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California’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has digitized 42 million car titles using the Avalanche (AVAX) network. This initiative is part of a modernization effort to streamline the state’s title transfer process in collaboration with software development firm Oxhead Alpha. California DMV to Digitize Car Titles According to an Avalanche blog post, users will soon be able to claim their digital titles through the DMV’s new application. This application allows for easy...

Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms revealed a net financial loss of $84.4 million during Q2 2024, registering its first quarterly loss since Q4 2022. The loss witnessed this quarter comes due to April’s Bitcoin halving event, cutting down mining rewards in half, and the Bitcoin network’s increased hash rate. Miners industry-wide had a hard time since the halving, registering losses and missing estimates. Riot increased selling the bitcoin it received as rewards for mining to cover rising expenses,...

The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has warned crypto users in the US of impersonation scams in which scammers mimic employees from crypto exchanges. By pretending to be official personnel representing the exchanges, they gain access to user accounts by creating fake urgency among users to act immediately to protect their funds. Thus, their funds get stolen. In an X post, the FBI mentioned, “The FBI is warning of scammers impersonating cryptocurrency exchange employees to steal your...

Crypto.com’s trading volume surpassed that boasted by Coinbase on August 1, rising to $3.6 billion compared to the latter’s $2.12 billion. Data on crypto market intelligence firm Messari reflected the same. The 23% increase boasted by Crypto.com comes from the robust institutional adoption crypto has been witnessing, with the exchange becoming a go-to for numerous institutional players. The launch of spot ETH ETFs in the US is also a massive factor in dominance displayed by Crypto.com...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) charged Nader Al-Naji with orchestrating a multi-million-dollar fraudulent crypto asset scheme involving the social media platform BitClout and its native token BTCLT. The securities regulator’s complaint revealed that Al-Naji raised over $257 million through unregistered offers and sales of BTCLT in November 2020. In the process, the exec allegedly misled investors by claiming the funds would...

The largest cryptocurrency, bitcoin, dropped to price levels below $61,000 from highs of over $65,000 within 24 hours. The asset also nearly peaked past $70,000 earlier in the week. This drop comes despite a US jobs report showing that only 144,000 jobs were added in the past month, a factor that should have caused the asset’s price to rise. News like that often pushes risk assets like stocks and crypto into the green territory. Massive tech stocks also observed losses on Friday, regardless...

Prominent on-chain sleuth ZachXBT has recently uncovered compelling evidence linking convicted UK hacker Gurv – whose real name is Gurvinder Bhangu – to the recent compromises of American actress Sydney Sweeney’s and ‘Breaking Bad’ actor Bob Odenkirk’s X accounts. This resulted in over $530,000 stolen through Solana meme coin scams. SWEENEY Pump and Dump On July 2nd, Sweeney fell victim to a SIM swap attack, and a link to a fraudulent meme coin based on Solana called SWEENEY,...

RCO Finance (RCOF) has captured significant interest among crypto traders, particularly via its public presale. With a 3,000% ROI on the table, investors are continuously gravitating towards RCOF to capitalize on its profit potential.  However, as RCOF enters Stage 2 of its presale, new investors may be too late to capture all 3,000% gains. Let’s determine whether you can still get a 3,000% ROI from this Ethereum token presale. RCO Finance Showcases AI-powered Features Built on...

Bitcoin’s price experienced a significant drop yesterday following the breakdown of the $64K support level. The price is now in a key area that could determine the crypto market’s mid-term fate. Technical Analysis By TradingRage The Daily Chart On the daily chart, the price has been dropping since creating a double top pattern at the $68K resistance level. The $64K level has also been broken down to the downside, and the cryptocurrency is testing the 200-day moving average....

Bitcoin (BTC) could be seeing less selling pressure from miners in the near term due to an increase in the profitability of this cohort of market participants and the recovery of their hashrate following the cryptocurrency’s rally to the $69,000 range. According to a CryptoQuant report, the Bitcoin network hashrate recovered while BTC had its latest rally. The metric’s drawdown from its all-time high is now 3%, compared to 8% on July 9. Bitcoin Network Hashrate Recovers On...