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The number of crypto hodlers in Canada dropped slightly in 2023, but the average value of their holdings rose significantly. However, 77% of respondents regret investing in crypto assets, according to a survey published by the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC).The OSC published a “C ...

Binance’s $4.3 billion settlement with the United States justice department is being hailed as a positive move for the company and the wider cryptocurrency industry, according to Galaxy Digital’s Mike Novogratz.In an interview with Bloomberg on Nov. 29, the CEO of the cryptocurrency i ...

Forex liquidity and currency swaps are hard to access for many in Africa, which limits the use of dollar-based services in the continent’s import-dependent economy. This creates a vacuum that decentralized finance could solve, leveraging cryptocurrencies, blockchain networks and services (DApps), ...

A recent public consultation on Canada’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) initiative revealed an overall negative sentiment from Canadians, confirming the Bank of Canada’s concerns around its country-wide adoption.Through the ‘digital Canadian dollar public consultation,’ the Canadian ...

An upcoming ‘scams code framework’ proposed by Australia’s Department of the Treasury considers applying sector-specific codes and standards to banking and cryptocurrency scams, among others.Adding to the efforts of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), a regulator wit ...

More than three-quarters of all blockchain games launched in the last five years are dead in the water, according to a recent study from CoinGecko.Out of 2,817 games launched between 2018 and 2023, which were included in the study, only 690 of them still have a somewhat active player base. ...

Issuance of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) requires adequate attention to security, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) reminded central bankers in a report on Nov. 29. An integrated risk-management framework should be in place starting at the research stage, and security should ...

Charlie Shrem went from running a small online business to becoming a Bitcoin millionaire and making the cover of Forbes magazine. And then, he went to prison.In the latest episode of Cointelegraph’s Crypto Stories, Shrem tells the story of how he founded BitInstant, grew it into a multimi ...

Cross-chain protocol Wormhole has secured a $225 million investment at a valuation of $2.5 billion.According to the Nov. 29 announcement, the investment round was led by Brevan Howard, Coinbase Ventures, Multicoin Capital, Jump Trading, ParaFi, Dialectic, Borderless Capital, and Arrington ...

The open-source blockchain developer IOTA announced on Nov. 29 that it is launching a foundation, the IOTA Ecosystem DLT Foundation, based in Abu Dhabi to focus on the growth of its distributed ledger technology (DLT) in the Middle East region. According to the announcement, the new founda ...

The means by which humans communicate and coordinate are ever-evolving. People went from sending smoke signals and messengers on horseback to sending letters and telegrams, and since the dawn of the digital era, the pace of innovation has exploded.Today, hundreds or even thousands of peopl ...

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Hub has presented the final report on its “private CBDC” initiative, Project Tourbillon. The prototypes, built in the project’s framework, could allow payment anonymity for central bank digital currency transactions.The 46-page report ...

As companies continue to fall for hacks and exploits, professionals working in the cybersecurity space chipped in on what can be improved in terms of crypto security for digital asset companies and the broader crypto industry. Before September, almost $1 billion had already been lost ...

Legendary investor and billionaire Charlie Munger, known as the right-hand man of Warren Buffet who helped build investment powerhouse Berkshire Hathaway, has passed away at 99 years of age.Munger’s family informed Berkshire “that he peacefully died this morning at a California hospital,” ...

Amazon has launched its own artificial intelligence-powered assistant built for business, “Amazon Q.” The AI chatbot can be used to have conversations, solve problems, generate content, gain insights and connect with a company’s information repositories, code, data and en ...

Multi-party computation (MPC) wallet provider Fireblocks has released a new trading system for institutions that use centralized exchanges, according to a Nov. 28 announcement. Called “Off Exchange,” the new system allows institutional traders to swap tokens without first depositing t ...

Interactive Brokers, one of the largest brokerage firms in the world, has opened crypto trading for retail clients in Hong Kong.According to the Nov28 announcement, the service is offered in conjunction with OSL, one of the first crypto exchanges to receive a Virtual Asset Service Provider ...

Blockchain technology, with its complexity, often pushes people away instead of drawing them in. The Stellar Development Foundation, a nonprofit foundation that supports the Stellar blockchain, is leading the way to making this technology user and developer-friendly with real-world solutio ...

Web3 investment firm Animoca Brands is set to become the largest validator of Telegram’s TON (The Open Network) blockchain and plans to deliver blockchain-based games to the messaging app’s 800 million strong user base.An announcement shared with Cointelegraph outlined how the partnership ...

Executives of banking giants JPMorgan Chase and Apollo revealed plans for a tokenized ‘enterprise mainnet’ formed during a collaboration on the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) Project Guardian pilot project. On Nov. 15, the MAS introduced five additional industry pilots to Pro ...

Spanish residents holding any crypto assets on non-Spanish platforms will have to declare them by March 31, 2024, under new laws governing the taxation of virtual assets. The Spanish Tax Administration Agency, commonly known as Agencia Tributaria, has published form 721, a tax de ...

The explosive growth and success of Binance outside of the control of traditional financial and political establishments led to heavy-handed enforcement actions against the exchange, according to former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes. Hayes delved into the recent $4.3 billion settlement paid ...

Super-advanced artificial intelligence, left unchecked, has a “serious chance” of surpassing humans to become the next “apex species” of the planet, according Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. But that will boil down to how humans potentially intervene with AI de ...

The Web3 ecosystem might have weathered a dry year during 2023 in terms of venture capital (VC) funding, but it surely had its highlights with many bountiful investments across a wide range of niches.The most recent data indicates that Web3 startups have raised around $6 billion so ...

Last week, the legal drama featuring the world’s largest crypto exchange and United States law enforcement ended with a plea deal. Binance and Changpeng “CZ” Zhao have admitted violating U.S. Anti-Money Laundering laws, agreeing to pay $4.3 billion in fines. CZ resigned as CEO of Binance as part ...

Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded products (ETPs) registered $312 million in inflows for the week of Nov. 24, bringing year-to-date inflows to around $1.5 billion, according to CoinShares. The weekly inflows for all cryptocurrencies totalled $346 million, continuing a nine-week trend of positive ...

Web3 game developers have been battling to gain the attention of mainstream audiences for years, and according to three former gaming executives, that market is essential for the industry’s future. Video games have become a favorite pastime for a lot of people all over the world and h ...

Cryptocurrency exchange and Web3 developer OKX announced the expansion of its services for users in the Brazilian market with a local crypto exchange and Web3 wallet platform. On Nov. 27, the company said it is focusing on providing a gateway to decentralized finance (DeFi) and c ...

Robert Kiyosaki, the author of the personal finance book Rich Dad Poor Dad, has reiterated his support for assets like Bitcoin (BTC), gold, and silver as inflation threatens to worsen living standards globally.The price of gold recently crossed $2,000 per ounce, marking a steady recovery a ...

Circle, the stablecoin issuer behind USD Coin (USDC), is teaming up with Tokyo-based financial services firm SBI Holdings to boost the adoption of USDC and Web3 services in Japan.Circle said it concluded a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with SBI Holdings on Nov. 27, which will underpin ...

Developers working on the Bitcoin layer 2 Lightning Network have become less security-oriented and more focused on producing cash flow for their investors, argues a former Lightning Network developer.Bitcoin core developer and security researcher Antoine Riard, made headlines last mon ...

Investment managers in the United Kingdom are receiving regulatory support to leverage blockchain technology for the tokenization of funds, breaking away from conventional record-keeping systems.In a recent report published by the Investment Association (IA), it outlined the rapid mov ...

The film industry has been suggested by many as one of the next frontiers of Web3 and blockchain technology. With movies historically funded by wealthy investors or centralized production companies, blockchain offers a unique set of tools to decentralize the investment process. Filmmakers can lau ...

The metaverse has the potential to revolutionize how businesses promote themselves, communicate with their clients, and build economies. By creating immersive 3D experiences, companies and organizations can develop interactive user stories and experiences that foster engagement, monetizati ...

Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority (HKKA) is planning to tackle a notable rise of two superbugs, vancomycin-resistant enterococci and Candida auris, with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). According to a South China Morning Post report from Nov. 24, citing the HKKA, the increase in ...

Numerous users of the crypto analytics platform Nansen have received phishing emails from scammers pitching an “exclusive opportunity” to participate in the fictitious “Nansen Airdrop.”On Nov. 23, crypto community members on X (formerly Twitter) flagged an ongoing p ...

Netherlands-based cryptocurrency exchange Bitvavo is set to expand its services to French users after successfully registering as a digital asset service provider with France’s Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF).The expansion into France comes just weeks after Bitvavo secured regulatory ...

The Austrian subsidiary of European lender Raiffeisen Bank is preparing to allow its clients to trade cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) in the coming months.After initially announcing its crypto plans in April 2023, Raiffeisen Bank’s Raiffeisenlandesbank Niederösterreich-Wien (RLB NÖ-Wie ...

In response to the feedback received on its proposed Digital Payment Token (DPT) regulations, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) laid down measures for DPT service providers to discourage speculation in cryptocurrency investments.The de-facto central bank of Singapore, MAS, announce ...

President-elect of Argentina Javier Milei ran on a promise of economic change. The shape of the transformation will only become known after his inauguration on Dec. 10, but stablecoins will play an important role in Argentinians’ financial lives no matter what happens, Ripio CEO Sebasti&aac ...

“I literally had two coffees and a beer, and I had this eureka moment at four in the morning," Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko recalls as he leans back thoughtfully. Speaking to Cointelegraph at the annual Breakpoint conference in Amsterdam, the co-founder recounts a late nig ...

The conventional wisdom of the cryptoverse is that there is a boom-and-bust cycle to the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry. This cycle is led by the “King of Cryptos,” Bitcoin. Bitcoin (BTC) is programmatically set to have a halving cycle roughly every four years, which cuts the ...

After a long and dramatic presidential race, libertarian candidate Javier Milei triumphed in Argentina’s presidential election on Nov. 19.Milei promises to abolish the country’s central bank, among a slew of other radical policy changes capturing the attention and imagination o ...

The Singaporean crypto-fiat payment gateway, Alchemy Pay, announced a further expansion into the United States market on Nov. 23 with the acquisition of its money services license in the state of Iowa. According to local state regulations, any entity or individual engaged in currency ...

The collapse of FTX in 2022 and Binance’s recent $4.3 billion settlement with U.S. authorities provide a strong argument for the provisions of the European Union’s markets in crypto-assets (MiCA) legislation, a European Commission official said in an interview.Ivan Keller, policy officer f ...

The Bank of Korea (BOK) — South Korea’s central bank — has said it will invite 100,000 Korean citizens to purchase goods with deposit tokens as part of its central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot. The testing will start “around September to October” of 2024 and last for three months.  ...

The city of Lugano, the economic capital of Italian-speaking southern Switzerland, will integrate the Polygon proof-of-stake (PoS) protocol into its crypto-friendly payment app, MyLugano. According to the announcement on Polygon Labs’ website from Nov. 22, the updated version of MyLug ...

Binance’s $4.3 billion settlement with the United States was the final hurdle before the country’s securities regulator approves spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), many industry watchers claim.The settlement involved Binance agreeing to Justice Department and Treasury c ...

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao's (CZ) departure from the platform he founded and the company's guilty plea in a staggering $4.3 billion settlement with the United States Department of Justice have sent shockwaves through the cryptocurrency world. This development poses a crucial question: Is it a har ...

The Dutch city of Amsterdam — no stranger to international conferences dedicated to cryptocurrencies, blockchain and decentralization — was recently host to the Network State Conference, which explored decentralization at an entirely different level. Conference speakers and attendees ...

HyperCycle is a decentralized network that connects AI machines to make them smarter and more profitable. It enables companies of all sizes to participate in the emerging AI computing economy.Artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly evolving field that seems likely to fall into the ...

Belgium plans to accelerate the development of a European blockchain infrastructure during its presidency of the EU Council in early 2024, according to the goveernm. The proposal aims to facilitate the secure storage of official documents like driving licenses and property titles. The ...

Just two days after Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella hired former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to lead a new advanced AI research team, OpenAI backtracked on its decision to let go tOn Nov. 22, OpenAI announced a new agreement that would see the return of Altman as the company CEO. The company co ...

CoinList founder Andy Bromberg believes that spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are just “watered down crypto” and a sign the industry is heading in the wrong direction, amid growing hype over potential ETF approvals in the United States.Bromberg — also CEO o ...

A wave of optimism around the potential approval of a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the United States has ignited bullish price action in the crypto market in recent weeks. But that could be just the beginning: If a spot Bitcoin ETF receives a greenlight by the U.S. Secur ...

A mix of highly influential and controversial entrepreneurs make up the latest list of the ten most popular crypto entrepreneurs based on their social media presence, with Binance CEO Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao leading the pack in first place and convicted fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried trailing& ...

What are utility NFTs and how do they work?How do utility NFTs relate to agriculture?What problems do NFTs solve in agriculture?How can utility NFTs benefit farmers and consumers in the agricultural sector?What concerns or risks should the agricultural ...

Proprietary trading system operator Osaka Digital Exchange (ODX) is set to kickstart the trading of digital securities in Japan through security tokens issued by two real-estate firms to fill the demand for alternative assets. In an announcement, ODX said that its trading system for s ...

As zero-knowledge (ZK) technology marches its way toward solving mainstream use cases, the community backing the disruptive tech continues to grow stronger. Over 1,200 ZK developers, community members and enthusiasts, including Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, attended the latest zkDay I ...

Global cryptocurrency exchange-traded products (ETP) have seen a significant uptick in 2023, reportedly outpacing the growth of underlying assets, according to a report by digital asset platform Fineqia.Crypto-based ETPs issued by companies like 21Shares, Grayscale and CoinShares recorded ...

Next year’s most successful Web3 games will pivot from play-to-earn (P2E) to instead focus on being completely free-to-play to dr in players, says Yield Guild Games CEO and co-founder Gabby Dizon. Speaking to Cointelegraph, Dizon said unlike games such as Axie Infinity — w ...

The company behind Atomic Wallet has asked a United States court to dismiss a class action suit seeking damages from a $100 million hack arguing the claims should’ve been filed in Estonia where it's based.In a Nov. 16 dismissal motion in a Colorado District Court the Estonian firm argued i ...

Cryptocurrencies are digital-only assets that investors can delegate custody to a third party, such as an exchange, store in hot wallets, or rely on their own hardware wallets. Security concerns with online solutions and third-party risks (not your keys, not your coins) have increased the need fo ...

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.A new DeFi report has highlighted that a significant amount of crypto lost to exploits was due to tradi ...

Fourteen Ukrainian officials received advanced training on investigating new-age financial crimes in a training course held from Nov. 14 to Nov. 17 in Vienna.According to a report released by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSEC), the select supervisory and l ...

With more than a month left before the end of 2023, the United States crypto industry has already spent $20 million on lobbying efforts. In the last year, the total sum stood at $22.2 million. According to the CoinGecko report, published on Nov. 14, the U.S. crypto lobby has spent $20 ...

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service — Canada’s primary national intelligence agency — raised concerns about the disinformation campaigns conducted across the internet using artificial intelligence (AI) deepfakes. Canada sees the growing “realism of deepf ...

A pilot program for a live Singapore dollar-based central bank digital currency (CBDC) was unveiled by Singapore’s central bank with a wholesale CBDC to be used by local banks for settlements. “I am pleased to announce that MAS will pilot the ‘live’ issuance of wholesale CBDCs to inst ...

European digital asset management firm CoinShares secured the exclusive option to acquire the exchange-traded fund (ETF) unit of its United States competitor Valkyrie Investments, including the Valkyrie Bitcoin Fund that’s awaiting approval in the U.S.CoinShares said on Nov. 17 that ...

The crypto industry should focus on building blockchain-based solutions everybody can benefit from instead of launching cash grabs for brands, says Amy Peck, CEO of tech-focused consulting firm EndeavourXR.Peck told Cointelegraph at the Lisbon Web Summit that Web3 firms should be build-fir ...

Cryptocurrency may be "out of fashion", but it still draws new users to Web3 every day, in particular in emerging markets such as Brazil, according to Bitcoin maximalist José Ribeiro, CEO of crypto exchange Coinext. During the Web Summit in Lisbon, Ribeiro discussed with Cointelegraph ...

Understanding the difference between the front and back end is crucial with Web3 technology. The term “front end” describes the portion of Web3 applications that consumers interact with directly. This includes the technology’s user-facing side, websites and decentralized applications (DApps).&nbs ...

The European Union has been actively preparing for what it envisions as the future of money. Over the last year, it finalized its landmark comprehensive crypto legislation, the Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation (MiCA), which is due to take effect in 2024, after closing its second consultat ...

As decentralized finance grows in popularity, many wonder what the future holds for traditional finance (TradFi). In episode 37 of Cointelegraph’s Hashing It Out podcast, Elisha Owusu Akyaw talks to Sarah Clark, the CEO of E-Gates, about how TradFi plans to compete and collaborate with the W ...

BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, officially filed for a spot Ether Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Nov. 15.The move by BlackRock comes nearly a week after it registered the iShares Ethereum Trust with the Delaw ...

Ferrari’s decision to allow U.S. residents to buy its cars in exchange for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) has become one of the biggest market wins in 2023, according to the CEO of the Bitcoin ATM operator CoinFlip.Ferrari has been aware of the growing demand from clients for alternat ...

Binance will publicly roll out a Thailand-based crypto exchange in early 2024 via a joint venture with local energy giant Gulf Energy Development.A Nov. 15 Stock Exchange of Thailand filing by Gulf Energy said the venture, called Gulf Binance, will initially be available on an invitation-o ...

Grayscale Investments is using its Ether (ETH) futures exchange-traded fund (ETF) application as a “trojan horse” to corner the United States Securities and Exchange Commission into approving its spot Ether ETF, says Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart.Seyffart said in a Nov. ...

Generative art is proving Web3’s creative anchor in the traditional art world. Last month, New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) made headlines by acquiring Refik Anadol’s “Unsupervised — Machine Hallucinations” (2022) alongside an edition from last year’s “3FACE” project by Ian Cheng. These two ...

Microsoft, Tencent and 16 other Web2 giants have partnered with Consensys on its mission to decentralize the Infura network — the key point of access to Ethereum for much of the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector.The partnerships aim to increase decentralization on the Infura networ ...

Web3, blockchain, crypto and mass adoption were major buzzwords in 2021 and 2022, but the public interest in the terms fell to the wayside over the last year as media headlines narrowed their focus to the now defunct FTX exchange and the trial of its founder, Sam Bankman-Fried. Fast-f ...

The chairman of Kazakhstan’s National Payment Corporation (NPC), Binur Zhalenov, has made the first transaction with the central bank digital currency (CBDC). During his speech at the XI Congress of Finance in Almaty on Nov. 15, he paid with a debit card tied to the CBDC account, according t ...

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has introduced five additional industry pilots into the Project Guardian to test various use cases around asset tokenization. Project Guardian is a collaborative initiative led by Singapore’s central bank that seeks to develop new financial in ...

Hong Kong-founded institutional cryptocurrency asset custodian Hex Trust has been given the green light to offer virtual asset custodial services to institutional clients and investors in Dubai.The firm, which established an office in the city in June 2022, received a full virtual asset se ...

Crypto exchange OKX has partnered with custody provider Komainu and asset manager CoinShares to facilitate round-the-clock trading of segregated assets to push institutional adoption of digital assets forward.According to OKX, CoinShares will trade on the OKX exchange, while Komainu, a thi ...

Plasma, a once-prominent Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution, should be revisited by teams currently working on zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machines (EVMs), says Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.Invented in 2017, Plasma diverts data and computation — except deposits, withdrawals ...

Crypto exchange and wallet provider Blockchain.com closed a $110 million Series E financing round, an investment that more than halves its previous 2022 valuation of $14 billion.In a Nov. 14 blog post, Blockchain.com said the closing of its Series E round was led by the United Kingdom-base ...

Uniswap Labs has publicly released an Andriod mobile wallet app with built-in swap capability on the Google Play store.The new app allows users to make swaps through the decentralized exchange (DEX) from within the app, eliminating the need for a separate web browser extension, Uniswap Lab ...

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Venture capital firm Animoca Brands will put its weight behind fan token blockchain Chiliz Chain as it joins the network as a validator within its proof-of-stake authority protocol.Chiliz Chain is the backbone of Socios.com, the platform that operates a plethora of fan tokens for some of t ...

ReadON brings high-quality content to Web3 by providing a seamless and user-friendly experience, helping projects build stronger relationships with their users and driving the adoption of decentralization.While Web3 holds the promise of mitigating the drawbacks of Web2, its adoption ...

Cryptocurrencies are the second most popular type of asset for investments among the adult French population, according to a survey by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and published by France’s principal financial regulator, the Financial Markets Authority (AMF, o ...

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has issued guidance on capital gains tax (CGT) treatment of decentralized finance (DeFi) and wrapping crypto tokens for individuals, clarifying its intent to continue taxing Australians on capital gains when wrapping and unwrapping tokens.In May 2022, t ...

Crypto exchange Crypto.com’s Dubai entity was granted a Virtual Assets Service Provider (VASP) license by the city’s regulator, pending operational approval.In a Nov. 14 press release, Crypto.com said that once fully approved by Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority ...

Ethereum account abstraction advocate John Rising has shared some “sobering” numbers showing overall ERC-4437 adoption has been far from ideal. In a Nov. 14 post on X (formerly Twitter), Rising shared data points that showed ERC-4337-enabled smart accounts suffered a decli ...

A BlackRock filing suggesting the asset manager was creating an XRP (XRP) exchange-traded product caused a 12% spike in XRP, which it quickly lost after the filing was confirmed as fake.The saga lasted an hour late on Nov. 14 as X (Twitter) users picked up on a Delaware filing showing Blac ...

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) could approve all 12 pending spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) applications by Nov. 17. Beginning on Nov. 9, the SEC reportedly has a “window” to approve all 12 spot Bitcoin ETF filings, including Grayscale Investments conversion of ...

The United States Financial Services Committee (FSC) has scheduled a Nov. 15 hearing for a deep dive into the illicit activities in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. The hearing, ‘Crypto crime in context: breaking down the illicit activity in digital assets,’ will feature prominent ...

A new phishing scam has emerged in China that uses a fake Skype video app to target crypto usersAs per a report by crypto security analytic firm SlowMist, the Chinese hackers behind the phishing scam used China’s ban on international applications as the basis of their scam, as several main ...

The Bitcoin (BTC) mining community recorded its annual all-time high (ATH) on Nov. 12 after raking in over $44 million in block rewards and transaction fees. The revenue from Bitcoin mining primarily comes from rewards for confirming Bitcoin transactions and creating new blocks using ...

Native asset settlement protocol THORChain has recorded the third-largest trading volume among non-centralized exchanges in the last week with users seemingly attracted to the high yield offered adjacent to its native token Rune (RUNE).Over the last week, THORChain’s trading volume h ...

Crypto exchange Bithumb plans to become the first digital asset company to go public on the South Korean stock market. Local news outlet Edaily reported on Nov. 12 that Bithumb is getting ready for an initial public offering (IPO) on the KOSDAQ — South Korea’s version of the United St ...

The number of crypto wallet addresses holding more than $1 million in Bitcoin (BTC) has more than tripled this year. BitInfoCharts data shows the number of addresses with more than $1 million in BTC increased from 23,795 on Jan. 1 to 81,925 currently, a 237% increase in the last 11 mo ...

Several former FTX executives have teamed up to help build a new cryptocurrency exchange in Dubai with a specific focus on what FTX failed to do — secure customer funds.Ex-FTX lawyer Can Sun is leading the way with Trek Labs, a Dubai-based startup that received a license to offer cry ...

Multinational banking firm JPMorgan has rolled out a programmable payment feature for institutional users of its private blockchain platform JPM Coin.Naveen Mallela, who heads up JP Morgan’s bank-led blockchain platform Onyx, shared details of the new functionality on LinkedIn via an initi ...

Galaxy Digital founder Mike Novogratz has told investors that 2024 will be headlined by institutional adoption of cryptocurrencies driven by the pending approval of Bitcoin (BTC) spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs).During Galaxy Digital’s third-quarter earnings call on Nov. 9, Novogratz ...

The latest Cointelegraph AMA, live on October 25, 2023, covered the journey of XBTO, a comprehensive platform for digital assets and tailored investment solutions catered to sophisticated non-US investors and institutions.. The special guest invited to talk about XBTO’s journey, impa ...

On Nov. 8, the first-of-its-kind Institute of Crypto-Assets held a formal opening at the Léonard de Vinci center in the business district just outside of Paris. The Institute will support and conduct research related to blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. Its scientific board ...

The Turkish Lira (TRY) became the most dominant fiat trading pair on Binance in the month of September, according to the crypto exchange’s research.Turkish Lira accounted for 75% of all fiat volume in early September despite being the fourth-largest crypto market globally in terms of trans ...

Binance’s dominance of Bitcoin futures open interest has been toppled by traditional derivatives market place heavyweight Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), following Bitcoin’s first move past the $37,000 mark in over 18 months.A number of analysts highlighted the ‘flippe ...

The frontman of the popular virtual universe game Roblox, David Baszucki, has said he ‘dreams’ of having the ability to move nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and digital objects across multiple platforms. Following the company's Q3 2023 earnings call, Roblox founder and CEO ...

Hong Kong is “very ready” for the next wave of mass crypto adoption, with an influx of crypto talent that has been spilling into the aspiring digital asset hub, says Jupiter Zheng, a partner at Hashkey Capital. Speaking to Cointelegraph, Zheng, partner of liquid funds and ...

A recent spike in transaction fees on Ethereum and Bitcoin appears to have reignited the debate around solutions for scalability and the role of layer 2s.Over the last 24 hours, cryptocurrency users began sharing screenshots showing double, occasionally triple-digit transaction fees on Eth ...

Blackrock’s plans for a spot Ethereum exchange-traded fund (ETF) has now been confirmed, per a 19b-4 form filing submitted to the United States Securities and Exhange Commission on Nov. 9.Nasdaq filed the 19b-4 form to securities regulator on behalf of the $9 trillion asset managemen ...

The growth of social media has made it possible for everyone to become a content creator. And while the creator economy grew, incentives to become part of it continued to diminish. Since the $100 billion market is dominated by a handful of centralized platforms, creators hardly ever see a fair co ...

As the race between Ethereum layer-2 networks heats up, users are left with questions about each network’s unique nature, use cases and plan for attracting more users to Web3. In Episode 36 of Hashing It Out, Elisha Owusu Akyaw (GhCryptoGuy) discusses app-specific rollup protocols with Cartesi co ...

The Proof of Stake Alliance (POSA), a non-profit organization that represents firms in the crypto staking industry, published an updated version of its “staking principles” on Nov. 9. The new principles are supported by Ava Labs, Alluvial, Coinbase, Lido Protocol, Paradigm, and ten other staking ...

Bitcoin (BTC) briefly surpassed the $37,000 mark for the first time in 18 months as the wider markets reflect optimism over the pending approval of spot BTC exchange-traded funds in the United States.Data from a number of cryptocurrency market platforms, including Cointelegraph Markets Pro ...

Deutsche Börse AG, the German stock exchange headquartered in Frankfurt, has included crypto in its strategic priorities for the next few years. According to the strategic report “Horizont 2026”, published on Nov. 7, Deutsche Börse seeks “an expansion of the leading position in the ar ...

The annual report from India’s Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) revealed that officials from various cybercrime and police departments were trained in cryptocurrency forensics and investigation during the financial year 2022-23.The MHA, or the Home Ministry, highlighted that under the Narcot ...

SC Ventures, the fintech investment arm of the British bank Standard Chartered, will establish a Digital Asset Joint Venture investment company in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in partnership with a Japanese financial conglomerate, SBI Holdings. In the press release from Nov. 9, Alex ...

Decentralized artificial intelligence (AI) network Ritual came out of stealth mode to announce a $25 million Series A financing for the company, led by Archetype. The company offers an AI-powered infrastructure that aims to execute complex logic currently infeasible for smart contracts.Whi ...

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission could approve all 12 of the pending spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange traded fund (ETF) applications within the next eight days. Bloomberg ETF analysts James Seyffart and Eric Balchunas wrote that starting from Nov. 9 the SEC has a &ldquo ...

The Progmat Coin ecosystem is taking shape in Japan. With a market maker, wallet provider and cryptocurrency exchanges on board, Progmat and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) hope to launch two stablecoins in the summer of 2024.Stablecoin platform Progmat Coin, MUFG and wallet provider ...

Cryptocurrency enthusiasts often argue that businesses need to start accepting crypto as payments for adoption to grow — boosting usability and potentially creating strong demand for these currencies.Some crypto communities often focus heavily on growing business adoption, with maps now co ...

So much of the world’s economic steam depends on interest rates, which in turn are tied to inflation, i.e., the rate at which producer and consumer prices are rising. But measuring inflation isn’t easy. It is as much art as it is science. The world’s number one inflation index, ...

Blockchain-based game Illuvium is set to tap into an audience of millions of PC and mobile gamers with its upcoming listing on Epic Games Store, which is home to massively popular titles like Fortnite.Illuvium, an interoperable blockchain game developed by Illuvium Labs, will feature on Ep ...

While the prevailing traditional financing models resulted in the crypto and blockchain sector raising billions of dollars over the years, they are not without weaknesses, according to Project Catalyst’s group product manager.At the recent Cardano Summit in Dubai, Kriss Baird, the pr ...

Central banks have a responsibility not only to keep pace with the digital age but to lead innovation, Agustín Carstens, General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), believes. In his opening remarks at the conference in Basel on Nov. 8, Carstens called the central ...

Blockchain technology is having a tangible positive influence on environmental stewardship through innovative projects that are retiring carbon credits, generating staking yields to support ecological initiatives and incentivizing communities to monitor and protect natural resources.Cointe ...

Athena Bitcoin, the company operating a state-owned chain of crypto ATMs in El Salvador, plans to integrate the Lightning Network into 100 of these machines in the next couple of months.According to the press release from Nov. 7, Athena Bitcoin Global and Genesis Coin Inc. have already ena ...

Crypto exchange Binance announced the launch of its new Web3 wallet at the Binance Blockchain Week conference in Istanbul, to be made available to all users via the Binance mobile app.During the launch, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, CEO of Binance, revealed the intent behind launching the service: ...

USD Coin (USDC) issuer Circle is contemplating an initial public offering (IPO) in early 2024, according to Bloomberg.A Nov. 7 Bloomberg report citing people with knowledge of the matter said the stablecoin issuer is talking to its advisers about the move but there’s no certainty the ...

A new crypto-lending platform dubbed Tokenet says it will service what it expects to be an influx of institutional clients following the potential United States approval of spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange traded fund (ETF). The platform was launched by a team of executives who previously ...

Bitcoin (BTC) mining heavyweights Marathon Digital and Riot Platforms are among the most overvalued crypto mining companies relative to their competitors, says MinerMetrics founder and analyst Jaran Mellerud.The key metric backing Mellerud's claim is enterprise value-to-sales ratio — measu ...

Ordinals, a BRC-20 token collection minted on the Bitcoin blockchain, have surged by 40.8% in the past 24 hours to $10.19 after listing on crypto exchange Binance.According to Binance's Nov. 7 announcement, traders can now trade Ordinals (ORDI) against Tether (USDT), Bitcoin (BTC), an ...

Lawyers handling the FTX bankruptcy case are considering offers that could eventually lead to a relaunch of the troubled exchange.At an Oct. 24 hearing of the United States Bankruptcy Court in the District of Delaware, Kevin Cofsky of Perella Weinberg Partners revealed he is negotiating wi ...

Fiat payment rails and neobanking services are becoming a vital cog in driving mainstream adoption and acceptance of the wider cryptocurrency space, according to key industry figures at the intersection of traditional finance and Web3.Executives from OpenPayd, Ramp Network and Damex unpack ...

Fiat payment rails and neobanking services are becoming a vital cog in driving mainstream adoption and acceptance of the wider cryptocurrency space, according to key industry figures at the intersection of traditional finance and Web3.Executives from OpenPayd, Ramp Network and Damex unpack ...

South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom (SKT) announced plans to launch a Web3 wallet service, T wallet, in partnership with layer 1 mainnet Aptos Labs and Atomrigs Lab.SK Telecom’s vision to launch a blockchain wallet for cryptocurrencies and nonfungible tokens (NFTs) dates back to Ju ...

The Simpsons roasts NFTs in new Halloween episodeAnimated television series The Simpsons spent an entire segment mocking nonfungible tokens (NFTs) during the latest 34th annual Treehouse of Horror Halloween special, in a segment called “Wild Barts Can’t Be Token.” ...

Former FTX CEO Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried’s public trial in a New York court ended with the jury finding him guilty on all seven charges on Nov. 3, including two counts of wire fraud, two counts of wire fraud conspiracy, one count of securities fraud, one count of commodities fraud conspiracy and on ...

The Financial Services Commission (FSC) of Mauritius started collecting feedback from industry stakeholders and the general public regarding the inclusion of metaverse within the financial services industry.The FSC Mauritius dedicated the entire month of November to amass comments on the s ...

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) of Hong Kong laid down the business requirements for offering tokenized securities and other investment products in a circular released Nov. 2.The market demand in Hong Kong for tokenized investment products combined with the various benefits of ...

The metaverse may no longer have mainstream appeal to some global tech leaders compared to two years ago. However, weaknesses in the testing of the various investments and initiatives in the emerging technology may have resulted in some of them failing.On the sidelines of the recent Cardan ...

DZ Bank AG, the third largest bank in Germany by asset size, has launched its own digital assets custody platform built on blockchain. According to an announcement published on Nov. 2, the platform will work with institutional clients, offering them crypto securities, such as the crypto bond from ...

An upcoming Bitcoin (BTC) hashrate-backed product that could offer 10% to 13% returns shouldn’t be compared to failed products by BlockFi or Celsius as its returns come from proof-of-work, not “ponzi schemes,” claims the product’s creator Bitcoin mining firm Luxor Technolo ...

Elon Musk and his artificial intelligence startup xAI have released “Grok” — an AI chatbot which can supposedly outperform OpenAI’s first iteration of ChatGPT in several academic tests.The motivation behind building Gruk is to create AI tools equipped to assist huma ...

The United States Federal Reserve has sent a cease-and-desist letter to crypto media publication Bitcoin Magazine, accusing it of trademark violations, according to a Nov. 3 post from the publication. Bitcoin Magazine claims it is being targeted because of its use of the word “FedNow” ...

Web3 tools powered by layer-1 blockchain Solana are driving tangible returns and delivering deep customer data insights, according to prominent mainstream brands and companies that attended Solana Breakpoint.The four day conference hosted in Amsterdam in 2023 attracted a wide variety of bu ...

Web3 has been gaining ground in mainstream industries with the rise of Web3 business models based around nonfungible tokens (NFTs), blockchain technology and crypto. But it’s still an open question whether it’s actually improving mainstream industry and products. According ...

The Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement (J5), a global anti-tax fraud group, hosted investigators, cryptocurrency experts and data scientists in “The Cyber Challenge” event to track down individuals and organizations committing tax fraud.The J5 members comprise the criminal intelligence ...

The National Bank of Georgia (NBG) has selected Ripple Labs Inc., a leading blockchain payments platform, as the official technology partner for developing Digital Lari, their central bank digital currency (CBDC) project.Ripple said in a  statement that the partnership will ...

Individual creators and brands will ultimately determine the future of the metaverse, as opposed to any centralized entity, according to the co-founders of The Sandbox.On Nov. 3, the team behind the Ethereum-based metaverse launched The Sandbox Map, allowing “LAND” owners to pu ...

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase narrowed its net loss to $2 million in the third quarter, as notched a year-on-year increase in revenue despite lower trading volumes. The firm’s net loss in Q3 was trimmed from a $545 million net loss in the prior year period, according to a Nov. 2 e ...

Three Satoshi Era Bitcoin (BTC) whale addresses that have been dormant since November 2017 transferred 6,500 BTC, estimated to be worth $230 million, on Nov. 2. Satoshi Era BTC refers to the very early stage of Bitcoin network when it was still relatively unknown.According to data from Bit ...

As the cryptocurrency market moves sideways and amid a deepening stablecoin exodus, the sector remains a vital lifeline for many sending money to loved ones while dodging extremely high fees that can be life-changing over time.Cryptocurrency remittances have been seeing their adoption grow ...

Reacting to the rising attempts from bad actors to dupe crypto investors, the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) plans to form a specialized cryptocurrency and virtual assets team to counter the issue.The NCA posted a job opening on Nov. 4, looking to hire six individuals to crea ...

While the approval of a spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) will likely spike the price of Bitcoin, some analysts are concerned it won’t be enough to fully thaw the markets from its winter chill. On Oct. 24 Bitcoin staged its largest single day rally in over a year, su ...

While publicly mocking non-fungible token (NFTs) during a podcast, Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk appears to have inadvertently highlighted the case for Bitcoin Ordinals, also known as Bitcoin NFTs. “The funny thing is the NFT is not even on the blockchain — it’s jus ...

Business intelligence firm MicroStrategy has notched a paper gain of $900 million on its stack of 158,400 Bitcoin, spurred by optimism over the potential approval of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds.The Michael Saylor-founded firm added 6,067 Bitcoin (BTC) since the third quart ...

Lazarus Group used a new form of malware in an attempt to compromise a crypto exchange, according to an October 31 report from Elastic Security Labs. Elastic has named the new malware “KANDYKORN” and the loader program that loads it into memory “SUGARLOAD,” as the loader file has a novel “ ...

Iris-scanning project Worldcoin has reached a new milestone, as its mobile World App has now been downloaded over 4 million times, according to a November 1 blog post from the project’s team. If this number is eventually confirmed by Coingecko, it could place World App in sixth place in Coi ...

Banking giant Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) have tested the use of tokenized deposits – from issuance to transfer to redemption – with major Chinese banker Ant Group, founded by Jack Ma, in a sandbox arranged by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority.The initiativ ...

Layer 1 protocol NEAR has tapped blockchain security firm Nym to provide end-to-end encryption and metadata privacy services for its ecosystem.Nym, which provides blockchain agnostic ‘layer 0’ privacy infrastructure, will avail its mixnet tools to encrypt and cloak blockchain traffic and c ...

The ticker for Invesco and Galaxy's spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) — BTCO — has appeared on the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) website. Invesco's Galaxy spot Bitcoin ETF product is listed on the DTCC's site. Source: DTCCAccording to web archiver WayB ...

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) released a colorful and fact-filled Project mBridge update on Oct. 31. The publication combines technical and promotional discussions in a shift of tone as the project prepares to become a minimum viable project for commercial launch next year.T ...

Stablecoin issuer Circle will close out consumer or individual accounts on November 30, according to emails received by Circle customers on October 31. In an email to Cointelegraph, the stablecoin issuer confirmed that it is closing the accounts but confirmed that business and institutional &ldqu ...

The rise of digital currencies, exemplified by Bitcoin (BTC), brought a groundbreaking shift in the financial landscape. However, it also brought to light a critical challenge: price volatility. Bitcoin and many other early cryptocurrencies exhibited extreme price fluctuations, making ...

Supply and demand dynamics could mitigate concerns of a potential Bitcoin market supply shock during the upcoming mining reward halving in 2024, according to Bitvavo CEO Mark Nuvelstijn.The co-founder of the Netherlands-based cryptocurrency exchange weighed in on Bitcoin-related market mov ...

The Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) has issued a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) license to the crypto wallet Backpack, resulting in the launch of Backpack Exchange. Backpack’s VARA license is limited to crypto exchange services in Dubai and does not allow ...

The rising total money supply (M2) could propel crypto into another bull rally and help it outperform the traditional markets, according to Raoul Pal, co-founder and CEO of financial media platform Real Vision. Pal’s X post highlighted the correlation between the rising fiat market supply and the ...

The Kenyan government plans to roll out its digital identification system in December 2023 after the testing period, which will take the next few months. According to the president of Kenya, William Ruto, whose speech at the East Africa Device Assembly Kenya plant in Athi River was cited by local ...

Investing in Web3 gaming has required a greater level of due diligence through a testing cryptocurrency bear market, according to Animoca Brands CEO Robby Yung.Yung, who is also co-founder of popular Metaverse platform The Sandbox, highlighted more robust check-boxes when considering Web3 ...

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) is gearing up for the second phase of the e-HKD (e-Hong Kong dollar) pilot program as it announced the successful completion of the Phase 1 trial of its in-house central bank digital currency (CBDC). The HKMA launched the e-HKD pilot program in ...

Today marks 15 years since the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, shared the Bitcoin (BTC) white paper to a mailing list of cryptographers on Oct. 31, 2008 — a date also annually celebrated as Halloween.“I’ve been working on a new electronic cash system th ...

There’s a slim chance the United States Securities and Exchange chief Gary Gensler could pull the plug on spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds in one “amazingly sadistic” move, according to Bloomberg ETF analysts. In an Oct. 31 tweet directed at senior Bloomberg ...

Crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) saw their largest weekly inflows in more than a year, according to an October 30 report from asset management platform Coinshares. Inflows were $326 million for the week ending October 27, dwarfing the $66 million recorded over the previous week. ...

The ghastly events of this past month raise again some troubling questions: Does crypto have a terrorist fundraising problem? Are its networks really being exploited by terrorists to wreak global havoc? If so, what must it do better?On the other hand, maybe the problem is one of perception ...

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), a regulated Bitcoin (BTC) Futures exchange, now stands just behind Binance in terms of notional open interest (OI) to rank second in the list of BTC futures exchanges.CME’s OI hit $3.58 billion earlier on Oct. 30, pushing the regulated derivatives exc ...

Web3 games developer Animoca Brands and Saudi Arabia’s NEOM Investment Fund announced a new partnership on Oct. 30 to drive Web3 development in the region. According to the announcement, the new deal will have Animoca working with NEOM to build Web3 enterprise service capabilities. Th ...

A recent study conducted by the United Nations suggests a direct correlation between the price of Bitcoin (BTC) and the energy needed for mining operations.UN scientists evaluated the activities of 76 Bitcoin mining nations during the 2020–2021 period and found that the global Bitcoin mini ...

El Salvador president Nayib Bukele has filed paperwork to be re-elected in the country’s upcoming 2024 presidential election in February.Bukele, a Bitcoin advocate, received strong support from the public on Oct. 26 after he was officially nominated by his party to run for re-electio ...

The United Kingdom’s government is in danger of regulating nonfungible tokens (NFTs) in a way that doesn’t suit the true nature of the nascent technology, says Mintable CEO and founder Zach Burks.  In an interview with Cointelegraph, Burks said he believes a recent re ...

El Salvador can follow Singapore’s lead and become a financial center in the Americas, according to  Gabor Gurbacs, strategy advisor of investment management firm VanEck.“I say often to portfolio managers and asset allocators that El Salvador has the potential to become th ...

Solana, a competitor to Ethereum’s layer-1, has demonstrated impressive strength as SOL’s price surged above $32 this week. Analysts anticipate further price gains, and VanEck has shared significant price forecasts.A report on Solana from the asset management company VanEck has outlined di ...

Google has doubled down on its artificial intelligence bets by investing another $2 billion into AI startup Anthropic, according to a new report.Google invested $500 million upfront into Anthropic, a rival to ChatGPT creators OpenAI, and will pay off the remaining $1.5 billion over time, a ...

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has partially corrected an article which mischaracterized the extent to which Hamas and other militant groups have been funding its terrorism activities with cryptocurrencies.The Oct. 10 article — titled “Hamas Militants Behind Israel Attack Raised ...

For the most part, nonfungible tokens (NFTs) have two primary use cases: Buying and selling digital products (digital art, virtual fashion items) and building digital communities (exclusive memberships, access to events). These use cases can be easily adopted by brands and companies, ...

OpenAI, an artificial intelligence (AI) research and deployment firm behind ChatGPT, is launching a new initiative to assess a broad range of risks related to AI.OpenAI is building a new team dedicated to tracking, evaluating, forecasting and protecting potential catastrophic risks stemmin ...

The price of Bitcoin (BTC) has notched new all-time highs against some of the world’s most inflationary fiat currencies.Across 30 hours over Oct. 23 to 24, the cost of buying one Bitcoin has reached all time-highs when using the Argentine peso (ARS), Nigerian naira (NGN), Turkis ...

Google searches for “buy Bitcoin” have surged worldwide amid a major crypto rally, with searches in the United Kingdom growing by more than 800% in the last week.According to research from Cryptogambling.tv, the search term “buy Bitcoin” spiked a staggering 826% in ...

The United States-based stablecoin issuer Circle has reported a partnership with Taiwan’s second-largest convenience store chain, FamilyMart, and a local crypto exchange, BitoGroup. According to the company’s press release from Oct. 26, it will deliver a new ‘Points-to-Crypto’ service on the ...

Takis Georgakopoulos, global head of payments at JPMorgan, has revealed that the company processes over $1 billion in daily transactions through its digital asset, JPMorgan Coin.Speaking during an interview with Bloomberg TV on Oct.26, Georgakopoulos named three major inefficiencies o ...

Bitcoin’s (BTC) market dominance has reached 54%, its highest in the last 30 months, indicating the top cryptocurrency is strengthening just before the halving event scheduled for April 2024.The Bitcoin halving is an event in which the mining reward per block is halved, thus cutting ...

More than $280 billion has been wiped from the “magnificent seven” tech stocks following the release of several earnings reports on Oct. 25, triggering fears of a looming tech recession.The so-called “magnificent seven” refers to the top seven blue-chip tech firms i ...

Bitcoin (BTC) may reach new all-time highs by the end of next year, but crypto investors should brace themselves for a “chopfest” in the meantime, according to veteran trader and analyst Peter Brandt. In an Oct. 26 post on X (formerly Twitter), Brandt told his 660,000 foll ...

​​Welcome to the latest edition of Cointelegraph’s Nifty Newsletter. Keep reading to stay up-to-date with the latest stories on nonfungible tokens. Every Wednesday, the Nifty Newsletter informs and inspires you to dig deeper into the latest NFT trends and insights.In this week’s newsletter ...

Matrixport, a cryptocurrency trading firm founded by Bitmain co-founder Wu Jihan, has doubled down on its prediction that Bitcoin (BTC) will hit $45,000 by the end of 2023.After first setting its 2023-year-end BTC price target at $45,000 in early 2023, Matrixport reiterated its bold Bitcoi ...

From Oct. 9–20, Immutable invited playtesters to try out an early demo of its upcoming mobile game, Guild of Guardians.Guild of Guardians was first announced in 2021. Its utility token, Guild of Guardians Gems (GOG), went up for sale in December 2021, raising over $5.3 million for the ...

The Central Bank of Spain joined a chorus of European banking institutions, preparing their customers for all the benefits of the “digital euro.” The Bank of Spain last week published a short text explaining the nature and uses of the European Union’s potential central bank digital currency (CBDC ...

Bitcoin (BTC) market sentiment has returned to levels not seen since its price reached $69,000 in mid-November 2021, according to the Crypto Fear & Greed Index.The index is now at 72 out of a total possible score of 100, placing it within the “greed” ranking — a six-point increase from ...

Despite swirling rumors on social media, ARK Invest’s spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) does not appear to be listed on the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) website.On Oct. 25, numerous high-profile crypto accounts on X (Twitter), including Mike Al ...

Bitcoin’s (BTC) price will increase 74.1% in the first year after spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are launched in the United States, according to estimates from crypto investment firm Galaxy Digital.In an Oct. 24 blog post, Galaxy Digital research associate Charles Yu estima ...

The ticker for BlackRock's spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) IBTC has reappeared on the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) website after disappearing for a few hours.The price of Bitcoin surged to new yearly highs following the Oct. 23 surprise appearance ...

The digital era is in full swing, and with it comes a surge of opportunities that promise to redefine the business landscape. The buzz around blockchain technology and Web3 functionalities is real and for a good reason.They are not just buzzwords but gateways to unparalleled securit ...

In 2021, the Australian branch of the Red Cross received $90 million to aid the victims of the bushfires that plagued various regions of New South Wales and Victoria. However, the organization soon came under fire for its lack of transparency when it revealed that it would only distri ...

Until Bitcoin (BTC) breaks its long-established $25-30k trading range, the crypto market is arguably in what some analysts have called a “crab market”. It is likely that a decisive macroeconomic or crypto-specific catalyst will be necessary to break out of it. This failed to occur in the month of ...

Google Cloud has teamed up with blockchain infrastructure firm MultiversX (formerly Elrond) to boost its Web 3 presence. Google Cloud has integrated MultiversX into the platform which will in turn help Web3 projects and users derive valuable insights from powerful data analytics and artificial in ...

Coinbase layer-2 network Base has announced it has open-sourced its code repositories and smart contracts to increase transparency and accountability while simultaneously allowing public contributions to the project. In an Oct. 19 blog post, Base announced that as of today, developers ...

The Crypto Aid Israel collective has raised over $185,000 since its creation less than two weeks ago and has distributed aid to several humanitarian groups. The organization has carried out two rounds of aid distribution so far, dispensing around $50,000 (200,000 NIS). Nongovernmental ...

The impact of the Bitcoin halving on crypto prices is often overestimated and the next halving, set for April 2024, may play out differently than previous ones, according to a leading analyst.The halving event, which every four years, cuts in half the rate by which new Bitcoins are created ...

The Metaverse concept gained a lot of traction both from the crypto community and venture capital firms during the peak of the bull run. The likes of Meta (Facebook) and Apple joining the metaverse bandwagon only gave more legitimacy to the concept. However, the approach of both multi-billion dol ...

“It’s good at answering Bitcoin and economics-related questions, at least better than GPT-4”, Aleksandar Svetski tells Cointelegraph at a bustling Bitcoin Amsterdam.The entrepreneur, author and founder of Spirit of Satoshi, a novel AI large language model (LLM), begins to unpack the a ...

Cointelegraph’s Hashing It Out podcast talked with MultiChainZ chief operating officer Aanchal Thakur to discuss a popular decentralized finance (DeFi) use case: lending. Host Elisha Owusu Akyaw and Thakur explored what makes a cross-chain lending platform different from other platforms and ...

Bank of Finland (BOF) is coordinating the creation of a Finnish instant payment solution compatible with European standards. BOF board member and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) Tuomas Välimäki made the announcement on Oct. 19. Välimäki revealed that ...

Ras Al Khaimah ruler Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi inaugurated the new RAK Digital Assets Oasis (RAK DAO), an economic free zone dedicated to supporting companies involved in digital and virtual assets, blockchain, Web3, and artificial intelligence (AI), on Oct. 19.As previously reported ...

Bitcoin (BTC) core developers have long been at odds over improvement proposals (BIPs) to address pain-points of the protocol, as was evident in a heated panel during Bitcoin Amsterdam.Long-time Bitcoin developers Paul Sztorc and Peter Todd brought this to the fore in Amsterdam, with the l ...

Ethereum layer-2 scaling solutions Starknet and zkSync are among the few platforms to have increased their total monthly active developer counts over the last 12 months, data shows.While Starknet and zkSync only recorded increases of 3% and 6%, respectively, the likes of Ethereum, Polygon ...

Bitcoin layer-2 infrastructure firm Lightning Labs has released the mainnet alpha of Taproot Assets, a protocol aimed at enabling stablecoins and real-world assets to be issued on the Bitcoin and Lightning Network.The current version, Taproot Assets v0.3, will provide a “feature ...

While the term “fake news” has been floating around for a while, the phrase was given new life and popularity when former United States President Donald Trump turned it into a viral campaign slogan. “Fake news” eventually became a generation-defining meme, and this is likely because there is a ce ...

Major cryptocurrency exchanges and businesses are being lured to a proverbial crypto oasis around the Persian Gulf, according to Binance FZE’s general manager.Alex Chehade, who heads Binance's local operation in Dubai, tells Cointelegraph reporter Ezra Reguerra that progressive regulatory ...

Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) need a comprehensive regulatory framework if they are to make a place in the future of the financial sector, suggests the European Central Bank (ECB) occasional paper (OP).The OP “The future of DAOs in finance - in need of legal status,&r ...

Public attitude towards cryptocurrency in Hong Kong has taken a dive following the JPEX crypto exchange scandal, according to the initial findings of a new survey.The survey, conducted by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s business school, was to understand how publ ...

The use of cryptocurrency by Hamas militants to fund recent attacks on Israel may have set back Coinbase’s crypto lobbying efforts in the United States, says a new investment report from Berenberg Capital Markets. In an Oct. 18 research note, Berenberg lead analyst Mark Palmer said th ...

Scroll, a new contender in the zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) space that works to scale the blockchain, has confirmed the launch of its mainnet.The team behind Scroll announced the launch in an Oct. 17 post and added that existing applications and developer tool kits on Et ...

The fintech company Ripple released a new job posting on Oct. 16 for the role of ‘Shareholder Communications Senior Manager,’ across multiple locations in and outside the United States. The job posting prompted many crypto enthusiasts to label it as an official hint about the company& ...

The Bitcoin (BTC) value proposition continues to be a source of confidence for investors and proponents amid prevailing depressed market conditions in the broader cryptocurrency space.This was a key takeaway from in-depth interviews with Bitcoin developers, advocates, analysts and influent ...

VitaDAO, a decentralized collective dedicated to early-stage longevity research, funded the launch of a biotech company, Matrix Biosciences, dedicated to the treatment of cancer and aging diseases.The initial discussions around the use of high molecular weight hyaluronic acid (HMW-HA) for ...

Cryptocurrencies offer several advantages to traditional money, including lower costs, faster transfers, and decentralized systems that do not collapse at a single point of failure. Despite these benefits, many people don’t consider digital currencies practical for everyday use. Moreover, ...

Roblox, an online game platform with over 200 million monthly active users, now accepts XRP (XRP) as a payment method, according to an Oct. 17 announcement from BitPay on X (formerly Twitter).News Alert ...

While critics wrote off much of the initial hype surrounding the tokenized real-world asset (RWA) market, the sector has been on a tear over the past year or so. In fact, Boston Consulting Group expects the tokenization of global illiquid assets to be a $16 trillion industry by the end of the dec ...

“We’re contorting ourselves to pass through the keyhole of tyranny.” Edward Snowden’s words ring out in the packed Genesis Stage hall at Bitcoin Amsterdam, stressing the preeminent cryptocurrency’s ever-increasing importance in a world beset by creeping government surveillance, devaluing fiat cur ...

Fraudsters in Ireland prefer targeting traditional banking customers instead of cryptocurrency investors amid a two-year-long bear market.The frequency of cryptocurrency scams is often directly proportional to the hype and profits around the ecosystem at a given time. It appears that the o ...

Major automobile manufacturer Honda does not accept cryptocurrency payments directly but one can use cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) to buy a Honda car through a third party.In early October, several publications mistakenly reported that Honda started accepting cryptocurrency as paymen ...

The Solana Foundation became an ecosystem partner for the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC), one of the free economic zones within the United Arab Emirates. According to the announcement from Oct. 15, with its blockchain platform, Solana will provide technical and business develop ...

Australian crypto exchanges have praised plans from the Australian Treasury to regulate cryptocurrency exchanges under pre-existing financial services licensing measures.In an Oct. 16 consultation paper, the Treasury outlined a new suite of proposed regulations, that suggested regulating c ...

Grayscale’s Bitcoin investment vehicle, Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) is trading at its lowest discount in nearly two years, as spot Bitcoin ETFs continue to inch toward potential approval in the United States. The latest data from YCharts shows GBTC’s discount to Bitcoin net ...

A steep collapse in the price of nonfungible tokens (NFTs) shouldn’t be seen as a sign of distress but rather a signal the technology is maturing, according to Web3 executives.“I wouldn’t say the NFT market has regressed,“ Decentraland Foundation executive director ...

The Australian federal government may soon require cryptocurrency exchanges to hold a financial services license issued by the local financial regulator, the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC). In the newly-unveiled “Regulating digital asset platforms” consultation ...

Decentralized network provider Nodle is collaborating with Adobe and the Linux Foundation to employ blockchain technology in confirming the legitimacy of real-world content captured by devices. In an interview with Cointelegraph, Garrett Kinsman, co-founder of Nodle, outlined the company's upcomi ...

Agustín D'Attellis, the Director of the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic (BCRA), has publicly supported the promotion of a central bank digital currency (CBDC), referred to as the "digital peso" (PAD), as a remedy for the Argentine economy. D'Attellis believes that the traceability of CBDC tra ...

Recent developments in Hong Kong are poised to breathe new life into the cryptocurrency scene in East Asia. This region has faced significant challenges, primarily due to China's comprehensive ban on cryptocurrency trading activities that have been in place since 2019. However, the tide may be turni ...

The world has enthusiastically embraced artificial intelligence (AI), recognizing its potential to revolutionize various aspects of life. AI has been tested across different industries, challenging the status quo and revitalizing ecosystems that have faced trials and errors over the years. In thi ...

Optimism and Arbitrum have emerged as prominent layer-two networks designed to enhance scalability within the Ethereum ecosystem. Both protocols employ optimistic rollups to consolidate numerous transactions into a single batch, alleviating the congestion on the Ethereum network. While they share co ...

Casey Rodarmor, the inventor of Bitcoin Ordinals, has proposed a new Bitcoin-based fungible token protocol called "Runes" as an alternative to the BRC-20 token standard. The BRC-20 standard, launched by an anonymous developer known as "Domo," has gained popularity, with a market cap of $1 billion wi ...

Fintech innovations and emerging technologies have been rapidly evolving worldwide, prompting global regulators to adapt and establish regulatory frameworks. In this landscape, Latvia, a small Baltic country neighboring Estonia and Lithuania, has been quietly joining the efforts to understand and re ...

Nomura's digital asset subsidiary, Laser Digital Asset Management, has introduced the Bitcoin Adoption Fund, targeting institutional investors. This Bitcoin (BTC)-based fund represents the first in a series of digital adoption investment solutions that the firm plans to launch. Nomura, a Japanese fi ...

The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill in the United Kingdom (UK), which aims to expand authorities' ability to combat illicit cryptocurrency usage and tackle crypto-related financial crimes, is nearing the final stages of approval by the House of Lords. This bill, introduced in Septembe ...

The Silencio Network, in collaboration with the Peaq blockchain ecosystem, has deployed over 35,000 smartphones as noise sensors to address global noise pollution. This initiative involves community members contributing noise pollution data and receiving tokenized rewards for their participation. ...

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.The past week in the DeFi ecosystem was filled with ups and downs, from the United States Commodity Fut ...

On this week's episode of “Macro Markets,” Cointelegraph analyst Marcel Pechman delves into a thought-provoking discussion on the United States Federal Reserve’s financial woes. Pechman opens by highlighting how the Fed is grappling with staggering losses and emphasizes a fundamental macroec ...

Saudi Arabia has ramped up its economic diversification efforts driven by its ambitious Vision 2030. In a bid to diversify its economy away from a dependence on oil, the kingdom has embraced emerging technologies, such as blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI), and tapped into bo ...

Moheeth Alvi, group product manager at Coinbase Advanced, joins Cointelegraph’s Hashing It Out podcast with host Elisha Owusu Akyaw for an in-depth discussion about pro traders in the cryptocurrency space. The podcast starts by highlighting Coinbase’s eventful year so far, from new pr ...

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has said that no businesses have qualified to participate in the FinTech Regulatory Sandbox framework as cryptocurrency payment providers. Responding to a letter criticizing the Singaporean government’s lack of public consultation and oversigh ...

Ant Group, the owner of the world's largest mobile payment platform Alipay, revealed its new sub-brand under the name ZAN. The brand will focus on blockchain development and services for both institutional and individual Web3 developers. The official press release, published on Sept. ...

There has been a resounding call for Nigeria, and Africa in general, to incorporate blockchain technology into its mainstream living. However, during a fireside chat involving stakeholders in the Nigerian blockchain community, it was noted that poverty has to be conquered first before blockchain ...

Australian fintech firm Block Earner is charging ahead with plans to launch a crypto-backed loans product, despite staring down an upcoming court date with the financial regulator for allegedly offering financial products without a license. The new crypto loan product allows Australia ...

Seven leaders in decentralized finance (DeFi) have banded together to form the Tokenized Asset Coalition (TAC). The new advocacy group will work toward the adoption of public blockchains, asset tokenization and institutional DeFi, it announced Sept. 7.Aave Companies, Centrifuge, Circle, Co ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain technologies have reached a "tipping point" and are set to shrink established industries while creating new ones, forecasts a report from Moody's Investors Service published on Sep. 6. According to the authors, the combined impact of AI and ...

The team behind nonfungible token collection OnChainMonkey is shifting its entire collection of 10,000 NFTs from Ethereum to Bitcoin, in a massive undertaking expected to take several months. "A historical transition is on the horizon as we prepare to migrate our flagship collection, OCM G ...

A BNB Chain rug pull scams users out of $2 million ($11 million at today's BNB prices). Users ask Binance for help. Binance says it has frozen the funds but then retracts the statement. The funds sat in the address for nearly two years when Binance suddenly took action to freeze the scammer's wal ...

Miami Mayor Denis Suarez, who’s running for president of the United States, took a shot at his Republican counterpart in the presidential race, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Emphasizing his own support for crypto, Suarez said about DeSantis: “You gotta go beyond just sayi ...

Proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain platform Avalanche is expecting 5-10 million transactions on a subnet as a Japanese loyalty program company that claims to have 100 million users has partnered with the network to bring their mass-scale loyalty rewards program into a blockchain. Cointel ...

Palau, a country in the western Pacific Ocean, is wrapping up its U.S. dollar stablecoin project after launching the pilot in August.Jay Hunter, Palau Ministry of Finance member and head of digital residency program, took to X (formerly Twitter) to announce that the government will cease t ...

The European Union's financial services chief, Mairead McGuinness, believes there’s no reason to rush with the digital euro until after the next European elections in June 2024. In her opinion, the EU’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) project should be approached “quietly and slowly” by the ...

A group of Nigerian digital asset professionals took to the stage at the Stakeholders in Blockchain Technology Association of Nigeria (SIBAN)’s Digital Assets Summit 2023 in Abuja, to discuss the future of digital asset regulation in Nigeria.In the panel titled The Future of Digital Assets ...

Cryptocurrency self-custody platform Casa has rolled out new functionality for its recently launched Ethereum (ETH) vaults that will allow users to transact via a relay for added privacy.Casa added a multisignature Ethereum self-custody vault to its initial Bitcoin (BTC) custody offer ...

Australian investors will be left exposed to unregulated markets and investments will be driven away from the country if the Digital Assets (Market Regulation) Bill is rejected by parliament, the bill's author Senator Andrew Bragg has warned.On Sept. 4, the Senate Committee on Economics Le ...

The United States Financial Accounting Standards Board’s new rules for crypto accounting will eliminate the “poor optics” that plagued companies holding digital assets, according to analysts from Berenberg Capital.On Sept. 6, the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) approved ne ...

The race for the United States’ first spot Ethereum exchange-traded fund has officially begun after new 19b-4 filings by the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), which will "ultimately start the clock" for an SEC decision.  On Sept. 6, the CBOE filed two 19b-4 appli ...

Google has updated its cryptocurrency advertising policy to allow for blockchain-based NFT gaming advertisements as long as they don’t promote gambling or gambling services. According to a blog post from Google, the new changes will go into effect starting Sep. 15 and will be restrict ...

Artificial intelligence (AI), large language models (LLMs) and machine learning have infiltrated just about every aspect of our technology-connected lives. Tools like ChatGPT offer an array of helpful utilities, but they also come with a potentially dark side, as ChatGPT and other LLM chatbots ar ...

Central bank digital currencies (CBDC) and blockchain technology are likely to displace traditional banks, according to a lawmaker in Russia.Anatoly Aksakov, head of Russia’s parliamentary financial committee and a major skeptic of Bitcoin (BTC), has predicted that the traditional banking ...

Under India's G20 presidency, active discussions around establishing a global framework for cryptocurrencies are underway, India’s minister of finance Nirmala Sitharaman has said. On Aug. 28, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pushed for global collaboration on formulating crypto reg ...

A group of cryptocurrency venture investors has established a $20 million fund to invest in undervalued Web3 projects and companies focused on blockchain gaming and digital collectibles.Alpha Protocol Ventures (APV) will look to invest in a variety of projects across the Web3 ecosystem, CE ...

José Luis Garcia is a coffee-lover and entrepreneur trying to make his mark in the city of Medellín — the birthplace of Colombia’s modern coffee industry. Since the October launch of his start-up Lightning Koffee, Garcia has two goals in mind: Make a decent c ...

The potential of a spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) approval to drive prices up is dramatically underestimated by the crypto market, claim analysts from crypto research firm K33 — formerly Arcane Research. In a Sept. 5 market report, K33 senior analyst Vetle Lunde and vic ...

The Regulated Liability Network (RLN) has completed its United Kingdom discovery phase and is prepared to proceed to a use case with retail central bank digital currency (CBDC), according to its latest report. The RLN project seeks to accommodate central bank, commercial bank and regulated non-ba ...

Circle’s USD Coin (USDC) has launched natively on both Base and Optimism networks, allowing Circle account holders to send USDC stablecoin from their accounts to Base or Optimism. Coinbase has also made USDC transfers to Base available, according to a Sept. 5 social media post. Circle claim ...

Global payments processor Visa has rolled out support for USD Coin (USDC) payments settled on the Solana blockchain as its stablecoin offering begins to expand.Visa revealed that it is carrying out live and completed pilots with issuers and acquirers, moving millions of USDC tokens between ...

The Ministry of Education of El Salvador and the non-profit, non-governmental organization Mi Primer Bitcoin/My First Bitcoin (MPB/MFB) partnered to add Bitcoin (BTC) education to public school curriculum by 2024. John Dennehy, the founder of MPB confirmed to Cointelegraph that this ...

₿trust, a non-profit organization funded by Twitter (now X) co-founder and Bitcoin (BTC) advocate Jack Dorsey, is scaling up its programs in Africa with a new acquisition.The non-profit has acquired Qala, an organization dedicated to training Bitcoin and Lightning engineers in Africa. The ...

Raj Gokal, co-founder of blockchain protocol Solana and chief operations officer of Solana Labs, started his career in venture capital with a focus on high-growth tech business. For seven years, Gokal focused on health tech, first with wearable sensors using Bluetooth Low Energy as a ...

Bitcoin (BTC) has been on a bull run for the past six months or so and the market is yet to respond — but it will in around six to 12 months, according to BitMEX co-founder and former CEO Arthur Hayes.In a Sept. 5 keynote speech at Korea Blockchain Week, Hayes argued Bitcoin’s bull run beg ...

Australian crypto exchange Swyftx is launching a new “Earn and Learn” crypto education platform, aimed at rewarding its users for completing courses covering an array of crypto scams. The new educational platform will launch on Sept. 6 and comes amid heightened attention over crypto-r ...

While lacking in performance, micro Bitcoin mining devices should be seen as a stand against the Bitcoin ecosystem’s purportedly biggest flaw, its inventors argue.Micro Bitcoin mining devices — often open-source and pocket-sized — have been serving a niche part of the mar ...

Dubai-based cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has developed a language based trading tool that uses AI to generate trading insights and answer technical questions from its market data.TradeGPT is being touted as an AI-powered education tool that taps into the generative ability of ChatGPT’s la ...

The race to list the first spot-traded Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the United States has seen the entrance of major financial institutions like BlackRock, Fidelity and VanEck. While the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) first approved a Bitcoin-linked Futur ...

A global survey featuring respondents from 15 countries indicates that Africa’s largest economy, Nigeria, has the most cryptocurrency-aware population in the world.ConsenSys and YouGov released the findings from the global Web3 perception survey, which sought to provide both ...

The National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI), an initiative led by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and 247 Indian banking companies, is on the look out for a seasoned blockchain technologist to head and investigate opportunities for blockchain in current-day payment systems.NPCI owns ...

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) Group is reportedly planning on creating a blockchain-based platform that will be offering traditional financial assets.According to a report by mainstream media outlet Financial Times, the company has been looking into the potential of a blockchain-based tr ...

While China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) goes through technological and business model upgrades, the market should provide an opportunity to include it in all online retail payment options. The statement was made on Sept. 3 by Changchun Mu, the Director of the Digital Currency Research ...

Matter Labs co-founder and CEO Alex Gluchowski has proposed an Ethereum court system resembling a hierarchical court system similar to the real world.In a Sept. 2 post on X (Twitter), Gluchowski floated the idea for an “Ethereum Supreme Court” — which would work similar t ...

Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao predicts that decentralized finance (DeFi) has the potential to surpass centralized finance (CeFi) in the next bull run.In an Sept 1 live X Spaces (formerly Twitter Spaces), titled CZ AMA, CZ stated his predictions for the future of DeF ...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) central bank digital currency (CBDC), the digital rupee, will have enhanced usability, Yes Bank announced Aug. 30. This was thanks to Yes Bank’s integration of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) with the RBI digital rupee app. Now Yes Bank account holders w ...

The African continent is considered a significant market for crypto adoption due to its youthful population, flawed economic management by governments, and inadequate financial infrastructure for internal and global connectivity. On Episode 28 of Hashing It Out, host Elisha Owusu Akyaw is ...

The crypto community joins in to support the Maui community as a relief fund championed by A-list celebrities Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson accepts donations in cryptocurrencies.In early August 2023, a series of wildfires broke out on the island of Maui, Hawaii, c ...

Bitcoin investors may be in for a rollercoaster ride. While history shows September is typically a bumpy month for Bitcoin — two ETF analysts have suggested investors turn their gaze to mid-October as the next "major days to watch."According to historical data, Bitcoin’s monthl ...

Binance Australia General Manager Ben Rose says he’s “really confident” that Australian regulators will eventually make the right choices when it comes to laws that govern digital assets in the country. “There are lots of very smart people in the government wor ...

Cryptoasset businesses in the United Kingdom could now begin withholding certain crypto transfers to comply with the new Travel Rule for crypto that came into effect on Sept. 1.The rules targeting virtual asset service providers were first introduced by the Financial Conduct Authority ...

IBM has some ideas about what it will take to make the digital euro a success, which it shared in a recent blog post. It suggested five items for designers to help the European Central Bank digital currency “enter the highly competitive, multifaceted, and heterogeneous payments landscape in ...

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has delayed an application for a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund from global asset manager BlackRock.The asset manager, which is said to have 8.5 trillion of assets on its books, has had its iShares Bitcoin Trust delayed, aimed at offe ...

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has postponed its decision on WisdomTree’s Bitcoin Trust first filed on Dec. 8 2021. The institutional giant refiled its ETF application on July 19, 2023 with the first deadline approaching.WisdomTree’s Bitcoin ETF proposal didn’t ...

Human ID project Worldcoin signed up over 9,500 users in Argentina in a single day in August, setting a record for single-day signups. To achieve this feat, facilitators onboarded participants at an average rate of less than nine seconds per person, according to an Aug. 31 announcement from the p ...

On the latest episode of Cointelegraph’s Market Talks, host Ray Salmond spoke with Luke Broyles, a popular Bitcoin (BTC) advocate and content creator on YouTube and X (formerly Twitter). During the show, Broyles laid out his Bitcoin investment thesis and his unique perspectives on how the asset’s ...

Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) are not in their “longest ever bear market” and probably are not even in a bear market at all, according to some industry observers.MN Trading founder Michaël van de Poppe took to X (formerly Twitter) on Aug. 27 to claim that Bitcoin is currently in its ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) and its various subsets — such as machine learning (ML) — become more complex and developed, their presence within the financial realm has increased drastically. According to a 2022 report by Nvidia, over 75% of companies operating in the financial sect ...

Bank messaging network Swift has recently shared a report highlighting how Swift can connect with blockchains and solve the issue of interoperability between different blockchain networks. In a report titled “Connecting blockchains: Overcoming fragmentation in tokenised assets,” Swift ...

Following a challenging year in 2022, positive signals are emerging for the future of Bitcoin (BTC). In July, Bitcoin’s value surged past $30,000, a noteworthy development attributed to asset manager BlackRock’s move to file for a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) through the United State ...

Researchers behind the well-known Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index (CBECI) have officially revised its methodology to enhance the accuracy and reliability of the Index’s estimates for the first time since its inception in 2019.The CBECI was launched in July 2019 in an effort ...

The winner of a new art competition hosted by Binance will see their design featured on the helmet of the racing driver Pierre Gasly from the Alpine Formula One team during the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, slated for Nov. 26, 2023.Crypto exchange Binance announced a helmet design competition to s ...

United States presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has lauded Grayscale’s recent victory over the federal securities regulator, arguing the decision will help keep Bitcoin and blockchain innovation from going overseas. In an Aug. 30 post on X (formerly Twitter) the pro-Bitcoin Repu ...

Bloomberg analysts have raised the probability for an approved spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) by the end of 2023, following a recent Grayscale victory against the federal securities regulator. In a Aug. 30 post on X (Twitter), Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas said they ...

The Web3 landscape is undergoing swift evolution, with omnichain solutions emerging as vanguards poised to redefine the crypto world. Just recently, Cointelegraph hosted an AMA session to discuss the potential of omnichain solutions and their impact on crypto mass adoption.This enga ...

There is a global consensus that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are warming the planet, but efforts to accurately measure, report and verify these emissions continue to challenge researchers, nonprofits, corporations and governments. This is especially the case with “nature-based” pro ...

Bus and taxi operators in Jamaica are eager to use the country’s in-house central bank digital currency (CBDC) — Jam-Dex — as locals seek operational efficiencies and reduced costs and security risks.The Central Bank of Jamacia launched Jam-Dex, short for Jamaican Digital ...

Nigeria is extending an invitation to scientists of Nigerian heritage, as well as globally renowned experts who have worked within the Nigerian market, to collaborate in the formulation of its National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy.According to Bosun Tijani, the Minister of Communi ...

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is expanding its offerings in Latin America with the launch of a new crypto-to-bank account payment solution for the region.On Aug. 30, Binance said it's working with licensed transfer processing providers for its new “Send Cash” product that all ...

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission is facing its first deadlines to decide on seven new Bitcoin (BTC) spot exchange-traded fund applications with the latest being Sept. 4 amid its defeat to Grayscale Investments in a U.S. federal appeals court.Investment firm Bitwise will ...

Rhode Island’s regulators have granted X (Twitter) a currency transmitter license marking a step forward for the company’s foray into the financial services sector. The license is legally required for companies conducting financial activities on behalf of users related to sending and ...

Fintech company Circle announced a partnership with Mercado Libre to bring the USDC stabelcoin to Mercado Pago on Aug. 29. 1/ The largest fintech in LATAM, @mercadopago ...

A trio of researchers from the University of Cincinnati recently developed a Crypto Literacy Scale (CLS) to help standardize and measure economic and financial knowledge as it relates to consumer and policy-maker understanding of cryptocurrencies and related technology.The team’s research ...

The landscape of web development has undergone a profound transformation with the emergence of Web3 technologies. As blockchain and decentralized applications (DApps) gain momentum, developers are embracing this new paradigm to create a more open, secure and user-centric internet. This article wi ...

The first-ever spot Bitcoin ETF, launched on the European market, has been defined as an Article 8 fund by its issuer firm, London-based Jacobi Asset Management. Funds included under Article 8 of the European Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SDFR) are those that “promote environmental a ...

PayPal recently released stablecoin PayPal USD (PYUSD) is facing challenges gaining traction, on-chain data reveal. According to findings from blockchain analytics firm Nansen, roughly 90% of PYUSD is currently held in stablecoin issuer Paxos Trust's wallets. Holdings on crypto exchange wallet ...

Around 1 in 3 United States investors would be open to following AI-generated financial advice without verifying it with another source, according to a recent survey. On Aug. 22 the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards released the results of a poll that surveyed over 1,100 adults in ea ...

Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari and inventor of Pong — one of the first commercially successful video games — has shared optimism for the future of Web3 games, particularly as it comes to bringing ownership to virtual worlds. During the Digital Entertainment Leadership Forum in Hong Kong on ...

Solana (SOL) Market Capitalization Closes in On Dogecoin After Shopify Integration Solana (SOL) price raced to a 4% price increase on Thursday, August 24, after Shopify added support for USDC Via Solana Pay. Derivatives ...

Bankrupt cryptocurrency lender BlockFi is trying to block attempts by the similarly bankrupt FTX and Three Arrows Capital (3AC) that aim to retrieve hundreds of millions of dollars to pay back their creditors. BlockFi claimed in an Aug. 21 filing to a New Jersey bankruptcy court that its own cred ...

Discussions around ways to shorten local settlement cycles within the next five years have got most securities firms eyeing local central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). CitiBank’s latest edition of the Securities Services Evolution whitepaper highlighted India’s recent move to T+1 settlements, ...

Australia’s central bank has completed its pilot of a central bank digital currency exploring use cases for a potential digital dollar, finding it useful in four main areas, including enabling complex payments and asset tokenization. The Reserve Bank of Australia and the Digital Finance Coope ...

Komainu, a joint venture between leading Nomura, and crypto firms CoinShares and Ledger, received a full operating license from Dubai’s Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA). The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has opened its door to crypto innovations, supported by federal grants and pro-crypto r ...

Generative AI is more likely to complement existing jobs than take over them entirely, though certain roles, such as clerical work, could see more of their tasks automated than others. According to an Aug. 21 Generative AI and Jobs study by the International Labour Organization — a United Nations ...

Macroeconomist Lyn Alden has cast doubt on a proposal that would see five countries work together to develop a common BRICS currency — arguing it will likely struggle to get off the ground and fail to dethrone the United States dollar. In an interview with Cointelegraph just days before the BRICS ...

The Sultanate of Oman has launched a new cryptocurrency mining center, the second mining facility to open in the country in the past 10 months. According to a local publication, the Oman Daily Observer, a data hosting and cryptocurrency mining center, was opened in the Salalah Free Zone, which is ...

Crypto-assets and their related activities present key risks to the United States banking system and warrant closer supervision, warns a leading U.S. financial regulator. For the first time, cryptocurrency was given a dedicated section in the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s a ...

A potential wave of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds, PayPal’s new stablecoin and a key Ethereum upgrade are among the catalysts that could wake crypto from its hibernation.While early 2023 has seen the price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies improve from the second half of 2022, the ...

Grayscale Investments, which has been seeking to convert its Bitcoin (BTC) trust into a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund, could be getting a decision on its lawsuit against the federal securities regulator before the week’s end.In an Aug. 11 tweet, Scott Johnsson, a general partner ...

Web3 gaming platform Immutable has commenced public testing of its Immutable zkEVM in collaboration with Polygon Labs.Work on the zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) network began in March after Immutable announced a partnership with Polygon Labs. Polygon’s own “holy grail” Eth ...

The Bitcoin Frontier Fund, formerly Stacks Ventures, launched what it’s calling the first Bitcoin Ordinals accelerator program on Aug. 14.Program InformationThis program is led by VC ...

With the growing popularity of cryptocurrencies, the digital landscape has become a breeding ground for scams and fraudulent schemes. Fake cryptocurrencies and fraudulent projects aim to deceive unsuspecting investors and enthusiasts. This article will delve into the key indicators and strategies ...

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced an expansion of its services offered to Canadian users on Aug. 14 through a partnership with local financial services company Peoples Trust Company. Coinbase integrated the option for 100% of its users to deposit and withdraw money from their ...

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the rise of on-chain activities on its new layer-2 network Base has exposed how “broken” the Coinbase app is for user experience, and has pledged to improve it. In an X (Twitter) post on Aug. 13, Armstrong said a number of pain points have ...

Uniswap dev loses job, was it worth it? A Uniswap developer known as “AzFlin” has been sacked by the founder of Uniswap Labs, Hayden Adams, for allegedly creating a memecoin and rug pulling it a few hours later for 14 wrapped-Ether (wETH), worth $25,800. It is understood ...

The United States’ securities regulator could completely u-turn its approach to crypto enforcement, depending on a key election in the United States in 2024, according to former SEC official John Reed Stark.In an Aug. 13 tweet, the former SEC Office of Internet Enforcement chief pred ...

During a recent podcast interview, MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor expressed the opinion that large corporations purchasing and then proceeding to centralize Bitcoin (BTC) should not be a cause for concern.While speaking to Natalie Brunell on the Coin Stories podcast, released on Aug. 7, Sa ...

On this week’s episode of Macro Markets, Cointelegraph analyst and writer Marcel Pechman explores the United States debt downgrade by Fitch Ratings. According to Pechman, this change signaled diminished confidence in the U.S. government’s ability to handle its fiscal responsibilities.The d ...

The typical Canadian has little reason to adopt a central bank-issued digital currency, which could cause problems with its broad acceptance, according to a new paper from the Bank of Canada. In the staff discussion paper released on Aug. 10, the central bank looked at a hypothetical scena ...

Crypto users have reported seeing “wonky” prices for Ripple’s XRP (XRP) token on the Gemini crypto exchange hours after it relisted the token on its platform for deposits and trading. Several crypto community members on X (Twitter) on Aug. 11 posted screenshots of what ma ...

The United States Department of Defence has launched a new task force to look into how generative artificial intelligence can be used for the nation’s defense.On Aug. 10, the Pentagon announced the formation of “Task Force Lima” that would look into integrating AI ac ...

Telegram trading bots, which have been turning the messaging platform into a quasi-crypto marketplace, pose significant security risks for users and require further scrutiny, according to blockchain security firms.While such trading bots have existed for years, they've recently gained atte ...

Podcaster and commentator Joe Rogan has blasted the idea of a United States central bank digital currency, describing a digital dollar as a “game over” scenario for American citizens. In an Aug. 8 episode of the widely-watched podcast Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan and rapper ...

Non-fungible token project y00ts is again switching blockchain networks, only four months after bridging the majority of its NFTs from Solana to Polygon. DeLabs, the NFT firm behind y00ts, announced via its X (Twitter) account on Aug. 9 it will soon be migrating to Ethereum in li ...

Aptos (APT), the cryptocurrency powering layer-1 blockchain Aptos Network, is up approximately 11.6% since announcing it will leverage Microsoft’s suite of artificial intelligence tools to advance Web3 adoption among banks and financial enterprises.This will be achieved by enabling t ...

A July report from cybersecurity certification platform CER found that only six of 45 cryptocurrency wallet brands, or 13.3%, have undergone penetration testing to find security vulnerabilities. Of these, only half have performed tests on the latest versions of their products.The three bra ...

In the most recent episode of The Market Report, analyst and writer Marcel Pechman delves into the topic of crypto exchange Binance’s proof-of-reserves. This report reveals a significant decline in USD Coin (USDC) balances, plummeting from $3.4 billion on March 1 to a mere $23.9 million by May 1. ...

Blockchain institutional capital marketplace Maple Finance has secured an exemption from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission to offer its one-month U.S. Treasury yields to accredited investors in the United States.Before the Aug. 9 announcement, the Maple Finance Treasury ...

The United States Federal Reserve is broadening the scope of its supervision program which oversees U.S. banks that engage with the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. An Aug. 8 announcement by the Federal Reserve Board established the Novel Activities Supervision Program, which aims t ...

USD Coin (USDC) issuer Circle has released a beta version of a multiparty computation (MPC) wallet service, according to an Aug. 8 announcement. The new service will allow developers of decentralized finance (DeFi) apps, Web3 video games, e-commerce services and other blockchain applications to c ...

Less than 16 hours have passed since the launch of PayPal’s new stablecoin (PYUSD), and opportunists, degens and potential scammers are already attempting to cash in on the hype with their own copycat tokens.According to data from decentralized exchange scanner DexScreener, nearly 30 ...

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire estimates as much as 70% of USD Coin (USDC) adoption comes from countries outside of the United States.On Aug. 8 tweet to his 131,300 followers on X (Twitter), Allaire said the high rate of non-U.S. adoption was “despite the hype that we're all about the US, ...

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the country’s central bank, has announced that it is committing up to 150 million Singapore dollars (around $112 million), to support various financial technology solutions like Web3. In an announcement, MAS highlighted that the funds w ...

The next president of the United States is likely to be in favor of central bank digital currency (CBDC), crypto asset manager Grayscale observed in a post on its website, as the current frontrunners in both political parties have expressed their support for it. Neither seems to like Bitcoin. ...

The controversial Worldcoin project had a serious security vulnerability, CertiK has disclosed on X (formerly known as Twitter). Worldcoin pays people to become part of its World ID ecosystem by submitting scans of their irises through a device Worldcoin calls an Orb. According to sec ...

In the latest episode of Macro Markets, Cointelegraph analyst Marcel Pechman discusses the recession in Germany, Europe’s largest economy. According to a recent headline in The Wall Street Journal, “Germany is dragging down Europe’s economy.“ The article explains how the country heavily depends o ...

Generation Z crypto investors are more likely to engage in copy trading or social trading, an investment method that involves mirroring someone else's trades, according to a report from crypto exchange Bitget.In an Aug. 3 report on copy trading by Bitget, the firm revealed that out of all ...

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has been recently inundated with applications for Ether (ETH) futures exchange-traded funds (ETFs), with a grand total of 11 Ether-based filings being submitted in less than a week. The latest ProShares ETF application was filed on ...

The Digital Dollar Project (DDP) announced the completion of a pilot study of remittance payments to the Philippines using a simulated retail central bank digital currency (rCBDC). Western Union and BDO Unibank were partners in the project.The project used a version of the DDP’s Cham ...

Smart contract computer language Lexon (LEX) launched a compiler on Aug. 3, allowing developers to write contracts in Lexon and have them be converted into Solidity, Sophia or JavaScript, according to statements made to Cointelegraph by Lexon founder Henning Diedrich. The compiler runs on the Aet ...

On the latest episode of Market Talks, host Ray Salmond spoke with Blockware Solutions account executive David Gamble about the future of Bitcoin (BTC) mining, expectations for the cryptocurrency’s price, and his views on how the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector needs to evolve. Ga ...

The Litecoin halving event has been completed with block rewards now halved at 6.25 Litecoin (LTC) per block. On Aug. 2, the Litecoin blockchain went through its automated halving procedure at block 2,520,000. LTC miners are now getting half the rewards and the clock has been reset fo ...

Decentralized network provider Nodle has launched a bluetooth hardware sticker that is aimed at increasing Internet-of-Things (IoT) connectivity for a variety of industrial use cases.The firm announced that it will open source it's Nodle NanoComputer (N1), which features a Hardwa ...

The Toyota GR Cup, a North American racing series held by Toyota Gazoo Racing, recently announced it will start awarding digital trophies and record driver performances on the Polygon blockchain. Image source: Toyota press release.Per a press release, the new on-chain awards system wi ...

The crypto arm of Nomura has obtained an operating license from Dubai’s Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA) amid the Japanese financial holding firm’s attempts to leave its mark in the digital asset space.Laser Digital Middle East FZE, Nomura’s Dubai-based digital asset subsidiary, a ...

Tether continues to increase its treasury reserve holdings backing circulating USDT (USDT) tokens, according to its latest financial attestation for the second quarter of 2023.Tether Holdings published its Q2 attestation from accounting firm BDO, highlighting an $850 million incr ...

The crypto community has come together to celebrate the 8th birthday of the Ethereum network, marking eight years since the Ethereum Foundation first sent the network live.On July 30, 2015, former Ethereum Foundation CCO Stephan Tual penned a blog post, officially announcing that the netwo ...

Galaxy Digital's founder Mike Novogratz shared what an ideal investment portfolio would look like for a young and high-risk tolerance investor during an interview with Bloomberg Wealth, saying that he'd invest in the Chinese giant Alibaba, silver, gold, Bitcoin (BTC), and Ethereum (ETH).“I ...

Understanding machine learning models’ behavior, predictions, and interpretation is essential for ensuring fairness and transparency in artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Many Python modules offer methods and tools for interpreting models. Here are five to examine:What is a P ...

Blockchain has the potential to save financial institutions approximately $10 billion in cross-border payment costs by the year 2030, according to a recent report.Published by digital payment network Ripple, in collaboration with the US Faster Payments Council (FPC) on July 29, the report ...

Following the announcement of X’s (formerly Twitter) ads revenue sharing initiative, crypto exchange Kraken proposed the possibility of accepting payments in Bitcoin (BTC).The X community responded positively to the tweet, praising the suggestion as a welcome idea. VJ Crypto Gue ...

The year 2022 was not a very good year for Cosmos and its vision of inter-blockchain communications (IBC). The collapse of the Terra Luna ecosystem (the biggest protocol on Cosmos at the time), tension between co-founders and a fall in the token’s price all cast a shadow on its future prosp ...

Small farmers in the developing world may be on the cusp of an agricultural breakthrough. With emerging technologies like satellite imagery, drones and machine learning boosting productivity, it’s becoming more viable than ever to sell their produce in places like Western Europe. Ther ...

Nonfungible token (NFT) adoption is picking up steam across the food and beverage industry, with many fast-food chains showing interest in the asset class.A report by Research and Markets predicts that the global food and beverage NFT market size is expected to exceed $2 billion by 20 ...

The Optimism network has surpassed Arbitrum in transaction volume for the first time in six months, according to July 27 data from blockchain analytics platform Artemis. Both networks are layer 2s of Ethereum that use optimistic rollup technology, which compresses and batches transactions before ...

Crypto market’s volatility and potential for profit and lossThe crypto market is known for its high volatility, which refers to the rapid and unpredictable price fluctuations of cryptocurrencies. Market sentiment, recent news events, regulation changes, technological advancements, and general mar ...

The Web3 ecosystem could become the next golden opportunity for digital marketers, with almost 200 companies already thinking deeply about how to utilize the Web3 tech stack.On July 25, Web3 marketing analytics firm Safary released a comprehensive report titled “The Web3 Growth Landscape 2 ...

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has confirmed he purchased a significant amount of Bitcoin (BTC) earlier this year — buying two BTC for each of his seven children.Speaking in a July 26 Twitter Space, Kennedy said the decision came after he received “a lo ...

Cryptocurrency payments platform CoinsPaid has pointed the finger at North Korean state-backed Lazarus Group as being behind the hacking of its internal systems, which allowed them to steal $37.3 million on July 22.“We suspect Lazarus Group, one of the most powerful hacker organisati ...

A key United States House panel has approved a pair of bills that could finally deliver some regulatory clarity to crypto firms — including clarifying the differences in jurisdiction between the U.S. securities and commodities regulators.On July 26, the majority of U.S. lawmakers vot ...

The CFA Institute, the professional association that provides Chartered Financial Analyst credentialing, surveyed its members on their perceptions of central bank digital currency (CBDC), saying it wanted to examine the demand-side outlook on the financial technology. The survey found ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as a transformative technology, connecting physical devices to the digital world and enabling data-driven decision-making. This interconnectivity has given rise to innovative applications across various industries, streamlining processes, enhancing efficie ...

The Namibian Government officially signed a law to regulate Virtual Asset Service Providers operating in the country last week, reversing its original 2017 decision to ban cryptocurrency exchanges.On July 21, the VASP-regulating law was inserted into the Gazette of the Republic of Namibia ...

The Avalanche Foundation announced the launch of “Avalanche Vista,” a $50 million initiative to spur tokenization on the Avalanche blockchain, on July 25.Today, the Avalanche Foundation introduces Avalanche Vista, a $50M ini ...

Compilation and interpretation are the two primary methods for executing code in the realm of programming. In order for computers to comprehend and execute high-level programming languages, compilers and interpreters are essential tools. Although they have this in common, how they go about achiev ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has seen tremendous growth in recent years, exploding into popular culture and industry and leading to comparisons with the now infamous dot-com bubble and crash of the 1990s.During the late 1990s up until the early 2000s, internet-based companies were the subj ...

A subtle change in Elon Musk’s Twitter bio after his platform’s rebrand to “X” has again fanned the flames of speculation that Dogecoin (DOGE) may have a future on the platform.On July 25, eagle-eyed Twitter (now X) users began pointing out that Elon Musk’s pr ...

Bitcoin-related investment products appear to have lost some of their sheen among crypto investors, recording its first week of outflows since Blackrock filed for spot Bitcoin ETF in June.According to a July 24 report by CoinShares Head of Research James Butterfill, Bitcoin (BTC)  ...

Celsius was one of the top lenders in the crypto ecosystem during the bull market in 2021. At its peak, it served 1.7 million customers and managed $25 billion in assets.All that came crashing down in June 2022 amid major flaws in the company’s working structure.The bear marke ...

The launch of the blockchain-based digital passport platform Worldcoin has polarized the cryptocurrency community, with people raising questions about its centralization, privacy and security.Worldcoin released its token, WLD, on July 24, with major exchanges such as Binance announcing sup ...

Russia is moving forward with its central bank digital currency (CBDC) as President Vladimir Putin signed the digital ruble bill into law on July 24, according to an official government document.With this approval, the digital ruble law is officially scheduled to take effect from Aug. ...

South Korean crypto lending firm Delio has reportedly raised concerns over whether it can continue to provide normal services to clients after having its assets seized by a local financial regulator. In a July 22 blog post translated from Korean, Delio said an ongoing legal battle wit ...

United States Republican Representative Warren Davidson has spoken out against central bank digital currencies, urging Congress to ban them and criminalize their development.In a July 23 Twitter post, Congressman Davidson accused the Federal Reserve of “building the financial equival ...

San Francisco's Federal Reserve Bank is seeking a crypto architect for a central bank digital currency project, an Indeed job posting has revealed. According to the role description, the employee will work on CBDC research and development.The position is full-time and hybrid, wit ...

Despite the former governor’s ousting nearly two months ago, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) continues to be committed to its central bank digital currency (CBDC) project, showing no indications of abandoning it.According to a report by local news outlet The Sun, the central bank recentl ...

Amidst speculations that a potential appeal by the US SEC could negatively impact the crypto market, Pro-XRP lawyer, Attorney John Deaton has made it clear that even in the event of an appeal by the agency, it would not significantly affect XRP holders.After the judge's ruling stating that ...

The creator economy has become a $100 billion market thanks to the rise of social media and digital content. However, it’s bound mainly by centralized content platforms, leaving dismal incentives for actual creators to provide better content for audiences. YouTube’s lat ...

On July 21, OpenAI revealed its plan to launch an Android version of the popular artificial intelligence (AI) ChatGPT chatbot in the coming week. The launch follows its release to iOS users in May.The company announced the launch in a tweet and provided a preorder page in the Google Play S ...

On July 21, The White House announced that prominent artificial intelligence (AI) companies, such as OpenAI, Google and Microsoft, have committed to developing AI technology that is safe, secure and transparent. The White House also acknowledged other companies like Amazon, Anthropic, Meta and In ...

The crackdown on crypto firms by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) appears to have severely affected Binance’s business. During the past few weeks, the crypto exchange reportedly fired over 1,000 employees and slashed some benefits. According to Binance, ...

AI21 Labs recently launched “Contextual Answers,” a question-answering engine for large language models (LLMs). When connected to an LLM, the new engine allows users to upload their own data libraries in order to restrict the model’s outputs to specific information. ...

This week’s episode of Cointelegraph’s Market Talks welcomes Alvin Xu, the co-founder and CEO of Maverick Protocol, a platform that is taking a new approach to building decentralized finance (DeFi) infrastructure. Xu has been in the crypto space since 2018, and before co-founding M ...

Satoshi Nakamoto mined the genesis block on Jan. 3, 2009, minting the first 50 Bitcoin (BTC) in history and kicking off what would become a billion-dollar industry centered around mining crypto. However, with a cap on Bitcoin supply, the fate of miners after the last coins are issued is unclear.& ...

The market capitalization of stablecoins has hit the lowest level since August 2021 coming on the back of 16 consecutive months of decline, a new report says.Cryptocurrency analytics platform CCData released a report on July 20 saying the stablecoin market cap fell 0.82% from the start of ...

In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, programming languages play a crucial role in shaping the digital world. Aspiring developers and seasoned professionals alike are constantly seeking programming languages that offer both versatility and high demand in the job market. This a ...

On July 13, 2023, United States District Court Judge Analisa Torres ruled that Ripple’s XRP (XRP) token should not be considered a security when sold on retail digital asset exchanges.Stuart Alderoty, chief legal officer at Ripple, told Cointelegraph that last week’s ruling mak ...

Myanmar’s first entirely crypto-based banking institution has announced a soft launch for July 22 — a move that could see the country’s shadow government given greater access to financial services and funding.The Spring Development Bank is named after the Spring Revolution, the opposition ...

Nearly $250 billion worth of transactions have taken place using China’s digital yuan in the one-and-a-half years since the start of its pilot, the country’s central bank governor has claimed.On July 19, People’s Bank of China governor Yi Gang spoke at a conference in Sin ...

Zero-knowledge proofs could be used to solve the “biggest problem” plaguing the internet today: privacy, according to one cryptocurrency executive. Speaking with Cointelegraph at the Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC) the marketing chief at privacy-focused infrastructure pla ...

The South Korean central bank has published its 2022 Payment and Settlement Systems Report. Oversight of the systems was carried out successfully, the Bank of Korea's report said, and it is getting ready for a future with central bank digital currency (CBDC) and is discussing stablecoin regulatio ...

In the rapidly evolving world of blockchain technology, nonfungible tokens (NFTs) have emerged as an asset class offering a unique opportunity to own many kinds of digital items — both rare and valuable. Since the initial boom of NFTs manifested through the world of collectible digital art (such ...

This month, Los Angeles-based nonfungible token (NFT) artist Ellie Pritts is celebrating “In the Screen I am Everything,” her first solo show in New York City — and her first time taking over pioneering net art gallery Bitforms. Eight animations from the technicolor exhibition are ava ...

Cryptocurrency exchanges are finding novel ways to improve internal departments and functions using artificial intelligence (AI), according to Bitget managing director Gracy Chen.Speaking to Cointelegraph editor Zhiyuan Sun during the Ethereum Community Conference in Paris, Chen highlighte ...

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promised to progressively back the United States dollar with Bitcoin (BTC) if he is elected president. Speaking at a July 19 Heal-the-Divide PAC event, Kennedy claimed that backing the U.S. dollar with what he called “hard cu ...

Over $350 million has been raised by crypto venture capital firms Polychain Capital and Coinfund, with respective reported raises of $200 million for a new investment fund and $152 million for a seed fund.A July 18 Forbes report said Polychain’s $200 million sum was raised in the &ld ...

Big Tech firms Meta and Microsoft have teamed up to launch Llama 2, an open-source large language model from Meta that will feature on Microsoft’s Windows and cloud computing platform Azure.The pair announced the collaboration on July 18 saying Llama 2 was made free for research and ...

South Korea’s Shinhan Bank has completed its second proof-of-concept using stablecoins for international remittances. Siam Commercial Bank’s SCB TechX unit and an unnamed Taiwanese financial institution also participated in the project.The project carried out real-time settleme ...

BlackRock’s application for a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) has sparked the beginning of a new crypto bull market, which will go parabolic at some point closer to the halving scheduled for April 2024, according to Mark Yusko, the chief investment officer and founder of Morgan Creek Capital.& ...

Although the crypto market is growing and evolving, and market players boast various clever payment solutions, there is still ample room for improvement toward broader Web3 adoption. Until last year, decentralized finance (DeFi) constituted a relatively small part of th ...

The European Union has been vocal about its place in the rapidly expanding ecosystem of emerging technologies. It has been a leader in establishing clear crypto regulations with its long-awaited Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework signed into law in late May. The EU has als ...

In the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence (AI), developers constantly seek tools and technologies to enhance their coding efficiency and productivity. From machine learning frameworks to code generation utilities, various AI coding tools have emerged to simplify complex tasks and a ...

Gary Gensler, the chair of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, believes staff at its agency could benefit from greater use of artificial intelligence.During a July 17 speech before the National Press Club, where he later broke his silence about the recent Ripple cour ...

The development firm behind the Chainlink protocol and its native LINK token has gone live with its cross-chain protocol, aimed at providing interoperability between traditional financial firms and both public and private blockchains.In a July 17 post on the Chainlink blog, Chainlink ...

Cathie Wood, the founder and CEO of ARK Investment Management, said she remains bullish over Coinbase in light of Ripple’s partial victory over the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 13. While Wood noted the ruling wasn’t in outright favor of Ripple, she lauded the outcome as ...

The future is bright for euro-denominated stablecoins, according to Patrick Hansen, European Union strategy and policy director at Circle. The United States dollar may preserve its first-mover advantage, but euro stablecoins will see increasing real-world use cases emerge to lift them above thei ...

What is peer-to-peer (P2P) lending?Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending, also referred to as marketplace lending, is a type of lending that uses online platforms to link lenders and borrowers directly, eliminating the use of conventional financial intermediaries, such as banks. In P2P lending, indiv ...

In today’s fast-paced digital world, speed and convenience are paramount when it comes to online transactions. Whether you run an e-commerce business or simply want to make swift payments online, having a reliable payment gateway that ensures seamless and speedy transactions, including support fo ...

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Aave has launched its algorithmic United States-dollar pegged stablecoin GHO on the Ethereum mainnet, with $2.19 million worth of GHO minted so far.Aave announced the launch of the new stablecoin in a July 16 blog post, describing the new stablecoin GH ...

The cryptocurrency market has encountered its share of ups and downs over the past year, but blockchain technology continues to see impressive growth as businesses seek digital transformation. Recent findings from the market research platform, MarketsandMarkets, estimated the global b ...

Despite facing regulatory scrutiny in the United States, crypto firms continue to innovate, with nearly half of all capital investments flowing towards U.S. crypto businesses, according to a recent report.Published by crypto investment firm Galaxy Digital on July 14, the report stated that ...

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse believes the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will face a prolonged process before having the chance to appeal Judge’s Torres favorable ruling in the case against Ripple. On July 13, Judge Torres ruled partially in favor of Ripp ...

United States presidential candidate Ron DeSantis once again criticized central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), arguing against the possibility of a digital dollar in the country. Speaking at the Family Leadership Summit on July 14, DeSantis promised to ban CBDCs in the U.S. if he is ...

Traditionally, traders have relied on human-based pattern recognition and technical analysis, looking at the company’s financial health, competitors and other methods for determining what trades to make on an asset.However, with the growth of artificial intelligence (AI), there are additio ...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending, which links borrowers and investors directly, has become a well-liked substitute for traditional banking. P2P lending networks enable decentralized lending, in which people can borrow money from other people or institutions directly without the use of intermediaries, s ...

Australian-based crypto investment firm Monochrome Asset Management has updated its application to offer a spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) through its partner Vasco Trustees.The ETF — Monochrome Bitcoin ETF (IBTC) will be able ...

Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency and digital identification project has seen more than two million users sign up to its “global identity protocol” dubbed World ID. According to a July 13 statement, the World ID project — which is still in beta testing— passed two mi ...

Ripple Labs’ split-decision victory against the United States securities regulator is being seen as a significant blow to the regulator’s “war on crypto,” however, crypto lawyers warn it isn't a definitive victory for the industry.In a landmark ruling on July 13, Ju ...

Argentina welcomed its first Bitcoin futures contract on July 13, just three months after the country’s securities watchdog approved the underlying index as part of a strategic innovation agenda.According to Matba Rofex, the trading platform behind the investment vehicle, it is t ...

As technology continues to evolve, ChatGPT is getting a lot of attention for various reasons. For instance, ChatGPT can introduce users to a variety of game-changing applications that can improve everyday life and revolutionize interactions with technology, such as serving as a virtual assistant, ...

While Switzerland has been popular among the wealthy for its prowess in banking, the country has also been slowly welcoming those who mainly want to use Bitcoin (BTC) as an alternative form of money. Cointelegraph reporter Joseph Hall spoke with Pietro Poretti, the director of the eco ...

The current state of Web3 user experience is akin to driving a manual transmission car — there’s more control, but most users will find it unnecessarily clunky, according to several UX designers.Over the years, discussion around mainstream adoption of Web3 has centered around t ...

The approval of a spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) would equate to a “seal of approval” for Bitcoin from the United States government and its securities regulator, says Mike Novogratz.In a July 12 interview with Bloomberg TV the founder of crypto investment firm Galaxy Digital ...

QuillBot, an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) writing tool, offers features such as sentence rephrasing, article rewriting and AI-generated content creation. QuillBot serves as a complete language processing and productivity tool with its grammar checking and writing enhancement features. ...

Cryptocurrency scams have fallen a massive 77% from $3.3 billion to $1.1 billion over the first six months of 2023, according to a recent report by blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis.The catch, though, is that ransom attacks are back in trend, with perpetrators pocketing 62.4% more r ...

Coinbase Wallet users can now send instant messages to each other using their Ethereum identities, according to a  July 12 blog post from Coinbase. The new feature relies on the Extensible Message Transport Protocol (XMTP), an instant messaging system that allows users to communicate using b ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a concept confined to science fiction; instead, it has become a part of our everyday lives, driving advancements in various sectors, from finance to transportation. However, one of the most profound impacts of AI is being felt in the healthcare industry.& ...

Ripple may be holding its breath a bit longer after a United States District Judge refused to rule on if the secondary sale of LBRY Credits (LBC) constitutes a security.On July 11, New Hampshire District Court Judge Paul Barbadoro made the ruling in the case the United States Securities an ...

The European Commission has tipped “extended reality” — technology that enables people to interact with virtual worlds — to create as many as 860,000 jobs in Europe by 2025. Extended reality or XR is an umbrella term for immersive technologies including virtual ...

Exchange operator Cboe Global Markets has amended five spot Bitcoin (BTC) Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) applications to include a surveillance-sharing agreement (SSA) with Coinbase.On July 11, Cboe amended filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the ETFs fr ...

$30 trillion worth of capital could suddenly unlock for the Bitcoin market if a Bitcoin spot ETF is approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, according to Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas. That is the estimated amount of assets controlled by financial advisors in th ...

At the end of Q2 2023, layer-one blockchain Near Protocol's (NEAR) treasury had declined to $900 million, led by a fall in the price of NEAR tokens from $1.99 to $1.38 apiece.At the ...

Bug bounties are programs organizations offer to incentivize security researchers or ethical or white hat hackers to find and report vulnerabilities in their software, websites or systems. Bug bounties aim to improve overall security by identifying and fixing potential weaknesses before malicious ...

A blockchain developer who claims to have reverse-engineered the source code of Brazil’s pilot central bank digital currency has discovered functions in the code that would allow a central authority to freeze funds or reduce balances. He has since argued, however, that there cou ...

It takes careful planning, coordination, and communication to successfully manage a project, which is a challenging and difficult undertaking. Utilizing artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solutions is becoming increasingly important in the modern digital world to boost productivity and improve ...

The number of new developers entering the cryptocurrency sector has dropped by nearly 50 percent over the past year, according to research from Electric Capital’s Developer Report.The latest gauge of the state of the cryptocurrency developer ecosystem indicates that long-term coders that h ...

Stablecoin use could be "stifled" by daily transaction caps in the European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) legislation, with some calling for the framework to be revised.On May 31, MiCA was signed into law which paved the way for the world’s first regulatory guidance on cryp ...

The field of AI is rapidly expanding, and one niche area that has gained significant attention is prompt engineering. As the demand for artificial intelligence (AI) applications and customization grows, the need for skilled AI prompt engineers is on the rise. This article will explore the steps a ...

Prompt engineering has become a powerful method for optimizing language models in natural language processing (NLP). It entails creating efficient prompts, often referred to as instructions or questions, to direct the behavior and output of AI models.Due to prompt engineering’s ...

An artificial intelligence (AI) tool has emerged to assist doctors in combating aggressive brain tumors. It aids in identifying crucial characteristics that provide guidance during surgery.The Cryosection Histopathology Assessment and Review Machine (Charm) is an advanced tool that efficie ...

Bitcoin (BTC) will be the currency of artificial intelligence (AI) and could reach a price per coin of $760,000 in the process, Arthur Hayes says.In his latest essay titled “Massa,” the former BitMEX CEO concluded that the AI revolution would naturally gravitate toward BTC.Hayes: Bitco ...

From thumbs-ups from friendly strangers to midnight police searches, a Bitcoin-themed van continues a whirlwind tour around Europe.Ariel Aguilar has been behind the wheel of Bitcoin (BTC) promotion efforts, driving across Europe in a BTC-themed van called La Bitcoineta. Speaking to Cointel ...

Advocacy group UK Finance is urging the British government to encourage securities tokenization. The market is small now, but the future stakes are high, it said.In a report co-written with consulting firm Oliver Wyman, UK Finance said the advantages of tokenization, such as lower costs, l ...

Zero-knowledge proofs (ZK-proofs) are a key technology explored by many in the crypto industry. A zero-knowledge protocol is a cryptographic method that allows one party to prove to another party that something is true without revealing any information. The technology is vital for Eth ...

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has delivered his prediction for the next Bitcoin (BTC) bull market.Speaking in a July 5, “ask me anything” session on Twitter, CZ covered the potential entry of BlackRock into the crypto market, gave an update on regulatory action against the exchange, and his t ...

Crypto exchanges including Gemini, Binance and Coinbase are home to some of the least happy employees in the industry, according to data derived from Glassdoor — though some argue the results may be skewed. A quadrant chart by tech recruitment firm TrueUp — understood to have collated data ...

The United States military has begun tests to see if generative AI can assist when planning responses to potential global conflicts or taking on more mundane tasks like providing faster access to internal information.On July 6, Bloomberg reported the U.S. Department of Defense and unnamed ...

Bitcoin (BTC) miners made a lofty $184 million from transaction fees in the second quarter, far more than what they pocketed over the entire 2022 — as Bitcoin’s price surged and BRC-20 tokens flourished.The $184 million payout is more than a 270% increase from the first qu ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a clear-cut winner in the battle for job seekers, according to a new analysis from cryptocurrency data aggregator CoinGecko. From 2020 to 2022, searches for “AI jobs” and “crypto jobs” remained fairly close, with AI takin ...

OpenAI created the sophisticated language model known as ChatGPT. It makes use of deep learning to produce text responses that sound human in conversational circumstances. ChatGPT can comprehend and produce logical and pertinent responses when given a large enough training set.It can be ut ...

Lurking in the shadiest corners of the dark web is a “well-established” ecosystem of hackers that target cryptocurrency users with poor “security hygiene,” according to Binance’s chief security officer.Speaking to Cointelegraph, Binance CSO Jimmy Su said in re ...

Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban has again locked horns with former securities official John Reed Stark, this time over who was ultimately to blame for FTX’s collapse and the impact on creditors. During a heated back-and-forth exchange, Cuban argued had the United States Securitie ...

Account abstraction, also known as “smart accounts” could eventually onboard a billion users from the Asia region to Web3, according to an executive at Ethereum software solutions provider ConsenSys.Speaking to Cointelegraph, the director of strategic initiatives at ConsenSys, Laura Shi, n ...

The dream of a completely secure, unhackable, absolutely private digital payment system could soon be realized thanks to new research out of the University of Vienna. In a paper published on July 4 titled “Demonstration of quantum-digital payments,” a team of researchers at the Vienna Cent ...

Businesses across industries rely on competent developers to construct and maintain their technology infrastructure in today’s fast-paced digital landscape. However, finding and recruiting the best developers can be difficult. The role of talent marketplaces is to provide platforms that link comp ...

With the Bitcoin (BTC) halving event less than a year away, several financial giants have filed applications for a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) — a scenario last seen before the 2020 to 2021 bull run. Institutional interest in the sector dried up after major crypto giants s ...

Initial coin offerings (ICOs) may have hampered the development of the Bitcoin ecosystem, with market research reflecting a massive slant towards non-Bitcoin investments by venture capitalists over the past five years.Blockstream CEO Adam Back highlighted the juxtaposition between the lack ...

Despite recent narratives suggesting differently, the United States won't be losing its allure as a crypto hub, according to the CEO of blockchain analytics firm Merkle Science.A swathe of hostile regulatory actions leveled at crypto firms in the United States in recent months has led ...

‘Blue chip’ floor prices near two-year lowsThe largest nonfungible token (NFT) collections by market capitalization are in a sea of red as the cheapest NFTs in their collections took dives over the past week with some hitting near two-year lows.Yuga Labs’ flagship ...

Bitcoin (BTC) has been the “primary focus” for institutional investors over the last two weeks, according to Coinshares, as the cryptocurrency continues to hit new prihighs for 2023. In a July 3 report from CoinShares’ Head of Research James Butterfill, the analyst noted ...

The Open Network (TON) has released an on-chain encrypted messaging feature, according to a July 3 announcement from the network’s developer, TON Foundation. The new feature allows for private messages to be sent between TON users.  ...

Social media networks built on the blockchain are revolutionizing the way we share, interact and communicate with people online. These systems offer improved transparency, data ownership and decentralized incentives by utilizing the power of blockchain technology. This article will di ...

A robot graced the stage at the National Theatre of Korea to conduct the Korean National Symphony Orchestra on June 30, marking South Korea’s first robot-conductor public appearance.EveR 6, the android that co-conducted the performance titled “Absence,“ is a design produc ...

For the last decade, the United States securities regulator has forced investors into “toxic” and “unregulated” crypto products, says Gemini co-founder Cameron Winklevoss.On July 2, the Winklevoss twin slammed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)'s cons ...

Social media platform Twitter is temporarily limiting the number of posts that users will be allowed to read per day, after seeing “extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation,” according to executive chairman Elon Musk. In a July 1 post, Musk said the temporary lim ...

As part of Hong Kong's ongoing commitment to embrace the "megatrend" of Web3 development, it has established a diverse group of industry and government officials to supervise the progress of Web3 in the region.According to a June 30 statement, the government of Hong Kong has formed a task ...

In the ever-evolving landscape of entertainment, the convergence of watch-to-earn and blockchain technology is reshaping the way users consume and engage with media content. This dynamic fusion offers a range of possibilities, from rewarding viewers for their time spent watching to creatin ...

The area of machine learning, which is quickly expanding, uses statistical methods and data analysis to teach computers how to learn and make predictions or judgements without being explicitly programmed. There is a rising need for employees with entry-level expertise in machine learn ...

Cryptocurrencies must reach mass adoption to unlock their maximum potential as a network technology and their value as financial assets. As with other technologies, the adoption of crypto follows a classic bell curve: Starting from a small number of innovators, it grows as early adopt ...

With crypto gas prices dropping to lows after numerous recent innovations in scaling and interoperability across different chains, we can more vividly imagine a possible shift toward widespread crypto payments.Crypto payments at scale are currently prevented by regulation, lack of u ...

There may be a longer wait for a spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the United States, as the Securities and Exchange Commission labeled investment managers’ recent applications inadequate.According to The Wall Street Journal, the securities regulator told the Nasda ...

Maintaining stability in the international financial system is essential for sustaining economic growth in a connected global economy. In this context, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is essential for fostering international monetary cooperation, maintaining exchange rate stability and mana ...

Academic institutions house some of the world’s most important data generated from years of research. Yet centralized data storage models are becoming a concern for many universities looking to keep critical information safe and accessible. Danny O’Brien, a senior fellow at the Fileco ...

Traditional financial firms finally believe that digital assets are here to stay. Or so one might conclude from the slew of announcements last week from some of the world’s premiere financial players.Among them is BlackRock — the world’s largest asset manager with $9 tril ...

Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) may not solve any problems faced today, but could be the answer to ones not even fathomed yet, says the executive spearheading Australia’s CBDC pilot. Dilip Rao, a former Ripple executive who’s now spearheading Australia’s CBDC rese ...

Base, a new layer 2 application-focused protocol by Coinbase, has just one criterion left to fulfill before being ready for mainnet launch.On June 29, the team said the Optimism-powered, Ethereum-secured network has been subject to six months of rigorous security audits — both intern ...

While many investors in the West may look to crypto to speculate the next biggest trend, blockchain technology is actually solving “real-world problems” in Africa such as hyperinflation and "corruption," executives told Cointelegraph.Speaking to Cointelegraph, Chris Maurice, fo ...

Global industry disruption brought about by artificial intelligence (AI) is creating interesting job prospects for anyone interested in this cutting-edge subject. AI is revolutionizing how we live and work with technologies like self-driving cars and virtual assistants. If you’r ...

The world of cryptocurrencies has witnessed a surge in the creation of community coins, often utilizing popular names like Elon Musk, Tesla and Andrew Tate, or even memes like Pepe. Unfortunately, these coins often have no real connection to the individuals or entities they reference, lead ...

Italy’s top banking authority has called for a “robust, risk-based” regulatory framework for stablecoins, which could help prevent a worst case scenario — a “run” on stablecoins. The central bank’s recently released “Markets, Infrastruct ...

Stablecoins have a lot of potential to harm emerging markets and developing economies, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) claimed in its latest Financial Stability Report, released June 28. The report listed six threats that stablecoins present.The RBI has been a steadfast critic of cryptocur ...

In the latest episode of The Market Report, analyst and writer Marcel Pechman analyzes some data to conclude whether Bitcoin (BTC) will ever trade at $27,000. Some analysts attribute Bitcoin’s recent 21.5% gains to BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) filing, but other events might ...

Is artificial intelligence (AI) cursed? It seems to be accelerating us toward a dystopia that humanity isn’t ready for.It's true that AI has had positive effects for some people. Twitter hustlers have an endless stream of new AI tools, giving them endless content about useless ChatGP ...

On June 28, software analytics firm MicroStrategy announced the corporate purchase of 12,333 Bitcoin (BTC), worth $347 million at the time of publication. After the transaction, the total balance of BTC owned by MicroStrategy increased to 152,333 ($4.52 billion), with an average purchase price of ...

Last month, hardware crypto wallet manufacturer Ledger announced its “Ledger Recover” program designed to allow customers to back up their seed phrases to the cloud and link it with their real-world identity.The announcement was met with heavy pushback from the crypto community, as many sa ...

Investment management firm BlackRock has a 50% chance of getting its spot Bitcoin (BTC) Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) approved, according to Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas. Balchunas’ prediction comes following an observation made by Elliott Stein, a senior litigation ...

While an approved BlackRock spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) will funnel new institutional money to Bitcoin, it's going to be the retail investors that ultimately drive any significant price surges, according to Michael Shaulov, the CEO and co-founder of institutional custody pl ...

Worldcoin is the cause of a slew of Safe deployments to the Optimism (OP) network over the past week, according to a June 27 social media post from Tiago Sada, head of product for Worldcoin developer Tools for Humanity. The deployments had caused a stir on Twitter, as users wondered who wa ...

Riot Platforms — one of the world’s largest Bitcoin (BTC) mining companies — has bought 33,280 “next-generation” Bitcoin miners for its Texas facility, costing $162.9 million.The rigs — which were sourced from mining manufacturer MicroBT — will boo ...

Australia’s cryptocurrency industry banking woes will likely continue, with the government and major banks signaling no intention to back down against scams that “touch” crypto.During a panel at the Australian Blockchain Week on June 26, Sophie Gilder, managing director o ...

The United States Secret Service has finally shed more light on its bizarre nonfungible token (NFT) collection sitting on OpenSea. The NFT collection was first revealed during a Reddit AMA on May 16, where agents answered questions from members of the r/cryptocurrency subreddit about ...

With talk about integrating artificial intelligence and the cryptocurrency industry mostly focusing on how AI can help the crypto industry combat scams, experts are failing to pay attention to the fact that it could have the complete opposite effect. In fact, Meta recently warned that hackers app ...

The head of the Swiss National Bank (SNB) has announced that the bank will launch a wholesale central bank digital currency (wCBDC) pilot project, according to a report. Reuters quoted bank chair Thomas Jordan as saying the project would begin “soon.” The wCBDC will be iss ...

Crypto advocate Davinci Jeremie expected to become a hero to his community after talking about Bitcoin (BTC) 10 years ago and why people should buy at least $1 worth of it, but things did not turn out as he expected. In an interview with Cointelegraph, Jeremie shared the story of how ...

The United Arab Emirates is becoming the next big focus for Binance in the wake of a slew of enforcement actions in the United States against the crypto exchange.Speaking to Cointelegraph, Binance Dubai general manager Alex Chehade said the UAE is a prime destination for crypto businesses ...

The Australian Treasury’s token mapping of digital assets will adopt a “tech agnostic” and “principles-based” approach in order to define crypto assets, according to a Treasury official.Speaking to Cointelegraph on June 26 at the Australian Blockchain Week, Tr ...

A convergence of blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) has occurred between ChatGPT and Hedera (HBAR), the native cryptocurrency of the Hedera network. By capitalizing on the decentralized characteristics of blockchain networks, ChatGPT can establish secure interactions with the Hedera netw ...

Blockchain technology has shown that it can transform data-driven markets, such as finance. However, the technology is industry-agnostic and can be applied across the board in ways specific to each industry. For example, it can be used in agriculture, the oldest industry in the world, and ...

Translation is the process of converting written or spoken content from one language to another while preserving its meaning. By automating and enhancing the translation process, artificial intelligence (AI) has significantly contributed to changing the translation industry.To evaluat ...

Debit cards offered through crypto payment service Wirex may stop functioning in the European Economic Area (EEA), according to a June 23 email the company sent to some of its customers. The threat of stoppage was triggered by Lithuania’s central bank revoking the license of UAB PayrNet, Wirex’s ...

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.The past week in DeFi was filled with artificial intelligence (AI)-centered developments on Etherscan, ...

In May, Bitcoin (BTC) posted its first monthly loss since December 2022 with a negative 6.98%. However, this consolidation was not obviously driven by a change in fundamentals or the broader macroeconomic environment. The crypto market was looking for direction and liquidity in this phase before ...

As more institutions go from only showing their interest in the crypto space into actually investing in Web3 projects, getting into crypto turns into a question of “when” rather than a question of “if” according to an executive from institution-focused crypto firm SEBA Bank. At the Wo ...

After a grand opening in March, Australian fast-food diner Shiba Wings has seen plenty of customers walking through the doors for their fried delectables. Their appetite, however, hasn’t translated to crypto payments.The Shiba Inu (SHIB) themed diner first opened its door ...

The European Union debit card provider for Cryptopay has lost its Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license, according to a June 22 email sent to its customers. The company recommends to EU cardholders that they should immediately spend or transfer funds from their cards. Funds held in the app’s ...

The vast potential of decentralized finance (DeFi) is frequently overshadowed by the risks associated with crypto markets and decentralized platforms. The lack of reliable insurance policies leads to users becoming susceptible to losing funds in the event of hacks or exploits, which is hap ...

The past 12 months have seen the global digital paradigm evolve tremendously, especially regarding how humans interact with machines. In fact, the space has undergone such a radical transformation that people of all ages are now fast becoming conversant with artificial intelligence (AI) models, m ...

The Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology plans to allow schools from elementary to high school level limited usage of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in classrooms. According to a local news outlet, a source close to the matter said that gene ...

The Faroe Islands have issued a new series of digital “crypto stamps,” with a digital copy stored on the blockchain as a nonfungible token (NFT) while still serving as actual postage. On June 23, the Posta Faroe Islands’ official website for issuing postage announced that the aut ...

Blockchain-based payments firm Ripple has obtained in-principle regulatory approval from Singapore’s financial regulator to offer digital asset payments and token products in the city-state.Ripple confirmed the approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) in a June 22 stat ...

Despite plenty of regulatory action in the United States and an ongoing crypto winter, former TradFi executives, now in crypto, said there’s no desire to return to their old banking lives.Instead, several former traditional bankers told Cointelegraph they remain bullish about the ind ...

Starknet, a zero-knowledge layer-2 scaling solution for Ethereum, is one step closer to becoming fully Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatible, pending an August testnet launch of Kakarot, a new zkEVM.On June 3, the Kakarot team announced it had received new backing from Ethereum co-foun ...

Recently renewed optimism for an approved Bitcoin (BTC) spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) is igniting “The Great Accumulation Race” for Bitcoin, according to industry pundits.Over the past week, Fidelity, Invesco, Wisdom Tree and Valkyrie have followed investment giant Black ...

Immutable Games’ Web3 trading card game Gods Unchained is now listed on the Epic Games Store and is available to its 230 million customers, according to a June 21 announcement.Gods Unchained is a collectible trading card game similar to Hearthstone or Magic: The Gathering Arena but with ca ...

A team of researchers from the Bitcoin Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank, have roundly rejected the conclusions reached in a 2022 paper claiming that Bitcoin has an intrinsic scaling problem that will lead to limited adoption in the future.According to the Bitcoin Policy Institute’s ...

Ramp, a financial technology company specializing in crypto infrastructure, has announced a significant expansion of its platform’s compatibility, adding 40 new fiat currencies. According to a June 21 announcement, the expansion is set to allow users to more easily transact with vario ...

Blockchain technology will eventually establish a reliable framework for exchanging value, effectively decentralizing power and financial control. This vision represents a revolutionary paradigm shift that we should wholeheartedly embrace.However, there are certain factors that may hinder ...

At least two investment firms have made new filings for spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETF) following investment colossus BlackRock’s move to lodge a similar application for its own spot Bitcoin ETF on June 15. New York-based asset management fund WisdomTree is the most rec ...

HSBC files metaverse and NFT patentsBritish banking institution HSBC filed a series of metaverse and nonfungible token (NFT)-related trademark applications. A June 12 filing to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) show the bank’s trademarks including meta ...

Joe Tsai, the soon-to-be former executive vice chair of China-based technology giant Alibaba, will replace Daniel Zhang as company chair.In a June 20 announcement, Alibaba said Zhang would be stepping down as chair of the company and CEO effective Sept. 10, whereupon he will continue to se ...

Polygon co-founder Mihailo Bjelic has proposed upgrading the Polygon proof-of-stake (PoS) network to a “zkEVM validium” version, according to a June 20 forum post. If the upgrade is implemented, the new version will rely on zero-knowledge proofs to increase security. ...

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has released a chapter of its annual report early. That chapter, on the future of the monetary system, discussed “a new type of financial market infrastructure – a unified ledger.” The chapter was published June 20, one day after the International Mone ...

Crypto venture capital investments were on the rise for the second month in a row in May despite the generally declining economic backdrop. Funding amounts surged 34% from April, and the number of individual deals jumped 62%, according to data from Cointelegraph Research’s Venture Capital Databas ...

Writing a resume using ChatGPT can be a helpful way to get started, but it’s important to remember that the final content and formatting should be tailored to your specific needs and industry. Here’s a general guide for using ChatGPT to assist in writing a resume for a “Project manager” position: ...

Despite seeing themselves as more “risk averse” than their older counterparts, nearly a third of all young Australian investors hold or have traded cryptocurrencies over the last year, a new study has found.In an Australian investor study from the Australian Securities Exchange ...

Ever since the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) was launched in 2017, Web3 users have been able to replace the long strings of characters that make up a crypto address with a more easily memorized blockchain username or Web3 domain name. For example, Ethereum (ETH) users can now send crypto to the net ...

In an interview with Bloomberg, ARK Invest CEO and chief investment officer Cathie Wood recently discussed why her flagship fund, Ark Innovation (ARKK), is adding to its position in shares of Coinbase (COIN) after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued Binance, one of Coinbase&rsq ...

Slovakia will codify the right to use cash as a method of payment after a vote to amend the nation’s constitution passed in parliament on June 15. The new legislation was sponsored by the Sme Rodina party, also known as the “We Are Family” party, and was reportedly drafted as a precau ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has presented the outlines of a “new class” of cross-border payment system that uses a single ledger to record central bank digital currency (CBDC) transactions, programmability and improved information management. IMF officials chose ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized the field of video editing, providing advanced tools and capabilities that enhance the editing process and open up new creative possibilities. Here are five remarkable AI tools for video editing that can transform your editing workflow and elevate y ...

Crypto has been at the mercy of an ongoing bear market that began in the spring of 2022 after a historic bull run that had investors, developers and users piling into the Web3 space. Despite interest slowing down and companies needing to adjust to the current market conditions, many i ...

The Bank of England (BoE) is a step closer to launching its central bank digital currency (CBDC) dubbed “Britcoin” following the conclusion of a trial study called Project Rosalind.The Bank for International Settlements and the BoE launched the joint experiment in July 2022 to ...

Twitter has suspended the account of the popular memecoin-linked artificial intelligence-powered bot “Explain This Bob” after Elon Musk alleged it was a “scam crypto account.”Musk alleged the account was a scam in a tweet on June 18 in a reply to the bot; the accoun ...

Writing good ChatGPT prompts to receive precise and pertinent responses is crucial. For the artificial intelligence (AI) model to produce the required information, clear and accurate context is essential, which allows ChatGPT to better comprehend the aim and scope of a user’s inquiry. ...

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has warned that as Ripple's legal battle against the United States financial watchdog is coming “to a close,” it is only the beginning of a larger battle for the industry, and the fight for regulatory clarity “has to continue."Following the Hi ...

AI tools are revolutionizing learning and research in today’s digital age by providing sophisticated capabilities and effective solutions. These tools make use of artificial intelligence to speed up various tasks, increase output and offer insightful data. Consensus, QuillBot, Gradesc ...

DApp Store Kit, which was initially incubated by Polygon Labs, will integrate Ready Games’ mobile game development toolkit to help developers roll out Web3 games. DApp Store Kit’s toolkit for deploying Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible decentralized application (DApp) stores will combine ...

Crypto Twitter was witness to a fierce debate this wee, with billionaire investor Mark Cuban accusing SEC’s Gary Gensler of throwing crypto under the bus while a former SEC official was quick to come to the regulator’s defense.In a spirited, back-and-forth exchange on Twitter w ...

Luxury car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz is integrating artificial intelligence into more than 900,000 vehicles as part of a new trial of a ChatGPT-powered voice assistant system.The company announced on June 16 that the optional beta feature is now accessible to the owner of any vehicle equi ...

BlackRock’s latest filing for a spot Bitcoin (BTC) trust will drive investors’ confidence in Bitcoin and may even be “the best thing that could happen” to BTC, according to some crypto industry observers — but others warn of a hidden cost.During an interview o ...

Professional investors are still keen on crypto but want to see backing from large traditional financial institutions before taking the plunge themselves, a survey from Nomura’s digital asset arm has revealed. Institutional investor interest in crypto has stalled in recent weeks due ...

Banco de la República, Colombia’s central bank, is partnering with Peersyst and Ripple to pilot blockchain technology on the XRP ledger. The Ministry of Information and Communications Technologies (MinTIC) in Colombia will oversee the project, which will use Ripple’ ...