Blockchain

The reason behind the decision to leave the Canadian market was not revealed by Bitstamp. Notably, the exchange follows Binance, OKX, and Bybit which announced their exit from Canada earlier. Luxembourg-based crypto exchange Bitstamp is planning to stop providing services in the Canadian market in January 2024. The deadline for withdrawing customers’ funds is January 8. Afterward, Bitstamp will deactivate Canadian users’ accounts. The announcement was shared by Bobby Zagotta, Bitstamp’s US...

Robert Linus – project lead at Bitcoin development group ZeroSync – has proposed a new system allowing developers to “compute anything on Bitcoin,” giving it functionality more similar to its neighboring crypto network Ethereum. Unlike other proposals to expand Bitcoin’s capabilities, “BitVM” does not require any changes to Bitcoin’s code that could cause the network and community to contentiously rift apart. What is BitVM? According to the project’s whitepaper published on...

Ethereum, the second-largest blockchain network, suffered a substantial setback through a sandwich attack, losing over $9K. This data underscores an increasing problem of sandwich attacks in the crypto sphere, with over $1.3 million lost through such schemes in the past 30 days on the Ethereum chain. The Sandwich Attack According to Eigenphi’s data, on Oct. 9, the Ethereum network experienced a significant sandwich attack by the MEV bot (0x00…6B40), resulting in a profit of...

Ripple (XRP) hat sich in der Krypto-Welt fest etabliert und zieht weiterhin die Aufmerksamkeit von Investoren und Enthusiasten auf sich. Mit seiner einzigartigen Technologie und den Partnerschaften, die das Unternehmen knüpft, ist die Zukunft von Ripple durchaus vielversprechend. Hier sind einige Gründe, warum: 1. Schnelle und kostengünstige Transaktionen Ripple bietet schnelle, zuverlässige und kostengünstige Transaktionsmöglichkeiten. Im...

In a bid to showcase how serious the Neutron project has become, more than 190 million ATOM tokens have been staked through the CosmWasm platform. Leading cryptocurrency exchange by Bitcoin balance and registered global users with KYC, Binance, has announced that Neutron (NTRN), a cross-chain smart-contracting platform, will be available for spot and margin trading with a seed tag. According to the announcement, the NTRN token spot trading will be available for select Binance users...

Subsquid’s integration with Flare paves the way for greater innovation and collaboration in the blockchain ecosystem. Flare Network, an EVM smart contract platform, has announced its collaboration with Subsquid,  a full-stack blockchain indexing solution to make historical data stored on the Flare blockchain readily available to developers utilizing the Subsquid network. Subsquid: A Game-Changer for Blockchain Data Access Subsquid is a full-stack blockchain indexing solution equipped with...

Beyond Binance’s own commitment, the IRI garnered an additional $100 million in contributions from 18 organizations by February 2023. A recent report from Bloomberg suggests that the $1 billion Industry Recovery Initiative (IRI), launched by Binance has fallen short of expectations, with only 2.7% of the committed funds deployed. The Industry Recovery Initiative was first announced by Binance in November 2022 as a beacon of hope for the industry following the collapse of the defunct FTX...

CCS Insight predicts that the EU will indeed be the first to introduce specific regulations for AI. CCS Insight, a leading technology research firm has made a bold prediction that generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is in for a reality check in 2024, as the hype surrounding this transformative technology gives way to the practical challenges it poses. The Cold Shower for Generative AI in 2024 According to recent reports, CSS Insight shared this prediction in its annual roundup of top...

The reason for the surprise was that the average sale price for CrypToadz is typically under $1,000, making the sudden hundredfold increase in value in a short period of time seem questionable to experts. On October 9th, an anonymous crypto user bought a CrypToadz NFT on the popular NFT marketplace OpenSea for a shocking price of 1,055 Wrapped Ethereum (wETH), equivalent to around $1.6 million. This expensive purchase of a single non-fungible token representing one of over 6,000...

Despite the selling pressure, Bitcoin has outperformed the broader crypto market with its market share crossing over 50%. Bitcoin and the broader cryptocurrency market have come under selling pressure amid rising geopolitical uncertainties and a recent war eruption between Israel and Palestine. The developments led to more than $100 million in bull call liquidations in futures positions. Also, the broader cryptocurrency market slid by a staggering 2%. Interestingly, in comparison to...