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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...
AscendEX Lists Sidus Heroes Token, SIDUS
PRESS RELEASE. AscendEX is thrilled to announce the listing of the Sidus utility token, SIDUS, and the SENATE governance token under the...
First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Slumps to Below $48K Ahead of $6B Options Expiry
(Edited by James Rubin and Greg Ahlstrand)Good morning. Here’s what’s happening:Market moves: Bitcoin slumps below $48,000, as December’s...
Ozzy Osbourne Reveals Cryptobatz NFT Project Paying Tribute to His Iconic Bat Bite
The English singer, songwriter, and former Black Sabbath frontman, Ozzy Osbourne, has revealed he’s launching a non-fungible token...
The Novatar — the Best Place to Create Your Digital Identity
PRESS RELEASE. The Novatar will be launching with a limited edition of 25K avatars, an NFT project to enable users to experience the...
Tenedores a largo plazo de bitcoin mantienen posiciones pese a una fuerte caída desde noviembre
Los tenedores a largo plazo de bitcoin recortaron marginalmente sus posiciones en las últimas semanas a pesar de la fuerte caída de los...
DeFi sector tokens offer shelter as Bitcoin falls below $48.5K
The cryptocurrency market slid lower on Dec. 28 as the price of Bitcoin (BTC) lost nearly $4,000 in value in a matter of hours with bulls...
Market Wrap Year-End Review: Altcoins, NFTs Filled Void When Bitcoin Got Boring
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...
Analysts warn that possible downside wick could push BTC price as low as $44K
It looks as though the year-end rally that many crypto traders had hoped for will have to wait until 2022, as Bitcoin (BTC) bears gained...
Italian Sports Car Maker Ferrari Inks Multi-Year Deal With Blockchain Firm Velas Network AG
The Italian luxury sports car manufacturer headquartered in Maranello, Italy, Ferrari has announced the firm is partnering with Velas...
A new intro to Bitcoin: The 9-minute read that could change your life
By now, you’ve probably heard of Bitcoin. You may have heard that it has made some people rich. You may also have heard that it’s a new...
Can SafeMoon (SFM) replicate its 2021 explosive growth next year?
SafeMoon (SFM) was launched as a community-driven DeFi token. Technically a meme coin, the hope was to challenge other high-growth meme...
Can Avalanche (AVAX) surge towards all-time highs of $147?
After a decisive slump in December, Avalanche (AVAX) and most cryptos have rebounded. Although momentum is starting to die down, we have...
Helium (HNT) teeters after recent surge – Here is why the bullish run is about to end
Despite showing decent upward momentum in recent weeks, Helium (HNT) has started to lose steam. Although the coin is still on the green,...
Should you buy Chainlink (LINK) today? Price analysis and predictions below
Chainlink (LINK) is a smart contracts platform that ranks among the top 20 crypto projects in terms of market cap. At the start of...
5 Reasons to Buy Polkadot
While Bitcoin remains on top of the cryptocurrency market, other upcoming coins challenge this supremacy. One such coin is Polkadot, a...
Creating the On-Ramp for Web 3
Arguably the biggest challenge for the ongoing development of crypto, blockchain technology and Web 3 is finding ways to widen their...
Yearn Finance (YFI) loses uptrend momentum and could plunge towards $25000
Yearn Finance (YFI) saw a very decent uptick in December, even as the broader crypto market reported a dip in sentiment. But it seems the...
Ethereum 2.0 Explained
With the launch of every new blockchain comes a new block explorer website to understand.Block explorer sites offer real-time updates on...
OpenDAO’s SOS Token Hits $250M Market Cap Despite Unclear Goals, Security Risks
In a remarkable display of the power of airdrops in community formation, a new token reached a peak market capitalization of over a...
Growth of Dollar Digital Currency Creates New Investment Opportunities for Businesses
In November 2021, the total value of dollar digital currencies surpassed $127 billion, according to a U.S. Treasury Department report. It...
WallStreetBets Reddit Group: What Is It?
A decentralized Reddit forum called WallStreetBets is causing chaos on Wall Street.The group "r/Wallstreetbets" (aka WSB) is a...
How to Make, Buy and Sell NFTs
NFTs have become one of the hottest crypto trends of 2021, with overall sales up 55% already since 2020, from $250 million to $389...
Ethereum Has Burned 1.2 Million ETH in 4 Months, Close to $5 Billion in Ether Destroyed
With three days left until the end of 2021, the Ethereum network and its native token ether have had a phenomenal year as ether has...
Institutional adoption of crypto to accelerate in 2022, says Genesis’ Noelle Acheson
Crypto saw astonishing institutional growth in 2021, but Genesis’ Noelle Acheson believes adoption is set to accelerate over the...
Iran Banning Crypto Mining Until March 6 to Save Power: Report
Iran is banning authorized crypto mining in the country until March 6 in an attempt to save power and avoid blackouts this winter,...
Tokenized Bitcoin in Circulation Nears a Half Million BTC, Bitcoin-Pegged Token Value Exceeds $21 Billion
According to data recorded on December 28, there’s approximately 434,265.43 bitcoin-pegged or wrapped bitcoin tokens worth more...
Ethereum whales dumping ETH as price slides below $4K, data shows
Ethereum is having difficulty keeping its richest investors in line as its native token, Ether (ETH), hints at logging more losses in the...
Solana Wallet Phantom Nears Mobile App Rollout – With an NFT Twist
Solana’s Phantom wallet plans to launch its iOS beta on Thursday with a twist: you’ll need to buy an NFT access pass to get in on the...
GameFi apps revived interest in blockchain gaming: Huobi Research
Crypto exchange Huobi’s research arm, Huobi Research, has identified a rising interest in blockchain gaming as a direct impact from GameFi...
RBI Recommends India Implement Basic Version of CBDC
As India grapples with uncertainty around cryptocurrency regulation, its central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has indicated it...
Bitcoin daily losses near $4K as S&P 500 hits 69th all-time high of 2021
Bitcoin (BTC) dropped nearly $4,000 on Dec. 28 as the market offered a sharp reminder that the bull run would need to wait. BTC/USD 1-hour...
Multiple Metaverses, One Avatar: ‘Ready Player Me’ Raises $13M to Make It Happen
In a bid to become the go-to avatar company of the metaverse, Ready Player Me has raised a $13 million funding round led by venture...
How Crypto’s Regulatory Scene Might Evolve in 2022
The story of crypto is one of a global asset and technology class, and it’s one we intend to cover as comprehensively as possible. Here’s...
Bank of Russia to Collect Data on Crypto-Related Transactions Between Individuals
The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) plans to obtain information from commercial banks pertaining to some money transfers between private...
Veteran Bitcoin hodlers are still selling record low amounts of BTC despite 70% gains in 2021
Seasoned Bitcoin (BTC) hodlers have hardly spent any coins despite $69,000 all-time highs this year, data shows. According to the Coin...
DeFi Portfolio Tracking Firm DeBank Raises $25M in Round Led by Sequoia China
Decentralized finance (DeFi) portfolio firm DeBank has raised $25 million in a funding round led by venture capital firm Sequoia China....
From art to gaming: The biggest NFT trends of 2021
According to a recent report by Cointelegraph Research, the volume of nonfungible tokens (NFTs) sold this year could eclipse $18 billion....
Travis Kling on Why Elon’s BTC Buy Was the Biggest Story of the Year
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeOn this episode of “The Breakdown’s” “End of Year Extravaganza”, NLW is joined by...
Analyst says the 2022 altcoin “Supercycle” is here, highlights 4 top picks
Analyst Nicholas Merten says altcoins are ready to rally, with Aave, Uniswap and Yearn.Finance his top picks. DataDash host and popular...