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Seized Silk Road Bitcoin to Clear Ross Ulbricht's $183 Million Debt
22.4.2022
Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht will see his $183 million debt to the U.S. government wiped out following the seizure of $3 billion in bitcoin
Broxus CEO Vlad Ponomarev on Everscale and Developing a Universal Bridge Mechanism
22.4.2022
Everscale is the most scalable network in DeFi. With the capacity to process over a million transactions per second, Everscale is able to offer users some of the fastest transaction speeds paired with fractional fees. The Everscale ecosystem includes a cross-chain bridge platform with a unique...
Moonbirds NFT Sales Skyrocket Capturing $364 Million in 5 Days
21.4.2022
A non-fungible token (NFT) collection called Moonbirds has been a topical conversation within the NFT community as the compilation’s sales have been enormous. The Moonbirds NFT project started selling five days ago on April 16, and since then statistics show the collection has seen $364.83...
In-depth: how Dread Hunger hit 1 million sales
20.4.2022
Also: a new player survey, and heaps of platform news
Windvane and KuCoin Ventures Launch Creators Fund of $100 Million to Web 3.0 Universe
20.4.2022
KuCoin is a cryptocurrency exchange platform spread across the globe with a presence in 207 countries and regions. It was launched in September 2017 and has successfully registered around 10 million users. Around 600 digital assets are listed on KuCoin, ranking the platform in the top five Crypto...
Yeti Posts $500 Million TVL in 24 Hours After Launch on Avalanche
20.4.2022
DeFi has grown large enough to offer everything a traditional finance firm could offer in the last few years. The DeFi borrowing protocol is the recent addition to this list and brings tonnes of benefits one can only seem of in TradFi. Yet is one such borrowing protocol built in the Avalanche...
US Secret Service Has Seized Cryptocurrency Worth Over $102 Million in 254 Fraud Cases
20.4.2022
The U.S. Secret Service has seized cryptocurrency worth more than $102 million in 254 fraud-related investigations. “What criminals want to do is sort of muddy the waters and make efforts to obfuscate their activities,” said the assistant director of the Secret Service’s Office...
Podcast: Dread Hunger's James Tan on its million-selling success
20.4.2022
Listen now (43 min) | Looking at the social deduction smash in depth
Lazarus Gets Banned by Tornado Cash for Hacking $600 Million From Axie Infinity’s Ronin Bridge
19.4.2022
Tornado Cash is a decentralized protocol that allows users to have a private Ethereum transaction on the network. Tornado Cash breaks the on-chain link between the source address and the destination address to keep transactions private. A smart contract is deployed to execute the private...
Indian Crypto Exchange CoinDCX Raises Over $135 Million in New Funding Round
19.4.2022
The raise brings CoinDCX's valuation to more than $2 billion, said Rasika Joshi, the company's media relations director
Terra’s Algorithmic Dollar-Pegged Crypto UST Is Now the Third-Largest Stablecoin
18.4.2022
The algorithmic stablecoin stemming from the Terra (LUNA) network has become the third-largest stablecoin token in terms of market capitalization at $17.54 billion. As of today, UST’s market capitalization has surpassed the BSC-based stablecoin BUSD by more than $67 million. Stablecoin...
$76 Million Wiped Out From Beanstalk Stablecoin Protocol in Hacking
18.4.2022
Beanstalk has been built on Ethereum, and it is a decentralized credit-based stablecoin protocol. Beanstalk leverages its credit system to create a blockchain native asset that is liquid and decentralized. Beanstalk encourages the participation of its community members to maintain the peg...
NFT Sales Volume Saw a Small Uptick This Week — Moonbirds, Mutant Apes Take Top Sales
17.4.2022
Non-fungible token (NFT) sales saw a small uptick over the last week as $658.4 million in NFT sales were recorded, up 3.35% in seven days. Out of 15 blockchains, Polygon-based NFT sales saw the largest increase in volume, jumping 106.68% this week. Moreover, over the last seven days, an...
Luna Foundation Purchases Another $5 Million in Bitcoin, LFG Wallet Holds 42,530 BTC
15.4.2022
The Luna Foundation Guard (LFG) purchased an additional 123.89 bitcoin on Friday worth close to $5 million at the time of settlement. Since mid-March, Terra’s LFG has been acquiring bitcoin on a regular basis and after the purchase on Friday morning, the non-profit organization...
Research Shows More Than 1 Million Australians Own Cryptocurrency
15.4.2022
A recent study by major market research firm Roy Morgan shows that more than 1 million Australians now own cryptocurrency. “The value of all cryptocurrency holdings for people aged 50+ is around $7.6 billion,” the study shows. Study: Over 1 Million Australians Own Cryptocurrency...
Japan’s Top Messaging App LINE Launches Marketplace With 40,000 NFTs
15.4.2022
Japan’s top social network and messaging app, LINE, has launched a marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The new service allows 90 million LINE users to send and exchange NFTs with their friends. ‘LINE NFT’ Marketplace Launched LVC Corp., the operator of LINE’s...
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Drops for the Third Time in 2022, Just Over 100K Blocks to Go Until the Halving
14.4.2022
Bitcoin miners have received their third break this year as the network’s mining difficulty adjusted downward by 1.26% on April 14 at block height 731,808. Currently, miners have more than 200 exahash per second (EH/s) in computational power dedicated to mining the Bitcoin blockchain...
Guy Buys NFT For $2.9 Million, Asks for $48 Million, Is Offered $3600
14.4.2022
Sina Estavi is a “crypto entrepreneur”, who last year bought a digital token representing Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s first ever tweet. He paid $2.9 million for it, and this month sought to make good on his “investment”, putting it up for auction with an expectation it could net him $48 million....
Luna Foundation Buys 2,508 Bitcoin for $100 Million, Stash Is Only 495 BTC Away From Tesla’s Balance
13.4.2022
On April 13, Terra’s Luna Foundation Guard (LFG) acquired 2,508.94 bitcoin worth close to $100 million at the time of settlement. The purchase follows the 4,130 bitcoin LFG scooped up three days ago, and LFG’s wallet is now just over 495 bitcoin away from surpassing Tesla’s...
Polygon Allocates $20 Million for Eco Initiatives Following Its Green Manifesto
13.4.2022
The environmental impacts and sustainability are probably the primary criticisms directed toward blockchains and cryptocurrencies. Although the recent projects have brought in several sustainable solutions, legacy chains like Bitcoin and Ethereum still lead the list for the highest amount of carbon...