In a move that could point towards greater decentralization and wider access, the Nexus Mutual community is currently considering a proposal to sunset the coverage protocol’s legal entity and lift Know Your Customer (KYC) burdens currently necessary to interact with the platform. The proposal was announced yesterday in a Tweet by investment fund 1kx co-founder
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The city government of South Korea’s capital Seoul has announced the seizure of cryptocurrencies worth 25 billion won ($22 million) from individuals and company heads. According to a report by The Korea Times, the confiscated crypto came from people identified as tax delinquents by the city’s tax collection agency. As part of the investigation, the
press release PRESS RELEASE. AscendEX, formerly BitMax, an industry-leading digital asset trading platform built by Wall Street quant trading veterans, has announced the listing of the Crowny Token (CRWNY) under the pair USDT/CRWNY on Apr 21 at 1:00 p.m. UTC. Crowny has created a new platform by aligning blockchain and digital assets with the world
As Bitcoin (BTC) lost the $52,000 support on April 22, the futures contracts funding rate entered negative terrain. This uncommon situation causes the shorts, investors betting on price downside, to pay fees every 8 hours. While the rate itself is mildly damaging, this situation creates incentives for arbitrage desks and market makers to buy perpetual
As Bitcoin price crashed below $50,000, mainstream media highlighted that the selling across the market could have been triggered by reports that the Biden administration proposed increasing the capital gains tax to 39.6% from the current 20% for people earning more than $1 million a year. In other news, there was an apparent exit scam carried
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) fell by 15% and 20%, respectively, on April 23 as the cryptocurrency market became engulfed in a major correction. Five factors likely caused the price of Bitcoin and Ethereum to steeply drop in a single day include mass liquidation, an overheated futures market, the decline of Kimchi
Bitcoin has gained increasing levels of adoption over the past several months amid its rise past $60,000. Louisiana’s state government recently released a resolution in which it noted some of Bitcoin’s (BTC) accomplishments. “THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby commend Satoshi Nakamoto for his contribution
Bitcoin and the wider cryptocurrency market took a beating in the late hours of April 22 and intense selling saw (BTC) price dip below $48,000 in a move that came as a relief to quant analysts like PlanB who were worried that the price growth was showing signs of being inorganic. A variety of factors have been identified
sponsored The craze for Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) has engulfed the blockchain space as more people move towards this unique sector. The ability to sell works of art and tokenize real-life assets has ensured that the NFT sector has grown immensely, with record sales of NFTs witnessed in recent weeks. However, to this point the NFTs
A report by Messari researcher Roberto Talamas explores the performance of the most important cryptocurrencies in the “ecosystem wars”. From Ethereum, Cosmos, Solana, Binance Smart Chain, DeFi seems to be moving from a “trend” to a relevant sector for any platform looking to take a share of the $55.29 billion in Total Value Locked (TVL)
Bitcoin (BTC) is expected to dip as low as $32,500 in the short term after several crucial support levels faded to nothing on April 23. BTC/USD hit lows not seen since early March on Friday, as analysts line up their prognoses — and buy orders — in the latest Bitcoin price correction. Brandt plans to
The United States’ largest cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase, is listing Tether (USDT) on its professional trading platform. According to a Thursday announcement, Coinbase Pro has enabled USDT deposits ahead of the trading launch scheduled for April 26. The company said that trading will begin if liquidity conditions are met, stressing that Coinbase only supports ERC-20 USDT
Unlike its neighbor to the south that continues to procrastinate, Canada seems to be fast-tracking crypto assets — as evident again last week in its regulatory green light for three new Ether (ETH)-based exchange-traded funds, North America’s first. “Having an easily accessed ETF in Canada changes the competitive landscape,” Campbell Harvey, professor of international business
Following the Fei Protocol falling short of expectations at the beginning of April, much ink has been spilled on the doomed design of the FEI stablecoin and the possible ways to recover. Covalent’s latest findings in Cointelegraph Consulting’s biweekly newsletter adds up to the discussion by taking a closer look at how the Fei Protocol
Growing up in poverty in Suriname, Etiënne vantKruys was told by his teacher he’d never succeed — but it only made him more determined to not follow in the footsteps of his parents. Thanks, in part, to crypto, he’s now living the dream. Despite his high-flying crypto VC lifestyle today, vantKruys keeps at least one
A recent market report by Localbitcoins suggests that traders or holders under the age of 34 are driving crypto volumes in Egypt. This rise in Egyptian crypto transactions is evidenced by P2P data which shows the crypto asset’s weekly traded volumes averaging $205,000 in much of Q1 of 2021. The Premium on BTC In addition