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The city of Jackson, Tennessee is introducing a new program that will allow city workers to accept their paychecks in the form of cryptocurrency. Jackson Is Taking a Digital Route This will be the first time an American city has ever worked such a program into its payroll system. City employees who take part in it will be permitted to accept cryptocurrency for the work they do according to Mayor Scott Conger, who is the man behind the new initiative. He’s confident that...

Former US President Donald Trump is no fan of cryptocurrencies, and he is making that known once again. The only currency he wants is the US Dollar. Trump has been a critic of cryptocurrencies for quite some time now, and this outlook isn’t changing anytime soon. Even if the former FLOTUS Melania Trump has warmed up to the idea of NFT and digital assets, her husband still believes that cryptocurrencies are dangerous. Donald Trump Weighs on Crypto: Still Not a Big Fan In a...

Senators Pat Toomey and Cynthia Lummis should sound familiar to most crypto fans out there. They are both Republicans from the states of Pennsylvania and Wyoming respectively, and they are both doing all they can to raise awareness regarding crypto in America. They both sit on the Senate Banking Committee and are some of the only members of Congress who own crypto. Some Members of Congress Are Very Excited About Crypto At the time of writing, it is estimated that Lummis...

Terra – a popular open-source stablecoin network – recently surpassed $20 billion in TVL across its Defi protocols. It now holds more locked value than Binance Smart Chain (BSC).  According to Defi Llama, TVL on Terra began ramping up in late November and early December. By December 16th, the network had over $13 billion locked up. Value began pouring in after that, accruing another $3 billion within just 3 days. TVL peaked on Wednesday at over $20 billion and now sits at...

Solana is undoubtedly amongst the fastest growing ecosystems, as well as one of the hottest networks. There are hundreds of teams building various projects ranging from financial applications to non-fungible tokens and blockchain-based games. It has managed to successfully position itself as one of the main competitors for Ethereum. The vibrant and dynamic ecosystem was perfectly represented during the Solana-dedicated conference that took place in Lisbon earlier in November:...

Crypto prices are falling heavily at press time, with bitcoin – the world’s number one digital currency by market cap – dipping into the low $46,000 range. Bitcoin Is Having an End-of-Year Crisis The slide in crypto prices began a couple weeks ago, with many analysts blaming the new surge in COVID cases for the dip amongst digital currencies. Since last week alone, bitcoin has fallen by more than three percent, while other competing altcoins such as Ethereum have fallen...

Opera – a web browser that supports web 3.0 – recently announced a browser integration with Polygon. It will offer Opera users in-browser access to over 3000 dApps on the network. Polygon Dapps on Opera Opera revealed its most recent partnership in a press release on its site earlier today. The browser – which features a built-crypto wallet that uses Ethereum’s web 3.0 API – allows users to transact in Polygon’s native currency MATIC. It also eliminates passwords, helping...

The cryptocurrency exchange giant Binance announced the implementation of a new BNB Auto-Burn mechanism. The aim is to provide greater transparency and predictability to the BNB community. BNB Auto-Burn is also designed to foster the development of a “healthy blockchain ecosystem” together with the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) and Binance Coin (BNB) communities. According to the official blog post, the new system, dubbed “BNB Auto-Burn,” will have two characteristics. It will be...

Key Support level: $77 Key Resistance level: $100 After Luna touched the support at $55, the price entered into a massive rally, almost doubling in price in less than 10 days. Today, Luna stopped $2 short of hitting $100. The bulls will have to wait for another day to see Luna at three digits. As such, the resistance sits at $100, and the key support is now found at $77. Luna continues to be one of the strongest performers on the market, with its Terra network recently...

SushiSwap is one of the most popular and also veteran decentralized exchanges and automated market makers (AMM). Still, it went through a fair share of infighting in the past couple of months. Now, a community proposal calls for a merger between Sushi and the Bancor Network. A Bit of Context On December 9th, Joseph Delong, the Chief Technical Officer of SushiSwap, announced his resignation. This was no coincidence and the culmination of a prolonged squabble within the...