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Pepe Coin (PEPE), a memecoin launched in mid-April, has quickly emerged as one of the sensations in the cryptocurrency industry. Its price has skyrocketed by a staggering 638% for the past week, whereas the gains for the past 24 hours alone reached 90%. The asset’s market capitalization has also skyrocketed to almost $700 million. Some possible reasons behind the substantial rise could be the overall positive condition of the market following the Fed’s latest interest rate...

Sam Bankman-Fried – the former crypto executive behind popular digital currency trading platform FTX – has been charged with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by allegedly attempting to bribe officials from China. Sam Bankman-Fried Is Facing New Charges Prosecutors claim that Sam Bankman-Fried attempted to send money to Chinese officials so they would unfreeze roughly $1 billion under his name. The money is being held through his secondary company Alameda...

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[PRESS RELEASE – Mahe, Seychelles, May 4th, 2023] BitMEX, a leading cryptocurrency derivatives exchange, today announced the listing of two new perpetual contracts, PEPE and SUI. BitMEX is proud to be the first derivatives exchange to list SUI Perpetuals Contracts and the second to list PEPE Perpetuals Contracts. The recent meteoric rise of PEPE has raised concerns about liquidity for its holders. The token’s market capitalization surged to $137 million in less than a week....

In 2022, the Big Oil companies, including TotalEnergies, ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, and Shell smashed their previous year’s earnings. The Q1 2023 fiscal report by the British oil giant Shell (LON: SHEL) surpassed expectations, cruising analysts’ predictions. In the recent report, Shell announced adjusted earnings of $9.6 billion for the first three months of the year. The performance is in continuation of its current bumper results run after commodity prices surged in 2022 due to Russia’s...

Los Angeles-based PacWest is considering several strategic options, including a sale, amid a banking crisis-induced stock plunge. Bank holding company PacWest Bancorp is reportedly mulling a sale following Wednesday’s 50% stock crash. The regional bank is weighing strategic options amid the US banking crisis, which sank three financial institutions in March. A Bloomberg report said PacWest shelved previous efforts to raise capital to remain afloat and now strongly considers selling all...

Just like most of the most advanced blockchain protocols in the industry, the Tenet Blockchain grants users the flexibility they need to thrive on the L1 outfit. Tenet, a brand-new layer-1 blockchain protocol has announced the launch of its testnet, creating a conduit to build on the potential of Liquid Staking Derivatives (LSD) protocols. As contained in a press release shared with Coinspeaker, the Tenet protocol is emerging from its stealth mode, making it possible for developers to...

Despite regaining much of its losses, there are reasons to believe that the coast is not yet clear for PEPE. The new meme token PEPE coin recently enjoyed a spell of fortune after its price surged by more than 2000% shortly after launching a few weeks ago. However, it appears that it has now lost momentum and risks losing large portions of those earlier gains. On Wednesday, PEPE entered a sharp correction that saw it lose over 35% of its record high value of $0.00000138, which it attained...

Amid the unfolding banking crisis and interest rate hikes, Bitcoin has been showing strong resilience attempting another breakout above $30,000. On Wednesday, May 3, the US Federal Reserve announced another 25 basis points rate hike taking the US funds rate to more than 5% for the first time since 2007. In hours after the Fed announced the rate hike, Bitcoin (BTC) made a quick surge of more than 2% taking the price above $29,000. This Bitcoin price surge amid the recovery in the broader...

Court documents filed on May 3 reveal FTX is attempting to claw back funds in the form of repaid loans, withdrawn liquidity, and collateral from fellow bankrupt platform Genesis. The total sum at stake amounts adds up to over $3.88 billion across all entities affiliated with Genesis. Accused of Enabling FTX’s Misconduct In the documents filed by FTX’s lawyers in court on May 3, it is claimed that Genesis was one of the main culprits allowing the FTX Group to get away with...