Tag Archives: Cryptocurrency News

Ethereum (ETH) has emerged as the top performer in the top ten crypto-list gaining over 14% and moving past $1,500 for the first time since the Merge event.On Tuesday, October 25, the broader crypto market made a sharp rally surging past more than 5% and above the $1 trillion market cap. As of the press time, the broader cryptocurrency market is up 7% with a combined market cap of $995 billion.The world’s largest cryptocurrency Bitcoin (BTC) has also gained 7% and is currently trading at...

The new NFT custody platform from Seba Bank is designed to let users securely store their NFTs without having to deal with managing their own private keys.Seba Bank has launched its first NFT service, an institutional-grade, certified, and independently audited hot and cold storage custody product for blue-chip NFTs.The new service will now enable the Swiss bank’s retail and institutional clients to store tokens of Ethereum-based NFT collections including Bored Apes and CryptoPunks in the...

Elon Musk has also made a bold prediction that the global recession will continue until near 2024 Bitcoin halving.Bitcoin has been in a bearish mode for some time with Peter Brandt, founder and CEO of proprietary trading firm Factor LLC predicting that the asset could trade between $17,000 and $23,000 till next year and a half before staging a bull run into new all-time highs. The current bear market has been linked to interest rate hikes to address the rising inflation, and it is unknown...

Crypto exchange FTX is reportedly in talks to buy Bithumb. The legal issues connected to its former chairman will, however, hinder any possible sale.According to reports, Lee Jung-hoon, the de facto owner of the South Korean bitcoin exchange Bithumb, is now facing an 8-year jail sentence.The owner who is also a former chairman of Bithumb Holdings is accused of committing a large-scale fraud worth around 100 billion won ($70 million). Lee was indicted by South Korean prosecutors in July 2021...

Coinbase’s institutional-grade service will allow MakerDAO to earn up to 1.5% of the rewards of the funds.On Monday, October 24, crypto exchange Coinbase announced that the MakerDAO governance has finally voted in favor of the proposal to custody $1.6 billion worth of MarkerDAO’s USD Coin (USDC) treasury.In return, Coinbase’s institutional-grade service will allow the DAO to earn up to 1.5% of the rewards of the funds. This is for the first time that Coinbase is expanding its USDC rewards...

For the World Cup event that will start on November 20 in Qatar, FIFA has named Crypto.com as its official exchange partner while Algorand, a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain protocol, has been tapped as a blockchain partner for the event.With the FIFA World Cup less than a month away, the fan tokens of National Football teams have been recording a massive slump, signifying sentiments for the countries who have these tokens and will be participating in the Mundial.According to data from the...

Behnam made this remark while speaking at the Regulating Financial Innovation event on October 24, where he added that he thinks Gary Gensler, chair of the SEC, thinks otherwise or at least hasn’t certainly declared one or the other.Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chair Rostin Behnam has reaffirmed that Ethereum, the second-biggest cryptocurrency in the crypto market, is a commodity.Behnam made this remark while speaking at the Regulating Financial Innovation event on October 24,...

The veteran trader is not overly enthusiastic about the prospects of BTC until maybe after 32 months or thereabout.Veteran trader Peter Brandt has given a hint of what to expect of the world’s leading cryptocurrency Bitcoin (BTC) over the next few years. The respected trader spoke on CoinDesk’s “First Mover” program on Monday about the current state of the crypto, and its expected price movement in the next few months, among many other topics.Firstly, Peter Brandt admitted that BTC is...

ARK CEO Cathie Wood recently disclosed that she bought $100,000 worth of Bitcoin at $250 years ago and has never sold it.Cathie Wood recently revealed that she purchased $100,000 worth of Bitcoin (BTC) years ago when it was trading at around $250. The referenced unit price of the popular crypto suggests Wood made the purchase sometime in 2015. Speaking on Peter McCormack’s “What Bitcoin Did” podcast, the ARK Investment CEO disclosed that she has not sold any of that initial investment. This...

The CFTC has been working closely with the SEC to help provide crystal clear cryptocurrency regulations.The cryptocurrency market is getting shaped by global geopolitics. In the United States, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), under Chair Rostin Behnam, has been at the forefront of cryptocurrency industry regulations. However, it has been regarded as a friendlier regulator than the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).During a panel discussion hosted by law firm Lowenstein...