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The sanctions are a part of CBN’s efforts to discourage cryptocurrency usage and to firmly establish commercial restrictions on cryptocurrency trading. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has penalized three commercial banks in the country for failing to follow a directive from the regulation that prohibits consumers from transacting in cryptocurrencies. CBN’s Sanctions According to the latest Bloomberg report, the financial institutions were fined for breaching a...

The largest digital marketplace for crypto collectibles – OpenSea – officially started listing NFTs minted on the Solana blockchain. “We are currently supporting 165 collections, and adding more every day,” the team announced. OpenSea disclosed that users can now buy and sell Solana NFTs on the marketplace. The company praised the blockchain protocol’s low gas fees, efficient energy usage, and fast transactions. The moment you’ve been waiting for… @Solana is officially on...

Dubbed Nexo Prime, the proprietary prime brokerage platform will focus on catering to institutional, corporate, and high-net-worth investors. It aims to provide them with all the tools necessary to trade, borrow, lend, and securely store their digital assets in a single product. Digital Asset Prime Brokerage Unit In a press release shared with CryptoPotato, Kalin Metodiev, CFA, Nexo Co-Founder and Managing Partner, revealed that institutional and corporate demand for digital...

Chengpeng Zhao, aka CZ, CEO of Binance – believes that cryptocurrencies are a terrible option for evading sanctions. Cryptocurrencies have come in aid to the Ukrainian government as well as the several NGOs that have managed to secure donations to help the war-stricken country distribute emergency resources and push back against Russian invasion. However, concerns regarding deep-pocketed Russian oligarchs trying to slip past the impact of Western sanctions by using...

A group of Ledger users has filed a class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court of Delaware against Global e-commerce platform Shopify, its third-party data consultant TaskUs as well as the hardware wallet maker itself. Another Lawsuit According to the official document, the plaintiffs accused Shopify and TaskUs of their “failure to exercise reasonable care in securing and safeguarding” user data connected to the 2020 data breach that affected Ledger SAS crypto...

Frankfurt’s Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (ZIT) and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) conducted a joint operation against the Russian Darknet Marketplace “Hydra Market.” The authorities shut down its server infrastructure and seized over $25 million worth of bitcoin. ‘Hydra Market’ is Down According to a federal police statement, German law enforcement agents “secured the server infrastructure of the world’s largest illegal Darknet marketplace Hydra Market...

CELO’s price went up by more than 60% since the start of April to its highest point in over three months. This comes amid the project’s latest initiative that plans to spend $20 million to incentivize the development of Celo on- and off-ramps. Celo’s Connect the World Project The announcement from earlier this week informed that the Celo Foundation had allocated $20 million for the new Connect the World campaign. The main focus is to invest in teams and projects wanting to...

Piyush Gupta – CEO of Singapore’s leading bank DBS Bank – revealed his institution will not extend its crypto trading services to retail customers in “the immediate future.” The announcement contradicts the company’s initial intentions to provide such opportunities. Change of Plans In February this year, the Singaporean multinational banking and financial services corporation – DBS Bank – disclosed it will extend crypto trading opportunities to its retail clients by the end...

The former BitMEX CEO explained to his readers why 2022 will be a big year for Ethereum. He considers that the network – after the transition to proof-of-stake consensus – will function as a commodity-linked bond. In contrast, the former CEO called BTC “pure money” that intrinsically “yields nothing.” Hayes sees Ethereum as an investment better than not only bitcoin but other L1 protocols, which are mostly overvalued. Plus, the transition scheduled to occur in the summer of...

Bitcoin has calmed once again over the $46,000 mark, while some altcoins have reduced its dominance over the market with impressive gains. Terra is among those as LUNA soared by almost 10% in a day and charted a new all-time high at close to $120. Terra’s Latest ATH Most altcoins experienced enhanced volatility a couple of days ago, went back on the offensive yesterday, and have stalled today. Ethereum, for example, dipped to $3,300 before it shot up to just over $3,500...