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Crypto Payment Firm Simplex Acquired by Publicly-Listed Canadian Firm Nuvei for $250 Million
The publicly-listed Canadian firm Nuvei Corporation announced the acquisition of the cryptocurrency company SimplexCC Ltd in an all-cash...
Lega Serie A to Commemorate Historic Coppa Italia Final With NFTs
The governing body of the major professional soccer league in Italy, Lega Serie A, will release a special collection of NFTs in...
Qtum price rallies 160% as the project’s focus on DeFi pays off
After rallying 1.510% in 2021, QTUM price hit a $35.70 all-time high on May 7. This relatively obscure altcoin launched in September 2017...
Marathon Mines First OFAC Compliant Bitcoin Block
Marathon, one of the biggest bitcoin mining dedicated companies in the U.S. and Canada, has mined the first OFAC compliant bitcoin block,...
Autonio Listing on AscendEX
PRESS RELEASE. AscendEX, formerly BitMax, an industry-leading digital asset trading platform built by Wall Street quant trading veterans,...
Kenyan Capital Markets Regulator Wants Better Coordination With Other Bodies When Testing Crypto Assets
Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority (CMA) says the country needs a more encompassing approach that enables it to leverage other...
Price analysis 5/7: BTC, ETH, BNB, DOGE, XRP, ADA, DOT, BCH, LTC, UNI
Goldman Sachs has started offering its clients access to Bitcoin (BTC) trading through non-deliverable forwards, according to Bloomberg...
‘Once in a While You Get Shown the Light’— Jerry Garcia Art to be Auctioned as an NFT for $1 Million
The now-deceased and former lead guitarist for the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, will have a rare piece of his artwork sold as a...
Crypto Derivatives Exchange FTX Starts Offering Lumber Futures Amidst Commodities Price Boom
FTX, one of the largest derivatives exchanges, has started to offer lumber-based futures markets for its customers, given the recent...
US Senator Elizabeth Warren Bashes Cryptocurrencies Citing Environmental Impact, Investor Protections
US Senator Elizabeth Warren sees several issues with bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. She said that “we need a good strong...
National Payments Corporation of India Says It Will Not Ban Cryptocurrencies Through UPI
India’s payments authority, the National Payments Corporation of India, has reportedly said that it will not ban cryptocurrency...
Cardano breaks out vs. Bitcoin as ADA price discovery nears $2
Cardano (ADA), the native token of the smart contract platform of the same name, has joined the altcoins hitting new all-time highs this...
MUNCH Project Reaches $1 Million Milestone in Charitable Donations
PRESS RELEASE. DeFi project Munch has raised over $1 million USD in two weeks, to aid community-chosen global causes in developing...
Three reasons why EOS price has pumped 100% in three days
The EOS price is in double-digits for the first time since mid-2018 after a parabolic advance that began back in March. According to data...
Report Finds Argentineans Are Becoming Increasingly Interested in Bitcoin, Ethereum and Stablecoins
Over a million Argentineans have been buying cryptocurrencies in the last few months, and a pattern has been spotted among them in terms...
‘Unprecedented capital inflows into Bitcoin’ remove 12K BTC from Coinbase in an hour
Another day, another spike in Bitcoin (BTC) leaving major exchange Coinbase as funds pour into the largest cryptocurrency. Data from...
Ethereum Classic gains 300% in one week as traders rush to buy the ‘wrong Ethereum’
The “original” yet ironically “wrong” Ethereum and Telcoin (TEL) are leading a fresh altcoin surge this week. Bitcoin (BTC)...
EOS Price Analysis: What’s Next For EOS/USD as Coin Pumps 100%?
There’s a proposal to increase staking rewards on the EOS network, a factor that has contributed to the massive spike in EOS price...
Wallstreetbets Forum Members Targeted by a Crypto Scam That Reportedly Left Over $2M in Losses
The famous Wallstreetbets (WSB) Reddit forum has made headlines again in the cryptocurrency community, but this time around, it’s...
Price Analysis: XRP, Cardano, Litecoin
Litecoin could reach a new ATH above $400, while ADA and XRP both eye $2.00 Cardano, Litecoin, and XRP are all eyeing fresh upsides as...
Electronic Transactions Association Proposes 7 Guiding Principles for a Digital Dollar
The Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) has put forward a set of guiding principles to be considered in the creation of a U.S....
Almost twice as much ETH locked in DeFi as on exchanges: Glassnode
Ether is being locked up in decentralized finance contracts at an accelerating rate this year, while the amount held on centralized...
Fintechs Invited to Work on Georgia’s Central Bank Digital Currency
National Bank of Georgia (NBG) has issued a call for companies in the fintech sector, financial institutions and technology firms to...
Coinbase Announces San Francisco HQ Shutdown by 2022
Coinbase, the most prolific U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange, has announced it will close the doors of its former San Francisco HQ by...
TimeCoin(TMCN) Is a DeFi and NFT Project With Esports, VTuber, Sharing and Gig Economies
PRESS RELEASE. TimeCoinProtocol is a blockchain project operated by TimeTicket GmbH, a company based in Switzerland and fully owned by...
Latam Based Exchange Bitso Gets Unicorn Status After $250 Million Funding Round
Bitso, one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in Latam, has reached unicorn status after a funding round that managed to raise $250...
FBI Puts Warning Signs on Bitcoin ATMs in This US County Following a Scam
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is putting up warning signs on bitcoin ATMs in Cuyahoga County of the U.S. state of Ohio to warn...
Altcoins rally as bulls pile into large-cap tokens and layer-1 projects
The cryptocurrency market provides investors with another day of ‘altseason’ as the majority of altcoins in the top 100 on...
Paypal Crypto Shows ‘Really Great Results’ Amid Strongest Quarter Ever, CEO Says
The CEO of Paypal has revealed that the company’s cryptocurrency business is showing “really great results.” The first...
‘Gold Is Clearly Being Replaced by Digital Gold’- Precious Metal Markets Spike, Strategist Mike McGlone Calls PM Action ‘Meh’
Precious metals (PM) markets have been trading a bit higher in recent days, while cryptocurrency markets have been seeing gains as well....
EOS price rallies 100% following a proposal to increase staking rewards
As the blockchain sector continues to evolve, occasional protocol updates are needed to ensure projects stay up to date with the latest...
Goldman Sachs Launches Bitcoin Derivatives Trading as ‘Institutional Demand Continues to Grow Significantly’
Investment bank Goldman Sachs has reportedly begun offering a bitcoin investment product to clients. The firm has opened up trading with...
Pocketcoin (PKOIN) Decentralized Social Token Trading Competition Rewards Just Doubled on Bilaxy
PRESS RELEASE. (Puerto Rico, USA – May 6, 2021) To celebrate its numerous recent successes, one of the world’s foremost...
Crypto Analytics Firm Coin Metrics Raises $15 Million, Goldman Sachs Leads Funding Round
On May 5, the cryptocurrency data and analytics provider Coin Metrics announced the firm has raised $15 million in Series B financing...
Flippening? Record $10B Ethereum futures volume briefly outpaces Bitcoin’s
In the past 30 days, Ether (ETH) price decoupled from Bitcoin (BTC) to post a 67.5% gain, while the leading cryptocurrency price has...
BakerySwap, Syscoin and Utrust rally as altcoin season kicks into high gear
Bitcoin’s (BTC) institutional adoption shows no signs of slowing down. This week Latin America’s largest e-commerce company, Mercado...
Venture Capitalist Proposes a Single Decentralized Crypto as a Solution to Boost Africa’s Inter-Regional Trade
South African venture capitalist, Michael Jordaan, recently suggested that a single decentralized cryptocurrency may be the solution that...
Democratizing Defi Data- Dechart DAO Launches Version 1.0 Trading Platform
On May 6, 2021, the total locked value (TVL) held by decentralized finance (defi) is more than $77 billion. Much of this money is used by...
Visa and Tala Join Forces to Boost Cryptocurrency Adoption for Underbanked Populations
Payments giant Visa and financial services provider Tala have partnered to boost cryptocurrency adoption in emerging markets. The...
“The Dogefather”: will SNL send Dogecoin to the moon?
With Elon Musk set to appear on Saturday Night Live this Saturday, DOGE devotees have their sights set on a $1 price target Elon Musk will...
Court Authorizes IRS to Summon User Records From Kraken Cryptocurrency Exchange
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has obtained court authorization to serve a John Doe summons on cryptocurrency exchange Kraken. The tax...
ABBC Coin Is the Next Payment Coin in Buyaladdin, Holds 100x100x100 Event to Celebrate
PRESS RELEASE. The global shopping platform Buyaladdin announces a huge collaboration with ABBC Foundation in an event called the...
Bitcoin clips $58K as Dogecoin stalls and adoption news fuels bulls
Bitcoin (BTC) touched $58,000 on Thursday as the latest phase of its comeback seemed to come at the expense of altcoins. BTC/USD 1-hour...
Reserve Proposes Customers to Use Their Business Zelle Accounts to Process Payments
Reserve, a fintech and cryptocurrency-related exchange and payment processing app, sent an email yesterday to its customers asking for...
Bitcoin Cash Price: BCH/USD Resumes Uptrend Towards $1,500
BCH price notched an impressive 54% upside to hit $1,484 for the first time since May 2018 Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has made significant gains...
E-Commerce Giant Mercadolibre Buys Bitcoins Worth $7.8 Million for Treasury
Mercadolibre Inc., Latin America’s leading e-commerce company with almost 70 million users on its marketplace, has bought bitcoins...
Osprey Polkadot Trust Arrives as Institutional Interest in Altcoins Swells
The newest investment trust tracking polkadot echoes other moves by the fund manager to make cryptos accessible via traditional equity...
Polkadot Price Analysis: DOT Bullish As Price Holds Above 200 DMA
DOT/USD has surged 6% on the day, reaching an intraday high of $41.08 as bulls target $50 Polkadot has seen a steady rebound along a...
Vietnam Plans to Regulate Digital Currencies After Commissioning a Crypto Research Group
Vietnam is treading waters into the cryptocurrency industry, as the government recently commissioned a research group for the purpose. The...
South Korean Police Raid Crypto Exchange Allegedly Involved in a $214M Multi-Level Marketing Fraud
Authorities in South Korea have launched a major raid against a domestic crypto exchange allegedly involved in a millionaire multi-level...
Yearn Finance Founder Andre Cronje Set to Fight the Rug Pulled Crypto Messiah in a Dubai Boxing Match
South African crypto entrepreneur and Yearn Finance founder, Andre Cronje, is set to brawl Crypto Messiah in a physical fight at a Dubai...
The NFL Gets a Taste of Crypto as Grayscale Partners With the New York Giants
The world’s largest cryptocurrency asset manager Grayscale Investments has announced the first partnership with a National Football...
Dogecoin Has ‘Remarkably Strong Fundamentals’ Despite Deficiencies, Says Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital
Bitcoin bull Mike Novogratz’s company, Galaxy Digital, has analyzed dogecoin and concluded that “despite its deficiencies,...
Telcoin (TEL) gains 300% after layer-2 migration to the Polygon network
The ability to send money to anyone, anywhere, at any time was one of the original motivations behind Bitcoin (BTC) that helped give rise...
It’s Time: UFC to Launch Fan Token for Millions Around the World
UFC, the world’s largest MMA promotion, is preparing to mint its own token. The company, which has played a key role in the rise of...
Swiss SEBA Bank Dives Into Defi Expanding Its Offering With 3 Tokens
Switzerland-based crypto bank SEBA is adding support for three defi tokens, bringing the number of cryptocurrencies available on its...
Price analysis 5/5: BTC, ETH, BNB, DOGE, XRP, ADA, DOT, LTC, BCH, UNI
Dogecoin (DOGE) skyrocketed above $0.69 today and flipped XRP to become the fourth largest cryptocurrency with a market capitalization of...
Analysts suggest Dogecoin traders are rotating profits into large-cap altcoins
Every cryptocurrency bull market has at least one surprise catalyst that comes out of nowhere to excite traders and spark massive trading...
Bears aim for sub-$60K Bitcoin price ahead of Friday’s $1.1B options expiry
Bitcoin (BTC) entirely recovered from its recent drop that saw the price fall to the $53,000 support level. This move back to $57,500...
Climate Change Targets Bitcoin Mining: NY Lawmaker Proposes 3-Year Moratorium on Mining Operations in the State
U.S. bureaucrats, particularly Democrats, are concerned about climate change and have introduced lots of legislation in order to address...
Bitcoin Cash Slated for May 15- Upgrade to Bring Improvements for Users and Merchants
On May 15, 2021, the Bitcoin Cash network will undergo the process of an upgrade that will bring a handful of improvements. These updates...
Bitcoin miners’ revenue rebounds to $60M per day — Is the bull run about to resume?
Bitcoin (BTC) miners collected $60 million on a thirty-day average timeframe as of May 5, showing the first signs of recovery after last...
Is China softening on Bitcoin? A turn of phrase stirs the crypto world
They were only two seemingly innocuous words: “investment alternatives.” But when applied to Bitcoin — the seminal cryptocurrency — by an...
How Did Satoshi Nakamoto Remain Anonymous? A Detailed Look at the Bitcoin Creator’s Opsec
The creator of the world’s first successful blockchain network has been an enigma ever since the mysterious inventor released the...
Treasury Secretary Yellen Says US Does Not Have Framework ‘up to the Task’ of Regulating Cryptocurrencies
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says that the U.S. does not have an “adequate framework” to deal with all the different...
Polkadot parachains full of promise, but lack of launch date raises concern
Polkadot’s parachain auctions will mark the most significant milestone on its roadmap since the mainnet launch in 2020. Currently in the...
Bitcoin back above $57K as ‘hundreds’ of US banks prepare to HODL for clients
Bitcoin (BTC) staged a characteristic comeback on May 5 as a day of losses turned around in a flash. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart...
JPMorgan Boss Jamie Dimon Says ‘I Don’t Care About Bitcoin’ but Clients Are Interested
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has reaffirmed his stance on bitcoin while acknowledging that his bank’s clients are interested in the...
Hundreds of Banks in US to Allow Customers to Buy, Sell, Hold Bitcoin Through Existing Bank Accounts
Hundreds of banks in the U.S. will reportedly start offering access to bitcoin to their customers this year, thanks to a partnership...
Revolutionary Crowdfunding Platform Tecra Space Offers Amazing Opportunities for Crypto Investors
Tecra gives you a unique chance to invest in technological projects and promising startup ideas listed on its crowdfunding platform Tecra...
Nigeria’s Cryptocurrency Traded Volumes on P2P Platform Top $1.5 Billion
According to Paxful, a peer-to-peer trading platform, Nigeria’s cryptocurrency traded volumes on the platform topped $1.5 billion in...
May 8 ‘day to watch’ for Dogecoin amid warning DOGE can suffer XRP style crash
Dogecoin (DOGE) is surging and Bitcoin (BTC) is limping, but one analyst predicts that this week will burst the DOGE bubble. In a series...
Three reasons why the ‘other Ethereum’ has pumped 130% in the last week
Ethereum Classic (ETC) continues to maintain its parabolic price action advance that began in late March. Data from crypto market...
IOTA Price Analysis: Could a Fresh Rally Above $2.00 Be On Its Way?
IOTA has lagged behind major altcoins but could pick up momentum in the next few days to retest prices last seen in mid-April MIOTA failed...
Mastercard Finds 4 in 10 People Plan to Use Cryptocurrency in the Next Year
Global payments giant Mastercard has conducted a survey of 15,569 consumers in 18 countries and found that 4 in 10 people plan to use...
Ethereum Storms Past $3,000 With YTD Gains Now At 330%
Ether shot past $3,000 on Monday, 3 May, reaching a new record high of $3,457 Ethereum soared above $3,000, stealing the show on Monday as...
Litecoin technical analysis: LTC on the cusp of a breakout to new ATH
LTC/USD rallied to an intraday high of $342, the highest price level for Litecoin in nearly three and half years Litecoin broke past the...
Researchers Spot New Cryptocurrency Stealing Malware Advertised Under a Subscription Model
A cryptocurrency-related malware program has been advertised on darknet forums as the “leading way to make money in 2021,”...
Another 50% daily gain for Dogecoin confirms ‘alt season’ as Bitcoin slumps
The cryptocurrency market awoke to the sight of Dogecoin (DOGE) price surging to as high as $0.69 in the past two days, leading many to...
Venezuelan Minimum Wage Reaches $3 as More Venezuelans Take Refuge in Cryptocurrencies
The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, approved a minimum wage raise increase last week that took it to three dollars monthly, a very...
Mogo Adds 146 ETH to Firm’s Balance Sheet, Plans to Turn 5% of Its Portfolio Into Crypto Assets
On Tuesday, the Nasdaq-listed Canadian company Mogo revealed the firm has purchased 146 ether at an average price of $2,780. The move...
OVR: The Eiffel Tower Non-Fungible Token Has Been Sold for 38 ETH
OVR.ai has sold the Eiffel Tower, putting it for sale as Non Fungible Token on OpenSea for about $106.9K USD. In fact, the auction ended a...
Star Wars Collectibles Go Digital as Collections Embrace NFTs
More than 800 limited edition collectibles, some from shooting scenes, are set to go to auction on the Starcoll NFT marketplace, as a...
Employer Wants Cryptocurrency Back From Employee After Price Soars 700%, Offers to Pay in US Dollars Instead
A company paid an employee for his work done in cryptocurrency. However, after the price of the cryptocurrency skyrocketed 700%, the...
Southeast Asia’s Largest Bank DBS Says Trading Volumes on Its Cryptocurrency Exchange Have Increased 10 Times
DBS, Southeast Asia’s largest bank, says that cryptocurrency trading volumes on its exchange have grown 10 times to around $30...
Spain to Share Data of Users From Domestic Crypto Businesses With European Union Countries
The Spanish government doesn’t stop imposing its tough stance on cryptocurrencies, as another rule comes to strengthen the existing...
Pro traders buy the Bitcoin price dip while retail investors chase altcoins
Bitcoin (BTC) has been struggling to sustain the $55,000 support level for the past 16 days, or basically since the April 17 record-high...
Axie Infinity (AXS) rallies 80% following migration to Ronin sidechain
Nonfungible tokens were one of the hottest sectors of the cryptocurrency market from the start of the year until March but as is the...
Bitcoin Depot Deploys Over 350 ATMs in the US, Global Number Exceeds 19,000
Cryptocurrency ATM operator Bitcoin Depot has launched 355 new teller machines across the United States. The announcement comes as the...
ASSEMBLE Protocol (ASM) Is Now Supported on Coinbase Custody
PRESS RELEASE. The leading blockchain-based global point integration platform, ASSEMBLE Protocol has announced that its utility token ASM...