👋 Want to work with us? CryptoSlate is hiring for a handful of positions! Payment technology company Mastercard has teamed up with the Latin American (LATAM) e-commerce firm Mercado Libre to improve the security and transparency of its crypto program in Brazil using Mastercard’s CipherTrace technology. Mastercard acquired CipherTrace, a crypto intelligence and analytics firm, …
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👋 Want to work with us? CryptoSlate is hiring for a handful of positions! Members of ApeCoin DAO (decentralized autonomous organization), have voted to stay on Ethereum, instead of moving to another layer 1 or layer 2 blockchain. The vote passed by a small margin as 53.62% voted to stay on Ethereum, with 46.38% against …
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👋 Want to work with us? CryptoSlate is hiring for a handful of positions! U.S. Senate candidate Brian Solstin in a Tweet opposed Senator Cynthia Lummis‘ bill aimed at incorporating digital assets into the U.S. financial system by arguing that Bitcoin should be considered separately from other digital assets, using a report published by the …
The founder of financial tech company Block Inc., Jack Dorsey announced he is collaborating with the rapper Jay-Z by launching a Bitcoin Academy in Brooklyn. The Bitcoin Academy’s mission aims to empower and provide education to the region. The project’s website further details that residents of Marcy House, located in Brooklyn, New York will be …
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Solana Ventures has revealed the launch of a $100 million fund dedicated to Web3 startups in South Korea. According to Solana Labs’ general manager Johnny Lee, the capital will be dedicated to non-fungible tokens (NFTs), decentralized finance (defi), and game finance (gamefi) development. Solana Ventures Reveals $100 Million Web3 Fund Dedicated to Finding Talent and …
A popular crypto strategist is looking at one key metric to determine whether or not Bitcoin (BTC) has finally reached the bottom during the current extended bear market. The pseudonymous trader Rekt Capital offers his 312,800 Twitter followers a lengthy thread about how Bitcoin’s price is affected by its exponential moving average (EMA), a calculation …
A popular crypto analyst is revealing what history says will happen to leading digital asset Bitcoin (BTC) after it once again reaches its “death cross.” In a new video update, pseudonymous analyst Rekt Capital tells his 44,000 YouTube subscribers BTC has recently hit its death cross once again, meaning its short-term moving average has dipped …
Cardano (ADA) founder Charles Hoskinson is revealing that the Terra (LUNA) collapse has impacted the development of the sixth-largest crypto asset by market cap. Hoskinson says the ripple effects of the de-pegging of the TerraUSD (UST) algorithmic stablecoin have forced Cardano developers to exercise more caution in plans for a Vasil upgrade. “Our engineers are …
A pair of decentralized finance (DeFi) altcoins are joining top US crypto exchange Coinbase’s roster of assets. In an announcement, Coinbase says Index Cooperative (INDEX) will start trading on Coinbase Pro paired with Tether (USDT) once appropriate liquidity conditions are met. Index Cooperative seeks to create user-friendly and profitable investment products by bringing together people …
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Thursday rejected Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon’s dispute of a subpoena by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The federal agency was seeking documents and testimony in connection with its investigation of whether Terra used the Mirror Protocol to sell unregistered securities. Kwon was …
Ether (ETH) is down 25% in just a month and even the recent upgrade to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus on the Ropsten testnet failed to move the altcoin’s price. The merge is meant to address energy-use issues and open a path for higher transaction output, but the actual full transition for the Ethereum network is …
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On a sun-splashed day in the Swiss Alps, the chief technology officer of Bitfinex and Tether, Paolo Ardoino, shed light on the Plan B Lugano strategy, Tether as an onramp into Bitcoin (BTC) and —crucially — his favorite pizza toppings. Fresh off the plane from Norway, where Ardoino attended an increasingly Bitcoiner-friendly event, the Oslo …
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Law firms Holland & Knight and Bluestone have served a defendant in a hacking case with a temporary restraining order through a nonfungible token, marking the first known legal process to be facilitated by an NFT. The so-called “service token” or “service NFT” was served to an unnamed defendant in a hacking case involving LCX, …
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Key takeaways: ViacomCBS has partnered with RECUR to launch NFTs across its portfolio of consumer brands. ViacomCBS is the parent company of Nickelodeon, MTV, CBS, BET, Comedy Central, Paramount Pictures, and Showtime Networks Inc. Nickelodeon already has a Twitter page on NFTs. The NFTs will be launched in the spring of 2022, focusing on building …
The Ethereum network introduced the development of self-executing lines of code called smart contracts. In the last couple of years, smart contracts have become the bedrock of the decentralised finance (DeFi) ecosystem. Hence, investors may be looking for promising smart contract crypto to buy as DeFi continues to gain traction. This article will help investors …
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