We are in the midst of a brutal downturn in the equity markets, due in large part to inflation causing the Federal Reserve to tighten interest...
Bitcoin (BTC) is in a consolidation phase characterized by a narrow price range with low trading volume. So far, the cryptocurrency has struggled to make a...
Digital assets have replaced real estate as the preferred alternative asset class, the bank said in its alternative asset outlook and strategy paper."While significant recession risks...
The year is 1995. It's 11:35 p.m. and the "Late Show with David Letterman" is airing nationally. Tonight's guest? A fledgling CEO of Microsoft (MSFT), one...
Ignite (formerly Tendermint), the company originally behind the Cosmos blockchain ecosystem, announced in February after a sensational rebranding that it will split into two entities: Ignite...
There has been a shift in thinking among major crypto investors, known as whales. Data shows that USD Coin (USDC) has become the stablecoin of choice...
FTX founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried stood before a room full of derivatives industry bigwigs and regulators Wednesday to argue in favor of his company's proposal...
After years of research, the Bank of Canada is preparing to develop its own central bank digital currency (CBDC). In a June 11 job posting, the central...
A snapshot of the Terra blockchain is expected to take place later this week ahead of the launch of "Terra 2.0," also known as the rebirth...
Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, will help Kazakhstan develop regulation for digital assets as the Central Asian country looks to develop its crypto industry beyond...
South Korea has become a global technology hub in recent decades, spawning industry giants like Samsung, LG and Hyundai. If the country's government gets its way,...
Mining a bitcoin block just got easier as some miners dropped out of the network to cut their losses. The difficulty to mine a bitcoin block dropped...
Crypto-focused venture capital fund NGC Ventures has raised $100 million for its latest blockchain fund.Investors in the Web 3 fund include Babel Finance, Huobi Ventures and...
Layer 1 blockchain Celestia has launched its "Mamaki" test network, moving one step closer to the first fully functional modular blockchain, the company announced Wednesday. Modular networks...
Good morning and welcome to First Mover. I'm Lyllah Ledesma, here to guide you through the latest crypto markets, news and insights.Price Point: Bitcoin does not...
The Proust Questionnaire - an old-fashioned magazine format popular in the French writer's day - asks a series of personal, philosophical, and prosaic questions that, in...
A united government could make it easier to agree on new crypto laws and "follow the spirit of Biden's executive order" to keep the U.S. at...
In a desperate attempt to stay relevant with a crypto-savvy audience, marketers around the world are betting on the metaverse trend, experimenting with everything from branded...
StarkWare Industries, which provides solutions to make blockchain technology more scalable, has received $100 million in a Series D funding round at a valuation of $8...
Wormhole, the Jump Crypto-backed cross-chain bridge, is expanding into the Cosmos ecosystem, marking the project's eleventh collaboration with a base-layer blockchain. Wormhole has partnered with Injective, an...
Cryptocurrency tax services company ZenLedger announced Wednesday that it has received $15 million in Series B funding, bringing the company's total funding to $27 million. After what...
The National Football League (NFL) is once again venturing into uncharted crypto territory, this time with the launch of its own play-to-earn game in partnership with...
The developers of Avalanche (AVAX) have asked the ApeCoin (APE) community to consider building the Bored Ape Yacht Club metaverse as an Avalanche subnet, according to...
Volt Capital, a crypto venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments, has received $50 million for its second fund from a list of industry heavyweights. The fund...
The Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) and Global Digital Finance (GDF) - the main industry associations for blockchain technology and digital asset adoption - will merge...
Decentralized Finance Project (DeFi) Lido Finance has voted overwhelmingly against supporting the new Terra blockchain, with less than 5.5% voting in favor. The revitalization plan was...
Babel Finance has achieved unicorn status after raising $80 million in a funding round that brings the crypto finance provider's value to $2 billion.The lead investors...
The last few weeks have been some of the most turbulent in cryptocurrency history. While the broader cryptocurrency and equity markets have plunged into a bear...
Andreessen Horowitz has announced a new $4.5 billion fund that will invest in cryptocurrency and Web 3 companies, according to an official statement.The fund is the...
Web 3 game studio MetaKings has received $15 million in a seed funding round that also included Makers Fund and Bitkraft Ventures, according to a press...
A snapshot of the Terra blockchain is expected to take place later this week ahead of the launch of "Terra 2.0," a so-called revival of the...
Crypto businesses are betting big on lending amid the market downturn with yield products that offer modest annual returns on their customers' dollars - at least...
DACS was created in response to the significant growth in the number and types of digital assets in the marketplace and the recognition that traditional classification...
Good morning. Here's what happened: Prices: Bitcoin rises, but remains below $30,000. Insights: bitcoin dominance is at a yearly high, but traders are preparing for another...
The latest Web 3 education platform promises executives who join it to "make money while you learn." Metacademy was founded by Shelly Palmer, a consultant known in...
Following the collapse of Terra's UST, stablecoin issuers may soon face stricter auditing protocols as investors seek more clarity. Alexandre Lores, head of blockchain market research at...
Michael Hsu, who heads a major U.S. banking agency, said the recent fiery collapse of TerraUSD (UST) and the larger drama that accompanied it should serve...
Ten years ago, the rebels had not won. There was no Web 3, no non-fungible tokens (NFTs), no decentralized finance (DeFi), no decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs)....
Bitcoin (BTC) traded lower on Tuesday as sentiment among crypto traders continues to decline. The Bitcoin Fear & Greed Index has been stuck in the "fear" zone...
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried said in a podcast Monday that he could donate as much as $1 billion in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.In an interview...
Argentina-based cryptocurrency exchange Buenbit has laid off 45% of its staff, the company told CoinDesk on Monday. According to the company, the team now consists of 100...
One of the highest-profile attempts to create a cryptocurrency law in Washington would finally distinguish the roles of the two main U.S. market regulators and free...
WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA - One topic dominated the conversation at Blockworks' Permissionless Conference last week: the collapse of Terra. After the death spiral of UST and...
Fintech company Stripe and bitcoin payment infrastructure platform OpenNode are teaming up to allow Stripe's merchant customers to instantly convert all or portions of incoming payments...
Scott Minerd, the Chief Investment Officer of Guggenheim Investments, has not been shy about making predictions about the price of Bitcoin (BTC) in recent years. His statements,...
Shiba Inu (SHIB) is primarily a meme coin. However, since its introduction, it has grown to create a swap meet, ShibaSwap, and is now adding additional...
Ted Cruz, the Republican U.S. senator for Texas, said he wants the "Lone Star State" to become an "oasis on planet Earth for Bitcoin [BTC] and...
What is Star Atlas?Star Atlas is a multiplayer gaming metaverse with a space theme, based on the Solana blockchain. It was developed by Automata and allows...
Argentina-based cryptocurrency exchange Buenbit has laid off 45% of its staff, the company told CoinDesk on Monday. According to the company, the team now consists of 100...
Bitcoin (BTC) continues to trade in a tight range, struggling to make a decisive break above or below $30,000. The cryptocurrency found support at $27,500, which...
The metaverse is likely overvalued. According to Crunchbase, funding for metaverse companies has increased from $5.9 billion in 2020 to $12.1 billion in 2021. It's hard to...
Bitcoin (BTC) has fallen more than 37% this year and has once again fallen below the $30,000 mark. However, one researcher sees the potential for even...
Popular decentralized financial exchange (DeFi) Uniswap announced Tuesday that it has processed $1 trillion in trading volume over its lifetime. According to data from CoinGecko, Uniswap ranked...
Bitcoin is experiencing eight consecutive weeks of losses for investors for the first time in its history. This is due to weak macroeconomic sentiment, inflation concerns,...
Minimum prices for the popular collection of non-fungible tokens (NFT) "Milady Maker" plummeted by nearly 70% last week after it emerged that its creator was a...
If you own or have received a non-fungible token (NFT), you may want to transfer that NFT from one crypto wallet to another, either for trading...
According to a report in the Korea Times, South Korean financial authorities are looking to introduce measures to tighten controls on crypto exchanges following the collapse...
Good morning and welcome to First Mover. I'm Lyllah Ledesma, here to guide you through the latest crypto markets, news and insights.Price Point: Bitcoin and Ether...
DeFi is short for "decentralized finance," an umbrella term for a variety of cryptocurrency or blockchain financial applications that aim to disrupt financial intermediaries. DeFi is inspired...
The metaverse is not just about creating realistic virtual experiences, but enabling hyperreal ones. This is the process of creating personalized content based on data, or...
Travel Rule Universal Solution Technology (TRUST), originally a group of five U.S. companies building an anti-money laundering (AML) system for cryptocurrency transactions, has increased its membership...
Bitcoin recorded its eighth consecutive week of losses for investors for the first time in its history. This was due to weak macroeconomic sentiment, inflation concerns,...
Coinbase (COIN) has been named to the Fortune 500, a ranking of the largest companies in the U.S. by revenue, making it the first cryptocurrency company...
Flowcarbon said it has raised $70 million to develop a carbon credit tokenization protocol aimed at encouraging investment in projects that remove carbon dioxide from the...
More financial institutions engaging in cryptocurrencies or digital assets as a means of payment could lead to a "spillover to the overall economy," the European Central...
Project Liberty, the initiative backed by real estate billionaire Frank McCourt that aims to disrupt today's social media platforms, has found a home on Polkadot, the...
It looks like Deutsche Telekom's (DTEGY) loss is Finoa's gain. Six months after leaving the European telecom giant, Andreas Dittrich and Daniel Schrader - two former Deutsche...
Good morning! Here's what happened: Prices: While stocks had a good day, Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies continued to struggle. Insights: The impact of the terra collapse will...
DAVOS, Switzerland - Even on the trains, there's no escaping cryptocurrency. The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) - canceled in 2021, postponed in 2022...
Wall Street bankers argue that the Federal Reserve's introduction of its own digital dollar could shake banking as we know it to its foundations. That's according...
Bitcoin (BTC) failed to hold above $30,000 on Monday as some buyers remained on the sidelines. The cryptocurrency fell later in the New York trading session,...
Representatives of the crypto industry resisted attempts to force them to report details of NFTs, decentralized financial transactions (DeFi) and bulk payments to tax authorities at...
Bitcoin (BTC) has been trading in a narrow range between $28,500 and $30,000 over the past week. Despite short-term fluctuations, the cryptocurrency has managed to hold...
Gaming and cryptocurrencies are increasingly mixed with terms like "metaverse" and "play-to-earn." If you want to try out this new world but don't know where to...
From time to time, a character emerges who so perfectly sums up society's great failings, people's natural greed, and our cross-cultural tendency to seek scapegoats for...
The metaverse will allow us to do things that we can't do in reality, much like video games. We can destroy things and kill people without...
An alleged pump-and-dump of the meme coin "Let's Go Brandon" by Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) appears to have prompted an investigation by the U.S. House of...
Bitcoin (BTC) has been trading in a narrow range between $28,500 and $30,000 over the past week. Despite short-term fluctuations, the cryptocurrency has managed to hold...
According to a report by KBS News on Monday, Korean police are looking to freeze Luna Foundation Guard's funds after stablecoin TerraUSD (UST) collapsed this month.Seoul...
As the non-fungible token (NFT) market continues to slide downward, down to Goblin Town, an NFT collection with a similar theme has caught fire. The collection, Goblintown.wtf,...
