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Ukrainian Soccer Club Shakhtar to Raise Humanitarian Funds Through NFT Sale
Shakhtar Donetsk, a leading soccer team in Ukraine, will sell a collection of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The club intends to auction...
Highlights May 2: Cryptos mixed, Cronos sheds 15%
The crypto market as a whole is mixed with most top 100 coins adding or losing 1-5% of their value at the time of writing. Top...
Global Metaverse Event of Lydian․World in Dubai Opera 7th May 2022 – Worldwide Football Superstars Invite You
PRESS RELEASE. Football Superstars such as: Roberto Carlos Mario Yepes David Trezeguet Michel Salgado Fernando Hierro Lucas Radebe, Invite...
Ethereum burning spikes to new high on Yuga Labs’ NFT hype
The burning rate of Ethereum has spiked to new all-time high (ATH) levels following the heavily anticipated sale of tokenized land plots...
Report: Nigerian Trio Allegedly Uses Money Laundering Proceeds to Buy Bitcoins Worth Over $43 Million
Three Nigerian nationals are accused of using money laundering proceeds to buy bitcoin worth over $43 million from cryptocurrency exchange...
Bitcoin ATM installation slowdown continues for 4th month in 2022
April 2022 marked the fourth consecutive month of a slowdown in the installation of Bitcoin (BTC) ATMs, ever since the slowdown began at...
Solana price prediction for May 2022: Worrying pattern forms
Solana price held steady on Monday morning even as the network’s outage challenges continued. The SOL token is trading at $90.50,...
ETH Network Q1 Revenue Grew 46% to $2.4 Billion, Token Inflation Rate Drops to 0.51%
The revenues accrued by the Ethereum network rose by 46% from $1.6 billion to $2.4 billion during the first quarter of 2022. Contributing...
Passive Income Cyborgs: Battle Borgz Publicly Launches on KICK․IO
PRESS RELEASE. NFTs are not a temporary trend. NFTs are here to stay. Although analysts are still in the process of realizing the full...
Samsung Group Investment Arm to List Blockchain ETF on Hong Kong Exchange
Samsung Group’s investment arm is reportedly set to list a blockchain exchange-traded fund (ETF) on the Hong Kong Exchange during...
Elon Musk, Mark Cuban Discuss Using Dogecoin to Solve Twitter Spam Problem
Shark Tank star Mark Cuban has come up with a way to solve Twitter’s spam problem using the meme cryptocurrency dogecoin (DOGE)....
Warren Buffett Won’t Pay $25 for All Bitcoin in the World — Charlie Munger Calls BTC ‘Stupid and Evil’
Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett says he won’t buy all the bitcoin in the world for $25. Meanwhile, his longtime business...
Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, LUNA, NEAR, VET, GMT
The month of April has been a forgettable one for equities and cryptocurrency investors. Bitcoin (BTC) plummeted 17% in April to record...
Uzbekistan President Issues Decree Regulating Cryptocurrencies, Mining and Trading
The government of Uzbekistan has moved to expand its crypto regulations through a decree signed by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev. The...
After Solana’s Co-Founder Said BTC Should Change Its Consensus Algo, Solana Mainnet Loses Consensus for 7 Hours
While Ethereum users participating in the Otherside metaverse land sale caused network fees to rise and created issues for the blockchain...
Value Locked in Defi Drops Below $200 Billion, April’s Dex Trade Volume Drops 21% Lower Than March
While the crypto economy shed billions this week, the total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance protocols slipped under the $200...
The Largest NFT Mint in History — Bored Ape’s Otherside Virtual Land Sale Raises $320 Million
On Saturday, the creators of Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), Yuga Labs, revealed the Otherside metaverse virtual land sale which turned out...
Solana restarts after bots cause a 7-hour outage
The Solana Mainnet Beta had lost consensus after a flood of transactions – reportedly 4 million per second and at over 100gbps...
ETH gas price surges as Yuga Labs cashes in $300M selling Otherside NFTs
While the community was witness to the largest NFT mint yet, Ethereum (ETH) gas prices rose to unprecedented levels, in addition to users...
NFTs, DAOs and the importance of roadmaps
this JPEG can have sex with this JPEG and make a new baby JPEG? Say what?” When CryptoPunks started out in 2017, they seemed silly to...
Eurosystem Seeks Providers of Prototype Payment Solutions for Digital Euro
Eurozone’s monetary authority, the Eurosystem, is looking to enlist financial companies willing to develop front-end solutions for...
Smart money is accumulating ETH even as traders warn of a drop to $2.4K
The upcoming Ethereum merge is one of the most widely discussed topics in the crypto sector and analysts have a wide range of perspectives...
ApeCoin slides 40% in three days despite Otherside metaverse land sale — here’s why
ApeCoin (APE) caught its bulls off-guard with APE price losing nearly 40% in just three days. No dutch auction APE’s price reached...
Liquidity has driven DeFi’s growth to date, so what’s the future outlook?
In mid-February 2020, the total value locked within decentralized finance (DeFi) applications first exceeded $1 billion. Fueled by the...
Bahrain Central Bank Issues New Regulations Governing Operations of Crowdfunding Platforms
The Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) has said new regulations compelling operators of crowdfunding platforms to ensure their products are...
Solana Co-Founder Believes Bitcoin Needs to Change to Proof-of-Stake Consensus to Remain Relevant
Anatoly Yakovenko, one of the co-founders of Solana, the proof-of-stake based, smart contracts enabled blockchain, issued a series of...
India Exploring Commercial Uses for Central Bank Digital Currency, Says Finance Minister
The Indian government is exploring “several commercial use purposes and not just financial inclusion” for its central bank...
Rari Fuze hacker offered $10M bounty by Fei Protocol to return $80M loot
Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Fei Protocol offered a $10 million bounty to hackers in an attempt to negotiate and retrieve a major...
Self-custody, control and identity: How regulators got it wrong
The recent European Union proposal requiring centralized crypto exchanges and custodial wallet providers to collect and verify personal...
Metahero (HERO) price surged by over 5% yesterday and slid back to red: here is why
Due to market uncertainty, the HERO coin has been one of the most volatile cryptocurrencies over the past month. Yesterday it surged by...
Here is why the price of XDC Network (XDC) coin has been surging in the past two weeks
While the majority of the altcoins are dipping, the price of the XDC coin has been rallying in the past two weeks. Yesterday the price of...
Ukraine NFT Museum creates special NFTs for Elon Musk
Ukraine’s minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, announced via Twitter that the Ukraine NFT museum team has created a...
With an ‘Aggressive’ Fed Rate Hike Expected Next Week, Stocks and Crypto Markets Lose Billions
Investors will be focused on the U.S. central bank this Wednesday as Federal Reserve policymakers are expected to raise the benchmark...
Swiss National Bank: ‘Buying Bitcoin Is Not a Problem for Us’
Switzerland’s central bank, the Swiss National Bank, says buying and holding bitcoin as a reserve currency is not a problem for the...
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon Skeptical of Crypto but Says ‘Not All of It Is Bad’
Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, says that he does not particularly like crypto but will defend your right to invest in it....
Idaho Warns of Crypto Scams Promising 80% Returns Every 24 Hours
The finance department of the U.S. state of Idaho has warned investors of a series of cryptocurrency scams promising returns as high as...
Meta to launch metaverse hardware store, Elon Musk buys Twitter for $44B and ApeCoin pumps to new highs: Hodler’s Digest, April 24-30
Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst)...
Ice Cube’s Big3 Professional Basketball League Sells Team to a DAO for 25 NFTs
Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) have been acquiring high ticket items over the last 12 months and on April 28, the Degods...
Smart money is accumulating Ethereum even as traders warn of a drop to $2.4K
The upcoming Ethereum merge is one of the most widely discussed topics in the crypto sector and analysts have a wide range of perspectives...
Significant downside risk could push Decentraland (MANA) to $1 in the coming days
Decentraland (MANA) has continued to push lower over the last few days. The coin has in fact been under pressure for all of April. Sadly,...
Best Ethereum DEX coins to buy and hold right now
Decentralized exchanges are often seen as an integral part of the crypto industry. As such, over the years more and more DEXs have been...
Bill Regulating Crypto Mining Submitted to Russian Parliament
A draft law tailored to regulate cryptocurrency mining has been filed with the lower house of Russian parliament, the State Duma. The...
Top 3 coins that are changing DeFi in 2022
It is largely expected that 2022 will be the year of decentralized finance or DeFi. New and exciting projects in DeFi are coming out while...
The Number of Entities Using Bitcoin to Store Arbitrary Data Has Declined
Three years ago there were a lot of discussions concerning data embedded in bitcoin transactions and the block size space consumed by...
Attackers Steal $80 Million From Rari Capital’s Fuse Platform, Fei Protocol Suffers From Exploit
According to a report from the blockchain company Blocsec, Rari Capital’s Fuse platform has lost roughly $80 million from a...
Solving the ‘Sunrise Issue’ is the key to unlocking crypto mass adoption
We have all been there. You see something, hear something, or feel something, and want to share that feeling or observation with someone...
These are the BTC price levels to watch as Bitcoin risks worst April on record
Bitcoin (BTC) sits at a historically important price point for hodlers, but where could it be headed in the coming days? As the monthly...
Brazilian Senate Approves Cryptocurrency Law Project
The Brazilian Senate has approved a recently presented cryptocurrency policy, advancing the project to discussions in the deputy chamber....
Biggest Movers: FTM Down 12% to Start the Weekend, as ATOM Hits 8 Month Low
FTM was down by as much as 12% to start the weekend, as crypto markets were once again under a red wave. ATOM was also victim to this...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: BTC, ETH Remain in the Red, to Start the Weekend
Bitcoin and ethereum were both trading lower to start the weekend, as crypto markets continued to face bearish pressures. The current...
Fidelity’s Bitcoin 401(k) Offering Risks Retirement Security of Americans, Says Labor Department Official
The U.S. Labor Department has “grave concerns” about Fidelity Investments allowing investors to put bitcoin into their...
Entering NFTs: Understanding the environmental impact of digital collectibles
NFTs have taken pop culture by storm over the past year. On a nearly daily basis, a new celebrity announces their interest in the emerging...
Bitcoin network difficulty breaks into a new all-time high of 29.794T
Reassuring its position as the most resilient blockchain network against attacks, the Bitcoin (BTC) network recorded a new all-time high...
Bitcoin retreats toward $38K after Friday sparks losses for ‘nearly everything’ outside China
Bitcoin (BTC) fell into the May holiday weekend after late trading saw crypto losses echo “basically everything.” BTC/USD...
Illegal Use of Cryptocurrency Largely a Myth, Russian Lawmaker Says
Only a small share of cryptocurrency transactions have illicit purposes and the use of digital coins in illegal activities is for the most...
World Bank Predicts 3% Gold Price Growth, Expert Says a $3K per Ounce ‘Is More Likely Than Not’
The World Bank has said it expects the price of gold to rise by 3% in 2022 but warned the price might fall sharply if the Russian central...
Demystifying the business imperatives of the Metaverse
In a previous article, I discussed the evolution of Web3 economies and current volatility, focusing on the participatory nature of Web3,...
Binance Blocks Accounts Linked to Relatives of Senior Russian Officials
Digital asset exchange Binance has blocked accounts tied to relatives of government officials in Moscow. Amid mounting international...
LBank Exchange Will Launch Innovation Zone for Better User Experience
PRESS RELEASE. LBank Exchange is an innovative crypto assets trading platform with 6.4 million global users. Since the start of its...
Making crypto conventional by improving crypto crime investigations worldwide
When times are tough — as in the pandemic — enterprising human nature goes into overdrive. People seek out alternative ways to make money....
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Starts Investing in Cryptocurrency — Finds Web3 Economics ‘Interesting’
Eric Schmidt, a former Google CEO whose net worth is $22.8 billion, reveals that he has put “a little bit” of money into...
Global Investment Bank Goldman Sachs Offers Its First Bitcoin-Backed Loan
Global investment bank Goldman Sachs has reportedly offered its first-ever loan backed by cryptocurrency. The cash loan was collateralized...
2 key metrics point toward further downside for the entire crypto market
The total crypto market capitalization has been holding a slightly ascending trend for the past 3 months and the $1.75 trillion support...
Argentinian Government Advances the Creation of a National CBDC
The Argentinian government has taken the first steps in the launch of its own central bank digital currency (CBDC). A new decree...
Tech Start-up ‘Picture This’ Drops First Photography NFT With Renowned Photographer Christian Houge
On April 29, photography-focused tech start-up Picture This is finally launching the ‘Polar Bear’ NFT, which raises...
There’s an Insatiable Urge to Burn Crypto — A Look at Why Projects Burn Tokens and the Benefits
In recent times, cryptocurrencies that burn tokens have been very popular and a number of well known blockchain projects have destroyed...
Avalanche (AVAX) loses 30%+ in April, but its DeFi footprint leaves room to be bullish
Avalanche (AVAX) price is down more than 30% in April, but despite the negative price move, the smart contract platform remains a top...
Bitcoin whale holdings at 7-month highs despite warnings of BTC price crash to $20K
Bitcoin (BTC) prices could drop by 20% in the next few months, but that has not deterred its richest investors from stacking. The amount...
Bitcoin halving analysis hints at $24K bottom before the end of 2022
One of the most popular topics of debate within the crypto community revolves around the Bitcoin (BTC) four-year halving cycle and the...
Price analysis 4/29: BTC, ETH, BNB, SOL, LUNA, XRP, ADA, DOGE, AVAX, DOT
The U.S. dollar index (DXY) turned down from its 20-year high on April 29 but that has not changed the bearish price action seen in...
The Floor Value of Bored Ape Yacht Club’s NFT Collection Taps 152 ETH
The non-fungible token (NFT) collection Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) has seen its floor value jump to 152 ether ($430K) for the cheapest...
Fantom (FTM) slides 12% as crypto markets bleed
FTM has also declined against Bitcoin and Ethereum, down by more than 7% on both pairs. Fantom’s FTM token has plunged more than 12%...
Elon Musk Is First in Line as Ukrainian NFT Museum MetaHistory Launches Hall of Fame
Elon Musk is the first inductee into the Ukrainian NFT Museum MetaHistory’s Hall of Fame, but he will not be the last. Some other...
Hashstack Finance’s Open Protocol public testnet is now live
The public testnet of Hashstack Finance’s Open Protocol has gone live, allowing decnetralised finance (DeFi) users to enjoy...
Finder’s Experts Predict Apecoin Will End 2022 at $27 per Token, 75% Think APE Is Just ‘Another Memecoin’
On April 28, 2022, the crypto asset apecoin tapped an all-time high (ATH) tapping $26.70 per unit and the digital currency has taken the...
Binance has briefly halted Solana withdrawals
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange and trading platform, has suspended withdrawals on the Solana (SOL) network,...
Revolutionary NFT Platform YellowHeart Protocol Set to Launch on Bittrex Global Starting Block
YellowHeart Protocol, an NFT platform poised to disrupt the ticketing and music industries, is launching its utility token, HRTS...
Samsung to list first Crypto ETF in Hong Kong
Samsung, the largest asset management in Korea, is planning to list its first crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF) which has been...
Turkey’s second wave of major crypto interest: Bitfinex, Coinbase and KuCoin ramp up
Turkey is experiencing a resurgence in cryptocurrency interest as major crypto exchanges set foot in the transcontinental country. From...
Bitcoin disappoints on bull run as AMZN stock sees biggest 1-day drop since 2014
Bitcoin (BTC) fell into the Wall Street open on April 29 as United States markets opened to volatility, including an 11% drop in Amazon...
World Economic Forum Shares a Video About Changing Bitcoin’s Code to Proof-of-Stake
According to a World Economic Forum (WEF) tweet, a “change in the way bitcoin is coded could almost eliminate its environmental...
Biggest Movers: NEXO up Nearly 50% After Binance Listing, While TRON Climbs to 1-Week High
NEXO was up by nearly 50% on Friday, as markets reacted to the news that Binance was listing the token on its platform. Today’s...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: Crypto Uncertainty Continues, as BTC Drops Again
Crypto prices continued to seesaw on Friday, as both bitcoin and ethereum fell into the red, after a short lived rally on Thursday....
Analyst: Recession fears could be bullish for Bitcoin (BTC)
Bitcoin has failed to strengthen above the $40K again after yesterday’s brief upside that pushed it to highs of $40,280....
Eth2 deposit contract now holds 10% of the circulating ETH supply
The deposit contract for staking Ethereum (ETH) on the Beacon chain reached a balance of 12 million ETH on Friday. The total locked value...
Turning up the volume: Blockchain projects aim to disrupt the music industry
Music is a tricky business. The industry has its fair share of controversies, from monopolies to the limited earning potential for...
3 reasons why Dogecoin price can now gain 50% by September
At least three market catalysts show that Dogecoin (DOGE) could climb by at least 50% by the end of Q3/2022. Falling wedge breakout in...
Central Bank of Cuba Introduces Specific Virtual Asset Service Providers Regulation
The Cuban government has issued new regulations concerning the operation of virtual asset service providers (VASPs) in the country. In an...
ApeCoin rallies over 10% today after Yuga Labs cancels Otherside Auction
ApeCoin has rallied over 10% amid a surge in purchases by investors and whales and the rising popularity metaverse project, the Otherside;...
Is Shiba Inu a Good Investment? 5 Reasons We Think It Is
Shiba Inu price has been disappointing lately. It has crashed by more than 75% from its all-time high, giving it a market capitalization...