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Pepe Coin (PEPE) has been one of the best performers in the crypto sector lately, with its price surging by over 900% for the past seven days. It marked another 60% increase during the last 24 hours, while its market capitalization skyrocketed to above $1 billion. The hype around the coin seems to be an isolated case since other memecoins such as Dogecoin (DOGE), Shiba Inu (SHIB), and Floki Inu (FLOKI) have not recorded any significant gains recently. The remarkable...

Despite the raging impact of inflation in different economies, monetary authorities have not been sitting on their oars, rather, they have been fighting the surge through consistent interest rate hikes. The Hong Kong Initial Public Offering (IPO) market has failed to get lifted from its dampened sentiment after the listing of Chinese liquor company ZJLD Group failed relatively. As reported by CNBC, the shares of ZJLD Group tumbled as hard as 18% on its first day of trading back on April...

Earn Your First Bitcoin Sign up and get $12 Bonus Referral bonus up to $3,000 Sign up Bitcoin cash is attempting a recovery wave above the $115 resistance against the US Dollar. The price is now trading near the $118 zone and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance near $120 on the 4-hour chart of the BCH/USD pair (data feed from...

Santiment – a crypto markets intelligence platform – has a bullish outlook on Bitcoin after the Federal Reserve increased its benchmark interest rate by another 25 basis points on Wednesday.  In a follow-up blog post, the firm claimed that the top crypto is showing “some promising rise potential” – particularly as its correlation to equities continues to weaken.  What’s Next for Bitcoin? In its latest insight report, the company said that the market’s initial reaction to the...

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is suing Binance and its founder Changpeng Zhao after the crypto exchange allegedly violated the Commodity Exchange Act and other regulations. The CFTC Is Going After Binance The agency claims Binance has had no regard for current financial laws and has been violating them for the past several years. Heads of the CFTC are now seeking financial penalties and a permanent ban in the United States. CFTC chair Rostin Behnam...

According to data from the crypto financial service platform Matrixport, the narrowing wedge that has been in formation for the past three weeks is about to break to the upside. Such a trend could project a move higher by an equal amount to the range at which the triangle started to form. A breakout could lead to a 6,100-point move higher in the price of Bitcoin, which establishes a target of $35,000-$36,000. Such an uptrend would represent nearly 20% gains from the current...

While enforcement actions have been a focus for the US SEC in the crypto industry lately, some crypto exchanges are now making efforts to expand into other territories. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken a step backward by withdrawing from its decision to classify digital assets. The regulator achieved this by removing the first official definition of “digital asset” from its most recent household hedge withdrawal regulations. Notably, the SEC first...

On Thursday, the ECB increased interest rates for the seventh consecutive time, with the latest figure aligning with analysts’ predictions.   The European Central Bank (ECB) has hiked interest rates for a seventh consecutive time as its war against inflation wages on. Today, the eurozone central bank hiked rates by 25 basis points as expected following its May policy meeting. The latest rate hike decision also sees the main refinancing operations’ interest rate increased to 3.75%. In...

Pepe Coin (PEPE), a memecoin launched in mid-April, has quickly emerged as one of the sensations in the cryptocurrency industry. Its price has skyrocketed by a staggering 638% for the past week, whereas the gains for the past 24 hours alone reached 90%. The asset’s market capitalization has also skyrocketed to almost $700 million. Some possible reasons behind the substantial rise could be the overall positive condition of the market following the Fed’s latest interest rate...

Injective – a layer 1 blockchain – announced the integration of Pyth with the Injective mainnet. The move should allow decentralized applications (dApps) to access any of Pyth’s on-chain data for hundreds of markets covering equities, commodities, and foreign exchange pairs, in addition to crypto. According to a press release shared with CryptoPotato, Injective revealed that the integration is a first for the Cosmos IBC ecosystem positioning Injective as the first IBC-enabled...