Ministries Queried About Missing 200,000 Bitcoins as Bulgaria Explores Crypto Payments
28.1.2022
The recently elected government of Bulgaria has found itself in the position of answering questions about the fate of billions of dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency reportedly confiscated by the country’s law enforcement five years ago. Meanwhile, the new finance minister has revealed...
Multichain DApp protocol Astar raises $22M in latest round led by Polychain
28.1.2022
Funds will be used for hiring industry-leading engineers to implement both EVM and WASM and to invest and nurture Astar native ecosystem projects
Celebrate Lunar Spring Festival with Gate.io Theme: a Holiday for Some, Rewards for Everyone
28.1.2022
Gate.io wishes all its users a very happy Lunar Spring Festival! May the year of the Tiger bring you health, wealth, love, and prosperity. To mark this special occasion, Gate.io will be launching a special event called “A Holiday For Some, Rewards For Everyone”. We will send out millions...
Mushroom-Inspired NFT’s? This Company Says Yes…and It’s for a Good Cause
28.1.2022
American mushroom supplements company VidaCap recently announced that they would release 150 rare and collectible NFT cards on OpenSea to support Alzheimer’s research and nootropic educational awareness. The cards, which vary in rarity and will be available for purchase on February 7th on...
Google Cloud ramps up blockchain efforts by launching digital assets team
28.1.2022
The New Google Cloud team aims to accelerate customers' efforts in the emerging blockchain and crypto spaces, a blog post explained
Pandemic Has Accelerated Crypto Market’s Transformation Into Commodity Market - Research
28.1.2022
The cryptocurrency market is beginning to consolidate and is increasingly similar to a commodity market, with an increased correlation between cryptos coinciding with the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to researchers from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy...
Putin Supports Cryptocurrency Mining, Despite Central Bank Stance
28.1.2022
As per 3 people familiar with the matter, President Vladimir Putin supports the Russian government’s proposal to tax as well as govern cryptocurrency mining while dismissing the central bank’s proposition to outright ban it. Putin approved a plan, which would enable extraction to proceed...
Bitcoin and Ethereum Face Strong Resistance, LUNA, ATOM Dive
28.1.2022
Bitcoin price climbed above the USD 37,000 level but there was no upside continuation. BTC trimmed gains and traded below USD 36,500. It is currently (11:56 UTC) consolidating near this level.
Similarly, most major altcoins are consolidating below resistance. ETH failed to surpass the USD 2,500...
Polygon Developer Ecosystem Reaches New Milestone
28.1.2022
According to info from Alchemy, the world’s biggest Web3 developer platform, Polygon had already achieved a new adoption landmark, with over 7,000 decentralized applications running on the system as of Dec., more than doubling the amount only before three months. The year before, the rising...
Users Can Now Set NFTs as Their Profile Picture on Reddit
28.1.2022
Reddit is trying to test a tool that lets consumers use any NFT people own as their profile pic, not just its own ETH-based Non-Fungible Tokens, known as “CryptoSnoos,” which were published in limited numbers the year before. A related feature designed to allow users to set their NFTs...
As SOL Crashes, Melania Trump’s NFT Sale Ends in Tears
28.1.2022
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are distinct and non-transferable units of data stored on a digital ledger or blockchains, the same technology that underpins cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. They’ve grown in popularity recently, thanks in part to viral cryptocurrency hits like Dogecoin...
Binance Begins Allowing EUR Deposits and Withdrawals via SEPA Payment Network
28.1.2022
Crypto exchange Binance has partnered with Paysafe to allow EUR deposits and withdrawals via the SEPA payment network. “The full re-opening of SEPA channels will scale up across the markets in due course,” Binance noted. Binance Resuming SEPA Transfers in Phases Cryptocurrency...