Cryptocurrency

Who Performed Better This Year?

Source: Adobe/sportpoint A theme in crypto that has gotten even more pronounced this year is the line that is being drawn between the centralized and the decentralized part of the…

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Hilbert Group forms COIN360 JV with Gist Vile and Chiron Partners

Sweden-based Hilbert Group AB, United States-based Gist Vile and Asia-based investment group Chiron Partners will join forces to launch a new business of COIN360. Under this joint leadership, COIN360 will…

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Bitcoin Falls as Second Bitcoin ETF Goes Live in the US

Source: Adobe/Tim The price of bitcoin (BTC) fell Friday morning US time just as the second bitcoin futures-backed ETF, the Valkyrie Bitcoin Strategy ETF with ticker BTF, went live on…

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Crypto platform Rally commits $12M to third-party developers

Crypto-social platform Rally has earmarked $12 million for external developers to improve the functionality of the ecosystem, potentially setting the stage for new innovations that would benefit creators.  The grants…

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Fed Chair On Higher Inflation, Robinhood’s Million Crypto Wallets, NFT Unicorn + More News

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, NBC News Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of…

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A watershed moment or stopgap?

A lot of excitement radiated out of New York this week with the launch of the first Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) sanctioned by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.…

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MicroStrategy’s and Grayscale Bitcoin Trust’s Shares Now Compete with ETFs

Source: Adobe/monticellllo The returns for shareholders in two popular proxies for the bitcoin (BTC) price, namely MicroStrategy (MSTR) and the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), have fallen well behind those of…

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Valkyrie Bitcoin futures-linked ETF launches on Nasdaq, with share prices dropping 3% in first hour

The second Bitcoin (BTC) futures-linked exchange-traded fund in the United States began trading on the Nasdaq, opening at a price of $25.52 per share. According to the Nasdaq, digital asset…

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SOL Rallies on Strong Technicals, All-Time High in Total Value Locked

Source: Adobe/Aleksandra Sova SOL, the native token of the Solana blockchain, rallied in the crypto market today after the chain reached a new all-time high in terms of the total…

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PayPal logs its largest Bitcoin volume since May BTC price crash

Bitcoin (BTC) trading volumes on global payment service provider PayPal reached $145.60 million on Oct. 20, just as the benchmark crypto rallied toward its record high near $67,000. The latest…

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Bitcoin and Ethereum Reach Key Support, Altcoins Face Sellers

Bitcoin price fluctuates around USD 63,500. Ethereum is still above USD 4,100, XRP is struggling to stay above USD 1.10. RUNE and OKB are up over 17%. Bitcoin price started…

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New proposal aims to raise Binance Coin value by burning BSC fees

Amid the ongoing rally of Binance’s native token, Binance Coin (BNB), the developers of Binance Smart Chain (BSC) have proposed more measures to maintain the token’s deflationary model and improve…

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First Bitcoin ETF in Immediate Danger of Hitting Cap on Contracts Held

Source: Adobe/Анна Богатырева The first bitcoin (BTC) futures-backed exchange-traded fund (ETF), ProShares’ BITO, is reportedly already in danger of breaching a limit on the number of futures contracts it is…

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Blockstream raises $16M for its Bitcoin mining STO in a matter of hours

Major blockchain technology company Blockstream has completed six tranches of its Bitcoin (BTC) mining security token offering (STO), securing a total of 30.9 million euros ($36 million). Blockstream officially announced…

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FATF’s New Guidelines Drop Next Week, Will Tackle Stablecoins, NFT & DeFi

Source: Adobe/xtock The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) will publish its updated guidelines on crypto sector policing next week – and will broaden its scope to include stablecoins, peer-to-peer (P2P)…

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Crypto-to-fiat liquidity startup XanPool raises $27M

Cryptocurrency-to-fiat infrastructure provider XanPool continues expanding operations in the Asia-Pacific region by securing fresh funding. The Hong Kong-based startup raised $27 million in a Series A funding round led by…

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Pakistan Court Orders Government To Develop Crypto Regulations

Source: Adobe/natanaelginting The Sindh High Court, the top court of Pakistan’s Sindh province, has instructed the country’s government to develop regulations for cryptoassets within a three-month period, and established a…

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Ripple CEO says the SEC helped Ethereum to overtake XRP as No.2 crypto

Ripple chief executive Brad Garlinghouse has been airing his thoughts over the state of the crypto market and regulations, and a grudge over the financial regulator’s approach to Ethereum appears…

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Walmart Begins Bitcoin ATM Pilot at 200 American Stores

Source: iStock/YvanDube The American retail behemoth Walmart has begun a crypto pilot that involves installing bitcoin (BTC) using ATM machines at 200 of its outlets in the United States. The…

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Robinhood crypto wallet waitlist hits 1 million people

More than 1 million people are on the waitlist for Robinhood’s long-awaited crypto wallet according to CEO Vlad Tenev Speaking to Jim Cramer during CNBC’s Disruptor 50 summit on Oct.…

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