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Wall Street still not convinced on Bitcoin $100K this year: JPMorgan survey
One of the world’s largest investment banks has its Bitcoin (BTC) price predictions ready for 2022. In a recent poll, JPMorgan Chase asked...
Decentral Park Capital Launches $75M DeFi Fund
Decentral Park Capital, an early-stage investment firm with $140 million in assets under management, has announced a new $75 million fund...
GameFi NFT Marketplace Lootex Closes $9M Funding Round
Lootex, a multi-chain non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace, has closed a $9 million seed funding round co-led by Spartan Capital, Infinity...
Paradigm, Sequoia to Invest $1.15B in Citadel Securities, Bringing Trading Firm Closer to Crypto
Venture capital firms Paradigm Capital and Sequoia Capital have agreed to invest $1.15 billion in electronic trading giant Citadel...
Down From the Peaks: A Look at How Far Crypto Assets Have Slid From Their All-Time Highs
Digital currencies had a phenomenal year, and a great deal of the crypto assets in existence reached all-time high (ATH) prices against...
Luxor Launches New Business for Buying and Selling Bitcoin Mining Machines
Luxor Technology, the bitcoin and crypto service provider, is starting a new brokerage business for buying and selling high-performance...
Unstoppable Domains Launches NFT-Based Sign-On for Ethereum and Polygon
Unstoppable Domains, a startup creating identity applications suited to a blockchain-based Web 3 world, has launched a single sign-on...
Iris Energy’s December Hashrate Rises 14% as Revenue Falls Again
Nasdaq-listed Iris Energy’s (IREN) average hashrate was up 14% month on month in December 2021 while operating revenue fell 6.4%, the...
Coinbase, PayPal, FTX.US and More Join TaxBit’s Free Filing Network for Crypto Taxes
Utah-based tax software firm TaxBit has launched the TaxBit Network – a partnership between TaxBit and 20 top crypto companies including...
The Blockchain-Based Webtoon Platform “TooNFT” Launches on Toomics’ Ecosystem
PRESS RELEASE. Tortola, BVI, 10 Jan 2022: Anyone who has been paying attention to the world of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) will know that...
The Mnuchin Files: New Documents Shed Light on Trump-Era Crypto Policy
The idea of a digital U.S. dollar had an early behind-the-scenes advocate inside the Trump administration in the president’s son-in-law,...
Near, Cosmos Defy Altcoin Plunge With Price Surge
Tokens of Near (NEAR) and Cosmos (ATOM) were among the only gainers among major cryptocurrencies in the past 24 hours as the broader...
Capital Pooling Firm Valdy Rebrands to INX Digital After Reverse Merger
Canadian capital pooling company Valdy Investments completed the takeover of securities token platform INX and subsequently changed its...
Report: Fintech Firms Received 62% of the $4.9 Billion Raised by African Tech Companies in 2021
Fintechs account for nearly two-thirds of the $4.9 billion that was raised by African technology firms during the past year. Fintech...
Binance Taps Former Government Officials for Russia, Ukraine Posts
Major global cryptocurrency exchange Binance has hired former government officials from Russia and Ukraine to help develop its business in...
Crypto strategist outlines 2022 bullish scenarios for Polygon, Fantom and Enjin Coin
Cryptocurrencies continue to face downward pressure as sentiment across the equity market also weighs on crypto assets. Popular crypto...
Bitcoin’s Near 40% Slide Weighs on Crypto Stocks While Coinbase Outperforms
Bitcoin (BTC) has taken a beating over the past two months, bringing pain for digital assets and blockchain-related stocks, most of which...
Market highlights January 11: Cryptos mostly lower, rate rise threat unsettles US markets
The crypto market as a whole is bearish today. US markets were mixed yesterday, with the threat of multiple upcoming rate rises causing...
El Salvador to Add More Geothermal Energy Sources to Power Bitcoin City
The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has confirmed that the country is making investments to secure a geothermal power source for...
Axis Bank issues financial contract on state-backed blockchain platform
Indian financial services giant Axis Bank issued a financial contract between two domestic businesses by using a government-backed...
Bitcoin returns to $42K as bets start favoring ‘short squeeze’ higher for BTC
Bitcoin (BTC) broke through $42,000 on Jan. 11 as expectations of a fresh “short squeeze” mounted. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp)....
Elrond Foundation Acquires Crypto Payments Firm Utrust
Elrond, an Ethereum competitor touting throughput on the order of 100,000 transactions per second, is acquiring Utrust, a Portugal-based...
Binance Becomes Official Sponsor of the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON 2021)
Binance is thrilled to announce that it is an official sponsor of the 2021 TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament, taking...
NYDIG-Owned Payments Startup Bottlepay Obtains FCA Registration
Payments startup Bottlepay said it has been approved by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to carry out crypto-asset activities in the...
Top places to buy IOTA, one of the few winners today
IOTA, the only blockchainless blockchain, is one of the few gainers on this day of crypto market gloom. It has added around 3% to its...
Olympus Tanks 30% Led by Liquidations on Fuse, Souring Market Sentiment
Tokens of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Olympus (OHM) dropped as much as 32% in the past 24 hours as crypto traders moved away...
The hottest new dog-themed meme coin? Where to buy SpookyShiba
SpookyShiba is the first "Horror Genre" token. The dog-themed meme coin added 40% to its value today. Do you want to know more about...
Olympus Tanks 30% as Fuse Pools See Liquidations
Tokens of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Olympus (OHM) dropped as much as 32% in the past 24 hours as crypto traders moved away...
You can now buy NEAR, up 17% in the last 24 hours: here’s where
The live NEAR Protocol (NEAR) price today is $16.44 with a 24-hour trading volume of just under $1.8 billion. The NEAR token is up 16.68%...
Price of NEAR is skyrocketing today, up almost 17%: best places to buy NEAR now
The live NEAR Protocol (NEAR) price today is $16.44 with a 24-hour trading volume of just under $1.8 billion. The NEAR token is up 16.68%...
Argentina-Based Mobile Wallet App Belo Adds Lightning Network Support via Opennode
On Monday, January 10, the Argentina-based mobile wallet company Belo announced that the platform has added support for the Lightning...
New NFT marketplace LooksRare allows traders to earn rewards
LooksRare, a recently launched nonfungible token, or NFT, marketplace, says it wants to index all NFT collections on the Ethereum...
Sega Might Drop NFT Experiments if Perceived by Gamers as a Money Grab
Sega, a leading videogame development company, has announced its new stance when it comes to the play-to-earn model and the inclusion of...
EverRise Launches EverSwap With a Native Coin Swap to Facilitate Cross-Chain Exchanges
PRESS RELEASE. EverRise launches their fifth decentralized application (dApp) today, EverSwap, a multi-chain decentralized exchange (DEX),...
Yellow Card Announces It’s Resuming Deposits and Withdrawals via the Naira
Yellow Card has announced the resumption of naira deposits and withdrawals in Nigeria via a statement from the cryptocurrency exchange...
UK Lawmakers Form Crypto and Digital Assets Group to Ensure Regulation Supports Innovation
U.K. lawmakers have formed the Crypto and Digital Assets Group to ensure that new rules for the crypto industry support innovation....
The Macro Battle That Will Shape Crypto Markets This Year
This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Abra and FTX US.Download this episodeLast week, the December FOMC meeting minutes revealed that not...
Government Report Suggests Tightening Regulations on Crypto ATMs
The use of crypto payments to facilitate illegal human and drug trafficking is rising, and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is...
Estonia Offers to Share Crypto Experience With US to Identify Best Practices for Digital Assets
Estonian Finance Minister Keit Pentus-Rosimannus has offered to share her country’s experience in regulating cryptocurrencies with...
SEC seeks more regulatory enforcement on crypto tokens, says Chair Gary Gensler
The SEC seeks more regulatory enforcement in the crypto sector in 2022, according to chair Gary Gensler. US Securities and Exchange...
TZERO Settles SEC Charges It Violated Disclosure Rules
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleged Monday that blockchain-based trading platform tZERO violated federal disclosure...
First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Below $40K Before Regaining Ground; Altcoins Fall
Good morning. Here’s what’s happening:Market moves: Bitcoin fell below $40,000 briefly as U.S. stocks continued to drop thanks to a newly...
Price analysis 1/10: BTC, ETH, BNB, SOL, ADA, XRP, LUNA, DOT, AVAX, DOGE
Bitcoin (BTC) dipped below the $40,000 level on Jan. 10 for the first time since September 2021. The crypto markets were not alone as the...
Single inactive volcano has 90% chance of powering El Salvador’s Bitcoin City, according to president
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has claimed officials will be able to use geothermal energy from one of the country’s inactive...
Bitcoin dip below $40K follows Fed signal of a possible fourth rate hike in 2022
Global financial markets, stocks and cryptocurrencies took a knock on Jan. 10 after rumors that the Federal Reserve may hike interest...
Bitcoin price bounces to $41.5K, but derivatives data shows traders lack confidence
Bitcoin (BTC) briefly reached its lowest level in five months this Monday at $39,650, marking a 42.6% drawdown from the all-time high...
Bitfarms Buys the Dip: 1,000 Bitcoin Added to Treasury as BTC Falls While Mining Hardware Prices Remain High
Global bitcoin mining company Bitfarms has bought the dip and added 1,000 bitcoins to its balance sheet while the prices of mining...
Associated Press Launching NFT Marketplace for Its Photographs
The news agency, the Associated Press, is launching a non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace for collectors to purchase photographs from its...
Best cryptocurrencies to buy during the January Dip
2022 hasn’t started all that well for crypto investors. The market appears to continue the downtrend we say at the tail end of 2021....
Direct Fiat On-Ramps Come to Algorand (ALGO) via Alchemy Pay (ACH)
PRESS RELEASE. Singapore, 10 January, 2022: Algorand (ALGO), the layer-1 blockchain for decentralized and traditional finance, has added...
How DAOs Will Transform the Customer Experience
Customers don’t always behave they way companies expect them to, especially when they take their user behavior to extremes.Promising...
Is Moxie Marlinspike Right About Web 3?
“Web 3″ isn’t all that easy to critique, since it tends to mean different things to different people.Critiques abound, each with slightly...
Market Wrap: Traders Brace for Higher Volatility; Altcoins Underperform
Most cryptocurrencies traded lower on Monday, although selling pressure appears to be slowing compared to last week. Bitcoin was down...
Arbitrum Network Stalled Due to Sequencer Downtime
The Arbitrum network, an Ethereum L2 (Layer 2) rollup, experienced some difficulties that caused a complete stop in the production of...
Crypto Traders See $343M of Liquidations as Bitcoin Dips Below $40K
The latest price declines in cryptocurrencies are inflicting widespread pain on traders who had made leveraged bets in the notoriously...
Bitcoin Stabilizes Above $40K Support; Resistance Near $45K
Bitcoin (BTC) selling pressure is starting to wane after last week’s price dip. The cryptocurrency is holding short-term support at around...
Dez Bryant Taps Chainlink for ‘Dynamic’ Sports NFTs
As non-fungible tokens (NFTs) become an increasingly popular means of personal branding for athletes, National Football League (NFL) star...
Crypto News Roundup for Jan. 10, 2022
This episode is sponsored by Kava.Today's Stories:European Stocks Muted at Start of Week | Financial TimesAvalanche, Polygon See Slight...
Billionaire Investor Bill Miller Now Has 50% of His Personal Wealth in Bitcoin
Market-beating fund manager and billionaire Bill Miller is so bullish on bitcoin that it and investments tied closely to the crypto now...
Digital Asset Funds Hit By Record Weekly Outflows of $207M
As crypto prices fall, fund investors remain bearish with record weekly outflows from digital asset investment products totaling $207...
Bitcoin’s Hashrate Slides 15% in 10 Days, Price and Difficulty Puts Pressure on BTC Miners
The price of bitcoin has been on a long losing streak since November 10, 2021, when the leading crypto asset tapped an all-time high at...
Polygon Stakes Claim to Fastest Zero-Knowledge Layer 2 With ‘Plonky2’ Launch
In a blog post Monday, Polygon is making some audacious claims to having set new speed and scalability milestones with its “Plonky2″...
Moving Value From Centralized Exchanges to a Private Wallet? Go to wARRR
Privacy coins certainly have their use cases. What they haven’t had until recently is a way to acquire or divest these tokens untraced....
What Are Privacy Coins and Are They Legal?
Privacy coins are cryptocurrencies that preserve anonymity by obscuring the flow of money across their networks. They make it difficult to...
Disney Moves Toward the Metaverse With Approved US Patent to Create a ‘Virtual-World Simulator’
A recently discovered patent shows the American multinational entertainment and media conglomerate, Walt Disney Company, was approved by...
Bitcoin’s Slump Is Good for Crypto Miners Long-Term, Jefferies Analyst Says
Bitcoin’s slump from November’s all-time-high is hurting the shares of the crypto mining companies, but might nevertheless be positive for...
Bitcoin drops below $40K for first time in 3 months as fear set to ‘accelerate’
Bitcoin (BTC) fell below the landmark $40,000 mark for the first time since September 2021 on Jan. 10, heightening a rout that began six...
These 3 cryptocurrencies are taking an even bigger hit during Bitcoin’s price slump
The cost to purchase one Bitcoin (BTC) has dropped almost 10% in the last seven days and has been eyeing extended declines as it drops...
Hive Blockchain Held Onto All the Bitcoin It Mined in 2021, While Selling Some Ether
Canada-based crypto miner Hive Blockchain (HIVE) held onto all of the bitcoins it mined in 2021, while selling some of the ether and all...
Why We’re Shutting Our Successful Fundraising Platform
Neufund was a security token company that wanted anyone in the world to invest in any businesses they want.For decades, investing has been...
Terra Proposal Seeks to Expand UST Stablecoin to 5 Different Defi Protocols
On January 6, Terra Research announced a proposal to expand the network’s stablecoin asset terrausd (UST) across a number of...
Web 3 and DAOs in 2022
Download this episodeOn this episode of “Opinionated,” hosts Ben Schiller, Anna Baydakova and Danny Nelson kick off the new year with a...
XRPayNet – the World’s Most Diverse Payment Network, Bringing ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ to the Crypto Industry
PRESS RELEASE. XRPayNet is a cryptocurrency built on the XRP Ledger, with an upcoming global team focused on one goal: a globally adopted...
Pakistan’s Investigation Agency Contacts Binance About $100M Scam
Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) said it wants to talk to Binance as part of an investigation into a suspected scam it said...
Bitcoin batters longs as liquidations copy May 2021 run to $30,000
Bitcoin (BTC) has dealt significant pain to bulls in recent weeks, and now, fresh data shows just how much. In a tweet on Jan. 10,...
Avalanche, Polygon See Slight Gains as Crypto Markets Remain Flat
Major cryptocurrencies held support levels after last week’s drop to post slight gains on Monday morning after a largely flat...
Bitfarms Bought $43.2M of Bitcoin in the First Week of January
Bitcoin mining firm Bitfarms purchased 1,000 bitcoins worth $43.2 million during the first week of January.The purchase increased the...
Major Mining Pools’ Bitcoin Hashrate Nears Recovery as Kazakhstan’s Internet Is Partially Restored
The hashrate of major bitcoin mining pools neared recovery on Monday, days after computing power on the network fell following an internet...
Kazakhstan Is Stabilizing, Government Claims as Crypto Miners Look to Future in Country
The situation across Kazakhstan, hit by anti-government protests in the first week of the year, is normalizing, central authorities claim....
‘Most bullish macro backdrop in 75 years’ — 5 things to watch in Bitcoin this week
Bitcoin (BTC) starts a new week in a strange place — one that is eerily similar to where it was this time last year. After what various...
Binance CEO CZ is the richest crypto billionaire at $96B: Bloomberg
Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance and also known as “CZ,” tops the list of richest crypto billionaires with an estimated net worth of $96...
Bitcoin batters longs as liquidations copy May 2021 run to $30K
Bitcoin (BTC) has dealt significant pain to bulls in recent weeks, and now, fresh data shows just how much. In a tweet on Jan. 10,...
Cardano Reaches Goal of Planting 1M Trees
A restoration effort using Cardano (ADA) reached its first goal of planting over 1 million trees, the Cardano Foundation, a non-profit...
Electric Car Owner Says His Hacked Tesla Model 3 Mined up to $800 a Month Mining Ethereum
According to the 2018 Tesla Model 3 owner, Siraj Raval, he mined up to $800 a month in crypto assets with his hacked-out electric car....
Market highlights January 10: Crypto market recovering, techs drag SPX500 down
The crypto market was higher over the past 24 hours, as the majority of top 10 cryptos were in the green at time of writing. Bond prices...
Binance CEO Zhao Is Worth $96B Excluding Crypto Holdings: Report
Changpeng “CZ” Zhao is worth an estimated $96 billion, a figure that rivals tech billionaires Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page and Sergey Brin,...
You can now buy Immutable X, which added 14% to its value: here’s where to buy IMX
Immutable X, the first layer-two scaling solution for NFTs on Ethereum, is one of the strongest performers in the top 100 biggest coins by...
Zcash is surging today, up 8% in 24 hours: the top places to buy Zcash now
Zcash is a decentralized cryptocurrency focused on privacy and anonymity and one of today’s biggest gainers. This article explains...
Alchemy Pay is skyrocketing, up 46% today: the top places to buy Alchemy Pay
The live Alchemy Pay price today is $0.087 with a 24-hour trading volume of $101.6 million. Alchemy Pay is up 46% in the last 24 hours. If...
Shiba Inu trading volume down 40%: here’s where to buy Shiba Inu now
The lovable puppy meme token hardly needs an introduction. If you are attracted to unique features and want to learn how and where to buy...