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Arbitrum Registers Record Activity Over the Last 2 Weeks as Transactions per Day Count Surges
[Apr 6, 2023 8:30 AM] In the past 20 days, the Arbitrum blockchain has recorded a significant number of transactions coinciding with the recent ARB airdrop that occurred on March 23. About two weeks ago, on that day, the Arbitrum network recorded an all-time high of…
Chinese State-Owned Company Launches 2 Crypto Funds in Hong Kong
[Apr 6, 2023 2:30 AM] One of China’s leading insurers has backed the establishment of two crypto investment funds in Hong Kong. The business move comes against the backdrop of the region’s ambitions to become a hub for digital assets, and despite the negative regulatory…
Bitcoin Stamps Emerge as New Image-Storage Trend on the Bitcoin Blockchain, Over 8,000 Stamps Minted So Far
[Apr 5, 2023 1:30 PM] After the Ordinal inscription process gained significant traction on the Bitcoin blockchain with more than 800,000 inscriptions to date, a new trend of non-fungible token (NFT) technology has emerged called Bitcoin Stamps. The image-storing…
P2P Bitcoin Exchange Paxful Suspends Marketplace With Uncertainty of Return
[Apr 4, 2023 3:30 PM] According to a message from Paxful Founder and CEO, Ray Youssef, the peer-to-peer bitcoin trading platform is suspending its marketplace, and the company is uncertain if it will return. Youssef cited challenges such as regulations and some key…
Dfinity Foundation Launches Chain-Key Bitcoin, a Native Internet Computer BTC Derivative Token
BLUR Token Plummets Over 28% in March, Despite Blur’s Dominance in NFT Sales Market
[Apr 2, 2023 7:30 PM] While the non-fungible token marketplace Blur has captured a significant amount of the market share in terms of NFT sales, the market’s native token, BLUR, lost more than 28% in value last month. At present, BLUR tokens are down more than…
German Stock Exchange Boerse Stuttgart to Provide Crypto Custody Through Licensed Subsidiary
[Apr 2, 2023 4:30 AM] Blocknox, a subsidiary of one of Europe’s largest stock exchanges, Boerse Stuttgart, has been licensed to operate as a crypto custodian in Germany. The authorization will allow the company to offer custody services for digital assets to…
March Bitcoin Mining Stats Show Climbing Revenue and Hashrate Highs
[Apr 1, 2023 9:30 AM] According to statistics, 4,498 blocks have been mined in the last 30 days, creating 28,112 new bitcoins over the past month. Bitcoin’s network hashrate has been around 341 exahash per second (EH/s) during the last 2,016 blocks or the last…
Bitcoin’s Average and Median-Sized Network Fees Rose 40% Higher in March
[Mar 31, 2023 2:30 PM] In March 2023, Bitcoin’s average and median-sized fees jumped more than 40% higher after rising 122% in 10 days during the first week of February. The fees have followed the Ordinal inscription trend as more than 662,000 inscriptions reside…
Non-Fungible Token Sales Slid 31% Lower in March With $882 Million in NFT Sales
[Mar 31, 2023 8:30 AM] According to statistics, the number of non-fungible token (NFT) sales in March was 31.42% lower than the previous month, dropping from $1.03 billion in sales for February to $882.89 million. The number of NFT buyers and transactions also declined…
Report: South Korean National Assembly to Pass Digital Asset Law in April
[Mar 31, 2023 4:00 AM] After several failed attempts in the past, the South Korean National Assembly is now expected to pass its digital asset market regulation in April, a report has said. Kim Hee-gon, a member of the Political Affairs Committee’s first subcommittee…
Senate Banking Committee Holds Hearing on Recent Bank Collapses, Calls for Tougher Regulations
[Mar 29, 2023 2:00 PM] On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, also known as the Senate Banking Committee, held a hearing to discuss the recent bank collapses in the United States and the regulatory response. Throughout the…
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Faces New Bribery Charges for Alleged Crypto Payment to Chinese Officials
[Mar 28, 2023 11:30 AM] Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the former CEO of FTX, now faces a 13-count indictment as U.S. officials have added new charges. One of the new charges alleges that SBF leveraged $40 million to influence “one or more Chinese government…
Bitcoin Hashrate Reaches 400 Exahash per Second, Researcher Says Network Could Reach Zettahash Era by 2025
[Mar 27, 2023 4:30 PM] Despite Bitcoin’s difficulty reaching an all-time high at 46.84 trillion, participants in bitcoin mining have kept the hashrate running stronger than ever before. According to statistics, on March 23, 2023, the hashrate reached a high of 400…
A Look at the Fed’s Recent Custodia Bank Denial and the Central Bank’s Push Back Against Narrow Banking
[Mar 26, 2023 10:30 PM] Over the past century, the number of American banks has significantly decreased, dropping from 30,000 banks in 1921 to 4,997 U.S. banks in 2021, according to data from the Federal Reserve. Recently, the U.S. central bank denied Custodia Bank of…
Nasdaq Aims to Launch Crypto Custody Services in Second Quarter
[Mar 26, 2023 3:30 AM] Nasdaq intends to launch its custody services for digital assets like bitcoin by the end of this year’s second quarter. The exchange operator is among those traditional financial firms that want to play a role as intermediaries in the crypto…
NFT Sales Drop 5.4% to $193M, Ethereum Dominates with $107M in Sales: Weekly Recap
[Mar 25, 2023 1:30 PM] Over the past week, statistics show non-fungible token (NFT) sales totaled $193.08 million, down 5.44% from the previous week. Ethereum dominated NFT sales with more than $107 million or 55% of all sales, while Solana-centric NFT sales recorded…
Value Locked in Defi Rises Above $50 Billion Mark, Ethereum Dominates TVL by Blockchain
[Mar 22, 2023 2:00 PM] The total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) has risen above the $50 billion mark after falling below the range throughout most of March. At present, the value locked in defi is approximately $50.34 billion, up 1.97% over the past…
Biden Administration’s Economic Report Deems Crypto Assets ‘Mostly Speculative Investment Vehicles’
Crystal Blockchain Study Reveals $16.7 Billion in Crypto Assets Stolen Since 2011
[Mar 21, 2023 2:00 PM] Crystal Blockchain, a company that provides blockchain data and analytics, published a study covering security breaches, fraud, and scams related to cryptocurrency and decentralized finance (defi). According to the study, approximately $16.7…
Bitcoin Network Preps for Another Difficulty Spike as Hashrate Remains Strong and Miners Profit Amid Price Surge
[Mar 21, 2023 10:00 AM] Following the last two difficulty increases on the Bitcoin network, another rise in difficulty is expected to take place on March 24, 2023. Statistics show that Bitcoin’s hashrate has remained high despite the last two adjustments, and block…
Bitcoin Surges by More Than 37% Against US Dollar This Week, Taps $28K on Sunday
[Mar 19, 2023 1:30 PM] Bitcoin reached a high of $28,422 per unit on Sunday at around 3 p.m. Eastern Time as the leading cryptocurrency has continued to rise during the last week. Since last Sunday, bitcoin has increased in value by 37.9% against the U.S. dollar, and the…
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Describes Digital Assets’ Advancement In Annual Shareholder Letter
[Mar 17, 2023 11:38 AM] Billionaire Larry Fink has been keeping an eye on the advancement of digital assets, according to his recent shareholder letter. In an annual shareholder letter sent by BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, Fink described how the digital assets industry has…
Republican Congressman Tom Emmer Queries FDIC on Alleged Efforts to Purge Crypto Activity from US
[Mar 16, 2023 4:00 PM] On Wednesday, Tom Emmer, the U.S. Republican congressman from Minnesota, revealed he sent a letter to Martin Gruenberg, the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), regarding reports that the FDIC is “weaponizing recent…
Digital Assets Worth 2 Billion Rubles Issued in Russia in Less Than a Year
[Mar 16, 2023 8:00 AM] Digital financial assets (DFAs) for a total exceeding $26 million have been issued in Russia in the past year. This new market has been developing since it was regulated in 2021 and the country’s monetary authority started licensing issuers in the…
Bitcoin Becomes 12th Largest Asset Worldwide by Valuation, Surpassing Visa
[Mar 15, 2023 1:30 PM] After dropping below $26,000 per unit, the price of bitcoin, the leading digital asset by market capitalization, is still up 9.6% since last week. However, its price has decreased by 6.5% in the last 24 hours. Out of the 7,316 companies, crypto…
Stablecoin Trading Dominates Monday’s Crypto Market, Tether and BUSD Sell at Premiums
[Mar 13, 2023 1:30 PM] On Monday, the crypto economy experienced significant market activity with $183.85 billion in global trade volume over 24 hours, with a large portion of those trades involving stablecoins. USDC traded near parity with the U.S. dollar, and several…
Bank of Russia Registers Another Digital Asset Issuer
[Mar 12, 2023 11:30 PM] The Central Bank of Russia has added another entity to its register of authorized issuers of digital financial assets. The platform, called ‘Masterchain,’ becomes the fifth ‘information system operator’ in the country that can legally tokenize…
USDC Stablecoin Depegging Causes Concern Among Crypto Advocates, 5 Other Stablecoins Slip Below Parity
[Mar 11, 2023 10:30 AM] On Saturday, March 11, 2023, crypto advocates are concerned as a few stablecoin assets have depegged from their $1 parity. The second-largest stablecoin USDC, issued by Circle Financial, fell below $0.90, reaching a low of $0.877 per coin…