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Following its initial hostile outlook on the spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), the South Korean government may be giving a second thought to its stance on the financial product. This movement is driven by comments from Sung Tae-yoon, the recently appointed South Korean Presidential Chief of Staff, and an analysis from the Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK). S. Korea to Rethink ETF Stance? Since 2017, the South Korean government has maintained a somewhat unfriendly stance...

The cryptocurrency market seems to have been cooling off throughout the past seven days, decreasing to its current capitalization of $1.69 trillion. This comes a week after the United States Securities and Exchange Commission approved a spot Bitcoin ETF. Undoubtedly, the above has been on everyone’s mind for the last few months. Now that the approval is finally here, the market is cooling down. Somewhat expectedly, the ETF didn’t attract hundreds of billions of inflows. In...

[PRESS RELEASE – Singapore, January 19th, 2024] RSS3 announces its Mainnet launch to happen in Q1 2024. The RSS3 Mainnet distinguishes itself with an unprecedented dual-layer structure: a Data Sublayer (DSL) for efficient management of Open Information and a Value Sublayer (VSL), an Ethereum Layer 2 (L2) with adjusted OP Stacks and Celestia DA to handle values derived the former. Plus, there’s a cool new feature in the DSL that lets anyone spin up a private Web3 AI in just...

Ethereum’s price has been on the rise over the last few months, breaking through resistance levels one by one. Yet, the cryptocurrency might have reached a potential turning point. Technical Analysis By TradingRage Ethereum Price Analysis: The Daily Chart On the daily chart, the market has been acting very bullish since breaking the 200-day moving average to the upside. It has been making consistently higher highs and lows, with the Relative Strength Index showing values...

Ripple’s price action against both USDT and BTC has been bearish for the last few months. Analyzing the charts might provide clues on the potential direction of the market in the short term. Technical Analysis By TradingRage Ripple Price Analysis: The USDT Paired Chart Against USDT, XRP has been on the decline since getting rejected from the resistance $0.7 level. The price has been trapped inside a descending channel, failing to break it to the upside on multiple occasions....

Bitcoin cash price started a fresh decline from the $300 zone against the US Dollar. The price is now trading below the $255 zone and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There was a break below a key bullish trend line with support at $255 on the 4-hour chart of the BCH/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair could continue to move down if it stays below the $255 resistance zone. Bitcoin cash price is struggling below the $250 zone against the US Dollar,...

Stablecoin giant Tether quietly bought over $360 million worth of Bitcoin (BTC) at the start of the year, according to on-chain data. The purchase brings the company’s total Bitcoin holdings up to 66,400 BTC worth $2.7 billion. Tether’s Massive Bitcoin Buys According to Bitcoin market intelligence provider CryptoQuant, a blockchain address previously identified as Tether’s saw its balance rise from 57,500 BTC to 66,400 BTC on January 4. That’s the largest single-day rise for...

The EU Parliament and Council recently reached a provisional agreement on a list of anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing laws. Although further deliberation on other proposed measures is yet to be had, the new measures will help streamline the efforts of the national financial agencies of EU countries in this area. Although cryptocurrencies are not the main focus of the new laws, the industry is nonetheless explicitly targeted by several of the provisions....

Cathie Wood’s ARK Investment Management LLC is actively acquiring shares of its recently introduced spot Bitcoin ETF, intensifying the competition among the initial issuers. The ARK Next Generation Internet ETF (ARKW) divested $16 million from its position in the futures-backed ProShares Bitcoin ETF (BITO) on Tuesday. This move was made to accommodate the purchase of 365,427 shares of the ARK 21 Shares Bitcoin ETF (ARKB), constituting 1% of the ARKW fund, as per data compiled...

[PRESS RELEASE – Toronto, Ontario, January 18th, 2024] .box is bridging Web3 and Web2 Breaking new ground in the domain name industry, My.box Inc. announces the upcoming launch of its Public Beta on January 18th, 2024 at 12:00 PM ET. This kicks off public availability of the first ever domain name system supported natively by browsers, email, and wallets. The future of digital identity .box domains offer secure and seamless identity on Web3 and Web2. The holder of...