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With just 24-hours left for the upcoming London hard fork, the ETH community eagerly awaits the exciting changes it will bring to the network. There’s been much hype around the arrival of the Ethereum London hard fork and now we are just one day away. The countdown tracker from Ethereum.org shows the hard fork will go live in the next 24 hours from press time. The announcement on the website reads:“The London upgrade is scheduled to go live on Ethereum in August 2021, on block 12,965,000....

RIT Capital Partners has participated in a funding round for Aspen Digital’s UK expansion plans.RIT Capital Partners, formerly known as Rothschild Investment Trust, led an $8.8 Million Series A round of funding for Hong Kong-based Aspen Digital.British peer and Investment Banker Jacob Rothschild’s company, RIT Capital Partners has been officially announced to have led the funding round for Aspen alongside New York-based technology venture firm Liberty City Ventures. The crypto investment...

Tron price started a fresh increase above the $0.0600 resistance against the US Dollar. TRX price is now trading well above $0.0600 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There was a break below a major bullish trend line with support near $0.0640 on the 4-hours chart (data feed via Bitfinex). The pair is likely to continue higher as long as it is above the $0.0620 and $0.0600 support levels. TRON price is trading in a positive zone above $0.0600 against the US...

Bitcoin price failed to extend gains above $42,650 against the US Dollar. The price is now trading below $40,000 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There was a break below a major bullish trend line with support near $40,500 on the 4-hours chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair is likely to bounce back as long as it is above the $37,000 support zone. Bitcoin price is slowly moving lower below $40,000 against the US Dollar. BTC could start...

The Ethereum blockchain is scheduled to undergo the London hard fork, and several exchanges are taking precautions to ensure users’ funds remain secured once the hard fork is successfully deployed.  At block height 12,965,000, estimated to take place tomorrow (August 8th, 2021), Ethereum was scheduled to undergo the hard fork, and two scenarios are likely to occur; either the chain is split, and there’s a competing network with a new token or no new token is created, and most...

Miami mayor Francis Suarez has long been a bitcoin and cryptocurrency fan. He has proposed paying city workers in the world’s largest digital currency by market cap, and he has also tried to entice China’s exiting bitcoin miners to come to his region to start businesses and take advantage of the area’s many tax benefits. Miami Is Heading Deeper Into Crypto Territory However, now he’s taking his affection for digital currency to the next level. In a recent press release,...

Brian Brooks is currently the CEO of Binance.US, but prior to that, he served in government and in the standard financial space. Brian Brooks Has Carved Out a Serious Crypto Career Before his position with the exchange, Brooks was the acting comptroller of the Currency at the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). He has also worked with Coinbase. In a recent interview, Brooks discussed what it was that drew him to the crypto market. He says: For me,...

The CEO is much bullish on the transition to Ethereum 2.0 Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain along with the rise of the DeFi market.The Bitcoin (BTC) vs Ethereum (ETH) debate gets intense. This year, a large number of institutional players have extended their support for Ethereum. With the Ethereum hardfork just two days away, Pantera Capital CEO Dan Morehead predicts that ETH will outpace BTC as the largest cryptocurrency.On Monday, August 2, speaking to the Reuters Global Markets Forum,...

During an interview with Bloomberg, Gensler admitted that he is intrigued by the cryptocurrency space, but that wouldn’t deter him from protecting US investors via enhanced regulations on the market. Being deeply familiar with the blockchain space, as he taught DLT classes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Gensler was expected to have a straightforward approach when it comes down to regulating the industry when he took charge at the SEC earlier this year. So...

With crypto funds and indexes coming mainstream, the Bitwise options for the Aave and Uniswap are likely to see increased embrace from investors across the board. Digital currency asset manager, Bitwise has launched independent Crypto Funds for decentralized finance (DeFi) tokens, Aave (AAVE), and Uniswap (UNI). The new funds, which complements the firm’s suite of institutional investor-centered digital investment was notably in response to the demand for DeFi products from Wall Street...