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Ripple price started a fresh decline from the $0.5500 resistance against the US dollar. The price is now trading below $0.500 and near the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There was a break above a major bearish trend line with resistance near $0.4580 on the 4-hours chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Bittrex). The pair could start a steady increase if it clears the $0.4850 and $0.5000 resistance levels. Ripple price is struggling below $0.500 against the US...

A series of enabling factors places India at the forefront of global Web3 transformation, said a report by Nasscom, a no-profit apex body of the $227-billion Indian tech industry. It identifies the rapid adoption of new technologies, vast talent pool, and robust startup ecosystem as the key drivers of the nation’s push for a key role in the global Web3 market.  India Web3 Landscape Launched in Bengaluru last week, the report – The India Web3 Startup Landscape: An Emerging...

This October 23, Klaytn, a metaverse and gamefi-focused public blockchain, announced a governance proposal to reduce its block rewards. According to an official statement, the new Q3 updates submitted to the Klaytn Governance Council (GC) seek to optimize the issuance level of KLAY tokens through a governance proposal that lowers block rewards by ⅓. An ongoing proposal by our GC recommends reducing existing block rewards by ⅓ in order to optimize the level of $KLAY...

Last year’s NFT gold rush marked the ascent of OpenSea into a $13 billion company, but its competitors have been increasingly capturing market share. A new report suggests the transition of a previously monopolistic non-fungible token (NFT) market into an oligopoly. OpenSea Faces Stiff Competition According to the latest edition of Binance’s Market Pulse, NFTs had a bad quarter throughout the board in Q3 of 2022. While OpenSea is still the leading exchange, the biggest...

The crypto industry showed a mild recovery in Q3 after taking a significant plunge amid volatile conditions over the first half of 2022.  According to the latest quarterly report published by cryptocurrency aggregator CoinGecko, the overall crypto market cap increased by 6.5%, about $100 billion, in Q3 compared to Q2. Bitcoin Outperformed Other Assets  Despite having a choppy Q3, BTC outperformed every asset class except the U.S. dollar Index, which measures the exchange rate...

It’s happened again, folks. In the age of crypto bankruptcy and companies falling apart amidst the growing bear market, another digital currency firm has entered legal bankruptcy protections as a means of getting creditors and angry customers off its back. This time, the enterprise in question is Compute North, a digital currency mining firm. Compute North Is Having a Hard Time This is the first time that a crypto mining company has entered bankruptcy proceedings, which...

Earlier this week, the crypto billionaire riled the industry by suggesting ways to confront the legal and hacking woes plaguing the ecosystem. Erik Voorhees, ShapeShift co-founder, is the latest one to detail concerns regarding the draft. The OFAC Conundrum While Voorhees noted that rules are important and that “voluntarily-adopted” standards are noble because they are achieved through coercion and violence, not consent and market forces, the same cannot be said for...

Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the crypto space in general have not been doing well for nearly a year. The world’s number one digital currency by market cap has fallen from its November 2021 all-time high of about $68,000 per unit to roughly $19,000 at the time of writing. That’s a loss exceeding 70 percent, and it makes the bearish conditions of 2018 look tame by comparison. The crypto market has also lost more than $2 trillion in valuation. Bitcoin Has Remained Somewhat...

INTERNET CITY, DUBAI, Oct. 20, 2022 – LBank Exchange, a global digital asset trading platform, has listed Keystone (KEG) on October 20, 2022. For all users of LBank Exchange, the KEG/USDT trading pair is now officially available for trading. As a blockchain based e-commerce platform for global users, Keystone Project was created with innovative technology and all-round experience that connects manufacturing, distribution, and e-commerce consumption. Its native token...

Bitcoin continues to trade without any substantial moves in either direction on low trading volumes, similar to previous weekends. Most alternative coins sit quietly as well, with ETC and APT being among the few exceptions, posting notable gains. Bitcoin Stalls at $19K The past seven days were significantly less volatile than the previous week, in which BTC went from $19,000 to $18,200 and up to $20,000 in a matter of 24 hours after the latest US CPI numbers came out....