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Optimism Stack Update: OP to Support Layer Three With Funding, Features, and Revenue Sharing
9.5.2024
Ethereum scaling solution provider Optimism announced plans to enhance blockchain throughput by integrating Layer three applications on top of its OP Stack, aiming to foster a Superchain network where Layer threes can build and share revenue with the Optimism Collective. The OP Stack, an open...
Tether Boosts Crypto Payments in Eastern Europe with Investment in CityPay.io
9.5.2024
Tether officially declared its injection of additional investment into CityPay.io, a platform enabling users to make payments at various establishments, including Wendy’s and Radisson Hotels, using cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.
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Ghana Postal Company Launches ‘Crypto Stamp’ to Mark Ascension of Traditional Ghanaian Ruler
9.5.2024
The Ghana Post Company recently launched what it termed the first-ever crypto stamp to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the reign of a ceremonial ruler in Ghana. The managing director of the Ghana Post Company asserted that the crypto stamps would act as a bridge, linking the older and younger...
Emergency ‘wall of liquidity’ to prop up Yen bullish for Bitcoin: Swan
9.5.2024
Swan Bitcoin's Dante Cook suggests that Bitcoin could benefit from the declining Japanese yen, depending on what the U.S. and Japan central banks do next
Rwandan Research Paper Recommends CBDC With ‘Partial Pseudo-Anonymity’
9.5.2024
A recent research paper from the National Bank of Rwanda recommends a two-tier, universal, zero-interest central bank digital currency (CBDC) with partial pseudo-anonymity. Although the research paper identifies 15 opportunities for CBDC, only four are said to offer “high potential benefits...
Crypto Wallet Firm Exodus Faces Unexpected Setback in NYSE Uplisting Plan
9.5.2024
Exodus Movement, a crypto wallet company, announced that its planned listing on NYSE American will not proceed as scheduled due to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) still reviewing its registration statement, despite the statement being declared effective at the end of April....
Tokyo-Based Crypto Exchange Coincheck to List on Nasdaq Through Merger
9.5.2024
Coincheck, a Japanese cryptocurrency exchange, has made a public filing to list Coincheck Group B.V. on Nasdaq through a De-SPAC transaction with Thunder Bridge Capital Partners IV Inc. This follows an earlier announcement from March 22, 2022, detailing plans by Monex Group Inc., Coincheck’s...
Crypto Derivatives Exchange Bitmex Ventures Into Options Trading
9.5.2024
On Wednesday, the cryptocurrency exchange and derivatives trading platform Bitmex declared its introduction of new trading options. Users now have the opportunity to engage in a broad selection of crypto options, which are margined in bitcoin, USDT, or USDC. Bitmex Introduces Options Trading...
Argentina Energy Provider Seals New Bitcoin Mining Deal
9.5.2024
Argentina’s state-run energy provider has completed a new Bitcoin (BTC) mining deal that will see the firm use associated gas to power 1,200 ASIC mining rigs in Patagonia.
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Standard Chartered: Second Trump Term Would Be ‘Broadly Positive’ for Crypto
9.5.2024
Standard Chartered Bank predicts that a second term for the Trump administration would create a favorable regulatory landscape, leading to a positive outlook for the crypto sector. The bank has revised its forecast citing improved market sentiment after cautioning that bitcoin’s price could...
Bitcoin Price Prediction as $1B Liquidity Fund Launched for Hong Kong Crypto ETFs – Will Asia Lead the Next Bull Market?
9.5.2024
The launch of a $1 billion liquidity fund in Hong Kong could be the catalyst for a bullish resurgence in Bitcoin's market value.
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Coinbase Legal Chief Urges SEC Chair to Stop Misleading the Market About Crypto Tokens Being Securities
9.5.2024
Coinbase’s chief legal officer has publicly urged U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler to stop misleading the market regarding crypto tokens being securities. His request followed Gensler’s repeated assertions that numerous crypto tokens conform to...
Core Scientific sees revenue surge in 1Q24 after emerging from bankruptcy
8.5.2024
Bitcoin miner Core Scientific has posted $150 million in revenue from digital asset mining in the first quarter of 2024, boosting its gross margin to 46% from 26% in the previous year
Best Crypto to Buy Today May 8 – Ethereum Classic, Tron, Kaspa
8.5.2024
As blue-chip cryptocurrencies trade with a bearish bias on Wednesday, with Bitcoin (BTC) sliding back to the $62,000s after it found resistance at its 50DMA earlier this week, traders are parsing through the altcoins markets as they look for the best crypto to buy today that might deliver quick...
Kgothatso Ngako: How I Brought the Machankura Bitcoin App to Africa
8.5.2024
Ngako is speaker at this year's Consensus festival, in Austin, Texas, May 29-31
Crypto Markets Under Pressure as $2B Worth of Altcoin Token Unlocks and $11B Bitcoin Distribution Loom
8.5.2024
Investors should brace for waves of fear, uncertainty and doubt – or FUD – over the next few months, a K33 Research analyst said
ECB’s Joachim Nagel Urges Central Banks to Evolve: ‘We Need to Work on Our Business Model’
8.5.2024
Joachim Nagel, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank and Member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB), has raised concerns about central banks’ business model. “If part of your core product is loosening attractiveness then you have to think about another new core...
House Slated To Vote Today On Controversial Crypto Bulletin SAB 121 Resolution
8.5.2024
The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote this afternoon on a resolution proposed by Representatives Wiley Nickel (D-NC) and Mike Flood (R-NE) that would see a formal disapproval of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Staff Accounting Bulletin (SAB) 121. News of...
Vaneck Introduces Meme Coin Tracking With ‘MEMECOIN’ Index
8.5.2024
The investment management firm Vaneck has expanded into the meme coin sector with the launch of its new Marketvector meme coin index, “MEMECOIN.” This index, available through Marketvector Indexes—a company focused on digital assets and various other sectors—monitors the performance...
Price analysis 5/8: BTC, ETH, BNB, SOL, XRP, DOGE, TON, ADA, AVAX, SHIB
8.5.2024
Bitcoin’s dull range-bound action is likely to continue for a few more days as the bulls and the bears battle for control of BTC price