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Circle – the company behind the leading stablecoin USDC – has reportedly trimmed its staff in a bid to reinforce its balance sheet. Thus, it joined the likes of numerous crypto-related firms that laid off team members during the prolonged bear market to cope with the decreasing investor interest. Some examples are the exchanges Coinbase, Huobi, Gemini, Bybit, Crypto.com, and many more. As reported by Reuters, the stablecoin issuer has reduced its team and ceased investments...

Coinbase has unveiled an end-to-end encrypted, private, and portable messaging feature for its self-custody wallet product – Coinbase Wallet to enable users to connect directly through their wallet, engage with communities, as well as send payments across thousands of coins. The goal is to give Coinbase Wallet users full control and ownership over their identity and chats by eliminating unnecessary risk and potential losses with the help of messaging. Coinbase’s New...

XRP is booming after Judge Analisa Torres’s ruling on Thursday that most sales of the Ripple-issued cryptocurrency do not constitute securities transactions. The ruling brings a conclusion to a three-year-long lawsuit that is expected to set a firm precedent for many crypto issuers’ legal standing in the United States going forward. Let’s dig into the details of the ruling, and examine how it could impact other cryptocurrencies in the near term. Institutional Sales VS Other...

The price of Ripple’s XRP has exploded minutes following reports that a judge has ruled in favor of Ripple in the case against the Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States. According to reports, a Judge has ruled that Ripple’s sale of XRP doesn’t constitute an offer of investment contracts. This seems to be a major win for the company, as the case has been ongoing for more than three years. According to data by CoinGecko, XRP’s price exploded by approximately...

Ethereum layer-2 ecosystem is heating up with the space seeing yet another entry by ConsenSys, an already established player in the industry. ConsenSys, the firm behind MetaMask, announced the launch of its layer-2 network – Linea – to the main Ethereum blockchain this week. It will soon begin onboarding partners as well. The new layer-2 scaling solution is a zkEVM rollup network leveraging zero-knowledge proofs while making it an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) equivalent....

US prosecutors have reportedly targeted Ryan Salame – ex-CEO of FTX’s Bahamian subsidiary – over a possible breach of the law when donating funds to his then-girlfriend’s political campaign in 2022.  Previous sources have informed that Michelle Bond (the woman in question) has received at least $400,000 in consulting fees from FTX Digital Markets – the entity that Salame ran. According to The New York Times, the American personally donated $1.5 million to the GMI super PAC (a...

LBRY Inc – the firm responsible for developing the LBRY protocol – has announced it will close operations after receiving a final judgment in its case with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday. Since the announcement, LBRY token (LBC) has collapsed 14% in value. A federal judge sided with the SEC in ruling that LBRY violated Section 5 of the Securities Act of 1933 in its issuance of LBC. As such, it has permanently restrained and enjoined from further...

Blockchain data shows that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is moving another massive batch of seized Bitcoin (BTC) connected to Silk Road – the defunct darknet marketplace launched by Ross Ulbricht in 2011. The government has already confirmed plans to sell its Silk Road-related BTC throughout the year, meaning the latest transfers could signal its intention to soon dump more. Silk Road Sale: Round 2 As tweeted by Wu Blockchain on Wednesday, two Silk Road BTC addresses...

Litecoin (LTC) search trend has hit a new yearly peak, according to the blockchain analytic platform, IntoTheBlock. The upcoming halving event – which is currently set for August 2nd – is likely to be a key driver for the heightened interest. Halving events have been known to generate tremendous interest in the days leading up to the fact, as they increase the scarcity, which typically boots the value. Hence, the chatter around the crypto asset intensifying is a given. ITB’s...

Egypt is yet another country that currently copes with severe financial difficulties and galloping inflation, which have harmed the local currency. As such, the price of bitcoin against EGP has surged notably lately, exceeding 1,200,000 EGP on Binance, which is a record high. It is worth mentioning that the valuation is not that high on other cryptocurrency exchanges, such as Coinbase. The Outcome of the Monetary Disruption Despite Egypt’s GDP gradually growing in the past...