Crypto news

The American investment management company – Invesco – reportedly launched a Metaverse fund, which will invest in large, medium, and small-cap firms that have stretched their operations to the virtual reality. Last year, the investment giant filed documents to launch two crypto-based ETFs in the USA. Several months later, though, it blamed the US SEC for its unfriendly stance on such products and abandoned its plans. Hopping on the Metaverse Bandwagon According to a coverage...

[PRESS RELEASE – Singapore-August 23, 2022] EQBR Holdings (EQBR), a pioneer of Web 3.0 infrastructure providers, launched its new blockchain service platform EQ HUB. EQ HUB provides a one-stop service to plan, build and implement blockchain networks and ecosystem-based thereon. Powered by Equilibrium, an innovative third-generation blockchain engine, developers and users of EQ Hub will experience amazing speed and convenience, which have been realized in none of the...

The Ministry of Strategy and Finance of the South Korean government has said that virtual asset airdrops are subject to gift tax as per existing tax laws. Gift tax has to be paid when free virtual assets with economic value are paid out, media reports said. Gift Tax on Airdrops Recently, the South Korean finance ministry was asked by a tax law interpretation inquiry to provide its interpretation of whether an airdrop is subject to gift tax or not. In its response, the...

BendDAO – a lending protocol for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) – is the latest project to have been hit with an insolvency crisis. The five-month-old platform has reportedly run out of ETH over the weekend. According to the researcher, NFTStatistics.eth, BendDAO is just left with 12.5 WETH in the contract. The lenders of BendDAO have landed in a sketchy situation. Its co-founder said they have come up with a proposal to improve the protocol, hoping to make out of the crisis....

Crypto security companies are raking in a fortune despite the bear market that has bloodied firms across the rest of the industry. Zeth Couceiro – founder of crypto recruitment company Plexus Resource Solutions – recently told Bloomberg that salaries for experienced blockchain auditors can run as high as $400,000 per year.  Overwhelming Demand for Auditors According to Couceiro, the typical blockchain auditor currently gets paid about 20% more than Solidity-focused...

A reported 31% of Cardano’s staking pool operator (SPO) nodes are now running the protocol’s latest software. The update fixes a critical bug found in Cardano’s previous implementation, which raised questions about whether the network’s upcoming Vasil hard fork should be postponed.  According to data from PoolTool, about 55% of nodes are still operating on v1.34.1. To be ready for the upgrade to Vasil, 75% of SPO nodes must be on the newest version. “This is again umpteenth...

Press Release: COSMOS is taking crypto betting into the future: convenient, scalable, and lucrative. 22nd August 2022, Limassol, Cyprus — COSMOS has become the latest cryptocurrency to join the 1xBit family, bringing convenience in crypto betting one step further. With speedy transactions, easy-to-use software, and inter-blockchain communication, COSMOS is about to revolutionize the already groundbreaking betting on 1xBit, and lead crypto gambling into the future....

North Korea isn’t too happy that it’s been called out by the United States for its repeated roles in cyberattacks designed to make off with stolen digital currency funds. The country is home to several hacking groups – including Lazarus, one of the most notorious organizations of its kind – and has allegedly stolen several billion dollars in digital currency over the years as a means of funding its ongoing nuclear program. North Korea and Its Long, Illicit History The...

[PRESS RELEASE – Please Read Disclaimer] Organizers of Bitcoin 2022 promise “No region left behind” as it targets Hyperbitcoinization in Europe Bitcoin Magazine, organizers of the world’s largest and longest-running Bitcoin conference, Bitcoin 2022, today announces, in collaboration with Amsterdam Decentralized and Westergas, the launch of its first European-focused event, Bitcoin Amsterdam. The conference runs from October 12-14, 2022, and will gather some of the region’s...

South Korean securities companies have reportedly set their focus on the crypto industry and plan to set up digital asset exchanges in the first half of 2023. Such firms include Mirae Asset Securities and Samsung Securities. The domestic financial regulators have been quite strict with crypto-related entities in the past few years. Last year, prompted by the mandatory requirements that the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) enforced, over 60 trading venues halted their...