Just after 100,000 in USDC were blacklisted by Centre, Tether blacklists 46 million Tether in Ethereum addresses. Tether (USDT) has blacklisted 39 Ethereum addresses worth $46 million in USDT, with 24 holding a total of over 5.5 million USDT being blacklisted this year. This revelation comes on the back of Centre’s first blacklisting of an…
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Does this week’s 300 million USDT migration from Tron to Ethereum blockchain mean trouble is brewing for TRX? On June 29, Tether announced a sizable swap of USDT from the Tron blockchain to the Ethereum protocol. Tether explained that the amount of USDT in circulation would remain the same, meaning that USDT (TRC-20) will be…
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Last Monday, Chinese media reported that police in Guangdong froze thousands of bank accounts belonging to over-the-counter traders. It was reported last week that thousands of bank accounts belonging to Chinese over-the-counter cryptocurrency traders were recently frozen by law enforcement. The police claimed that this was part of a wider investigation into illegal activities, such…
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Turkish real estate firm Antalya Homes announced that its customers can now pay for properties listed on its platform with Bitcoin. Turkish real estate firm Antalya Homes announced that its customers can now pay for properties listed on its platform with Bitcoin (BTC). According to a June 15 announcement, Antalya Homes claims to have recorded…
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One month after the Bitcoin halving, several key factors seem to point to a pivotal change in the BTC market and investor behavior. One month has passed since the 2020 Bitcoin (BTC) miner reward halving, and a lot has happened for the predominant cryptocurrency since then. From changes in investor and trader behavior to an…
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Coinbase’s institutional custody platform tweeted out a Tether (USDT) support unveiling, only to subsequently delete the tweet. Coinbase Custody, an international institutional cryptocurrency holdings arm of well-known U.S. exchange Coinbase, announced compatibility for stablecoin Tether (USDT), only to delete traces of the announcement shortly thereafter. Coinbase Custody, as well as Tether CTO Paolo Ardoino, unveiled…
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A report indicates that no Ethereum-based Tethers have ever been burned, though new ones are constantly being printed. A report from Flipside Crypto indicates that no Ethereum (ETH)-based Tether (USDT) tokens have ever been burned. The report has also come to a conclusion that the stablecoin is mostly used by arbitrageurs on centralized exchanges. The…
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The race for third place is still far from over. Tether (USDT) has overtaken XRP to become the third largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, as Ripple fails to gain adoption amongst retail investors. Top 10 Cryptocurrencies by Market Capitalization. Source: CoinMarketCap As for Ripple (XRP), it’s been a race to the bottom, its market cap…
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Compound has implemented two historic community-driven proposals amid the launch of its governance token. Decentralized finance, or DeFi, protocol, Compound, has implemented its first two community-driven governance proposals in the past week. The proposals come ahead of the launch of Compound’s Governance token (COMP) — which will be used to facilitate community-driven protocol upgrades and…
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As Bitcoin pushed past $8,000 and began its ascent to $9,000, the Tether Treasury minted over 160 million new tokens. With Bitcoin (BTC) ascending sharply in the last eight hours — over $9,100 at press time — U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin Tether (USDT) is on a minting spree. Whalebot Alerts has reported that Tether issued more than…
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