorand Surges as Foundation Incentivizes DeFi Activity on Algofi
Tokens of Algorand (ALGO) have added as much as 10% in the past 24 hours, becoming one of the few gainers on Thursday morning even as the...
Market highlights December 30: Cryptos seen lower, US markets edge higher
The crypto market as a whole is bearish as the year comes to an end. It was in the red over the past 24 hours, as the top 10 cryptos were...
First US Bitcoin ETF a ‘dud’ in 2021 as GBTC discount stays near record lows
Bitcoin (BTC) institutional demand is conspicuously wanting at the end of the year as data flags the “underperformance” of the...
You can now buy Tezos, the network with the most advanced infrastructure: here’s where
Tezos is a smart-contract based blockchain network, which aims to offer infrastructure that can evolve and improve over time without the...
Cardano, Avalanche Lead Crypto Decline in Volatile Trading Session
Cryptocurrencies continued this week’s slide on Thursday, with tokens of some of the largest blockchains by market capitalization falling...
Celo is bringing crypto to smartphone users: here’s where you can buy Celo now
Celo has been gaining value after a successful series of events, including an eToro listing. The live Celo price today is $4.74 with a...
Monero rising steadily, gained 7% today: top places to buy Monero today
Monero has been rising steadily since it made good on its promise of a decentralized exchange built on privacy, speed, and low fees. If...
Where to buy Cosmos, the token that gained 6% in 24 hours
The creators of Cosmos describe it as a project that solves some of the “hardest problems” facing the blockchain industry....
Bitcoin Investors Protect Against Even Lower Prices Ahead of New Year
Purchases of put options on bitcoin increased as the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization fell under the $46,000 level...
Meet QRDO, the perpetual gainer: best places to buy the QRDO token today
The live Qredo price today is $6.52 with a 24-hour trading volume of almost $37 million. Qredo is up 1.87% in the last 24 hours. If you...
Over 20,000 Bitcoin ATMs Installed in a Year
The number of cryptocurrency ATMs around the world has grown exponentially in 2021, with over 20,000 new installations made since last...
Hong Kong Arrests 2 Suspected of Laundering $384M Through Banks and a Crypto Exchange
Hong Kong’s Customs and Excise Department arrested two people suspected of laundering about $384 million through personal bank accounts...
Hong Kong Authorities Arrest Two Siblings Accused of Laundering $384 Million via Banks, Crypto Platform
Authorities in Hong Kong have arrested two individuals accused of laundering about $384 million using various avenues including a...
Brock Pierce and Tom Lee tip $200K BTC in 2022, despite missing the mark in 2021
Despite missing the mark with their $100,000 Bitcoin price predictions in 2021, Former Chief Strategy Officer at Block One Brock Pierce...
Polygon upgrade quietly fixes bug that put $24B of MATIC at risk
Ethereum-based layer two scaling network Polygon has quietly fixed a vulnerability that put almost $24 billion worth of its native token...
Investment Adviser Warns It’s a Mistake to Ignore Crypto Assets, Predicts Cryptocurrencies Will Outperform Equities
Blueprint Capital Advisors CEO Jacob Walthour says it’s a mistake to ignore crypto as an asset class. He also predicts that crypto...
5 ways derivatives could change the cryptocurrency sector in 2022
We‘ve all heard stories of billion-dollar future contracts liquidations being the cause of 25% intraday price crashes in Bitcoin (BTC) and...
US Senator on Crypto: We Need Real Solutions to Make the Financial System Work for Everyone, Not Just the Wealthy
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren has argued that cryptocurrency is not a path to financial inclusion like crypto advocates claim....
Top 5 Best Cryptocurrencies to Invest in for 2022
As we prepare for 2022, here is a list of 5 coins you should invest in. 1. Ethereum – Star of the Show The Ethereum blockchain...
First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Trades Near $47K Amid Low Volumes During Year-End Holidays
(Edited by Greg Ahlstrand and James Rubin)Good morning. Here’s what’s happening:Market moves: Bitcoin trades near $48,000, while layer 1...
Binance to Continue Operating in Ontario After Cooperating With Canadian Regulators
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance will continue operating in Ontario after successfully working with Canadian regulators, the company told...
Gas DAO Project Forms to Airdrop Tokens to Ethereum Users That Spent $1,559 in Fees
A new type of airdrop has been very popular during the last quarter of 2021 as quickly assembled decentralized autonomous organizations...
ROSE gains 54% in a week as Oasis Network ecosystem expands
High transaction costs have been a thorn in the side of the top blockchain protocols for years as both Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH)...
Polygon Discloses Patched Exploit That Put 9B MATIC at Risk
A hacker who helped Polygon avert a multibillion-dollar disaster in early December won a $2.2 million bug bounty, the blockchain network...
3 reasons why Convex Finance surged 215% in December to hit new all-time high
The growth of the stablecoin sector within crypto has been one of the most impactful developments of 2021. In particular, stablecoins...
Voyager Digital Being Sued for Allegedly Misleading Investors on Trading Fees
Publicly-traded cryptocurrency exchange Voyager Digital is facing a proposed class action lawsuit over alleged hidden fees being charged...
Market Wrap Year-End Review: El Salvador Adopted Bitcoin, Then Bought the Dip
Hi Market Wrap readers! During the final two weeks of 2021, we’re using this space to recap this year’s most dramatic moments in...
Blueprint Capital CEO explains why financial innovation bodes well for crypto
The Blueprint Capital CEO Jacob Walthour told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that ignoring crypto as an asset class “would be...
Video Game Retail Giant Gamestop Reveals More Clues About Upcoming NFT Marketplace
At the end of May, crypto advocates discovered a website created by the video game retailer Gamestop. The web portal disclosed that...
ROSE gains 54% in a week as the Oasis Network ecosystem expands
High transaction costs have been a thorn in the side of the top blockchain protocols for years as both Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH)...
As Bitcoin and Ethereum See Sharp Drops, 18 Crypto Assets Captured Double-Digit Gains Last Week
While the crypto economy shed billions in value this week, 18 different digital assets have accrued double-digit gains during the last...
Price analysis 12/29: BTC, ETH, BNB, SOL, ADA, XRP, LUNA, AVAX, DOT, DOGE
The S&P 500 is trading near its all-time high but Bitcoin (BTC) has plunged about 30% from its all-time high at $69,000. Even after...
Gas DAO Token Struggles to Maintain Momentum After Airdrop
Following the shooting-star success of SOS, another airdropped token, GAS, is now on offer to Ethereum wallets everywhere.With no product,...
New Year’s Eve Party Comes to the Metaverse as Times Square Building Owner Enters Decentraland
The real estate firm behind one of America’s most glitzy traditions is ushering in 2022 in – where else? – the metaverse.Jamestown, the...
India’s Central Bank RBI Discusses Digital Currency and CBDC Launch With Minimal Impact on Monetary Policy
India’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), says a basic central bank digital currency (CBDC) model must be adopted...
Bitcoin dips below $47K but one trader is eyeing ‘solid risk/reward’ for longing BTC now
Bitcoin (BTC) added to its losses on Dec. 29 with a fresh tumble briefly taking BTC/USD below $46,600. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart...
Marathon Digital Named Top Mining Pick Heading Into 2022 by DA Davidson
Marathon Digital (MARA), one of the largest publicly traded bitcoin miners, was named top mining stock pick heading into 2022 by DA...
Why I Decided to Spend New Year’s Eve in the Metaverse
In “Snowcrash,” the groundbreaking novel in which he coined the term “metaverse,” Neal Stephenson writes, “See, the world is full of...
Newly Minted Bitcoin Miner Gem Mining Reaches Hashrate of 1.25 EH/s
Gem Mining, a bitcoin mining company started recently by former U.S. marine and 2018 candidate for South Carolina governor John Warren,...
Thetan Arena Battles Axie Infinity in ‘Play-to-Earn’
Thetan Arena, a new video game fueled by cryptocurrency, claims to have quickly amassed over twice as many users as Axie Infinity, the...
Katherine Wu on What Gets Built Next in Crypto
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeOn this episode of “The Breakdown’s” “End of Year Extravaganza,” NLW is joined by...
Power Deficit Forces Crypto Miners to Leave Kazakhstan
Electricity shortages have been dogging Kazakhstan’s booming crypto mining industry this year. A media report reveals that some...
Bitcoin wallet addresses created in November inched toward 1 million
Could retail investors be flocking back to Bitcoin (BTC)? In encouraging signs for a bullish 2022, Glassnode data reveals that 913,000 new...
Ready Player Me raises $13M to expand metaverse platform
Metaverse gaming platform Ready Player Me has announced a $13-million Series A funding led by the respective co-founders of Wise and...
What BTC price slump? Bitcoin outperforms stocks and gold for 3rd year in a row
Bitcoin (BTC) may be down over 30% from its record high of $69,000, but it has emerged as one of the best-performing financial assets in...
Aoki, Alameda Back Algorithmic Stablecoin on Arbitrum at $200M Valuation
A yield-paying stablecoin on Arbitrum is the latest dollar-pegged crypto asset to bet that crafty algorithms can stand in place of...
How Ethereum Will Be Transformed in 2022
With 2021 winding down and 2022 hopefully being the year of the Merge, I wanted to do a deeper dive into five of the top things to expect...
Pompliano highlights “key points” lost in Bitcoin’s energy use argument
Pompliano told CNBC in an interview that Bitcoin’s energy usage continues to become more and more efficient as it scales and as...
ProShares Files Application With SEC for a Metaverse ETF
ProShares has filed an application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an exchange-traded fund (ETF) focused on the...
An African Perspective on Why the World Needs Cryptocurrencies
Rising cryptocurrency use in Africa over the past few years has not only shown that digital currencies are now a vital means of moving...
Marathon Digital’s ‘Record Purchase’ of Bitcoin Miners Will Cost $879M
Marathon Digital (Nasdaq: MARA) agreed to buy 78,000 Antminer S19 XP bitcoin miners from Bitmain for $879.1 million, the company announced...
Market highlights December 29: Cryptos seen lower, Wall Street mixed following post-Christmas gains
The crypto market as a whole is bearish with all top 20 coins registering losses except for UniSwap, which continues yesterday’s...
$2.5T crypto market will not wait for nations to onboard: WazirX CEO
Indian entrepreneur and the CEO of crypto exchange WazirX Nischal Shetty envisions a race between countries to launch their local versions...
‘Net neutral’ — Rising Bitcoin exchange balances could be due to Huobi Chinese user block
Bitcoin (BTC) balances rising on exchanges may not be a sign of investors preparing to sell, new research argues. Unveiling the latest...
Solana and other Layer-1 tokens to outperform ETH in 2022: Arcane Research
Arcane Research analysts believe one of the strongest crypto narratives over the next twelve months will be the performance of the...
S&P Global Ratings Study Predicts Crypto and Decentralized Finance Will Continue to Grow in 2022.
S&P Global, an intelligence and data company, suggests that crypto and decentralized finance trends will continue to gather steam in...
Fantom Surges as Investors Seach for Next Layer 1 Bet
Tokens of layer 1 blockchain Fantom (FTM) were among the few positive gainers in large-cap cryptocurrencies on Wednesday amid a slide in...
Introducing RichQuack, the latest hyper deflationary token: best places to buy RichQuack now
RichQuack is a hyper deflationary token that generates automatic liquidity, which in turn pays out static rewards to holders. It’s a...
LUNA reversing gains, down 6% in 24 hours: time to buy the LUNA dip?
The live Terra price today is $86.55 with a 24-hour trading volume of $2.8 billion. Terra is down 6.31% in the last 24 hours. Is it time...
Fantom is rallying as TVL crosses $5.83B: where to buy Fantom now
Fantom price exploded in the past week as the total value locked in the network crossed $5.83 billion. Supporters have predicted a...
ROSE is surging, up 8% today: Top places to buy ROSE now
ROSE is the native token of Oasis Network, the 80th coin by market cap. After a series of losses, it’s starting to gain again. This...
Harvest Finance is up 11%: here’s where to buy Harvest Finance now
The live Harvest Finance price today is $175.41 with a 24-hour trading volume of $660.5 million. Harvest Finance is up just under 11%...
Defi Portfolio Tracking Startup Debank Raises $25M From Sequoia China, Crypto.com, Circle
The decentralized finance (defi) portfolio tracking startup Debank raised $25 million from investors according to an announcement on...
Arcane Research releases its crypto predictions for 2022
Blockchain data research firm Arcane Research has taken a look at the year that was in its final report for 2021 and offered its...
Legal Experts Say It’s Too Late to Ban Crypto, India Needs Comprehensive Regulation
Indian legal experts reportedly say that it is too late to ban cryptocurrency despite calls for a complete crypto ban by the central bank,...
ASIC reveals how it infiltrated crypto ‘pump and dump’ Telegram groups
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has revealed the details of how it took down crypto “pump and dump” Telegram...
Genesis Trading Sees ‘Strong Signs’ of Institutional Crypto Investment Growth Accelerating Next Year
Genesis Trading’s head of market insights says that the institutional investment growth in the crypto space over the last 12 months...