Stablecoins and their use in decentralized finance (DeFi) have played a key role in the 2021 cryptocurrency bull market because allow investors to participate in the ever-growing number of protocols that offer high yield staking pools and they ease the process of transacting without needing to use a centralized exchange. One project that has seen
Month: November 2021
Bitcoin (BTC) bulls are still hoping for a major breakout but at the moment, bears are applying pressure and keeping the digital asset pinned below $61,000. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that an early morning breakout by bulls to make a run above $62,000 was met with a strong defensive line from
Enegra Group, a commodities trading firm based in Malaysia with a net asset value of $28 billion, has migrated its equity-tied EGX security tokens from to the Polygon (MATIC) blockchain from Ethereum (ETH). In 2019, Energra tokenized 100% of its equity, enabling shareholders to digitally exercise their dividend, voting, and governance rights. Both the initial tokenization
In remarks given at the American Fintech Council’s 2021 Policy Summit, acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael J Hsu called for greater regulation of universal crypto firms. “Large, universal crypto firms—especially issuers of highly-circulated stablecoins—should embrace comprehensive, consolidated supervision. At the same time, federal and state bank regulators should prioritize the development of policies, staff,
sponsored CoinMarketCap, the leading authority on real-time cryptocurrency prices and data, has just updated and verified its TON Crystal (TON) listing. Now TON, the native token of the FreeTON blockchain, ranks among the top 5% of cryptocurrencies by market cap. This has been a year of remarkable development for the FreeTON project. The project started
It took just four minutes for a relatively unknown cryptocurrency to rise by over 5,600% as of Nov. 5, according to data from CoinMarketCap. Dubbed Phoenix Global (PHB), the token soared from $0.02057 to as high as $1.1413 on Nov. 5, with its volume dropping surprisingly — from $3.79 million to around $777,680 in the
Bitcoin (BTC) is still seeing a supply squeeze despite a significant uptick in whale selling on exchanges this week. As confirmed by on-chain monitoring resource CryptoQuant on Nov. 5, whales have accounted for the vast majority of selling pressure in recent days. Whale coins find a new home A familiar event but with curious timing —
Ethereum’s London Upgrade has had a successful testnet deployment The Ethereum upgrade is now ready for activation on the mainnet The London upgrade will go live on block 12,965,000 expected to occur between August 3rd and 5th of this year A total of 5 EIPs will be implemented including the highly anticipated EIP1559 Bug bounties
Bitcoin (BTC) stayed rangebound on Nov. 5 as fresh analysis argued that breaking $64,000 would produce a new all-time high. BTC/USD 1-day candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView “So near yet so far” for BTC price all-time high Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD drawing little attention as it tracked sideways around $61,000.
Joel Dietz, founder of Metamask and founding team member of Ethereum, is a romantic at heart. He creates art as “Cryptoapollo” that reflects the intersection between traditional art and technology. “I have a very classical romantic temperament, which can be hard to bring into the modern world since romantically inclined people can be suppressed in
The stablecoin market has been growing exponentially — from only $21.5 billion in mid-October of last year to $130 billion at the start of November; a six-fold increase — so it was only reasonable to expect that the United States government would have to come to grips with these digital assets that are designed to
sponsored For many people the luxury market is out of reach. However, with LuxFi, that is no longer the case. The platform combines blockchain technology, NFTs, and a luxury goods market open to anyone, anywhere. LuxFi will mark a significant shift in the way luxury goods are traded, and how people acquire them. LuxFi is
Jack Dorsey’s payments company Square Inc. revealed in its Q3 earnings report that mobile payments app Cash App saw a 23% drop in quarterly profits generated by Bitcoin. But Bitcoin profits and revenue are both up year on year. Square attributes the drop off in quarter-on-quarter Bitcoin revenue and gross profit to the “relative stability
Ethereum-based (ETH) decentralized finance, or DeFi, risk management marketplace Risk Harbor will soon take over control of Terra’s Ozone Protocol, according to a press release published on Thursday. Ozone is a decentralized insurance mechanism that provides coverage in the event of technical failures on the Terra DeFi ecosystem. The latter is a dual-token platform that
The Financial Services Commission (FSC) in South Korea reaffirmed in a public statement today that nonfungible tokens (NFT) are not virtual assets, and will not be regulated. The confirmation of the decision to keep NFTs unregulated came after a review of the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) updated guidelines. The October 28 guidance report from
As reported by Reuters Thursday morning, Tierra Viva (“Alive Earth”), a Colombian exporter of long-horned beetles based in Tunja, has been developing its own cryptocurrency to avoid high commission costs on international sales. According to the outlet, the Hercules, Neptunus, and elephant beetle species exported by Tierra Viva have a retail price of $300 a
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