Bahrain Central Bank Issues New Regulations Governing Operations of Crowdfunding Platforms
1.5.2022
The Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) has said new regulations compelling operators of crowdfunding platforms to ensure their products are suitable for clients are set to replace existing rules which were first issued in 2017. Segregation of Client Money From Platform Operators The Central Bank...
How to Play Metaverse Games: A Beginner’s Guide to Decentraland
1.5.2022
Virtual gaming is arguably one of the most exciting blockchain use cases. The ability to allocate verifiable and traceable ownership to in-game items for players expands the gaming universe, merging it with real-world economies. This notion has become popular, allowing for the development...
Liquidity has driven DeFi’s growth to date, so what’s the future outlook?
1.5.2022
On-chain liquidity was the catalyst of DeFi Summer 2020, but what will lead the DeFi markets to hit a trillion dollars within another year or two?
ApeCoin slides 40% in three days despite Otherside metaverse land sale — here's why
1.5.2022
APE price could see more downside in the coming days as the Otherside hype cools down
Solana Co-Founder Believes Bitcoin Needs to Change to Proof-of-Stake Consensus to Remain Relevant
1.5.2022
Anatoly Yakovenko, one of the co-founders of Solana, the proof-of-stake based, smart contracts enabled blockchain, issued a series of statements criticizing bitcoin’s consensus algorithm. In an interview on CNBC, Yakovenko stated that bitcoin might lose adoption if it doesn’t change...
Warning: Smartphone text prediction guesses crypto hodler’s seed phrase
1.5.2022
Redditor Andre highlighted the ease with which hackers can use the text prediction feature to drain a user’s funds just by being able to first word out of the BIP 39 list
India Exploring Commercial Uses for Central Bank Digital Currency, Says Finance Minister
1.5.2022
The Indian government is exploring “several commercial use purposes and not just financial inclusion” for its central bank digital currency. India’s finance minister clarified that the aim is for the digital rupee, which will be backed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), to...
Solana Goes Dark For 7 Hours as Bots Swarm ‘Candy Machine’ NFT Minting Tool
1.5.2022
Self-custody, control and identity: How regulators got it wrong
1.5.2022
The EU proposal requiring one to link a self-custodial wallet to their identity fundamentally misunderstands the concept of self-custody
Rari Fuze hacker offered $10M bounty by Fei Protocol to return $80M loot
1.5.2022
DeFi investigator BlockSec’s monitoring system detected a loss of more than $80 million — citing the root cause as a typical reentrancy vulnerability
With an ‘Aggressive’ Fed Rate Hike Expected Next Week, Stocks and Crypto Markets Lose Billions
1.5.2022
Investors will be focused on the U.S. central bank this Wednesday as Federal Reserve policymakers are expected to raise the benchmark interest rate aggressively. The top U.S. stock indexes saw significant losses at the end of the week, and the Nasdaq composite saw its worst four-month starting...
Swiss National Bank: ‘Buying Bitcoin Is Not a Problem for Us’
1.5.2022
Switzerland’s central bank, the Swiss National Bank, says buying and holding bitcoin as a reserve currency is not a problem for the bank. “We can arrange the technical and operative conditions relatively quickly, when we are convinced we must have bitcoin in our balance sheet,”...