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It’s safe to say that this was a rather intense week in the cryptocurrency market, despite Bitcoin being only about 2% up throughout the period. Things started off rather calmly, and the market was pretty flat until Monday. Bears took control and brought the price down to slightly above $30K before landing the final blow on Tuesday and pushing BTC below $30,000. It was on Wednesday, though, when the highly-anticipated B Word event took place, which saw Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey,...

The cross-chain DeFi protocol THORChain suffered another major hack for $8 million. Last week the protocol was drained with a further $8.3 million in a separate attack. THORChain Got Hit Again The decentralized cross-chain exchange THORChain experienced a “sophisticated attack” on its ETH Router. The protocol announced on Twitter that this time the perpetrators drained around $8 million worth of Ether: “THORChain has suffered a sophisticated attack on the ETH Router, around...

[PR – Lugano, Switzerland, 22nd July, 2021] Valuart, a startup that mints licensed NFTs derived from original artworks, has launched its first drop. The auction for ‘Spike,’ a digital artwork based on the iconic Banksy installation that first surfaced in Palestine, commenced on July 22. 50% of the proceeds raised from the sale will go to charity. Created by infamous street artist Banksy, ‘Spike’ is now in the possession of Vittorio Grigòlo. The world famous tenor and Valuart...

[PR – Tallinn, Estonia, 22nd July, 2021] CoinSwap Space, a decentralized exchange on the Binance Smart Chain, this week announced the option to stake their native CSS token and earn rewards in ADA. This new feature, along with the ability to earn rewards in ETH and LINK, is one of a trio of staking options for CSS that have recently been launched. These new staking offer users rewards in major crypto tokens to allow them to minimise risk through the volatility the market is...

The Acala Foundation has recently announced the launch of its decentralized exchange (DEX), Karura Swap on the Kusama and Polkadot ecosystem, with its so-called “first trustless trading pair” KSM/KAR already available for trading. Over $3.4M in TLV In a Friday announcement, Acala noted that the KSM/KAR pair currently has over $3 million in Total Value Locked (TVL) and will now be traded on the Karura Swap platform. KSM and KAR are the native tokens of Kusama and Karura...

Bitcoin Bitcoin saw a slight 2.3% price hike this week as it trades near $32,500. The cryptocurrency saw a very interesting week in which it spiked lower and produced a daily candle beneath $30K. It quickly rebounded from there and broke back above 30K to reach the 20-day MA at around $32,700. In doing so, BTC is now above a long-term descending wedge that it has been trading inside since mid-May. The coin was trading inside a descending triangle pattern at the start of the...

Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter – one of the largest social media platforms on Earth – said that Bitcoin will be a big part of the company’s future. Yesterday, July 22nd, Twitter published its Q2 2021 letter to shareholders, as well as its Q2 Earnings Conference Call. During the call, Jack Dorsey discussed many things, but Bitcoin and digital currencies took somewhat of a central stage, especially in light of current events and the fact that he’s been talking about it quite a...

After charting a $3,000 surge in a day, BTC continued slightly upwards again in the past 24 hours and reached a weekly high at approximately $33,000. Most alternative coins are in the green as well, with ETH nearing $2,100 and Polkadot registering a 7% increase. Bitcoin Touched $33K After the Monday crash in which the primary cryptocurrency dumped below $30,000, the bulls have kept complete control over the market. They firstly pushed the asset above that coveted level before...

A $3.1 trillion investment play by Swiss gamechanger CV VC CV VC, the leading Swiss blockchain venture capitalist and incubator has not only extended its VC operations internationally to UAE and Africa but now offers fully compliant, bankable and transferable participation in an underlying portfolio of blockchain assets, delivering a balancing opportunity, high return potential and diversification. The CV VC investment vehicles are...

Schweiz: Bitcoin kaufen war noch nie so einfach. Das sind die 3 beliebtesten Bitcoin-Börsen Ich werde immer wieder gefragt, wie und wo man als Bitcoin-Einsteiger und Anfänger am einfachsten Bitcoin kaufen kann. Meine Antwort darauf lautet: Investiere in Know How und Wissen. Denn Wissen zahlt sich immer aus; irgendwann. Wer dennoch ein paar Franken übrig hat, welche im schlimmsten Fall auch verloren gehen dürfen, der findet in diesem...