By Shaurya Malwa Three projects graduated from Sanctor Turbo, a Y-Combinator style mentorship program for Web3 companies organized by Sanctor Capital on September 14, marking the completion of an intense six-week sprint that saw builders and investors iterate grandiose plans for the crypto-led future. It saw Koii Network introduce theContinue Reading
By Jamie Redman While the dogecoin’s token price has floundered during the last seven days, the meme-coin’s rival shiba inu (SHIB) has moved up the ranks in terms of weekly gains. Dogecoin has shed 5.8% during the last week, but shiba inu has spiked 21.3% during the course of theContinue Reading
By Ana Grabundzija Released on Monday, Bitcoin Core version 22.0 is the 22nd major release of Bitcoin’s (BTC) original software client launched almost 13 years ago. The team overseen by the lead maintainer Wladimir van der Laan, took roughly eight months to bring the new update that launched on MondayContinue Reading
By Andrew Hayward Leading NFT marketplace OpenSea has parted ways with Nate Chastain, its former head of product, after the executive was discovered profiting from the trade of NFTs based on inside information. “We have a strong obligation to this community to move it forward responsibly and diligently,” the companyContinue Reading
By Jeff Benson Even as Coinbase has been adding new assets at a rapid clip this year, it’s still giving cryptocurrencies the ol’ Coinbase bounce. Its latest addition, the Dogecoin-inspired meme token Shiba Inu (SHIB), sat up 11% in a single hour of trading this morning after finally being listedContinue Reading
By Andrew Hayward The cryptocurrency-driven music service Audius aims to offer a hybrid of streaming giant Spotify and sharing platform Soundcloud, and its star has risen in recent months via integration with TikTok and new NFT features. Now popular musicians including Katy Perry, Nas, and others have officially come onboardContinue Reading
By Shaurya Malwa Paxful, the global peer-to-peer fintech platform, announced its global integration on the Lightning Network yesterday, as per a release shared with CryptoSlate. The app allows people to buy and sell Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Tether (USDT) with almost 400 different payment methods. “Bitcoin is hands downContinue Reading
By Kevin Helms Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has filed an application with the National Futures Association (NFA) to offer futures and derivatives trading on its platform. The exchange says its new offerings aim to “Further grow the cryptoeconomy.” Coinbase Registers to Offer Crypto Futures and Derivatives Trading Coinbase Global Inc. (Nasdaq:Continue Reading
By Andrew Hayward Avalanche has become one of the most prominent so-called “Ethereum killers” over the last year, as the blockchain networks designed for decentralized applications has seen its native AVAX cryptocurrency rise to new heights. And the money keeps on flowing, as the Avalanche Foundation today announced an infusionContinue Reading
By Ana Grabundzija Arbitrum suffered downtime on September 14 as the network’s sequencer went offline for roughly 45 minutes, disclosed Offchain Labs, the company that is developing the optimistic rollup, in an official report on Medium. The young Layer-2 rollup belongs to the flock of scaling solutions that sit onContinue Reading
By Kevin Helms The chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, explained that there is not enough investor protection in cryptocurrency. He added that the securities regulator needs more funding and manpower to effectively regulate the crypto sector. SEC Chair Gensler Says More Funding Needed toContinue Reading
By Sponsored Moonfarm is a yield aggregator platform that offers investors a yield on their cryptocurrency holdings by facilitating single asset staking and liquidity provisions on Decentralized Exchanges (DEX’s) including Uniswap, Pancakeswap and Quickswap. Aurus provides a Tokenization-as-a-Service (TaaS) solution to the precious metals industry. Aurus empowers precious metals. WhileContinue Reading
By Kevin Helms The world’s largest movie exhibition company, AMC Entertainment, has announced its plan to accept cryptocurrencies by year-end. AMC CEO Adam Aron says the entertainment giant will accept bitcoin, ether, litecoin, and bitcoin cash. AMC Prepares to Accept Cryptocurrencies AMC, the largest movie exhibition company in the U.S.,Continue Reading
By Andrew Hayward Crypto.com is the latest cryptocurrency exchange to try and tap into the engaged, tech-savvy audience of esports fans, today announcing that it has signed a sponsorship agreement with established team, Fnatic. The five-year deal is worth more than $15 million in total and will make Crypto.com theContinue Reading
By Bitcoin.com PR September 16th, 2021 09:00 UTC – The HUMAN Protocol Foundation, the team behind HUMAN Protocol, have announced today that the Protocol’s native utility token, HMT, is listed on Bitfinex. Bitfinex is one of the crypto world’s legacy exchanges. It consistently performs as one of the highest rankedContinue Reading
By Oluwapelumi Adejumo Google, the largest search engine in the world, has partnered with NBA Top Shot marketplace developer, Dapper Labs, to help support and scale its blockchain, Flow. According to the announcement, the Cloud arm of the tech giant would function as the network operator of the Flow blockchainContinue Reading
By Jamie Redman On Wednesday, U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) commissioner Charles Rettig and Janet Yellen, the Treasury secretary, urged lawmakers to give the IRS permission to report annual inflows and outflows from American bank accounts. Regardless of tax liability, financial institutions across the country will have to report accountsContinue Reading
By Scott Chipolina The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) yesterday released data that shows a 222% increase in inquiries about scams relating to cryptocurrencies between the months April 2020 and March 2021. In April 2020, the British regulator received a total of 176 inquiries relating to possible cryptocurrency scams. ByContinue Reading
By Tim Hakki Stefan He Qin, a twenty-four year old Australian national, has been sentenced to ninety months in prison and a penalty of almost $55 million for defrauding over a hundred people out of about $114 million. Qin started a hedge fund in his first year of college calledContinue Reading
By Scott Chipolina Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, CEO of Binance, has admitted the crypto exchange needs a centralized entity in order to satisfy regulators around the world. “We have come to realize that we need a centralized entity to work well with regulators,” CZ said in an interview today with theContinue Reading
By Lubomir Tassev The Turkish central bank has established a new platform together with technology stakeholders to further the development of a digitalized version of the national fiat currency. The new collaboration will allow Turkey to focus on expanding research and conducting tests of the prospective digital lira. Turkey SetsContinue Reading
By Oluwapelumi Adejumo Nearly six weeks after the implementation of the highly hyped Ethereum London upgrade, a colossal amount of ETH has been burned on the network. $1 billion Ether burned Data from Watchtheburn confirmed this with figures, as it indicated that since the activation of London Hard Fork onContinue Reading
By Andrew Asmakov The price of Ethereum has rallied by more than 6% over the last day, returning above the $3,600 mark last seen on September 7. Trading at $3,622 at press time, ETH is up 6.2% over the past 24 hours, according to CoinGecko. This is, however, still 16.7%Continue Reading
By Terence Zimwara While Africa is seen as one of the smallest cryptocurrency markets, according to a preview of Chainalysis’ Geography of Cryptocurrency annual report, this region has “some of the highest grassroots adoptions in the world.” African Volumes Mainly Composed of Retail Transfers The crypto adoption observation for AfricaContinue Reading
By Shaurya Malwa Coinbase, one of the world’s biggest and most regulated crypto exchanges that went public earlier this year, will soon offer futures and derivatives trading as it looks to bump up its overall product offering. “Today, Coinbase filed an application with the NFA to register as an FCMContinue Reading
By Lubomir Tassev Authorities in the Chinese province of Hebei have reportedly launched a campaign against cryptocurrency mining and trading. According to a quoted announcement by the region’s cyberspace administration, a number of government agencies are working together to prevent the use of the region’s computing power in the cryptoContinue Reading
By Ana Grabundzija Apple blocked a new version of the Gnosis Safe mobile app, because the crypto wallet provider displayed non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in it, Lukas Schor disclosed on Twitter. Schor, who heads product development at the Ethereum-based wallet, revealed that the updated version was refused because the App StoreContinue Reading
By Jamie Redman On September 15, the top non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace, Opensea, revealed that an Opensea executive profited from insider trading. “Yesterday we learned that one of our employees purchased items that they knew were set to display on our front page before they appeared there publicly,” Opensea informedContinue Reading
By Bitcoin.com PR This week, ABEY has announced that it has been adding an average of 20,000 active ABEY 2.0 addresses each week since the beginning of August 2021, making it one of the fastest-growing blockchains in the world and finishing an exceptional week that included the ABEY token beingContinue Reading
By Andjela Radmilac The network outage that Solana saw yesterday caused a stir in the crypto market, with many worrying about the implications of having a $47 billion network stop working for hours. But, as most focused on the immediate implications the outage had on SOL’s price, the long-term consequencesContinue Reading
By Kevin Helms Maxime Bernier, a former cabinet minister nicknamed “Mad Max” and the leader of the People’s Party of Canada (PPC), says he supports bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. “I hate how central banks are destroying our money and economy … cryptos are another new and innovative way to counter thisContinue Reading