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Annual US Dollar Remittances to Nigeria Surge to $34 Billion but Forex Woes Persist
31.8.2021
According to a report, the value of annual dollar remittances by Nigerians working abroad has surged to $34 billion, a figure that easily surpasses the previous record-high of $25 billion. Still, a large portion of the funds doesn’t seem to be entering domestic forex markets. Target Attained...
Bitcoin price sinks to $46.7K despite record accumulation and supply shock events
31.8.2021
Everything is bullish but the price when it comes to Bitcoin on Tuesday, the market still waiting for cues
Solana hits record high with SOL price up over 218% in six weeks — What's behind the rally?
27.8.2021
SOL price keeps rising as the U.S. securities regulator registered a Solana-centric fund for institutional investors and crypto market data network Pyth announced going live on the Solana blockchain
Record $900 million month for NFT sales as CryptoPunks go stratospheric
27.8.2021
Almost $400 million has been spent on CryptoPunks over the past 30 days
DeFi TVL hits a record $157B as Ethereum competitors attract investors
26.8.2021
Interoperability-focused projects that offer cross-chain bridges and lucrative liquidity mining pools are seeing an influx of funds right as DeFi’s TVL hit a new all-time high
13 Years Later, Fan Gets Tricky Zelda Record In Smash Bros.
25.8.2021
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is one of the most frequently, and thoroughly, speedrun games on the planet. Having been released almost 25 years ago, the game has been explored to death, and yet gamers find a way. There was one version of Ocarina of Time left undefeated for 13 years: the five...
Pakistani blockchain marketplace completes record $30M raise
25.8.2021
With total funding of $37.8 million to date, Bazaar Technologies is among Pakistan’s most capitalized startups
Trouble in AUD/USD Heighten After PMIs Record a Dip
23.8.2021
The fresh PMI outlook: Monday’s session started with the Australian dollar responding to a new set of economic data. The performance is coming in after a weak performance of the Australian dollar in the previous week. The PMI data that Markit International released on Monday morning shows...
Institutions appear bullish on crypto despite record Bitcoin outflows
22.8.2021
Despite Bitcoin posting its sixth consecutive week of institutional outflows, sentiment around the future of the asset class appears on the rise
Polygon eyes record high as MATIC's 150% price rally activates textbook bullish pattern
20.8.2021
Polygon's native asset, MATIC, tests its June resistance level near $1.51 for a bullish breakout setup
Australian Police Makes Record Crypto Seizure With Dark Web Drug Bust
20.8.2021
Australia’s Victoria Police have collected close to AUD 8.5m (USD 6m) worth of cryptocurrency in its recent clampdown on dark web drug trafficking. The bust, which targeted a number of properties in the country’s south-eastern state of Victoria, is said to be Australia’s biggest crypto seizure...
After 20 Years Of Attempts, 'Impossible' Goldeneye Trick Hails New World Record
13.8.2021
For more than two decades, Goldeneye 007 players have been trying to figure out how to get the fastest time on the game’s hardest level without grabbing an out of the way piece of body armor to help them survive. Turns out all speedrunner Gus Riolo needed to skip the body armor and claim the...
What bear market? Investors throw record cash behind blockchain firms in 2021
8.8.2021
VC investments into crypto over the first six months of 2021 have already more than doubled those witnessed in all previous years combined
Fed’s Vice Chair Says Tapering May Happen in 2021, Senator Joe Manchin ‘Alarmed Over Record Amount of Stimulus Injections’
6.8.2021
The U.S. central bank’s vice chairman Richard Clarida explained on Wednesday that the Federal Reserve could begin tapering large asset purchases this year. Also, that the first interest rate hike since the onset of Covid-19 could happen in 2023. Meanwhile, despite members of the Fed saying...
Russia to Track Crypto Transactions With Help From Sberbank-Owned Company
5.8.2021
The Federal Financial Monitoring Service of Russia is going to start tracking cryptocurrency transactions. The agency has already selected a contractor to develop the platform. The entity is affiliated with one of Russia’s largest financial institutions, Sberbank. Rosfinmonitoring to Keep...
Selling Lord Kek Dust — 2016 Rare Pepe NFTs See Fresh Demand Going for Thousands on Opensea
3.8.2021
During the first half of the year, non-fungible token (NFT) sales surged to $2.5 billion in 2021, and trade volume shows the trend hasn’t slowed down. For instance, July saw a record $363 million spent on approximately 157,801 NFT sales. Meanwhile, as new NFTs enter the space every day, older...
Breaking NFTs to Pieces: These 4 Projects Are Fractionalizing Grimes, Banksy, Cryptopunk NFTs
30.7.2021
While non-fungible token (NFT) collectibles have been all the rage, a few projects have been developing the concept of fractionalized NFTs so investors without deep pockets can purchase shares of an expensive collectible. On Thursday, the firm Otis revealed that people can invest in an NFT created...
Record 57K BTC leave exchanges in one day dropping Bitcoin reserves to pre-crash levels
29.7.2021
57,000 BTC leaves exchanges in a single day as demand returns with Bitcoin at the upper end of its multi-month trading corridor
Russian ‘Time Capsule’ to Facilitate Inheritance of Crypto Assets
29.7.2021
Researchers in Moscow are developing a new service that will allow users to transfer digital data to their heirs, including crypto keys. The Russian “time capsule” will be capable of storing and relaying other private information as well such as a record of the whereabouts of valuable...
Nasty YouTube Death Threat Hoax Has A Happy Ending
27.7.2021
It’s a sad truth of living on the internet that there’s usually someone out there more than happy to make your life a living hell. As public-facing figures, the couple behind popular YouTube gaming channel Girlfriend Reviews know this all too well, but they recently endured intimidation of...