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The implosion of the South Korean stablecoin project Terra may have dented general sentiment towards the industry, but that has not stopped the second-largest city in the country from pursuing ambitious crypto and blockchain goals. Busan has announced a partnership with FTX to build blockchain-powered business solutions in the coming months. As part of the deal, Sam Bankman-Fried’s exchange will work with Busan city to assist in the development of Busan Digital Asset Exchange...

With the mining era slowly coming to an end, the world’s largest Ethereum mining pool – Ethermine – has launched a staking pool service for users. To become a validator on the Ethereum network, users must invest 32 ETH. But Ethermine’s new service, dubbed – Ethermine Staking – offers a workaround. It aims to let members of the pool collectively stake their Ether (ETH) and also earn interest after the transition of Ethereum’s consensus mechanism from Proof-of-Work (PoW) to...

NFT marketplace giant OpenSea announced support for the layer-2 blockchain Polygon on its new Web 3 protocol Seaport. The integration comes with an expanded list of features, including the ability for users to use Polygon’s MATIC as a payment option. In a blog post on Tuesday (August 30, 2022), OpenSea said that the migration of Polygon to Seaport, with the blockchain formerly powered by the Ox protocol, will enable more features for a robust buying and selling experience...

One of the tech giants in Indonesia – PT GoTo Gojek Tokopedia (known as GoTo) – reportedly acquired local cryptocurrency exchange PT Kripto Maksima Koin for 124.84 billion rupiahs ($8.4 million). The firm said that the agreement aligns with its goal to become “a diverse money management hub.” Despite the negative stance displayed by the country’s central bank and some local Islamic organizations, the digital asset sector has become quite popular among Indonesians. According...

Major stablecoin issuer Tether has refuted claims made in an earlier story by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), stating that the publication discredited the company’s transparency efforts and questioned Tether’s profitability. The USDT issuer is no stranger to controversy, especially regarding questions surrounding its reserves. So far, the company has reduced its exposure to commercial paper holdings by 58%. Tether Planning to Release an Audit Soon In a statement released on...

Bitcoin’s hash rate is recovering fast – and it has the mining difficulty to prove it. The network’s latest difficulty adjustment rose the mathematical bar for mining a block by 9.26% – the largest increase since January. That’s the third adjustment in a row during which network difficulty has risen, despite a bear market that inflicted serious pain on the mining industry.  Bitcoin Remains Secure According to data from BTC.com, Bitcoin’s difficulty recovered to 30.98 trillion...

The Albanian authorities arrested Faruk Fatih Ozer – the CEO of the Turkish cryptocurrency exchange Thodex – in the city of Elbasan. Last year, the platform ceased trading and withdrawals, while the 28-year-old executive was rumored to have left Turkey with $2 billion in users’ funds. Despite not managing to detect Ozer’s whereabouts, Turkish law enforcement agents jailed six other individuals connected to the fraud. Two of those were the brother and the sister of the CEO....

Cryptocurrency exchange Nexo announced this Aug. 30 the allocation of another $50 million to execute discretionary and periodic buybacks of its NEXO token on the open market. According to the company’s statement, this would be the second time the exchange has invested money in repurchasing its tokens this year. The first time was in May when they announced the repurchase of $100 million in NEXO tokens. Nexo Wants to Demonstrate its Liquidity Antoni Trenchev, co-founder and...

With the US Federal Reserve firming up its ante against inflation and dismissing discussions about any softening of monetary policy. JPMorgan’s chief global strategist, David Kelly, has made some suggestions for crypto investors concerned about the direction of the market. In an interview Friday after Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s speech at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Kelly said that the best way to be positioned now is to focus on valuations and avoid looking at short-term...

Arbitrum – an Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution – is poised to undergo a major network upgrade on Wednesday. The upgrade will help Ethereum address the onerous transaction fees that have plagued the network over the past two years.  Per a tweet from Arbitrum on Monday, the “Nitro” upgrade will go live on August 31st. It will be accompanied by at least two hours of planned network downtime, starting a 10:30 am EST. According to Offchain Labs – the developers behind Arbitrum...