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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...

The residents of Massachusetts – Erig Meiggs and Declan Harrington – will go to jail for two years for stealing approximately $330,000 worth of cryptocurrency from victims. The criminals employed multiple techniques to drain assets, including “SIM swapping” and computer hacking. Fraudulent schemes involving digital assets have been on the rise lately in the USA. At the end of August, the authorities charged the Miami trio – Esteban Cabrera Da Corte, Luis Hernandez Gonzalez,...

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...

The US-based cryptocurrency exchange – Kraken – joined the list of platforms restricting services to Russian consumers. The decision comes as a result of the latest sanctions that the European Union (EU) imposed on the largest country by landmass for its invasion of Ukraine. Other trading venues that have already ended ties with Russian users include BlockchainCom, CryptoCom, and more. Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine, which started in February, caused the Western world...

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...

United States-based cryptocurrency exchange FTX.US was approved by the bankruptcy court to enter the asset purchase agreement with the bankrupt crypto lender, Voyager. According to the official announcement, FTX.US is valued at nearly $1.422 billion. Voyager said it will move forward with a customer vote on the broader recovery plan, which entails the implementation of the sale to the crypto exchange. The voting deadline on the same is scheduled for November 29. The embattled...

Cardano’s price took turn for the worse after the much-anticipated Vasil upgrade, as it fell to the lowest level since February 2021. ADA is currently on the way to posting the seventh red monthly candle in a row. The ADA price correction gained traction in the wake of a downtrend across the digital asset market spurred by the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate hikes to suppress rising inflation. In fact, ADA declined by over 20% since the hard fork, which aimed at...

Hackers are once again taking advantage of social networks to do their thing. This time, they compromised the official Twitter account of a popular crypto exchange to promote a phishing scam. Around midnight on October 21, PeckShieldAlert reported that the official Twitter account of Gate.io was hacked to promote a scam simulating a Giveaway of up to 500,000 USDT in rewards. The fraudulent tweet by Gate.io. Image: Peckshield via TwitterThe tweet posted by the hackers offered...