Indonesia’s regulator has prohibited financial institutions from offering crypto services to protect investors against risks involved in investing in digital assets. The Indonesian regulator, Otoritas...
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TimechainSwap Launches Farming & Liquidity Protocols On Its DEX
Montreal, Canada, 24th January 2022, Timechain, a decentralized exchange aggregator and permissionless lending and borrowing protocol, has introduced Automated Market Maker (AMM) liquidity pools, yiel...
MicroStrategy Will Continue to Put Money Into Bitcoin Despite Drop Says CFO
Despite the recent crypto market decline, MicroStrategy will not stop purchasing more bitcoin (BTC). Phong Le, MicroStrategy CFO, said in a Wall Street Journal report today that the company’s position...
Former Goldman Sachs CEO Makes U-turn, Says Crypto is Happening
Lloyd Blankfein, former Goldman Sachs Chairman, and CEO said “cryptocurrency is happening,” as the asset class continues to grow in popularity and is attracting several trillions of dollars in investm...
Ethereum Surges To $2,400. Are the Bears Finally At Sleep?
Since last week, the crypto market has been plagued by a series of corrections. One of these retracements saw the sector’s worth dip by more than 20% during the last seven days. Unfortunately, the ind...
Ethereum Whale Swallows up Over 600 Billion SHIB ($12.1M) Amid Sell-off
Ethereum whales have continued loading up large amounts of the memecoin, Shiba Inu, with one whale splurging over $12 million in a recent SHIB purchase. According to data from the crypto whale tracker...
OpenSea Reportedly Suffers Front-end Attack; Hacker Gains $800k
The world’s largest marketplace for trading non-fungible tokens (NFTs), OpenSea has reportedly suffered a front-end attack resulting in the loss of 332 ETH ($800k). The attack was first noted by block...
Myanmar’s Military Junta Imposes Crypto Ban; Penalty of Up to One Year Imprisonment
The military junta in Myanmar has recently drafted a bill that seeks to ban the use of digital currencies and virtual private networks (VPNs) in the Southeast Asian country. The bill, which has alread...
British Soldier Faces Charges for Stealing Bitcoins and Assaulting Owners
A male British soldier has recently been charged in court on counts of kidnapping and robbery for allegedly stealing a couple’s bitcoins worth thousands of dollars. The 36-year-old soldier identified ...
El Salvador Bought the Bitcoin Dip ; Adds 410 BTC Worth $15M
Central American nation El Salvador has added another 410 BTC to its Bitcoin stash as BTC price slips below $37,000. El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, tweeted on Friday that the country has acqui...
BTC, ETH, BNB, ADA, SOL, XRP, LUNA
Currently valued at $1.61 trillion, the crypto market is down by more than 20% as it opened the week at $2.05 trillion. The industry was considerably stable throughout the first three but took a turn ...
$800 Million Liquidated As The Crypto Market Sinks Below $1.8 Trillion
Two days ago, social media platform Twitter was filled with comments from traders urging some crypto assets to stop ranging and “do something.” Events that have taken place over the past 24 hours seem...
Think You’re Down? MicroStrategy Has Lost $4B in Paper Profit to Bitcoin Crash
November 2021, now seems like a long history for crypto traders. At a certain point in that month, bitcoin, the world’s leading cryptocurrency by market cap, was sold at $69,000 per unit. However, due...
Institutional Marketing Made Solana Shine More: Polygon Co-Founder
Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder of the popular Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution, Polygon, has recently opined that the influence of large institutional investors on the high-performance blockchain, Solan...
Coinbase Shares Record Biggest Drop (Over 15%) Amid Ongoing Crypto Dump
Coinbase Global Inc., one of the largest U.S. crypto platforms, has experienced a big hit due to the ongoing crypto dump. The shares of the San Francisco-based crypto trading platform fell as much as ...
MicroStrategy Not Selling its $5B Bitcoin Stash, Says CEO Michael Saylor
Michael Saylor, the CEO of the leading publicly traded business intelligence and software company MicroStrategy, revealed that the company is not selling its Bitcoin stash. When questioned if he is te...
U.S. SEC Rejects First Trust Skybridge Spot Bitcoin ETF Proposal
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has rejected yet another proposal to list a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the country. In an official filing published on Thursday, t...
Russia Central Bank Recommends Total Ban on Cryptocurrency Activities
Cryptocurrencies have been under major regulatory scrutiny in recent times, as Russia has become the latest country to consider placing an outright ban against the asset class. According to a report ...
Self-Custody Crypto Wallet Provider NGRAVE Raises $6M in Seed Round
Belgium-based cryptocurrency security firm NGRAVE recently announced that it has raised $6 million from several high-profile investors in its recently completed seed round fundraise. In a press releas...
Bakkt Partners With Nexo To Enhance Secure Custody of Crypto Assets
Bakkt Holdings, Inc. recently closed a partnership deal with the leading regulated digital asset institution Nexo, which will see Bakkt custody Nexo’s cryptocurrency assets including Bitcoin and Ether...
Morocco-based Attijariwafa Bank with $53B in Assets Join Ripple Network
Attijariwafa Bank, the largest multinational commercial bank in Morocco, has adopted blockchain-based digital payment and transfer network, Ripple. The financial services company which has more than $...
U.S. Breast Cancer Organization to Accept Bitcoin and Ethereum Donations
U.S. breast cancer organization Susan G. Komen has announced that it will be accepting cryptocurrency donations in its fight against the disease. Komen noted in an announcement today that it has partn...
Stolen Images of Influencers and YouTube Celebrities Sold as NFTs
The NFT market has seen massive popularity in recent times and has made millions of dollars for NFT artists and creators. While some of the public is hopping on the NFT train, others are not too keen...
Top Four Cryptocurrencies to Watch This Week: BTC, ROSE, FTM, SCRT.
The market went through a recovery phase over the last seven days as there was a slight improvement. With many cryptocurrencies seeing little more hikes and minimal retracements, the crypto market no ...
Smart Token Labs and Perion launch Season Rewards NFT for top-ranked players
Sydney, Australia, 18th January, 2022, Chainwire Smart Token Labs launches Season Rewards NFT with Perion, the elite gaming guild. SRNFT is a programmable rewards token developed collaboratively by b...
Covesting Module Month In Review: January 2022
The new year started on a relatively low note for the cryptocurrency market. The likes of Bitcoin and other major altcoins fell through the majority of December and started the year at $46,000 — down ...
Widow of QuadrigaCX Founder Denies Knowledge of Company’s $215M Scam
Jennifer Robertson, the widow of the founder of QuadrigaCX crypto exchange, Gerald Cotten, in an interview, denied having any knowledge of the scam her husband pulled off through his company before he...
VanEck Debuts Algorand, FTX and Terra ETNs
US-based asset management company VanEck has recently launched three Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs) tracking native tokens of the Algorand blockchain, Bahamian-based cryptocurrency exchange platform, FT...
Price Analysis 1/17: BTC, ETH, BNB, ADA, SOL, XRP, LUNA.
With many cryptocurrencies seeing little more hikes and minimal retracements, the crypto market no doubt saw a lot of improvements from last two week’s performance. The market closed the period at $1....