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Biden to Step Up Crypto Tax Enforcement to Help Fund $1 Trillion US Infrastructure Plan
U.S. President Joe Biden and lawmakers have agreed on the details of a roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package with measures...
Where to buy Solana: SOL shines with 10% climb
Solana is one of the fastest-growing ecosystems in crypto, with its decentralised finance (DeFi) protocol enabling a new generation of...
Bitcoin.com Celebrates Ethereum’s Birthday With $6000 Giveaway
July 30th marks the day, six years ago, Ethereum was launched. The Bitcoin.com Wallet, having just integrated Ethereum, is excited to...
Bitcoin accumulation accelerates among ‘whales’ and ‘fish’ with BTC rallying to $40K
Both small and rich Bitcoin (BTC) traders accumulated the benchmark cryptocurrency en masse during the period its prices rose from below...
Bank of Russia Exposes Nearly 150 Financial Pyramid Scams, Fraudsters Exploit Crypto Craze
The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) has identified 146 financial pyramid schemes in only six months this year. Fraudsters often lure people...
Monthly Report: Key US Senators submit new crypto guidelines in a bid to fund infrastructure deal
From crowdfunding to cryptocurrency regulations, here is a recap of the top stories from the last week of July Tether under investigation...
German institutional funds to invest up to 20% in crypto
The new law allowing Spezialfonds to invest in cryptocurrencies comes into effect on 2 August German investors could provide yet another...
IMF sees great potential in digital money if risks are managed
A recent Reuters report has also detailed that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is looking to intensify surveillance on digital...
How yield farming on decentralized exchanges can become less risky
The DeFi industry has been gaining momentum since 2020, offering a new perspective on the world of finance and a new way for investors to...
Price analysis for IOTA, Ethereum and Cardano
ETH, MIOTA and ADA are trading positive but face pressure near crucial price levels Ethereum is among several digital assets to see a...
Polkadot – Vitalik’s Nightmare or a Blockchain Dream Come True?
Although it’s possible to draw comparisons between almost any two blockchain development platforms, comparing Ethereum with Polkadot...
Bitcoin OTC desks buzz as analyst warns big players ‘want your Bitcoin’
Bitcoin (BTC) is being aggressively bought up by institutional entities this week as data shows over-the-counter (OTC) trading volumes...
State Street to expand its crypto fund administration capabilities
Through its partnership with Lukka, the firm will offer private funds clients services such as crypto processing and reporting Financial...
Digital Yuan to Promote International Use of Chinese Currency, Experts Say
The new digital yuan, currently undergoing trials, can help to increase the international usage of China’s national fiat, experts...
Ghana Vice President Praises Central Bank’s CBDC Initiative, Says Digital Currencies Can Boost Intra-African Trade
The Ghanaian Vice President, Mahamudu Bawumia, has implored African governments to start exploring digital currencies as such alternatives...
Mexican Regulator: 12 Cryptocurrency Exchanges Are Operating Illegally
Santiago Nieto Castillo, leader of the UIF, the Mexican financial regulator, has issued an alert that 12 cryptocurrency exchanges are...
US Senator Lummis: Big Government Spenders Are Accelerating Adoption of Crypto Assets Like Bitcoin
U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis is pushing for regulation that would ensure bitcoin remains a good store of value. If the cryptocurrency...
Bitcoin traders express mixed emotions about what’s next for BTC price
The rumor that Amazon would accept cryptocurrency payments sparked a wave of bullish enthusiasm across the crypto market earlier in the...
Shanghai Man: Crypto recovers, disasters strike, and China’s crackdown moves to other sectors
This weekly roundup of news from Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong attempts to curate the industry’s most important news, including...
Financial Giant State Street Expands Cryptocurrency Services as Demand From Traditional Funds Soars
State Street Corp., one of the world’s leading providers of financial services to institutional investors, has announced the...
Mila Kunis’ ‘Stoner Cats’ NFT Sale Pulls in $8M — Animated Series Can Only Be Watched by NFT Holders
A new non-fungible token (NFT) project crafted by the American actress and producer, Mila Kunis, has made millions selling NFTs tied to an...
Ethereum price can hit $14K if the March 2020 chart fractal holds
Ethereum’s native asset Ether (ETH) faces prospects of closing above $14,000 sometime in 2021 based on its current trend’s...
Bitcoin bulls control Friday’s $1.7B monthly options expiry
On Friday, July 30, a total of 42,850 Bitcoin (BTC) option contracts ($1.7 billion) are set to expire. This might be the first time since...
Altcoins pump while traders anticipate a lower support test from Bitcoin
Bitcoin (BTC) bulls are locked in a battle with bears in order to take control of the $40,000 level and dovish comments from U.S. Federal...
Bitcoin Mining Operation Reveals Plans to Convert Coal Ash Landfill Into Solar Farm
Following the announcement from Greenidge Generation Holdings that detailed the company would be promoting a carbon-neutral stance, and...
Robinhood Raises Almost $2 Billion in IPO, Falls Short of Expected $35 Billion Valuation
Robinhood, the fee-free cryptocurrency, stock, and options exchange, raised almost $2 billion in its initial public offering, reaching a...
US Marshals Service Hires Custodian for Seized Cryptocurrencies — Over 185K BTC Confiscated, Sold so Far
The U.S. Marshals Service, a primary law enforcement agency of the Department of Justice (DOJ), has hired a new custodian for its seized...
Easy-Money Policy Continues: Fed Plans to Keep Purchasing Assets, Interest Rates to Stay Near Zero
Members of the U.S. Federal Reserve discussed the possibility of economic measures and actions at the Federal Open Market...
Bitcoin struggles at $40K after ‘most confusing’ Jerome Powell press conference
Bitcoin (BTC) rose above $40,000 on Thursday, a day after the Federal Reserve hinted that it was getting nearer to unwind its asset...
Is Bitcoin a religion? If not, it soon could be
Hass McCook is a respected Sydney-based civil engineer who has worked on some of the most spectacular buildings in the world, from...
Crypto population doubled to over 200M users since January, report says
Cryptocurrency adoption has seen an accelerated growth this year, with the global crypto population doubling since January, according to a...
Where to buy PlayDapp crypto: PLA coin price up 150%
PlayDapp (PLA) is one of today’s big gainers in the cryptocurrency market, surging in value by 150%. If you want to invest in...
New Jersey’s Order Against Blockfi Extended, Vermont Issues Notice to Crypto Lender
On July 28, Zac Prince, the CEO of crypto finance firm Blockfi, explained that the company has been “engaged in a productive...
Where to buy Alchemy Pay: ACH climbs 163% as crypto payments demand surges
Alchemy Pay aims to bridge the gap between fiat and crypto payments. Here’s where to buy ACH after its 163% daily rally. The...
Where to buy THORChain: RUNE surges 33% despite tough week
News of a 7-figure hack shook THORChain this week, but the price of RUNE continues to climb DeFi ecosystem THORChain (RUNE) has surged by...
Where to buy Shiba Inu: Dogecoin killer SHIB lists on eToro
Shiba Inu (SHIB) is now live for trading on eToro, and each unit of $SHIBxM represents one million SHIB tokens Shiba Inu, the so-called...
Where to buy Quant: QNT hits new all-time high after 56% rally
Quant aims to become the first interoperable blockchain OS, and has surged by over 50% this week The future of blockchain will depend...
Bit Mining to Deploy Another 2,500 Bitcoin Miners in Kazakhstan
Bit Mining is going to expand its operations in Central Asia with the purchase of 2,500 crypto mining machines slated for deployment in...
Bitcoin open interest mimics Q4 2020 as new report ‘cautiously optimistic’ on BTC rally
Bitcoin (BTC) futures open interest is mimicking the start of the BTC price bull run, data shows. As BTC/USD hovered near $40,000 on...
Where to buy Robinhood: $HOOD to list on eToro after IPO
Popular investing app Robinhood’s IPO will take place today, and $HOOD will be available to trade on eToro Zero-fee stock trading...
US Senators propose crypto tax to raise $28BN for infrastructure
The proposals seek to have all transactions of $10,000 or more reported to the IRS US lawmakers are eyeing tightened cryptocurrency tax...
Elon Musk Hints Tesla Owns About 42K Bitcoins
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has hinted how many bitcoins Tesla owns after revealing that the fair market value of its bitcoin holdings was $1.47...
Bitcoin firms Lolli and Genesis Digital Assets see more funding
Venture capital firms have flooded the crypto sector in the past few weeks, with two more crypto firms drawing capital through fundraising...
Record 57K BTC leave exchanges in one day dropping Bitcoin reserves to pre-crash levels
Bitcoin (BTC) demanded a $40,000 resistance flip on Thursday as on-chain data revealed large withdrawals from exchanges. BTC/USD 1-hour...
Senator Warren claims CBDCs could be useful to the unbanked
The remarks from the crypto-sceptic Senator come just a day after she wrote to the Treasury Secretary calling for more action against...
Multichain relayer protocol Biconomy raises $9 million
The round follows a $1.5M seed round and was backed by Coinbase Ventures and Huobi Innovation Labs Blockchain firm Biconomy announced...
Crypto Payment Option Makes Services More Affordable: Zimbabwe Music Studio Director
A Zimbabwean music production company, Mutscon Music, recently announced that its clients can now pay for services using cryptocurrencies...
Tron price analysis: TRX bulls showing uncertainty around $0.060
To move higher, bulls need to remain positive above $0.060, with immediate barriers likely at $0.063 and $0.066 Tron (TRX) is in a...
Bitcoin Rewards Firm Lolli Raises $10M in Funding Led by Acrew Capital, Social Media Moguls
The bitcoin rewards platform Lolli has announced the company has closed a $10 million Series A funding round on Wednesday. Lolli says the...
Bitrue Aims to Democratize Token Listing Rights by Opening Voting Power to Users
Digital asset exchange Bitrue is seeking to engage its user community directly by distributing decision-making power for adding new token...
Helium Hotspot Miner – Mining With Helium Bar
PRESS RELEASE. Helium Network developed a decentralized peer to peer wireless network, which can connect different compatible devices...
Russian ‘Time Capsule’ to Facilitate Inheritance of Crypto Assets
Researchers in Moscow are developing a new service that will allow users to transfer digital data to their heirs, including crypto keys....
Bears scattered as Bitcoin hit $40K, but pro traders remain cautious
Bitcoin (BTC) traders might be feeling extra euphoric after the recent 35% rally, but data suggests bears are not too worried because a...
Crypto Exchange Binance Plans to Be Regulated Financial Institution, Seeks CEO With Strong Compliance Background
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) says that his company wants “to be licensed everywhere” and “From now on, we’re...
Price analysis 7/28: BTC, ETH, BNB, ADA, XRP, DOGE, DOT, UNI, BCH, LTC
Bitcoin (BTC) and most major altcoins are attempting to break above their respective overhead resistance levels, indicating the return of...
Mike Novogratz Says Institutions Are Buying Bitcoin, Politicians Need More Crypto Education
Galaxy Digital CEO Michael Novogratz says that cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin, have bounced back because institutional investors are...
Ripple and SBI Collaborate to Launch On-Demand Liquidity in Japan — XRP Surges
Ripple has launched its first On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) service implementation in Japan in partnership with SBI Remit, a large Japanese...
VORTECS™ Spotlight: Here’s why Telcoin’s (TEL) rebound eclipsed most altcoins
Last week, as Bitcoin resurged after briefly falling below $30,000, a good number of altcoins embarked on their own relief rallies....
Survey Shows 3 out of 4 Sports Fans Are Skeptical About the Longevity of NFT Investments
Over the last year and a half, non-fungible tokens (NFT) have seen massive hype and millions of dollars worth of sales executed at...
Ethereum pares gains, Bitcoin pushed under $40K as the Fed is set to reveal tapering plans
Ether (ETH) and Bitcoin (BTC) pulled back on Wednesday as investors awaited fresh guidance from the United States Federal Reserve (Fed)....
Paypal Plans to Study Transactions That Fund Extremism, Anti-Government Groups
The payment processing giant Paypal has revealed it has partnered with the nonprofit organization the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)....
Small-cap altcoins push higher as Bitcoin bulls fight to hold $40,000
Bitcoin’s (BTC) recent surge above $40,000 injected a healthy dose of bullish optimism into the crypto market and further proof of this...
South Korea Proposes Law Allowing Direct Seizure and Sale of Crypto Assets to Pay Overdue Taxes
The South Korean government has proposed an amendment to the tax code to allow the country’s tax authority to seize and sell...
Bitcoin fails to flip $40K with traders eyeing $36K or lower for support
Bitcoin (BTC) saw tough resistance after nearing $41,000 on July 28 amid calls for consolidation of recent gains. BTC/USD 1-hour candle...
Find out where to buy today’s hottest crypto: StarLink coin
StarLink (STARL) coin is one of today’s top gainers in the cryptocurrency space, surging in price by 60%. If you want to...
US Senator Says Cryptocurrencies Put Americans’ Hard-Earned Money at Risk
U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown says cryptocurrencies are not real dollars and they “put Americans’ hard-earned money at...
Relief Fund Has a Difficult Time Cashing Out the $1B Worth of SHIB Vitalik Buterin Donated
In mid-May, the co-founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, donated $1 billion worth of shiba inu (SHIB) tokens to India’s Crypto Covid...
Dvision Network Bringing a New NFT Experience on Enjin Blockchain Network
Dvision Network has emerged as one of the fastest-growing NFT and blockchain gaming protocols in recent months. The blockchain protocol...
Where to buy Huobi Token: HT rallies 15% despite China crackdown
The eponymous coin of Chinese exchange Huobi has rallied by almost 50% this week, dispelling fears of a government crackdown ...
Where to buy Splinterlands: SPS up over 100% after private token sale
NFT game Splinterlands sold 6.6% of SPS tokens this week, leading to a 104% rally today NFT-based trading card game Splinterlands...
Where to buy XRP: good news for Ripple leads to 17% daily climb
Ripple has launched new features recently and appears to have the upper hand in its SEC case, and has been buoyed by the crypto...
Digital Euro to Handle ‘Almost Unlimited’ Payments, Estonian Central Bank Says After Test
A blockchain-based digital euro would be highly scalable allowing it to process an almost unlimited number of payments, the central bank...
Yield Guild Games’ token sale nets $12.5M in just 31 seconds
YGG tokens on offer accounted for 2.5% of the total supply of 1 billion coins The public sale of 25 million Yield Guild Games (YGG) tokens...
Crypto exchange Huobi’s China-based entity set for dissolution
Seychelles-based cryptocurrency exchange Huobi is reportedly looking to dissolve the Beijing Huobi Tianxia Network Technology entity that...
Bitcoin price is returning to $40K — But will shorts have their revenge?
Bitcoin (BTC) returned to $40,000 on Wednesday as bulls and bears waged a tug-of-war for hard-won higher ground. BTC/USD 1-hour candle...
Fireblocks raises $310M in latest strategic investment round
The digital asset custodian was launched in June 2019 and has expanded to set up offices in different regions, including Hong Kong,...
FTX spends $1M on carbon offsets and becomes carbon neutral
The crypto exchange also launched FTX Climate to fund research, policy initiatives and climate-related projects Crypto derivatives...
Litecoin price analysis: uptrend has bulls trying to break $140
A bullish divergence after a 13% dip has seen LTC price trend higher, with impetus likely to increase if BTC rallies above $40k Litecoin...
Nigerian Central Bank Stops Forex Sales to Bureaus de Change — Operators Accused of Feeding Black Market
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) recently announced the abrupt end to sales and outsourcing of foreign exchange to Bureau de Change (BDC)...
Iran Raises Alarm Over Potential Influx of Miners From China
With the government in Beijing cracking down on their operations, Chinese miners have been on the lookout for other jurisdictions....
Traders anticipate ‘DeFi Summer 2.0’ after TVL and token prices rise
Decentralized finance (DeFi) was one of the main factors that pushed the crypto market higher throughout 2021 and to date, platforms like...
Unique Addresses Tethered to Ethereum Defi Apps Climb Past 3 Million
The number of users or unique addresses leveraging decentralized finance (defi) protocols via Ethereum has risen past 3 million according...
Kenyan Farmers Pivot to Cryptocurrency as Popularity of Community Currencies Grows
The growth and popularity of community inclusion cryptocurrencies in Kenya continues to soar with the country’s rural farmers being...
IMF Warns Against Adopting Crypto Assets Like Bitcoin as Legal Tender
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned against adopting cryptocurrencies, like bitcoin, as legal tender. Noting numerous risks...
Senator Warren Urges Treasury Secretary Yellen to Urgently Adopt Policy to Mitigate Cryptocurrencies’ Risks
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren has asked Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to “act with urgency” and adopt an appropriate policy...
Mastercard Launches Global Program to Help Cryptocurrency Startups Scale Their Innovations
Payments giant Mastercard has launched a new, global program for cryptocurrency startups. Seven crypto companies have already joined the...
October 2020 Déjà vu? Bitcoin pullback at $38K has traders at odds over next move
The wider cryptocurrency market entered a period of consolidation on July 27 following Bitcoin’s (BTC) brief spike above $40,000 the day...
Here’s why DinoSwap’s (DINO) TVL rose above $330M a week after launch
Decentralized finance (DeFi) remains one of the fastest-growing subsectors of the cryptocurrency ecosystem and newly launched platforms...
Fireblocks Custody Company Raises $310 Million, Reaches $2 Billion Valuation
Fireblocks, a blockchain infrastructure firm, raised $310 million in its most recent funding round, reaching a valuation of $2 billion....
The NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers to Collaborate With Blockchain Firm Socios.com
Following the announcement from the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) Boston Celtics, the Cleveland Cavaliers has officially...