Tag: Cointelegraph

Core Ethereum developer Preston Van Loon says that the network’s long-awaited transition to proof-of-stake will most likely happen this August.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia CEO Matt Comyn insists his bank will move forward with the second pilot of crypto services on its app once regulatory uncertainty is cleared up.

Yield generation app Stablegains is facing a lawsuit after losing around $44 million worth of user funds in the Terra collapse when it previously said it allocated funds “across a number of stablecoins”.

A new survey has revealed that blockchain technology may be a better fitness motivator than traditional monetary incentives.

“It was clear to me, it was clear to many that I know that it was a bad idea,” said Tether and Bitfinex CTO Paolo Ardoino.

Alex Mashinsky has stated firmly that it is opportunistic short sellers on Wall Street that is responsible for the negative price action in the markets.

Chaos on the crypto market in the wake of the Terra collapse caused a heightened sense of urgency among the ministers to continue regulatory process.

A popular BTC price metric points to “extreme fear” in the market, but contrarian investors say multiple on-chain metrics suggest Bitcoin is in buy territory.

Fed nominee Michael Barr said that the government agency potentially releasing a central bank digital currency was an issue that required “a lot more thought and study.”

Twelve years to the day of the world’s first Bitcoin pizza purchase, the celebrations still continue for what has become a slice of crypto culture.

Although real estate is often considered a safer investment over stocks, it isn’t for everyone, a reality leading many to look to the digital realm as an alternative.

The bank messaging service, which dates back to the 1970s, is looking to connect CBDCs to each other and to traditional currencies as it tries to stay up to date.

Two of the releases are in their primary iteration, while the latter titled Iroha is a preview version of its second release.

Bitcoin is holding the $30,000 level, but the $640 million in BTC options that expire on May 20 could result in the price visiting recent lows.

The paper highlights investigators who work with crypto should invest in learning methods and technologies that are current with evolving criminal organization strategies.

SOL price has been repeatedly knocked down by network outages, a shrinking total value locked on the network and futures traders’ disinterest in trading the altcoin.

2021 was a massive year for GameFi, but how can it evolve and thrive in 2022 and beyond? Cointelegraph Research has the answers.

India’s “blockchain, not crypto” stance has led to disastrous crypto policies, forcing several thriving crypto firms to relocate.

Traders still anticipate BTC prices above $100,000, but a closer look at the BTC halving cycle chart suggests that a sharper downside move will occur first.

Swiss asset manager Julius Baer is set to offer cryptocurrency exposure to its high-net-worth clientele.

Despite the fact that the Bitcoin price trended down over Q1, the Block ecosystem of payment solutions with Bitcoin in mind performed well.

FTX Stocks will allow retail investors to fund their accounts with fiat-backed stablecoins like USD Coin via the FTX US crypto exchange.

Du Jun, CEO of Huobi Global, told Cointelegraph that the Terra crash will slow down investor enthusiasm in the short term, but in the long term, the demand will recover.

Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis introduced a new tool to help monitor transactions and tokens across DeFi protocols and multiple blockchains.

Sorare is a football fantasy game in which participants use digital player cards to buy, sell, trade, and manage a virtual team.

According to South Korean corporate tax laws, foreign-registered companies are treated as domestic if the decision-making process and operations are carried out from the country.

The proceeds will be used to 3D print a leg for a dog named Cuco and an arm for a young man named Jesus.

The floor price of the Bored Ape Yacht Club has fallen 50% from the beginning of this month as prices and sales volume of NFTs suffer across the board.

The DoC’s series of 17 questions is set to be published on May 19 and asks for comments from the public that will inform the department’s creation of a regulatory framework for crypto businesses.

“Merging Ropsten is a huge testing milestone towards Ethereum’s mainnet merge later this year,” said Preston Van Loon, an Ethereum core developer at Prysmatic Labs.

Crypto-specialist recruiters say they have not witnessed a downturn in crypto-related job opportunities, despite a myriad of staff lay-offs in the wider tech industry.

“Not going away” — Mike Novogratz says that despite being permanently humbled by the recent Terra collapse, the crypto industry will continue to grow.

After over two years, the feared investigative and prosecutorial team has been reformed by the new President to look into the mess caused by Terraform Labs.

“GAMES FUND ONE” will invest in game studios, consumer apps and game infrastructure providers with a16z saying the industry has “solved many of the problems” needed to make a Metaverse.

“The question is when this will happen, how it will happen and how it will be regulated. Now both the Central Bank and the government are actively engaged in this,” said trade minister Denis Manturov.

“We’re not trying to grow really significantly, but resources to grow at least six percent to grow our enforcement arm in this space,” said Gary Gensler.

Record spending in a Democratic House primary could not give a political newcomer the boost he needed to overcome a local politician with a long career.

A new exchange listing, mainnet launch and competitive token burn mechanism led to a sharp rally in Socios fan tokens.

After an earthquake, there are always aftershocks. The collapse of UST could be a sign that other stablecoins are also critically flawed.

Mike McGlone, senior commodity strategist at Bloomberg, and financial commentator Frances Coppola discuss the implications of last week’s Terra collapse in Cointelegraph’s latest interview.

The entity will be dissolved upon the completion of ShapeShift’s decentralization process.

ETH bulls are aiming to flip $2,000 back to support, but these two metrics point toward further downside.

A new database from Cointelegraph Research tracks VC activity in the crypto and blockchain industry in unprecedented detail.

Participants of the accelerator program will get funding, mentorship and market exposure through the platform DeFi.org.

Sports-related NFTs need to provide some tangible benefits or else sports fans will just view them as another ploy to exploit their fan loyalty.

The announcement comes a month after Aave founder Stani Kulechov gets suspended from Twitter for his joke about being the interim CEO of the social company.

Two Israel-based credit card companies, Max and Isracard, have started working on Bitcoin investment and cashback solutions via a credit card.

18% of respondents in a new survey said that learning more about the benefits of investing in cryptocurrency was the most effective approach to transition from skeptic to believer.

Peter Grosskopf, co-founder of the DeFi project Unstoppable Finance, tells Cointelegraph auf Deutsch what he thinks about new regulations for DeFi.

Vietnamese official Nguyen Chi Dung believes that data ownership and privacy can enhance the healthcare industry.

Paul-Willem van Gerwen from the AFM believes the retail investors should forbear the crypto derivatives trade .

The announcement of the firm’s inaugural capital raise from prominent investors is set to propel the vision for the construction of decentralized content representing communities from across the NFT space.

Centralized communication platforms prove to be an easily identifiable weakness in activist movements.

The developers have managed to delete the fake message and remove the MEE6 bot from the main server.

A data analyst on the Isle of Man demonstrated how contactless payments work on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network using an NFC enabled “Bolt Card.”

A handful of concerning factors, plus AAVE’s correlation with the Nasdaq, increases the possibility of the altcoin undergoing another massive sell-off.

Robinhood’s wallet will be noncustodial and multichain, allowing for the storage of NFTs along with the ability to connect to NFT marketplaces.

Regulators in South Korea have issued a new report that offers a bevy of recommendations for how to properly govern the country’s crypto industry.

Analysts across crypto and traditional stocks have taken notice of the similarities between what happened in March 2020 and market moves so far this month.

Highlighting Germany’s crypto license as an example of attractive regulation, Birgit Rodolphe writes that similar frameworks should be the same throughout the EU to “prevent a fragmented market.”

The crypto hawk Biden appointee will sponsor a panel of 36 financial industry executives, thought leaders and other prominent figures.

On-chain data suggests Bitcoin price is discounted, but analysts caution against expecting a rapid recovery.

NFT sell volume declines sharply after Terra’s blow up led to stablecoins dropping their peg and Bitcoin’s dip below $30,000 raises fear of a prolonged bear market.

Blockchain analytics firm Nansen to launch a new portfolio tracker integrated with the rest of its features with the new acquisition.

Bank of France Governor François Villeroy de Galhau reportedly said that the recent crypto market volatility had been a “wake-up call” for global regulators.

The new Cointelegraph Research Terminal brings reports, expert analysis and comprehensive database access — all in one convenient package.

League of Kingdoms offers players a chance to not just rule their kingdom but own it in the form of an NFT.

Why and how the island of Madeira is “adopting” Bitcoin and how the president fell down the Bitcoin rabbit hole.

The platform explores the possibilities to “improve artists’ and fan experiences,” conveying the survey among users.

This suite of tools is designed for developers to build products and services in the DeFi, GameFi, and NFT spaces.

Rep. Yoon Chang-Hyeon noted that Korean exchanges each reacted differently to the crash and he wanted to invite both Do Kwon and the exchanges involved to learn more details.

Founded in 2014, BitMEX is one of the world’s oldest crypto trading platforms, but it has never offered spot crypto trading till now.

The public advisory warned private firms to do their due diligence before hiring freelance workers, as North Koreans often use illicit tactics and stolen identities to hide their nationality.

Buying and selling crypto on a P2P marketplace does not feature charts or market indications, unlike traditional exchanges.

El Salvador welcomed 44 central bankers from developing countries around the world to tackle financial inclusion and discuss Bitcoin at a three-day conference.

The CRS described the TerraUSD crash as a “run-like” scenario where holders started to doubt the reserves that back the dollar peg.

According to Pocket Network, the latest integration with NEAR allows native developers to deploy their applications on other supported blockchains, including Ethereum, Solana, Polygon and more.

Janet Yellen calls on lawmakers to develop a consistent federal framework for stablecoins, Hester Peirce urges to allow room for failure and more.

China still hosts 21% of the total global Bitcoin hash rate after the local government banned all crypto operations in the country last year.

Crypto “will seriously undermine the RBI’s capacity to determine monetary policy and regulate the monetary system of the country,” according to Reserve Bank of India officials.

The funding round led by Web3-focused venture capital firms will be used for upcoming nonfungible tokens, comics and a play-to-earn game slated for late 2022.

The leading Japanese bank plans on establishing a crypto subsidiary outside of Japan and will acquire about 100 personnel to work in the digital asset space.

“People will stop mining the coin if they can’t make money off of it,” according to Michael Bloomberg who referred to the two previously hyped city coins.

The fallout from Terra’s collapse continues as outflows from Tether (USDT) hit an average of $1.1 billion a day over the past week.

Coinbase is rapidly expanding its product offerings this month as some select users can now access DeFi and other Dapps on Ethereum through the Coinbase app.

The small Iberian nation is set to reverse a long-standing tax law that excluded crypto gains on the grounds that they are not legal tender.

An unnamed individual allegedly sent more than $10 million in Bitcoin to an exchange in a country for which the U.S. currently imposes sanctions.

12 new vaults, quad-stablecoin liquidity pools and an integration with Oasis Network could be the factors behind BIFI’s current triple digit gain.

“This has been on our radar since late last year,” said California’s Fair Political Practices Commission communications director Jay Wierenga.

MakerDAO returned to prominence after Terra’s UST collapse forced investors to search for a truly “stable” dollar pegged asset.

Terraform Labs will put the proposal up for a governance vote on May 18 Asia time.

The BTC futures premium flashed a slightly positive reading, but options markets show extreme fear from whales and market markers.

The BTC futures premium flashed a slightly positive reading, but options markets show extreme fear from whales and market markers.

Chief financial officer André Milanez said that the product will launch within the next si months.

Commenting on the recent market volatility, Fabio Panetta also said stablecoins were still “vulnerable to runs,” just as investing in cryptocurrencies carried certain risks.

When nonfungible tokens are raking in incredible prices, have a look at the 10 most expensive NFTs sold to date.