On Wednesday, the cryptocurrency payments service company Bitwage announced that the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) strawweight Luana Pinheiro will be the first female UFC fighter to be paid in bitcoin. Pinheiro’s boyfriend, a UFC flyweight fighter, started getting paid in bitcoin last March and after her eight-fight winning streak, Pinheiro decided to follow her partner’s…
Read more
On Wednesday, the U.S. Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate by 75 basis points (bps) in order to tame inflation and stabilize the American economy. The recent rate hike is the U.S. central bank’s third rate increase after increasing the benchmark rate by 50 bps last March. Fed Hikes Rate by 75 bps for…
Read more
On Wednesday, the Web3 digital identity platform Unstoppable Domains announced the company has secured $65 million in financing in a Series A funding round led by Pantera Capital. The latest funding gives Unstoppable Domains a post valuation of $1 billion, pushing the blockchain startup up to unicorn status. Unstoppable Domains Joins the Growing List of…
Read more
Bitcoin price started an upside correction above the USD 21,000 level and is currently (11:51 UTC) trading near USD 21,300 and is up 1% in a day and down 9% in a week. Similarly, most major altcoins are facing key hurdles. ETH recovered above USD 1,450 but faces resistance near USD 1,500. XRP is trading…
Read more
An analysis of recent hacks targeting non-fungible token (NFT) projects carried out through the social media platform Discord shows that many of them are part of a larger string of attacks, according to blockchain intelligence company TRM Labs. Such attacks have rapidly risen over the past three months, and since May 2022, the NFT community has…
Read more
BNB, the native token of the Binance exchange, is forecast to end the year priced at USD 274, potentially hitting USD 781 by 2025, and USD 1,814 by the end of 2030, according to a recent survey by personal finance comparison site Finder.com. At 14:19 UTC, BNB, ranked 5th by market capitalization, trades at USD…
Read more
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. __________… Read More: Kraken Under Investigation, Unstoppable Crypto Unicorn, Coub.com Goes NFT + More News Read more »Pay, Trade, Buy Bitcoin with Credit Card
The trio launched Holepunch with a vision to bestow control over data while breaking technology monopolies, among others. Staying true to the “bear market is for building” motto, crypto exchange Bitfinex along with Tether (USDT) and Hypercore announced the launch of a fully encrypted platform, Holepunch, for building peer-to-peer applications. As part of the initiative,…
Read more
Paystand CEO Jeremy Almond said that companies must be resilient and optimistic about the world that they are creating. While many crypto veterans give out a wide range of bear market advice and strategies, some opt for a more straightforward approach—optimism. Being resilient and positive during this time is very important, according to Jeremy Almond,…
Read more
Months after rolling out its first collection of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), the Dubai Police has said it will launch the next collection at the 2022 edition of The Gulf Information Technology Expo (GITEX). People from outside the country will also get a chance to own the next Dubai Police NFT collection. First Government Entity in…
Read more
