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Charles Hoskinson, founder of IOHK – the foundation behind Cardano- has shared some of the project’s goals in 2022 via a live Christmas broadcast on Youtube. Hoskinson reflected on the growth of Cardano and the entire crypto industry. He mentioned the non-fungible token (NFT) revolution, the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) boom, and how hackers are targeting DeFi projects, leading to a loss of over $10.5 billion in 2021 alone. Speaking on Cardano’s achievements this year,...

Kris Marszalek, the CEO of popular cryptocurrency exchange CryptoCom, slammed data aggregating resource CoinMarketCap for misreporting their trading volume. In a tweet on Christmas Day, the CEO of CryptoCom slammed CoinMarketCap for failing to report their trading volume accurately. Merry Christmas to team CoinMarketCap who, a week after my response to their poorly worded tweet, arbitrarily reduced our exchange ranking to 14th. We are 2nd/3rd on CoinGecko, so you guys know...

One of the leading altcoin exchanges in the Chinese region – MEXC Global, formerly known as MXC, revealed that it will be retiring Chinese users’ accounts by the end of December 2021. In a detailed Twitter thread, one of the leading Chinese altcoins exchanges, MEXC Global, which was previously called MXC, announced that it will be retiring the accounts of Chinese accounts by the end of December. The move comes as a response to the fact that the exchange has struck...

Chinese internet behemoths are racing to the metaverse. Baidu, for one, is fairly confident that its metaverse app will take at least six years to fully launch. However, as the tech giant eyes to explore more, it will not add support for digital assets on the app. Baidu’s Metaverse World While speaking at the “Create 2021,” Baidu’s annual developers’ event, Ma Jie, the company’s Vice President, shed some light on the timeline of its immersive digital world ‘XiRang.’ Although...

In 2021, many celebrities across different fields got involved with the cryptocurrency space in various ways. Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen competed for the top prize of 1 Bitcoin (approximately $51,000 at the time of writing) in the bullet tournament “Agadmator CakeDeFi Christmas Arena” on the 21st of December. Apart from Carlsen, the 2-hour featured some of the very best bullet players in the world, including Hikaru Nakamura, Alireza Firouzja, Andrew Tang, Daniel...

The Bank of Thailand (BOT) has revealed that it will delay the testing phase of its central bank digital currency (CBDC) until late 2022. Thailand Reschedules CBDC Test Reporting the postponement, Reuters noted that Thailand plans to use the national digital currency as an alternative payment option to cash. Although the central bank did not state the reason for the delay, it still intends to use the pilot project to evaluate the use of a CDBC to complement cash transactions...

Santa Claus could be granting the wishes of Turkish cryptocurrency enthusiasts as the country embarks on a revolutionary change in its cryptocurrency policy. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said today in a press conference that he expected the nation to make a leap forward with a new economic model, and as a first step, he would touch the crypto industry by creating a law to promote their legal use in the country. Turkey President Talks of a New Economic Model The...

Reflecting on the past year, 2021 has been great for Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency market. It even saw the birth of two BTC futures ETFs in the States, but with just a week remaining until the end of it, American investors might not see spot one. SEC in no Mood for Spot Bitcoin ETFs According to the official document, the SEC rejected physically-backed Bitcoin ETFs proposed by Valkyrie and Kryptoin. The regulator cited similar market manipulation concerns while referring to...

Ever since the mid-year substantial sell-off, bitcoin miners’ reserves have been gradually rising, and their total holdings have reached a six-month high. Additionally, on-chain data showed that the reaccumulation levels had reached the September highs, right before BTC started to gain value rapidly. Miners Back to HODLing It was back in June this year when most bitcoin miners disposed of significant portions of their holdings in a relatively short period. This had a...

The Dogecoin Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the growth of popular meme-inspired cryptocurrency Dogecoin (DOGE), has joined forces with the founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin. The idea is to design a “Community Staking” system based on the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism. This comes months after the foundation announced at the Bitcoin ESG conference held earlier this year that it is moving Dogecoin from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake. What is...