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The cryptocurrency market never ceases to amaze. One of the most popular centralized exchanges – Bitfinex – spent over $23 million worth of fees to send $100K USDT using Ethereum’s network. In what seems to be the most expensive transaction made on Ethereum, Bitfinex, the well-known cryptocurrency exchange, paid over $23M worth of ETH. Interestingly enough, the transaction itself intended to send $100,000 worth of USDT. According to Etherscan, Bitfinex paid a grand total of...

Emurgo, the commercial branch of the Cardano ecosystem, has released a new product focusing on investing in startup protocols that want to build on the Cardano blockchain. This comes after several notable announcements from Charles Hoskinson’s team in the past few days. The official press release reads that the new investment vehicle, which will be a wholly-owned subsidiary of the parent company Emurgo, will have two separate branches with distinctive approaches. Emurgo...

The overall demand for ETH continues to increase with new on-chain data suggesting that the total supply held on exchanges has declined by approximately one-third in the past year alone. As such, less than 20% of all ETH in existence is currently sitting on trading platforms. Investors Withdraw ETH Tokens It’s safe to say that the Ethereum blockchain is arguably the most utilized network in the cryptocurrency space. After all, it’s the home of numerous projects from two of...

Software development company COTI announced a few hours ago the issuance of the first stablecoin designed to run on Cardano. The news was first revealed by Charles Hoskinson, leader of Cardano, and Shahaf Bar-Geffen, CEO of COTI Group, at the Cardano Summit stage in Laramie, Wyoming. The Djed stablecoin will be issued on Cardano and will promote the growth of its nascent ecosystem, especially now that the blockchain is beginning to support smart contracts and markets have...

The Chinese government is not holding back on its mission to stop all crypto activity in the country, and has continued to widen its crackdown against bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Huobi Blocks New Chinese Users The intensified attacks have now forced Huobi, one of the major exchanges in the country, to suspend new user registration coming from China. Recall that crypto trading and mining crackdowns escalated in China on Friday after the nation’s central bank issued another...

The Spanish amusement and leisure park – PortAventura World – would be the first in its field to add bitcoin payments as an option to its clients. The initiative would start from the next season and would initially allow crypto settlements at the resort’s hotels. In addition, the medical diagnostics and solutions company – Todos Medical – jumped on the cryptocurrency bandwagon by enabling its patients to purchase wellness products in digital assets. PortAventura Dives into...

InputOutput (IOKH), the technology company behind the Cardano open-source blockchain project, announced in the ongoing Cardano Summit 2021 that it has partnered with decentralized blockchain oracle network Chainlink. Tremendous Respect for Cardano As per the announcement, the partnership will see Cardano integrate Chainlink’s oracles to support developers as they prepare to start building smart contracts for decentralized finance (DeFi) applications. Recall that Cardano...

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) and the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) have recently issued a staff notice addressing improper marketing practices from Crypto Trading Platforms (CTPs) in the country and offered clarity on what rules to keep in mind. Cleaning Up CTP Advertising The regulators’ notice was released earlier this week on the OSC’s website. It begins stating their concerns over “certain advertising activities and...

In just three weeks, roughly one-third of El Salvador’s population has started to employ the Bitcoin wallet Chivo actively. As such, the country’s president updated that more people will soon be using the app than they have bank accounts in all local banking organizations combined. The smallest and most densely populated Central American country made history earlier this year when it announced it will legalize bitcoin within its borders. The move received many controversial...

During a period of major corporate and institutional interest in the crypto industry, nearly 5,000 new tokens have emerged in the last 12 months, averaging over 10 new coins per day, new data shows. Cryptocurrency Boom of 2021 As can be observed on CoinMarketCap’s homepage, the number of existing cryptocurrencies has recently surpassed 12,000. This is well over the approximately 7,100 coins recorded by the site in September of last year, meaning that at least 4,900 new...