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Telegram may have abandoned its crypto project, but the token lives on. None other than the CEO of the cloud-based instant messaging service Telegram and the creator of the blockchain project, Pavel Durov, is happy that it’s alive and well. TON blockchain had a rough start, but that might be changing soon. The TON Community has announced the partnership of the TON blockchain and Donate, the recently introduced payment service verified by Telegram. TON Community Fetches New...

Mike Novogratz – CEO of Galaxy Investment Partners – recently gave his thoughts on Bitcoin’s price volatility going forwards. Here’s what he had to say. On CNBC’s Squawk Box, Joe Kernen pointed out to Novogratz that Bitcoin is up 66% on the year, yet down 30% from its high of $69k. He then asked if institutional adoption would lessen this apparent volatility. “I think volatility is coming down,” responded Novogratz. He recognizes how Bitcoin is relatively stable compared to...

Adam White – the 3+ year President of Bakkt – has announced that he is leaving the company. His future plans remain a mystery. White announced his upcoming departure in a tweet earlier today. He showed satisfaction with the crypto industry’s maturation from a regulatory standpoint. “Lots of work still to do here but never been more optimistic about the future,” he said. Bakkt is a digital asset manager that started by helping institutions securely hold cryptocurrencies, among...

Yesterday, we saw the floor price for NFTs from the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) collection surpass that for the famed Crypto Punks for the first time. The Flippening Data from OpenSea shows that yesterday, the floor price of the BAYC NFT collection was at 54 ETH, while the floor price of an NFT from the CryptoPunk collection was 52.8 ETH. In other words, we witnessed the first-ever flippening in the world of NFTs, where the most expensive collection officially was the Bored...

Crypto.com isn’t stopping in its ambitions to expand inside the United States and has decided to close the year with a major publicity stunt. The third-largest exchange in the ecosystem, according to Coingecko data, will have a privileged space on all US TV screens in two months, after having purchased an advertising space in the renowned Super Bowl – the country’s most important American football competition – to be held in February 2022. For the sake of perspective, the...

Visa – the leading payment processing company – has completed the acquisition of CurrencyCloud for a whopping 700 million British pounds, worth around $925 million. In a press release from December 20th, the payment processing mogul Visa announced that it had completed the acquisition of CurrencyCloud. The latter is a platform that allows banks and fintech companies to provide foreign exchange solutions for cross-border payments. The acquisition is worth 700 million British...

Former US President Donald Trump is no fan of cryptocurrencies, and he is making that known once again. The only currency he wants is the US Dollar. Trump has been a critic of cryptocurrencies for quite some time now, and this outlook isn’t changing anytime soon. Even if the former FLOTUS Melania Trump has warmed up to the idea of NFT and digital assets, her husband still believes that cryptocurrencies are dangerous. Donald Trump Weighs on Crypto: Still Not a Big Fan In a...

Xinhua News Agency, a Chinese state-run media company, has revealed that it will soon issue China’s first “news digital collectibles” in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), Xinhua Launches NFT Collection In an official announcement on Wednesday, Xinhua will issue a total of 110,001 copies of unique photographs taken by journalists in 2021. According to the announcement, the digital items will be made up of 11 collections consisting of 10,000 copies, each with one special...

Terra – a popular open-source stablecoin network – recently surpassed $20 billion in TVL across its Defi protocols. It now holds more locked value than Binance Smart Chain (BSC).  According to Defi Llama, TVL on Terra began ramping up in late November and early December. By December 16th, the network had over $13 billion locked up. Value began pouring in after that, accruing another $3 billion within just 3 days. TVL peaked on Wednesday at over $20 billion and now sits at...

Opera – a web browser that supports web 3.0 – recently announced a browser integration with Polygon. It will offer Opera users in-browser access to over 3000 dApps on the network. Polygon Dapps on Opera Opera revealed its most recent partnership in a press release on its site earlier today. The browser – which features a built-crypto wallet that uses Ethereum’s web 3.0 API – allows users to transact in Polygon’s native currency MATIC. It also eliminates passwords, helping...