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Terrence A. Duffy, chairman and CEO of leading derivatives marketplace Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), disclosed that his company has noticed some growth in demand for its crypto products since November. During a recent interview with CNBC’s Closing Bell, Duffy made the revelation when he was asked about the state of institutional demand for its Bitcoin futures product. CME Records Uptick in Crypto Products The CME chief executive believes market conditions in 2022 could...

Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis has published a new report detailing the dynamics of darknet markets and fraud shops after the former giant Hydra Market collapsed due to joint actions from authorities in Germany and the United States. After the U.S. Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Hydra in April and German agencies ordered its closure, average daily revenue for all dark web markets fell from $4.2 million to $447,000. Total...

Bitcoin’s recent rally has improved the overall sentiment among market participants. This change of scene has spurred a positive momentum across the industry as signs of a bull market start popping. Technical Analysis By Shayan The Daily Chart The $25K price region has been the most significant barrier in Bitcoin’s path during the last eight months. Most recently, the price attempted to surpass this level and failed, resulting in a consolidation correction stage. However,...

All eyes in the crypto community have been on the SEC and its decision to pursue certain crypto staking offerings in the States. After Kraken, many believe Coinbase will be next to have to settle with the regulator, which is why the largest US-based exchange decided to address the matter. Our Products Are Not Securities: Coinbase The exchange’s Chief Legal Officer, Paul Grewal, asserted in the blog post that the company’s staking services do not meet the Howey test criteria,...

Bitcoin’s recent freefall seems to have stopped for now, as the asset has calmed at just under $22,000. Most altcoins have even registered minor daily increases. Some, such as HBAR and Lido Dao, have even soared by double-digits. Bitcoin Calms Below $22K The situation around bitcoin was significantly more positive last week when it jumped above $24,000 for the first time since August 2022. However, it failed to remain there and retraced by over a grand to $23,000 in the...

The Canadian University of Dubai (CUD) partnered with Binance to enable students to pay their fees in digital currencies. With the recent collaboration, the exchange dived deeper into the local ecosystem. It received a cryptocurrency license from Dubai’s regulators in September last year.  Settling the Semesters in Crypto The world’s leading crypto platform disclosed the partnership on its Twitter account, saying current and future students of the CUD are allowed to settle...

According to figures provided by Messari, the decentralized digital platform – Tron – made a revenue of $47.9 million in the last quarter of 2022, a 25% increase compared to Q3.  The entity also recorded a surge of average active daily addresses and average daily transactions. Better Results Despite the FTX Collapse In its most recent research, Messari outlined that 2022 has been a “rollercoaster” year for the cryptocurrency sector. Unfavorable macroeconomic conditions took...

Just yesterday, Live Bitcoin News put out an article talking about a Russian crypto executive running an unlicensed money transmitting business. Known as Bitzlato, the crypto exchange was an unregistered trading platform for those who sought to use digital assets to obtain illicit products. The exchange also did very little to obtain necessary information about its clients and customers. Now, it looks like Binance – the world’s largest and most popular digital currency...

The past 24 hours brought some more pain for the bulls as BTC slipped to another three-week low at under $21,500. Most altcoins are in no better shape, including the ETH liquid staking coins, many of which have seen double-digit price drops. BTC Drops Again The start of the month was highly positive for the primary cryptocurrency, which pumped to $24,200 after the latest interest rate hike by the US Federal Reserve on February 2. However, the landscape changed in the...

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol dForce has suffered a reentrancy vulnerability attack leading to the loss of $3.6 million worth of crypto assets. The attacker targeted the protocol’s vault on the automated market maker (AMM) platform Curve Finance, which operates on the Arbitrum and Optimism blockchains. dForce Exploited for $3.65M  The hack was first flagged by Twitter user @ZoomerAnon who announced that dForce had lost about $1.7 million in a series of flash loan...