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Learn about OKT, a Cosmos-based altcoin now defying a bear market
OKT token rose by double digits last week The cryptocurrency has been boosted by new partnerships OKT is correcting but remains on an...
Binance coin stabilises, but this analyst thinks BNB is heading the LUNA way
Binance coin recovered slightly on Monday after a losing streak Crypto analyst says Binance could collapse similarly to Terra Luna The...
Back to basics for Chainlink. Bulls have to defend $6 before a further crash happens
Chainlink traded at $6 on Monday, stabilising at the crucial support LINK buyers have always defended $6 against the onslaught of bears...
Binance US Plans to Acquire Voyager Digital’s Assets for $1 Billion in Bankruptcy Bid
According to a Binance blog post, Binance US has entered an agreement with Voyager Digital Ltd., in order to acquire its assets. The...
Shiba Inu nears a demand zone as the SHIB army guesses Shibarium in “countdown”
Shiba Inu recovered 1.21% on Monday after a bearish move The developers teased a “countdown,” as some fans speculate the...
Biggest Movers: SHIB, XMR Extend Recent Gains on Monday
Shiba inu rose for a third consecutive session on Monday, as the meme coin continued to move away from last week’s lows....
Cardano hits a new low despite another milestone
Cardano has lost 13% in seven days to hit a new bottom for the year The blockchain continues to attract new projects as Plutus scripts...
Basel Committee Finalizes Rules for Bank Exposure to Cryptocurrency Assets
The Basel Committee, the organization in charge of setting global bank standards, has finalized its new rules related to banks and...
$4B OneCoin scam co-founder pleads guilty, faces 60 years jail
Karl Sebastian Greenwood, the co-founder of the multi-billion dollar fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme OneCoin has pleaded guilty to...
‘Wave lower’ for all markets? 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week
Bitcoin (BTC) starts the week before Christmas with a whimper as a tight trading range gives BTC bulls little cheer. A weekly close just...
What is crypto market capitulation and its significance
Capitulation literally means concede. In the financial sphere, this term reflects a period of aggressive selling when the last of the...
Crypto investment firm CoinShares debuts trading on Nasdaq Stockholm
Major cryptocurrency investment firm CoinShares has debuted trading on Nasdaq Stockholm, the primary securities exchange of the Nordic...
Bitcoin addresses with 100+ coins reach new one-year high
Bitcoin addresses with 100 or more coins hit 16,120 on 19 December 2022. Each address is worth $1.67 million at current prices, increasing...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: BTC, ETH Consolidate as Markets Prepare for Christmas Break
Bitcoin continued to consolidate to start the week, as market volatility remained in place ahead of the Christmas holidays. The...
Ethereum bulls wake up after four years to transfer 22,982 ETH
At a time of bear market-induced uncertainty, crypto investors often tend to stick with Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) to evade impermanent...
Shiba Inu leads the charge as the broader cryptocurrency market slowly recovers
SHIB is the best performer amongst the top 20 cryptocurrencies by market cap on Monday. It is up by more than 2% today and could rally...
Chinese Zhejiang Province Aims to Build a $28.7 Billion Metaverse Industry by 2025
Zhejiang, a coastal province of China, has presented a metaverse development plan that seeks to build a metaverse hub in its territory....
Is Ether set to capture the $1,250 resistance level soon as bulls slowly take control?
Ether is up by less than 1% but could rally higher in the near term. ETH has been trading below the $1,300 resistance level in recent...
Bitcoin price recoils as hopes for a Santa rally fade
Bitcoin price has moved sideways in the past few weeks. The Federal Reserve sounded more hawkish than expects. It has formed a rising...
Toko Token price prediction as TKO volume spikes
Toko Token is the crypto for Tokocrypto, a leading Indonesian exchange. The token has come to the spotlight following Binance acquisition...
Web3 Privacy Layer Aztec Raises $100 Million in Series B Funding Round to Produce an Encrypted Version of Ethereum
Aztec, a Web3 privacy layer, has raised $100 million in a Series B funding round led by the Andreessen Horowitz subsidiary a16z crypto....
Government Agencies Need Crypto Wallets and Access to Exchanges, Russian Prosecutors Say
Russian authorities are finding it hard to cash out digital assets they have gotten hold of, prosecutors have warned. They have also urged...
SEC Chairman Says Important to Regulate Crypto Issuers and Intermediaries
The chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, has stressed the importance of bringing...
Shark Tank Star Kevin O’Leary Defends Support of Crypto Exchange FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried
Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary, aka Mr. Wonderful, has defended his support of the collapsed crypto exchange FTX and its former CEO...
Federal Prosecutors Probe Democrats Over Donations From Sam Bankman-Fried
Several members of the U.S. Democratic Party and campaign committees are reportedly being probed by federal prosecutors over donations...
New FTX CEO Told Members of Congress SBF’s Family ‘Certainly Received Payments’ From the Business
According to multiple reports, FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents face scrutiny over their reported involvement with their son’s...
While Miners Deal With Low BTC Prices, Bitcoin’s Mining Difficulty Target Expected to Increase 3% Higher
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty target is expected to increase on Dec. 19, 2022, after printing the largest reduction recorded in 2022...
Gemini Forms Creditors Committee With Houlihan Lokey to Resolve Genesis Liquidity Issues
Roughly two weeks ago a report from the Financial Times (FT) claimed Genesis Global Capital owed $900 million to Gemini customers and the...
Donald Trump Trading Card NFTs Skyrocket in Value Despite Being Mocked for His ‘Major Announcement’
After the former 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump revealed his non-fungible token (NFT) trading card collection,...
Onecoin Co-Founder Pleads Guilty to Fraud Charges in US
Karl Sebastian Greenwood, a co-founder and operator of Onecoin, has pled guilty to his part in building the notorious crypto pyramid. The...
Crypto Twitter Speaks Up for Hal Finney’s Account, SBF Was Reportedly Told by Binance CEO: Stop Causing ‘More Damage’ — Bitcoin.com News Week in Review
Bitcoiners on Twitter recently pleaded with the CEO of the social media platform, Elon Musk, to preserve the account of late computer...
OKX cites intermittent outage amid Alibaba Cloud equipment anomaly
Crypto exchange OKX witnessed service disruptions after primary infrastructure provider Alibaba Cloud announced a hardware failure in...
Binance to Help Azerbaijan With Crypto Regulations
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has offered to support Azerbaijan in efforts to establish regulations for digital assets. The leading coin...
Ghanaian Cedi Appreciates by More Than 30% in 4 Days — Currency Recovery Follows IMF Loan Announcement
Just a few months after it became the world’s worst-performing currency, the Ghanaian cedi’s exchange rate versus the U.S....
Bahrain Telecom Operator Starts Accepting Crypto Payments
Stc Bahrain, a subsidiary of the Bahrain telecoms operator Stc Group, recently said its partnership arrangement with payment service...
CoinEx: To Embrace a New Crypto Future by Making Crypto Trading Easier in the Next Five Years
PRESS RELEASE. In December 2022, CoinEx will celebrate its fifth birthday. Since its inception, the crypto exchange has gone through bulls...
National Bank of Kazakhstan Publishes Whitepaper for Digital Tenge
The central bank of Kazakhstan has completed the second phase of testing for its digital currency and published a whitepaper. The studies...
G20 Countries to Build Crypto Policy Consensus for Better Global Regulation
The G20 countries aim to build a policy consensus on crypto assets for better global regulation. “After the crypto meltdown which we...
Mad Money’s Jim Cramer: I Trust My Money More in Draftkings Than I Would Binance
The host of Mad Money, Jim Cramer, has cast doubt on the trustworthiness of crypto exchange Binance. “Why can’t people in...
SBF risks 115 years in jail, Binance’s FUD, and auditors quit crypto: Hodler’s Digest Dec. 11-17
Top Stories This Week FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried arrested, set to be extradited to US Sam Bankman-Fried was taken into custody by the...
US Senator: Cryptocurrency Cannot Be Stopped, FTX Collapse Isn’t an Indictment of Crypto
U.S. Senator Pat Toomey says illegal actions by crypto exchange FTX must be separated “from perfectly lawful and innovative...
Report: FTX Co-Founder Bankman-Fried Plans to Surrender to US Extradition Request
Disgraced FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) has reportedly reversed his decision to contest his extradition to the United States....
Software Firm Consensys Partners With Paypal, Metamask Users Can Use Payment Processor to Buy ETH
On Dec. 14, the Ethereum software firm Consensys announced that the company has teamed up with the payment processing giant Paypal. The...
TVL in Defi Slides Under $40 Billion, Tapping a Low Not Seen Since February 2021
The total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) has fallen below the $40 billion mark for the first time since the first week...
Bitcoin still lacks this on-chain signal for BTC bull market — David Puell
Bitcoin (BTC) only needs one more key on-chain signal for a classic bull market to begin, analyst David Puell says. In a tweet on Dec. 17,...
UNHCR Launches Blockchain Payment Solution to Support Ukrainians Displaced by War
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) recently said it has launched a blockchain payment solution for digital cash...
Capgemini: Nine out of Ten Consumers Interested in the Metaverse
A report issued by Capgemini, a consulting firm, has found that most consumers are at least curious about the metaverse and what it might...
FTX Collapse Has Rekindled Security and Reliability Concerns for Web3 Projects Says Marketing Expert
The fallout from the collapse of failed crypto exchange FTX is forcing Web3 brands, and projects previously focused on managing the...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: ETH Drops Below $1,200 to Start the Weekend
Ethereum fell below $1,200 to start the weekend, as prices continued to trade close to a multi-week low. This decline comes as market...
Biggest Movers: ADA Hits Fresh Record Low, BNB Down for Seventh Straight Day
Cardano fell to a fresh all-time low on Saturday, as prices plunged by over 10% to start the weekend. The move saw the token drop for a...
Gemini Customer Data Leak Was Advertised for Sale on Hacker Forums for 30 BTC in September
On Dec. 14, 2022, the crypto exchange Gemini revealed that some Gemini customers have been the target of phishing attacks that the firm...
Bitvavo to prefund locked DCG assets worth $296.7M amid liquidity crisis
The Digital Currency Group and its affiliates (DCG), which manages $296.7 million (280 million euros) in deposits and digital assets of...
Brazil Could Launch Its Defi-Integrated Digital Real in 2024
Roberto Campos Neto, president of the Central Bank of Brazil, has stated that the digital real project, the Brazilian central bank digital...
Industry execs confident in DeFi adoption despite security flaws: Finance Redefined
Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you...
Bitcoin and Ethereum gave back their gains, but has anything actually changed?
Crypto markets threw a nice head fake this week by rallying into resistance on a “positive” Consumer Price Index (CPI) report, before...
Big Short Investor Michael Burry Says Audits of Crypto Exchanges Like Binance and FTX Are ‘Meaningless’
Hedge fund manager Michael Burry, famed for forecasting the 2008 financial crisis, says the problem with auditing cryptocurrency...
Hal Finney’s Wife Fran Activates Her Husband’s Twitter Account to Protect It From ‘Being Purged’ by Elon Musk
Roughly seven days ago the owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, disclosed that the social media platform planned to purge 1.5 billion Twitter...
Bahamas Corrections Commissioner Says FTX Co-Founder Bankman-Fried Is in ‘Good Spirits’ in the Prison Sick Bay
According to local reports, former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) is in “good spirits” and is being kept in the maximum security unit in...
Bitcoin targets $16.7K amid fear BNB may ‘drag whole crypto market down’
Bitcoin (BTC) looked set to ditch $17,000 after the Dec. 16 Wall Street open as United States equities continued to fall. BTC/USD 1-hour...
Total crypto market cap takes another hit, but traders remain neutral
The total cryptocurrency market capitalization dropped 8.1% in the past two days after failing to break the $880 billion resistance on...
Why is Ethereum (ETH) price down today?
Ether (ETH) price is down on Dec. 16 and the pre-FOMC rally to $1,350 was obliterated after Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell issued...
Stablecoin BUSD’s Supply Shrunk by 3.24 Billion in 3 Days, Market Cap Is Down 20% Since Last Month
While billions of dollars in crypto assets have been withdrawn from Binance, the world’s largest exchange in terms of volume, the...
Solana Struggles to Remain in the Top 20 as Prior Ties to FTX and Alameda Wounded the Project
Amid the market chaos within the crypto economy and following the climactic FTX collapse, the crypto asset solana has been one of the...
Earn 175% APR Through ApeCoin (APE) Staking on LBank Exchange
PRESS RELEASE. INTERNET CITY, DUBAI, Dec 16, 2022 – LBank Exchange, a global digital asset trading platform, has recently launched ApeCoin...
Biggest Movers: ADA Hits All-Time Low on Friday, MATIC Extends Recent Downtrend
Cardano fell to an all-time low on Friday, as sentiment in crypto markets remained bearish in today’s session. The token fell for a...
Accounting Firm Mazars Stops Proof-of-Reserve Audits for Crypto Firms, Binance Audit Removed From the Web
The accounting firm Mazars Group has stopped doing proof-of-reserves (POR) audits for cryptocurrency exchanges and the recently published...
Build on Bitcoin, ‘a better platform for Web3,’ says Lightning contest founder
Bear markets are for building Bitcoin (BTC) companies. At least, that’s what the Legends of Lightning, a nine-week contest for competing...
Bitcoin dips under $17K as ‘craziest rumors’ over Binance sink BTC price
Bitcoin (BTC) fell below $17,000 on Dec. 16 as traders warned of overreaction to “FUD” involving exchange Binance and others. BTC/USD...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: BTC Below $17,000, as ETH Nears $1,200 Breakout
Bitcoin fell below $17,000 on Dec. 16, as bearish pressure continued to intensify following yesterday’s disappointing U.S. retail...
HOOK price defies gravity as Hooked Protocol activity rises
Hooked Protocol is a small but fast-growing platform. Its activity has surged to position 1 in DappRadar rankings. Hooked Protocol price...
Argentine Province of San Luis to Issue Dollar-Pegged Stablecoin and Local Art NFTs
San Luis, a province of Argentina, has approved a bill allowing it to issue a blockchain-based, dollar-pegged stablecoin. The bill, which...
Crypto price predictions: Bitcoin, Cardano, Binance Coin
Crypto prices remained in a consolidation phase this week as concerns about FTX contagion continued. They also reacted to the latest...
NFT Sale Starts December 17, 00:00(EST) | Check out the New KV and Sale Information | Entertainment DAO Project ‘SUPER SAPIENSS’ by Three Directors Representing Japan
PRESS RELEASE. Financie Inc. pleased to announce that the “SUPER SAPIENSS NFT” sales conducted by “SUPER...
Will XLM recover from its recent dip after MoneyGram announced support for Stellar Aid Assist?
XLM has lost more than 3% of its value in the last 24 hours. MoneyGram has announced support for the Stellar Aid Assist The total crypto...
Crypto Futures ETFs Raise More Than $73 Million Ahead of Hong Kong Launch
Hong Kong’s first crypto-based exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have attracted over $73 million ahead of their debut on the...
Reports Suggest Caroline Ellison Is Working With Feds and Snitching on FTX Co-Founder Bankman-Fried
Following the arrest of the former FTX boss Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), spectators continue to wonder where ex-Alameda Research CEO Caroline...
ECB Hikes Interest Rates by 50bps; Signals Need for Further Hikes to Fight Inflation
The European Central Bank (ECB) decided to hike three of its key interest rates by 50 basis points (0.5%) as part of its ongoing war...
Web3 Applications Will Increasingly Be Built on Custom Blockchains, Says Ankr’s Head of Product
As blockchain developers compete for traffic and resources for their respective dapps (decentralized applications), the downside to this,...
Stock price for troubled Bitcoin miner Core Scientific surges 200%
Bitcoin (BTC) miner Core Scientific’s stock has soared nearly 200% in the past four days, following the positive reception for a Dec. 14...
Bank of Russia Moves to Safeguard Crypto Companies Against Sanctions
The Central Bank of Russia has introduced measures to protect entities working with digital assets from sanctions pressures. These...
US Senators Unveil New Crypto Bill — Experts Call It the ‘Most Direct Attack’ on Personal Freedom and Privacy of Crypto Users
Two U.S. senators, including Elizabeth Warren, have introduced a bipartisan bill for the regulation of cryptocurrency. The bill, titled...
Trump Launches NFT Card Collection — Sweepstake Winners Could Dine or Golf With the 45th President
The former 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced the launch of his new non-fungible token (NFT) trading cards on...
‘Big Time’ and other Web3 games take home the gold at the inaugural GAM3 awards
The Web3 gaming awards event, the GAM3 Awards, hosted by Polkastarter Gaming, has announced 16 winners at a live event on December 15....
Bitcoin Santa Claus rally unlikely, according to on-chain and derivatives data
As the coldest days of the crypto winter set in, investors’ speculative interest in the crypto market has fallen to pre-2021 levels,...
Court Documents Say FTX Boss Ryan Salame Snitched on SBF 2 Days Before the Bankruptcy Filing
According to court documents associated with the FTX bankruptcy proceedings, on Nov. 9 — two days before the company filed for Chapter 11...
Another Mysterious Person Signs a 2009 BTC Address, Message Shared by Martin Shkreli Mentions Convicted Felon Paul Le Roux
Just recently, the crypto community discovered a bitcointalk.org forum user who signed a message from bitcoin block 1,018, and the signer...
Minxie Launches NFT Project That Aims to Provide the Untapped Creator Economy With Solutions Through Blockchain
PRESS RELEASE. “NFTs aren’t dead, they are going to be everywhere” says Tina Lou, Head of Marketing at Minxie, “and, actually, the bear...
Biggest Movers: DOGE, LTC Near 3-Week Lows on Thursday
Dogecoin was trading close to a three-week low on Thursday, following the release of retail sales figures in the United States. Customer...
Ethics 101: Should crypto projects ever negotiate with hackers?
“A highly profitable trading strategy” was how hacker Avraham Eisenberg described his involvement in the Mango Markets exploit that...
Report: Crypto Exchange Gemini Suffers From Data Breach, 5.7 Million Emails Allegedly Leaked
According to a recent report, the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini suffered from a breach of data and reportedly 5.7 million emails were...