Crypto news

This festive season has just gotten merrier with The HyperNation revealing more exciting development in the December grand event, ‘Whimsical Gaming Kingdom’. The year-end event, set to be the largest ever held by the first virtual nation, has received encouraging responses from the massive crowd who turned up at the virtual gala on 17 December 2022 08:00 EST. All attendants were amazed by the next big leap coming forth as the New Year 2023 approaches. The year 2022 has...

The extended COVID-19 lockdown changed the travel industry —and the lifestyle of millions of people. But now that the pandemic seems to be under control, businesses are looking to rise from the ashes with new ideas to engage customers, and the metaverse seems like an exciting topic to explore. According to a survey conducted by the popular traveling portal Booking.com to more than 24,000 people in 32 countries, a considerable number of users responded that the metaverse could...

The company plans to hire more engineers despite the intense bear market. Aztec Network – a privacy layer 2 chain for Web3 – announced raising $100 million in a Series B financing led by VC giant Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The funding round also saw participation from A Capital, King River, Variant, SV Angel, Hash Key, Fenbushi, and AVG.5. Its partnership with a16z will fund the development of a “next-generation encrypted architecture” that would enable users to verify that...

Amber Group – a cryptocurrency platform backed by Singapore’s investment company Temasek – completed a $300 million funding round. The money will be distributed to clients affected by the FTX collapse.  The company, which had to cope with severe issues due to the ongoing bear market, recently acquired the Singaporean exchange – Sparrow Holdings. Trying to Reimburse Victims As announced on Twitter, the Series C fundraiser was led by Fenbushi Capital US. Amber Group said the...

Nearly half a billion dollars has been taken out of the now failed FTX exchange, and nobody really seems to know where the money went. Money Is Missing from FTX Spokespeople for the crypto exchange claim that “unauthorized transactions” are what caused the money to disappear, and it is being said that the company might have been hacked and the money stolen. The question is, “By who?” At the time of writing, the company has moved whatever funds it still had into cold...

Brad Sherman – a cryptocurrency skeptic and congressman – says crypto billionaires are largely responsible for the fact that digital asset regulation has taken so long to arrive. Brad Sherman Wants Regulation NOW In a recent interview, Sherman said that the collapse of the leading exchange FTX in mid-November is reason enough to get the ball rolling on digital currency regulation. He mentioned: The collapse this week of one of the largest cryptocurrency firms in the...

One of the most successful soccer clubs in Europe – FC Barcelona – inked an agreement with the cryptocurrency platform WhiteBIT. Тhe trading venue will serve as the Official Cryptocurrency Exchange partner of the team until June 2025. Barca’s Next Crypto Step In an official announcement on its website, the soccer giant claimed that the partnership with WhiteBIT will underpin its commercial strategy and consolidate its “international expansion” by remaining a “benchmark both...

Romance scams are a growing trend in the digital currency arena, and one woman – Lauren Duncan – is sharing her story hoping that people can be saved from the same scenario that almost plagued her. Lauren Duncan Nearly Became Another Crypto Victim Duncan, like many people in America, was looking for love online one day and went so far as to join Hinge, a dating app that’s designed to be deleted once a person has found their special someone. Duncan indeed found someone...

CNBC’s “Your Money Survey” estimated that 60% of the American participants consider the risk of investing in cryptocurrencies to be high. Just 5% of the respondents believe it is entirely safe to allocate some wealth to the asset class. Crypto Looks Riskier to Americans The decline of the cryptocurrency market, as well as the various adverse events in the sector, have had an impact on the sentiment among many Americans. CNBC’s latest research found out that 60% of the US...

The past 24 hours have been tough in the cryptocurrency markets, with the total capitalization dropping by some $40 billion. This comes on the back of major coins charting serious declines and BTC plummeting below $17K. Bitcoin Goes Below $17K Bitcoin’s price took a serious beating over the past couple of days, losing about 9% of its value since hitting $18,300 earlier in the week. For the past 24 hours alone, the cryptocurrency is down by almost 3%, training at around...