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Move over “Shark Tank,” CoinMarketCap has teamed up with a Web3 entertainment company called Hello Labs – founded by multi-award-winning Hollywood director and producer Paul Caslin – to release a competition show designed to entertain and educate audiences across the world on the intricacies and evolving tech of the Web3 space. The new reality show is expected to capture the elements of both Web3 as well as entertainment. Killer Whales According to the official blog post, the...

Jim Cramer, the host of CNBC’s Mad Money, has once again missed the mark with another one of his predictions for the stock and equity markets. Less than two months after calling the embattled First Republic Bank a “very good bank,” the TV personality has turned around to tell the company’s shareholders that there is nothing for them as US authorities have taken it into receivership. A “Very Good Bank” Turned Sour First Republic Bank was taken over by the Federal Deposit...

Another wave of banking fear swept the markets on Tuesday as stocks for PacWest, Western Alliance, and other financial institutions slid over 20% on the day.  This comes shortly after California financial watchdogs took control of First Republic Bank on Monday, of which 84 branches will reopen under JP Morgan Chase. Another Bank Stock Selloff The California-based PacWest Bancorp (PACW) saw its shares tank from $8.90 at 9:30 am ET on Monday down to just $5.50 by 11:10 am. It...

MicroStrategy, an Enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) platform that provides software, cloud computing, and other services to a wide array of clients, also happens to be one of the world’s largest Bitcoin holders, with approximately 140k Bitcoin in reserves. Out-competing by HODLing The decision to purchase Bitcoin in bulk was made by then-CEO Michael Saylor in 2020, citing concerns over inflation. According to him, simply HODLing BTC has given his firm an edge over rivals...

OPNX – the project created by the defunct hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC) founders – has been controversial from the very start. The exchange has now been reprimanded for conducting unregulated activity. Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) has issued a written reprimand to five OPNX founders, including Kyle Davies and Su Zhu, for carrying out virtual asset exchange services on an unregulated basis in and from the Emirate of Dubai as well as engaging in...

The leading cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced the launch of a Bermuda-based marketplace that will serve non-US institutional users, according to a recent report.  The company has been eyeing other countries to relocate recently due to the regulatory hurdles in America. CEO Brian Armstrong held discussions with the authorities of Britain in April, suggesting that the UK could also become an expansion target for Coinbase. Disappointed in the US  Coinbase – the only...

PEPE is the latest memecoin to hit the market with full force. The cryptocurrency is up over 300% in the past seven days, but its increase is tremendously higher since the time it was launched barely two weeks ago. Following listings on a couple of major exchanges, the community is now speculating whether Binance will be the next to enable trading for PEPE on its platform. PEPE Listed on Centralized Exchanges For those of you who may have, for whatever reasons, missed it –...

The Kingdom of Bhutan – a landlocked country situated in the Eastern Himalayas – has reportedly used its renewable sources of energy to run a bitcoin mining operation for years. A government representative said the process started when BTC was worth around $5,000. It is worth noting that the primary cryptocurrency reached that level for the first time in October 2017. Another country that has done so is El Salvador. The Latin American nation, which became the first to make...

According to the blockchain and smart contract security firm Certified Kernel Tech (better known as CertiK), crypto-related exploits, hacks, and scams in April resulted in losses worth $103 million. The figures for last month are a lot less than the $211 million worth of digital assets which wrongdoers siphoned throughout March 2023. Summarizing the Incidents in April CertiK estimated that the total amount hackers managed to drain last month from crypto projects was...

Gemini Earn – the Winklevoss-owned crypto exchange’s digital asset lending arm – announced on Sunday that it had agreed with Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group (DCG) on a mediation process to bring their bankruptcy dispute to a close.  The company said that it expects an order from Bankruptcy Judge Lane directing the mediation to arrive as early as Monday.  Gemini’s Final Resolution Per the company’s latest update, the plan arranges for two meetings to take place before...