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Litecoin is showing bearish signs and trading below $66 against the US Dollar. LTC price is now trading below $65 and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance near $63.20 on the 4-hour chart of the LTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair could start a decent increase if it clears the $66 resistance zone. Litecoin price is struggling below $66 against the US Dollar, similar to Bitcoin. LTC price...

Millions of digital assets have been stolen by cyber adversaries via DNS hijacking attacks for phishing purposes, targeting users’ wallet seed phrases, or creating deceptive webpages that closely resemble legitimate sites. Attacks on Domain Name Systems (DNSs) play a crucial role in the internet’s infrastructure, providing insights into security incidents in Web 2 that have directly affected the Web3 industry. However, transitioning to decentralized frontends has emerged as a...

Cathie Wood’s asset management firm, ARK Invest, has filed for the United States’ first Ether (ETH) spot ETF weeks after regulators placed the company’s Bitcoin ETF application on the backburner. Fellow investment manager VanEck has submitted a similar 19b-4 application, starting the clock for when regulators must approve or deny each submission. Ark’s Ether ETF Pitch In an S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday, the ARK21Shares Ethereum ETF...

The leading cryptocurrency exchange – Coinbase – has reportedly started offering crypto loans to US institutional investors.  The move could signal the company’s willingness to strengthen its position in America despite the regulatory uncertainty and the issues with local watchdogs. Recall that the US SEC filed a lawsuit against Coinbase in June, accusing the trading venue of breaching several rules and offering trading services with unregistered securities. Capitalizing on...

With crypto market apathy in full effect, decentralized finance (DeFi) activity has plummeted across the board in 2023 – all but in one sub-sector. Liquid staking protocols are approaching an all-time high in total value locked (TVL), having appreciated nearly 293% since their June 2022 lows. The Rise of Liquid Staking According to DeFiLlama, liquid staking protocols now hold $20.5 billion in assets – up from slightly over $5 billion 15 months ago. Lido alone boasts $14.1...

Ripple announced on Monday that it has added four new European institutions to its University Blockchain and Research Initiative (UBRI). The partner universities will help promote blockchain research and education across the region. According to Ripple’s announcement, the new universities include Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), EPITA (France), IE Madrid (Spain), and the University of Trento (Italy). This brings Ripple’s total European partners up to 14. IE Madrid plans to...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – a presidential hopeful and known bitcoin fan – has serious qualms with how the Freedom Convoy was treated last year in Canada. Robert Kennedy on the Freedom Convoy Last Year The Freedom Convoy was comprised of truckers who were protesting the region’s sudden pro-COVID vaccine laws. The idea was that to work as a trucker, one now had to be injected with a vaccine that hadn’t been fully proven and was swirling with controversy. As a result,...

On the 29th of August, Jeremy Allaire – the CEO of Circle, the company that mints and holds governance over USDC – announced that the popular stablecoin would be coming to Base and Optimism within a week. The launch was part of Circle’s plan to improve the utility of USDC by bringing the stablecoin to more blockchains in a native token, eliminating the need for bridged Ethereum tokens. The decision came shortly after the announcement of a new super chain agreement with...

Typically, in order to interact with Ethereum, participants have to use the so-called Externally Owned Accounts (EOAs). Today, EOAs are the only way to initiate a transaction or execute a smart contract. Naturally, this puts certain limitations on the way users can interact with the network. A simple example would be that it makes it challenging to do batches of transactions. A way to tackle the above issue is through account abstraction. The term itself carries specific...

D3 Global, an emerging domain name company, closed a $5 million seed funding round led by Shima Capital. D3 aims to transform domain names into the foundational layer of the internet and bridge Web2 and Web3 with secure digital identities. On September 5th, the emerging domain name company D3 Global announced the successful closure of a $5 million seed funding round. This round was led by Shima Capital, along with several other financing companies and funds such as Maelstrom by Arthur...