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Where to buy Polkadot as DOT rallies by 6%
The Polkadot (DOT) token is up by 6% in the past 24 hours and the cryptocurrency is consolidating near the $30 region The Polkadot token...
Where to buy Kava as the network announces partnership with CertiK
The KAVA token has seen a rally in the past 24 hours as the network announced a partnership with CertiK The KAVA token is up by 3% in the...
Bitcoin.com Wallet Adds DApp Gateway WalletConnect
The Bitcoin.com Team is excited to announce support for Ethereum-based DApps in the Bitcoin.com Wallet via WalletConnect. Earn interest on...
US September Jobs Report Misses, Amid Fed Tapering Speculation
U.S. jobs rose by 194,000 in September, well below economists’ average estimate for a gain of 500,000 jobs, the Labor Department reported...
SEC approves ETF tracking companies with exposure to Bitcoin
The ETF will only track companies that have 80% or more of their net assets in Bitcoin The US Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC)...
Regulation Key to African Fintech Sector Growth — New Study
According to the findings of a study by Afriwise, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa have the most developed fintech ecosystems on the...
Weekly Report: SEC has no plans of outlawing crypto in the US
Here is a rundown of the top cryptocurrency news from the first week of October Grayscale says Cardano is undervalued A report by...
Bank of England Says Crypto Regulation Needed as Risks Grow
The Ban of England said crypto assets are becoming more integrated into the U.K.’s financial system and while they don’t yet pose a major...
Bitcoin Remains in Bull Territory While Polygon’s MATIC Awaits Breakout
Bitcoin has regained upside momentum following Thursday’s 2.5% drop, which saw the market nearly re-test the former...
Crypto exchange Binance expands its corporate presence in Ireland
Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange by volume, is considering Ireland as part of its headquarter plans Crypto trading giant...
Compound Finance patch to return COMP distribution to ‘normal’
The lending protocol suffered an exploit affecting COMP token distribution after another patch in late September Compound Finance, a major...
Dapper Labs Partners With Chainalysis to Curb NFT-Based Money Laundering
Dapper Labs, one of the most successful companies in the NFT space, has partnered with Chainalysis, a blockchain intelligence company, to...
Bitcoin Peeps Above $56K, May Ignore US Jobs Report
Bitcoin rallied to a five-month high Friday ahead of a monthly U.S. jobs report that could cement expectations the Federal Reserve (Fed)...
Binance Ends Various Offerings to Clients in South Africa
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, took another step in refining its product offerings in different markets around the...
Institutional investors are choosing Bitcoin over Gold: JPMorgan
A spike in inflows from institutions is reportedly one of the reasons Bitcoin price surged over 35% to reach a multi-week high of $55,348...
BVNK Aims to Be Crypto Bank in All But Name
BVNK, a new digital-asset platform, has started operations, targeting businesses seeking exposure to cryptocurrency but are not well...
Georgia to Pilot Digital Currency in Retail Commerce Next Year
The central bank of Georgia is advancing its digital currency project. The monetary authority is preparing to launch the CBDC as early as...
Amount of ETH held by miners reaches highest level since 2016
The amount of Ethereum that is being held by miners has reached record levels in U.S. dollar terms as they remain reluctant to sell. The...
Dreamr Doubles User Base Since DMR Token Launch and Becomes Top-20 Downloaded Lifestyle App in Apple App Store
PRESS RELEASE. Dreamr Labs flagship product the Dreamr app gains significant traction after its recent $DMR token listing on Bittrex...
2020′s Bull Redux? CME Improves Its Ranking in Biggest Bitcoin Futures Exchanges List
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has jumped to the No. 2 position on the list of the world’s biggest bitcoin futures exchanges by...
Games and NFTs the Driving Force Behind Dapps During Q3, According to Dappradar
Blockchain-based games and NFT trading were the driving force behind dapp adoption during Q3, according to defi insight platform...
Sri Lanka Government Forms Panel to Study Digital Banking, Blockchain for Attracting Investment
Sri Lanka’s Cabinet approved the formation of committee that will study the rules and regulations governing digital banking, blockchain,...
Moneygram Partners With Stellar Development Foundation to Allow Users to Make Remittances With USD Coin
Moneygram, one of the leaders in the cross-border payments and remittances market, has partnered with the Stellar Development Foundation...
Institutions buying Bitcoin rather than gold as inflation cranks up: JPMorgan
Bitcoin (BTC) has led a 35% rally this week by soaring far above the $50,000 resistance level and restoring a $1 trillion market...
George Soros’ Fund Holds Bitcoin, CEO Says Cryptocurrency Has Gone Mainstream
Soros Fund Management, founded by billionaire investor George Soros, has invested in bitcoin. The CEO of the asset management company says...
Is Dogecoin set to follow Shiba Inu’s (SHIB) 400% breakout?
Meme coins were some of the earliest breakout stars at the start of this year’s bull run and big-name influencers like Elon Musk and...
Pro-Crypto Senator Lummis Discloses Bitcoin Purchase Worth Up to $100K
Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) disclosed purchase of bitcoin worth $50,001-$100,000, according to a Periodic Transaction Report filed...
JPMorgan: Institutional Investors Dump Gold for Bitcoin Seeing It as Better Inflation Hedge
Global investment bank JPMorgan says institutional investors are returning to bitcoin, seeing the cryptocurrency as a better hedge than...
Colombian Fintech Movii Raises $15M in Series B Round
Colombian fintech Movii raised $15 million in a Series B funding round to create a bitcoin purchasing service and expand other services,...
Designer Eric Hu on Generative Butterflies and the Politics of NFTs
Eric Hu’s design practice has taken many forms. Before pivoting to full-time independent work in 2019, Hu worked at Nike, as the brand’s...
‘Public’ Adds Cryptocurrency Trading Citing Millions of Investors See Crypto as ‘Compelling Asset Class’
Investing platform Public, with over 1 million users, is rolling out cryptocurrency trading. “Crypto is gaining momentum as a...
Ethereum price options: All $250M in bearish bets for Friday are underwater
Ether (ETH) has been facing a bearish regression channel since Sept. 1, although it is currently battling to break its resistance. But...
New Venezuela’s Digital Bolivar Isn’t Digital, and It Won’t Solve the Country’s Economic Crisis
Ernesto, a gastronomic entrepreneur in Cumaná, a coastal Venezuelan city facing the Caribbean Sea, initially thought that Venezuela’s new...
New Chainalysis Report Reveals Who’s Leading the World in Crypto Adoption
Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis’ forthcoming 2021 Geography of Cryptocurrency report examines crypto adoption in countries and...
Phemex Is a Rebellion Against Traditional Finance, and It’s Winning
Wall Street is often touted as the place where dreams come to life, but the world’s economic epicenter can also be an absolute...
Highlights from CoinDesk’s Bitcoin for Advisors 2021
Crypto assets are here to stay. What began as some niche financial experiment has matured into a retail-driven bona fide market, garnering...
Market Wrap: Analysts Bullish on Bitcoin as Trading Volume Rises
Bitcoin’s price stayed roughly flat over the past 24 hours, settling at approximately $54,000 as of Thursday afternoon. The muted price...
South Korea’s 20% Tax on Crypto Gains Will Take Effect in 2022: Report
South Korean Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Hong Nam-ki said his country is moving ahead with its plan to tax gains on...
Matt Furie Adds to 2016 NFT Card Collection — ‘Rare Pepe Directory Is Complete,’ Says NFT Wallet Creator
About five years ago, Bitcoin.com News reported on the notorious Pepe the frog getting added to the blockchain collectible world after the...
Regulatory Uncertainty a Recurring Theme at London’s Token2049
Regulatory uncertainty kept coming up at London’s Token2049 conference on Thursday.Speaking via Zoom, Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz...
Something Big Is Brewing With Bitcoin
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeOn today’s episode, NLW looks at the growing excitement around bitcoin,...
Asian Schools Lead CoinDesk’s Ranking of Top Universities for Blockchain
Published this week, the Top Universities for Blockchain by CoinDesk serves as a valuable resource for people looking to study this...
The US Wants to Regulate Stablecoins First
It’s recently come to light that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Circle, a principal backer of the popular...
No, Elon Musk’s Shiba Inu Tweet Isn’t Pumping SHIB’s Price
It turns out that the crypto market hasn’t gotten sick of canine-themed meme coins just yet.Self-claimed “DOGE killer” shiba inu (SHIB)...
Cointelegraph Consulting: Terra’s bullish case after Columbus-5 upgrade
Terra’s (LUNA) three-month rally saw its token rise by 674%, catapulting LUNA to the ranks of potential so-called “Ethereum killers.” LUNA...
Bitcoin hints at $1T market cap retest after price hitting 4-month highs
Bitcoin (BTC) took a trip below $54,000 during Oct. 7 as traders waited to see how far a retracement of Wednesday’s $5,000 gains could go....
CME Bitcoin derivative traders had ‘paper hands’ as BTC broke $55K — Report
Bitcoin (BTC) derivatives traders on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) missed out on incredible profits as BTC’s spot price smashed...
Core Scientific to Build New 300MW Blockchain Data Center in Texas
Core Scientific, the blockchain hosting and digital asset mining company, is building a new 300 megawatt blockchain data center in the...
Compound unanimously passes proposal to repair bug
Compound Finance announced the passing of Proposal 064 on Thursday, titled the “Fix COMP Accrual Bug.” The proposal states...
What Iceland’s Spectacular Banking Collapse Teaches Us About Tether
In 2008 and 2009, I was laser-focused on the global financial crisis. It impacted me directly because collapsing state budgets rugged my...
Lawmakers in Kazakhstan Propose Registration for Crypto Farms, Higher Electricity Rate for Miners
Members of the parliament in Kazakhstan have proposed the establishment of a state register for cryptocurrency farms operating in the...
Yield Guild Games Invests $175K in Merit Circle to Expand Scholarship Program
Yield Guild Games (YGG), a decentralized gaming startup, said it invested $175,000 in Merit Circle to help “bring play-to-earn to the...
Voting on a Proposal to Reimburse Mt. Gox Victims Begins Today
The trustee presiding over the Mt. Gox civil rehabilitation case has taken the next step toward partially reimbursing victims who lost...
Tezos to Present NFT Exhibition at Influential Art Basel Miami Beach Show
Tezos will be presenting a multi-faceted non-fungible token (NFT) exhibition at Art Basel Miami Beach 2021, the two projects announced...
Stock Trading App Public to Add Cryptocurrencies
Public, a commission free stock-trading app similar to Robinhood, will allow its users to buy and sell cryptocurrency in the coming weeks,...
DeFi for the Small Guy: Algorand-Based Tinyman Raises $2.5M Ahead of DEX Launch
Tinyman, an automated market maker (AMM) on the Algorand blockchain, recently raised $2.5 million and is expected to launch in full on...
Where to buy Litecoin as LTC sees 11% gains
The Litecoin (LTC) token is up by 11% in the past 24 hours and is trading at $185 at the time of writing The Litecoin token has seen a...
Where to buy Monero as XMR gears up for a huge rally
The Monero (XMR) token has jumped by 10% in the past 24 hours and is trading at $292 at the time of writing The Monero token is under the...
Bitcoin ETF Approval Expected by Month’s End, Prominent Hedge Fund Puts More Weight Behind BTC
The price of bitcoin soared past the $55K handle on Wednesday for the first time in four months giving proponents hope the crypto bull run...
Where to buy Dash as the token rises by 3.26%
The Dash (DASH) token is currently trading at $185 at the time of writing with strong consolidation near the $180 region The Dash token...
Crypto News Roundup for Oct. 7, 2021
This episode is sponsored by Kava, Nexo.io and Market Intel by Chainalysis.Today’s Stories:Bitcoin Rally Holds Support Above $52K; Next...
Revolution, Macro and Micro: Three Ways to Look at a Bitcoin Investment
Investment in cryptocurrencies is all the rage, and bitcoin is clearly the biggest – it has the largest market capitalization, the most...
How Advisors Can Add Value to Clients With Crypto
Clients work with you because you are their trusted advisor. You bring value to the client-advisor relationship in myriad ways and,...
ESPN, DraftKings Execs Join Soccer NFT Platform Sorare Following $680M Raise
European soccer NFT platform Sorare is continuing its growth with a slew of new hires, the company announced Thursday.Ryan Spoon has been...
Wirex Launches Crypto Platform in Vietnam
Payments app Wirex has launched in Vietnam and expanded its decentralized finance (DeFi) offering to 81 more countries.Expansion into...
One of Germany’s Oldest Banks Taps Fireblocks to Custody Customers’ Crypto
Freshly inducted crypto unicorn Fireblocks has been selected by Bankhaus von der Heydt, a 267-year-old privately owned German bank, to...
Bitcoin bears risk getting trapped if BTC price remains above $50K — Here’s why
Bitcoin’s (BTC) 32% weekly rally became bears’ worst nightmare as Friday’s $860million options expiry is approaching. After breaking the...
Dapper Labs Taps Chainalysis to Fight NFT Money Laundering
NFT developer Dapper Labs has agreed to a long-term partnership with blockchain tracing firm Chainalysis to detect and prevent...
El Salvador’s State-Owned Banco Hipotecario Taps Four Crypto Startups for Blockchain Solutions
The adoption of bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador has forced the local financial system to adapt.Staring down these changes, Banco...
Fan tokens: Day trading your favorite sports team
With the pandemic separating fans from their stadiums and sports clubs from their revenues, fan tokens are now big players in the game,...
Analytics Platform Nansen Expands to Fantom, Spotlighting Emerging DeFi Ecosystem
Popular blockchain analytics platform Nansen.ai has expanded coverage to the Fantom blockchain today, shedding light on a rapidly...
Cash2Bitcoin: As Bitcoin Greatly Outperforms S&P 500, Bitcoin ATMs Gain in Popularity
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and after an initial dip, the stock market has performed exceptionally well for such an...
Where to buy Bitcoin Cash as BCH shows signs of consolidation
The Bitcoin Cash (BCH) token is displaying signs of consolidation near the $600 region The Bitcoin Cash token has seen a...
Nigerians Optimistic CBDC Will Improve Payments and Help Promote Cryptocurrencies
Nigerians are hopeful the planned central bank digital currency (CBDC), also known as the e-naira, is going to enhance cross-border...
Mt. Gox Bitcoin reimbursement voting closes on Friday
The proposal requires more than 50% of votes to pass Voting on a Bitcoin (BTC) reimbursement proposal for victims of the infamous Mt. Gox...
Tether Has Lent $1B to Celsius Network: Report
Tether, issuer of the eponymous stablecoin, has lent $1 billion to Celsius Network, a startup offering crypto lending that has drawn the...
Invesco Lists Two Crypto ETFs With Galaxy Digital on the CBOE
Asset manager Invesco has introduced two exchange-traded funds (ETFs) with exposure to cryptocurrency and blockchain companies.The...
Bitcoin Rally Holds Support Above $52K; Next Resistance Near All-Time High
Bitcoin (BTC) continues to strengthen after breaking above $50,000 earlier this week and rallying Thursday to a five-month high. The...
3 warning signs suggest the Bitcoin price rally is overextended
Bitcoin (BTC) faced fresh doubts over the strength of its bull run on Oct. 7 as analysts eyed a potential reversal of Wednesday’s short...
US DoJ establishes cryptocurrency enforcement team
Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said the team would have an active role in protecting investors from fraudulent activities and...
Ukrainian President sends crypto bill back to parliament
President Volodymyr Zelensky only disagreed with part of the crypto bill, which passed its second hearing towards the end of last month...
MoneyGram inks partnership with Stellar for USDC settlement
Customers will deposit or withdraw funds using their wallets at MoneyGram service providers MoneyGram, a US-based cross-border payments...
Bitcoin’s Options Market Is Now Skewed Bullish Across All Time Frames
Bitcoin’s options contracts used to hedge spot and futures market exposure are exhibiting bullish sentiment across all time frames in a...
What Is a Bitcoin ETF?
A bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) lets traders gain exposure to BTC via traditional stock markets, without needing to directly buy or...
Local Experts Say Zimbabwe Not Softening Its Stance on Cryptocurrency Just Yet
Zimbabwean crypto and economic experts have suggested Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube’s positive comments about cryptocurrencies do...
Northern Data Slumps as Market Manipulation Allegations Surface
Investors in Northern Data have lost about $300 million this week as shares of the provider of high-performance computing services to...
CoinSwitch Kuber now India’s largest crypto unicorn valued at $1.9BN
India now has two crypto unicorns after CoinDCX reached the status following its series C round in August CoinSwitch Kuber, one of India's...
21Shares Taps Copper for Custody of Crypto ETPs
Crypto exchange-traded product (ETP) issuer 21Shares has tapped infrastructure provider Copper for its custody requirements.The core of...
Ukraine President Zelensky Returns Law ‘On Virtual Assets’ to Parliament
The Ukrainian president has sent the recently adopted law “On Virtual Assets” back to the Verkhovna Rada, the...
Bitcoin’s Technical Bias Flips Bullish as Price Climbs Above Descending Trendline
Bitcoin ran through key technical resistance levels on Wednesday, strengthening a bullish bias, and extended gains Thursday.The...