Solana (SOL) is now the fourth-most popular blockchain in terms of non-fungible token (NFT) sales volume. According to data aggregator CryptoSlam, Solana’s NFT sales are the fourth-largest by volume. Leading the pack is Ethereum, followed by Ronin (a sidechain developed for the Axie Infinity play-to-earn game) and Worldwide Asset eXchange (WAX). At time of …
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On Nov. 2, award-winning writer and director Quentin Tarantino announced he would auction off seven uncut scenes from Pulp Fiction as nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, built on the Secret Network (SCRT). The digitized assets will include the first uncut scripts of the movie, as well as secrets about the film and its creators. While the …
Google’s parent company Alphabet has made a $1 billion equity investment in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group, the exchange responsible for many crypto derivatives products. In a Thursday notice to investors, the CME Group announced the $1 billion investment from Alphabet in addition to a 10-year strategic partnership with Google Cloud aimed at accelerating the …
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Paytm, India’s leading digital payments company, said Thursday that it would consider Bitcoin services if the country’s regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies was more definite. Speaking to Haslinda Amin and Rishaad Salamat during an interview on Bloomberg TV, Paytm’s chief financial officer Madhur Deora stated that the rules surrounding Bitcoin (BTC) remain in a “grey area” …
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Bitcoin’s (BTC) pullback from its record high of $67,000 to below $60,000 has not deterred bulls from eyeing another peak level ahead, per an indicator that attempts to predict market bottoms and tops. Dubbed MVRV, the risk metric represents the ratio of Bitcoin’s market value to its realized value — similar to the price to …
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Top lawmakers in the United States have urged the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Gary Gensler, to approve a spot Bitcoin ETF despite the recent approval of futures-linked BTC ETFs. Lawmakers want a spot Bitcoin ETF approved In the letter, signed by Tom Emmer and Darren Soto, the legislators questioned the commission’s logic …
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Chainlink, the market-leading blockchain oracle solution, has crossed $75 billion in Total Value Secured (TVS). By their nature, blockchains and the smart contracts built atop them are unable to connect with real-world data and systems. Chainlink solves this problem through the use of oracle networks that pull and aggregate data from the real world in …
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Coinbase users can now borrow up to $1 million in cash using their Bitcoin as collateral, this information was revealed via the crypto exchange’s official Twitter handle. Coinbase users can borrow as much $1million in cash With this new feature, Coinbase customers in some selected states in the United States would be able to take …
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Pollen DeFi, the decentralized protocol that facilitates ‘hivemind’ weighting of asset pools that back up market-tradable tokens, today revealed their upcoming ‘Incentivised Beta’ platform release and details on how the ‘DeFi 2.0’ protocol will enable its unique community-managed financial instrument. The ‘Beta’ release, which goes live in December, will initially enable users to contribute to …
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has partnered up with France Fintech, a non-profit organization to accelerate the adoption of cryptocurrency in France. The $116 million initiative launched by Binance will assist in promoting crypto development in the region. The initiative was first disclosed by Binance’s CEO Changpeng Zhao. Binance’s new “objective moon” initiative The new initiative, known …
At the end of October, the product comparison website finder.com published new survey data about price predictions concerning the leading crypto asset ethereum. On November 1, Finder’s researchers published price predictions for the ethereum competitor solana, as Finder’s panelists predict the digital asset is expected to reach $235 by the year’s end and $1,178 by …
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On April 1, Bitcoin.com News published an in-depth report on the Smart Bitcoin Cash (Smartbch) protocol and its compatibility with Ethereum’s EVM and Web3 API before any Smartbch projects were seen in the wild. Seven months later, Smartbch has matured a great deal and metrics indicate that between three decentralized finance (defi) protocols, there’s roughly …
press release PRESS RELEASE. The latest strategic investment in emerging SocialFi startup Torum from KuCoin Labs will empower the development of a SocialFi Metaverse powered by VR and Web3.0 technologies. 4th November 2021, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — Following the strategic investment of Huobi Ventures and 20 other prominent crypto VCs, Torum SocialFi platform is excited …
Facing an electricity deficit largely blamed on cryptocurrency miners, Kazakhstan is trying to avoid an energy crisis this winter. The president of the country has insisted on the need to maintain power supply for the industry and population, calling for urgent legal regulation of the expanding coin minting sector. President Tokaev Calls for Legislative Regulation …
Bitcoin (BTC) may be over seven times higher than at its last halving, but if history repeats, that number could grow another 300% and more. As tracked by on-chain data source Ecoinometrics this month, BTC/USD has the potential to eclipse estimates simply by following historical precedent. Bitcoin: Compared to 2017, you ain’t seen nothing yet …
