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Weekend Watch: Bitcoin With Another Failed Attempt at $20K

Bitcoin tried its hand at taking down $20,000 yesterday once again, but, just like it happened earlier this week, it was stopped and dropped...


Spanish Telecom Giant Telefonica Embraces Bitcoin Payments

One of the largest telephone operators and mobile network providers in Spain – Telefonica – partnered with the crypto exchange Bit2Me to all...


Bitcoin Mining Company Rhodium Looking to Go Public Via SilverSun Merger

The Texas-based bitcoin mining giant is entering a merger agreement with SilverSun Technologies, a publicly-traded business technology solut...


Philippine Central Bank Thinks Stablecoins Could ‘Revolutionize’ the Payment System

Mhel Plabasan – a top executive at Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (the central bank of the Philippines), said the institution is highly in favo...


Another Win for Ripple: Judge Orders SEC to Hand Over Hinman Speech Documents

New York judge Analisa Torres has ordered the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to turn over internal documents, including emails and...


Kazakhstan Aims to Become a Crypto Hub as 100K Russians Flocked to the Country

The President of Kazakhstan – Kassym-Jomart Tokayev – said the authorities are ready to introduce a mechanism that will allow the converting...


Defying Bear Market Trends, CryptoPunk 2924 Sells for $4.5 Million in ETH

While industry data suggest a steep decline in NFT sales, there are quite a few individual ones that indicate the interest in such assets is...


Bitcoin Reclaims $19K, Terra Classic (LUNC) Jumps 7% (Market Watch)

Following yesterday’s enhanced volatility in which bitcoin slumped by over $1,500 in hours, the asset has bounced off and jumped above $19,0...


A Month After the CEO, Another Genesis Executive Steps Down

Following the exit of Michael Moro as the CEO of Genesis Global Trading, the crypto brokerage firm’s co-head of sales and trading is also st...


Pantera Capital to Launch a $1.25 Billion Blockchain Fund

The American asset manager that specializes in cryptocurrencies – Pantera Capital – is looking to raise $1.25 billion for its second blockch...


Circle Expands USDC To 5 New Blockchains After Being Delisted From Binance

Circle is expanding its reach into other blockchains to maintain its influence in the crypto market after Binance and WazirX delisted its st...


Crypto Lender Nexo Acquires Stake in US Chartered Bank

Leading cryptocurrency lender Nexo has acquired a stake in Hulett Bancorp (DBA Mode Eleven) and its subsidiary federally chartered bank Summ...


Crypto Regulation Remains an Urgent Policy, Despite Bear Market: ECB’s Villeroy

Francois Villeroy de Galhau – a member of the European Central Bank and Governor of Banque de France – thinks the diminishing interest in cr...


Bitcoin Dumped Sharply After Retesting $20K: Crypto Markets Shed $60B (Market Watch)

The price of bitcoin headed straight south after briefly exceeding $20,000 on the highest trading volumes recorded for the past several mont...


Sushi Deploys to Kava, Debuting Major UI Overhaul

[PRESS RELEASE – San Francisco, United States, 28th September 2022] Sushi completes deployment to the Kava blockchain with a liquidity pool...


Binance Launches Training Program For Law Enforcement Agencies

For several years now, Binance has played an important role as the big brother of the crypto industry by assisting in the recovery of funds ...


FTX US President Brett Harrison Steps Down

Brett Harrison, President of the United States subsidiary of major cryptocurrency exchange FTX, is leaving his leadership position but will ...


$160M Wintermute Security Exploit Could Have Been an Insider Job: Report

The leading crypto market maker, Wintermute, suffered a $160 million breach in its decentralized finance operations last week. On-chain data...


Terra’s Do Kwon Claims He Is Not Hiding Again, Even After Interpol’s Red Notice

Do Kwon – the notorious Co-Founder of Terraform Labs – said he is “making zero effort to hide” from authorities. His statement comes shortl...


DeFiChain’s DFI Token Starts Trading on the Gate Io Exchange

[PRESS RELEASE – Singapore, Singapore, 26th September 2022] DeFiChain , the world’s leading blockchain on the Bitcoin network dedicated to ...


California Regulators Order Nexo to Stop Crypto Interest Accounts

Cryptocurrency lender Nexo has come under fire from California regulators and seven other US state securities watchdogs for its unregistered...


Alcala Resumes Operations After Printing Over $3 Billion in Stablecoins by Mistake

Some blockchain projects have to deal with hackers, and others, like Alcala, have to deal with their own developers. A “human error” a few w...


Australia Released an Official White Paper of its CBDC

The Reserve Bank (the central banking institution of Australia) collaborated with the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre (DFCRC) to...