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Litentry Crowdloan Allocates 20% LIT Total Supply and Partners With Binance With Extra $2.5M Reward Pool
PRESS RELEASE. Litentry, a decentralized identity aggregation protocol, has revealed the launch of its Crowdloan Reward Program scheduled...
Digital Asset Manager Bakkt Reveals Plans to Provide Ethereum Services
On November 5, Bakkt Holdings announced that the firm will soon let customers buy, sell, and store ethereum after offering bitcoin only...
An inside look at the moral and technical considerations of crypto social media
Following Vitalik Buterin’s call for more social application use cases on Ethereum earlier this summer, multiple crypto companies voiced...
Nigerian Experts Insist Africa’s First CBDC Is Presently Not for the Unbanked
While the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) continues to tout the e-naira’s credentials as a tool for fostering financial inclusion,...
Mythical Games Raises $150 Million in Series C Funding Round Led by A16z
Mythical Games, a blockchain-based gaming company, has raised $150 million in its series C funding round. The round was led by A16z, who...
TCG World Partners With Stock Giants WSB to Expand Their Metaverse
PRESS RELEASE. The world’s largest metaverse on blockchain and NFT platform TCG World announces partnership with a stock giant...
Electronic Arts CEO Thinks NFTs and Play-to-Earn Are Part of the Future of the Gaming Industry
Electronic Arts (EA), an important gaming and entertainment-oriented company, has made insightful remarks about the importance of NFTs and...
House Sends Infrastructure Bill With Crypto Tax Provision to US President
The U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill that contains a controversial cryptocurrency tax...
New York City Mayor-Elect Eric Adams Will Take First 3 Paychecks in Bitcoin, Promises to Make NYC Center of Crypto
New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams says that he will take his first three paychecks in bitcoin. He has also promised to make NYC the...
Altcoin Roundup: 3 blockchain protocols taking the supply chain crisis head-on
The world of blockchain technology has undergone a significant transformation over the past decade as the concept evolved from offering a...
3 reasons why DeFi users are bullish on Abracadabra, Magic Internet Money and SPELL
Stablecoins and their use in decentralized finance (DeFi) have played a key role in the 2021 cryptocurrency bull market because allow...
Coinbase Makes Shiba Inu Crypto Available to New York Residents After Adding SHIB Trading Pairs
The Nasdaq-listed crypto exchange Coinbase has made shiba inu cryptocurrency available to New York residents, who can now trade, buy, sell...
Metaverse Tokens See Triple-Digit 7 Day Gains, Crypto Market Cap Inches Toward $3 Trillion
While bitcoin has been consolidating for a few days now, a number of other digital assets have seen solid seven-day gains. The two...
Bitcoin’s consolidation is ‘normal’ — Analysts set $80K BTC price target
Bitcoin (BTC) bulls are still hoping for a major breakout but at the moment, bears are applying pressure and keeping the digital asset...
El predominio de bitcoin se debilita mientras monedas alternativas se recuperan
Bitcoin, la mayor criptomoneda del mundo por valor de mercado, apenas varió entre $60.000 y $63.000 el viernes, antes de la publicación...
Cosmoverse Conference 2021 kicks off in Lisbon
The team behind interoperable blockchain network Cosmos (ATOM) recently hosted the Cosmoverse Conference live from Lisbon, Portugal....
NFTs: Tools for Art, Advocacy and Activism
This episode is sponsored by Quantstamp and Nexo.io.The third edition of NFT.NYC, New York’s non-fungible token (NFT) conference, took...
CoinMarketCap Updates and Verifies TON Crystal Listing; TON Now Among Top 5% of Assets by Market Cap
CoinMarketCap, the leading authority on real-time cryptocurrency prices and data, has just updated and verified its TON Crystal (TON)...
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Could Break Out and Rise With Altcoins Next Week
Bitcoin’s trading volume continued to decline over the past week as alternative cryptocurrencies (altcoins) such as ether rose to new...
Should you buy or sell Origin Trail (TRAC/USD) as it extends pullback after surging 123%?
Summary: Origin Trail (TRAC/USD) has been on a bull run since mid-October. The rally accelerated this week sparking a 123% spike on...
Is it time to bet on the Binance Coin bull-run?
Summary: Binance coin BNB/USD on Friday rallied more than 9% to extend weekly gains. The BNB is the native token for the Binance...
Maker price prediction after breaking above 100-day MA
Summary: Maker (MKR/USD) price on Thursday and Friday pulled back to trim Wednesday’s gains. MKR is the governance cryptocurrency...
Craig Wright’s Latest Funhouse-Mirror Legal Adventure
Today is the fifth day of the civil trial between Craig Wright, chief scientist of crypto research firm nChain, and the estate of Dave...
DeFi Lender bZx Suffers Hack for Reported 55M
DeFi lender bZx suffered a hack for a reported $55 million, according to a tweet on Friday by the blockchain security firm SlowMist. “#bZx...
US Stablecoin Report Gets Mixed Reviews From Crypto Industry
To hear them tell it, stablecoin issuers’ prayers have been answered.Two of the top 10 issuers hailed this week’s report from the...
FBI Public Service Announcement Warns of ‘Increased’ Crypto ATM, QR Code Fraud
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), America’s domestic intelligence and security service, has published a public service...
NFTs Take Over NYC
It’s hard to find words to describe the crypto phenomenon that New York is witnessing right now.This week’s NFT.NYC conference, which was...
Bitcoin whale selling jumps while BTC price holds $60K and buyers snap up supply
Bitcoin (BTC) is still seeing a supply squeeze despite a significant uptick in whale selling on exchanges this week. As confirmed by...
Altcoins surge even as Bitcoin and Ethereum price fall toward key support levels
Price action in the crypto market has not been for the faint of heart over the past 48 hours and it’s clear that volatility...
Chia Network to Develop Prototype for World Bank’s Climate Warehouse
Chia Netwok, the smart transaction, energy-efficient platform created by BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen, is developing a data-sharing...
Value Locked in DeFi Surges. So Do the Exploits
The phrase “Code is Law” is often tossed around in the decentralized finance (DeFi) industry, posing that DeFi is able to self-regulate...
Central Banks Sending Worrisome Signals About the Economy
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeOn today’s episode, NLW gets macro with a discussion of a flattening of the yield...
Jack in the Box claims in court FTX US ripped off its character to create ‘Moon Man’
Lawyers for major fast food chain Jack in the Box have filed a lawsuit against crypto exchange FTX US for copyright and trademark...
FBI Warns of Scams Using Crypto ATMs and QR Codes
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning that there has been a rise in fraudulent schemes using cryptocurrency automated...
Bitcoin only needs to break $64K to run to new all-time highs — Analyst
Bitcoin (BTC) stayed rangebound on Nov. 5 as fresh analysis argued that breaking $64,000 would produce a new all-time high. BTC/USD 1-day...
Metamask founder Joel Dietz is a true Renaissance man
Joel Dietz, founder of Metamask and founding team member of Ethereum, is a romantic at heart. He creates art as “Cryptoapollo” that...
THORSwap hammers home the point: Aligned incentives are a crypto superpower
THORChain hasn’t had an easy year. After three exploits in the space of a month during the summer the protocol’s native token (RUNE) took...
Bakkt Expands Cryptocurrency Offering Beyond Bitcoin With Addition of Ether
Digital asset platform Bakkt Holdings (NYSE: BKKT) will soon allow its customers to trade ether, the second-largest cryptocurrency, in...
Moving $25 Billion in BTC via Alternate Chains — There’s Now Over 400,000 Tokenized Bitcoins in Existence
As the end of the year approaches, the price of bitcoin has hovered above the $60K region and with 18.8 million bitcoin in circulation,...
Phoenix Global token soars by 5,600% in just four minutes — But there’s a catch
It took just four minutes for a relatively unknown cryptocurrency to rise by over 5,600% as of Nov. 5, according to data from...
Crypto Risk-Monitoring Firm Solidus Labs Raises $15M
Crypto-tracking firm Solidus Labs has raised $15 million in strategic funding led by Liberty City Ventures with participation from GSR and...
Crypto News Roundup for Nov. 5, 2021
This episode is sponsored by Kava, Nexo.io and Market Intel by Chainalysis.Today’s Stories:Bitcoin Faces Resistance Near $64K; Support...
Argo Blockchain Shares Fall After Workers Accidentally Share Non-Public Information
The American depositary shares of Argo Blockchain, the London based crypto miner, fell as much as 5% in early U.S. trading, after the...
Analyst: Shiba Inu (SHIB) likely to see a dead cat bounce
A 26% rebound to $0.000055 is possible before another leg down SHIB could plummet even more if whale sells bags Shiba inu continues to...
BTC Futures Open Interest Continues to Rise Following Bitcoin ETF Listings Last Month
Bitcoin futures open interest continues to remain high after the launch of the first bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) on October 22....
ECB’s Panetta Says Digital Euro Should Expand Overall Payment Solutions
Fabio Panetta, a member of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) executive board, detailed the roadmap for the successful inclusion of a...
SHIBA INU (SHIB) dip continues after a massive whale token movement
After an impressive bull run, Shiba Inu (SHIB) has taken a hit from a recent whale movement. The price of SHIB has dropped by over 28% in...
Kazakhstan Passes Law to Monitor Crypto Services for Money Laundering, Terrorism Financing
Companies working with digital assets in Kazakhstan could soon be subject to anti-money-laundering regulation, according to a new law...
Market highlights November 5: BTC with slight losses, CRO up 20%, Phoenix Global trending
The crypto market fell to a low of $2.5 billion on Monday, then peaked at $2.8 billion on Wednesday. The total market cap was $2.7 billion...
How to Invest in LuxFi – the Luxury Asset-Backed NFT Marketplace
For many people the luxury market is out of reach. However, with LuxFi, that is no longer the case. The platform combines blockchain...
FTX, Lightspeed, Solana Ventures to Invest $100M in Web3 Gaming
FTX, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Solana Ventures are investing $100 million in Web3 gaming development, the companies announced...
Weekly Report: Banks are being drawn into crypto, Newly voted-in NY Mayor will take BTC pay checks
Regulations around stable coin once again took the headlines this week as involved parties struggle to read from the same page. ...
Raoul Pal: Expect a sell-off before crypto markets rip again
Pal suggests markets are about psychology Markets take the path of most pain Institutional inflows, Ethereum ETFs, and ETH 2.0 could drive...
Bitcoin Cash Briefly Spikes on Fraudulent Press Release
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) saw a sharp but short-lived uptick in its value on Friday after the publication of a fraudulent press release claiming...
Former Binance.US chief lands gig as Bitfury CEO
Brian Brooks, who has previously held positions at Binance and the US government, will take over from the resigning co-founder Bitfury...
Kazakhstan Imposes Purchase Limits on Retail Crypto Investors
Authorities in Kazakhstan have introduced restrictions on the amounts of cryptocurrency retail investors can buy on local exchanges....
Bitcoin Faces Resistance Near $64K; Support Between $55K-$60K
Bitcoin (BTC) continues to trade in a tight range, although buyers appear to be holding support above $60,000. Short-term indicators are...
Binance Hires Former IRS Special Agent to Head Suspicious Activity Reporting
Binance has hired a veteran financial criminal investigation agent to head up suspicious activity reporting as it continues to strengthen...
Bitcoin Dominance Weakens as Altcoins Rally
Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, traded little changed between $60,000 and $63,000 Friday before the U.S. jobs report. The...
Best places to buy Ethereum
Ethereum reached an ATH of around $4,500 recently. The second crypto is considered a great alternative to Bitcoin with more temperate...
Sky Mavis Launches Katana, a Native Dex for Its Ronin Sidechain
Sky Mavis, the company behind the development of Axie Infinity, has launched Katana, the first decentralized exchange for Ronin, its...
Where to buy Bitcoin – in case you haven’t yet
On Thursday, Bitcoin lost 2.35%, closing the day at $61,414. The near-term bullish trend is intact according to FX Empire, supporting a...
Top places to buy Small Love Potion (SLP)
The live Smooth Love Potion price today is $0.100094 with a 24-hour trading volume of $3.8 billion. Smooth Love Potion is up...
You can now buy BinaryX: here’s where
BinaryX is a metaverse-themed, unique dual-token economic system, which lets users make money and experience fantastic adventures at the...
Phoenix Global (PHB) is up 3,718%: here’s where to buy
PHB runs on the Neo platform and has a current supply of 3.7 trillion. It is 57th by market cap, trading at $0.929 at the time of writing....
OmiseGo (OMG) soars as major exchanges support $BOBA airdrop
OmiseGo (OMG) is on the rise as major crypto exchanges show support for the $BOBA Airdrop scheduled to take place on November 19. In the...
Mintverse Closes Successful Seed Round of $1.5M
PRESS RELEASE. Dubai, UAE, 5th November 2021 — Mintverse, a new and improved NFT service platform, closes their seed round raising...
S. Korean Regulator Says NFTs Are Not Virtual Assets: Report
South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) reaffirmed its view that non-fungible tokens (NFTs) generally do not fall under the...
Microsoft to Offer Mesh, a Corporate Metaverse for Teams
Microsoft has announced the launch of a metaverse-inspired feature for its Teams app called Mesh. Mesh will allow users to introduce...
Shanghai Man: $130M hack raises suspicions, Chinese miners head to Laos, Huobi’s moon mission
This weekly roundup of news from Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong attempts to curate the industry’s most important news, including...
Warner Bros to Launch Matrix NFT Avatars With Blue Pill and Red Pill Options
Warner Bros., the American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate has announced the launch of non-fungible token (NFT)...
mCBDC Bridge Reveals 15 Use Cases and 22 Heavyweight Participants
Multiple CBDC bridge, a project by four monetary authorities to build infrastructure to connect central bank digital currencies (CBDC),...
3air Solves Africa’s Massive Internet Access Problem With Cardano-Based ISP Platform
PRESS RELEASE. 3air is using an ISP platform built on Cardano to provide internet to the most unconnected regions in Africa. November 2nd,...
Indian Payments Giant Paytm Could Offer Bitcoin Services if Government Makes Crypto Legal, Says CFO
Paytm, one of India’s largest payments companies, is open to offering bitcoin services if the crypto asset becomes legal in the...
US Lawmakers Urge SEC to Permit Trading of Bitcoin Spot ETFs
U.S. lawmakers have called on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to approve bitcoin spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Since the...
Square’s Cash App Bitcoin profits fall 23% — Will opening it to teenagers help?
Jack Dorsey’s payments company Square Inc. revealed in its Q3 earnings report that mobile payments app Cash App saw a 23% drop in...
Day 4 of Kleiman v. Wright: Craig Wright’s Testimony Delayed
Craig Wright – the Australian computer scientist best known for his widely disputed claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator...
US Senator Proposes Congress Adopt Cryptocurrency for Payments
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has introduced a resolution that would position Congress to lead in the area of cryptocurrency by having...
Hawkish Fed comments and fears of stablecoin regulation spark market sell-off
The bullish optimism seen earlier in the week was dialed back on Nov. 4 after recent comments from United States Federal Reserve Chairman...
Layer-2 and multi-chain DeFi platforms see record inflows as Ethereum fees soar
High transaction fees have been a persistent thorn in the side of investors and blockchain projects since at least 2014 when Ethereum...
IoTeX (IOTX/USD) price prediction after announcing key partnerships
Summary: IoTeX (IOTX/USD) price rose on Wednesday and Thursday after announcing key partnerships. The company announced its partnership...
Indiana’s Star Bank Launches Bitcoin Trading Services
Star Financial Bank (Star Bank) says it has become the first bank in the U.S. state of Indiana to offer bitcoin services to customers. The...
Spain’s Central Bank Requesting Financial Institutions to Outline Crypto Plans Until 2024: Report
The Bank of Spain is asking the country’s leading financial institutions to provide information on their crypto-related plans for the next...
Trava Finance Is a Groundbreaking Protocol That Lets You Create Lending Pools to Start a Lending Business
Trava is the next generation of Lending Protocols, employing an innovative model of multiple lending pools created by users. This...
Square’s Cash App Generated $1.8B in Bitcoin Revenue in Q3
Payment processor Square said in its third quarter earnings letter Thursday that its Cash App generated $1.82 billion of bitcoin revenue...
Market Wrap: Analysts See Further Upside in Ether as Bitcoin Stalls
Bitcoin has traded mostly sideways over the past two weeks, prompting some traders to consider alternative cryptocurrencies such as ether...
Uniting DeFi and NFTs in Gaming
Blockchain gaming remains a largely underappreciated area of crypto. There are, for instance, still no gaming coins in the top 50 tokens....
FTX, Lightspeed Lead $21M Funding Round in Gaming Studio Faraway
FTX and Lightspeed Venture Partners have led a $21 million Series A funding round for gaming studio Faraway.Faraway said in a press...
The Growing Utility of NFTs
When most people think of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), they think of their value as lying in their being unique – hence “non-fungible.” As...
Bitcoin on-chain metric suggests 2017-style bull run will continue
Bitcoin’s (BTC) pullback from its record high of $67,000 to below $60,000 has not deterred bulls from eyeing another peak level...