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Nansen – a blockchain market intelligence firm – released a report on Tuesday analyzing how the earliest whales to onboard Coinbase’s layer 2 blockchain – Base – are using their money. Here’s what the company found. Early whales largely allocated to Ethereum and its layer 2 networks. As of August 7, the most value held by these whales ($19.6 million) was on Ethereum itself, followed by Base ($17.6 million), Arbitrum, and Optimism. Regarding tokens, ETH was the most common...

Bitcoin’s price performance continues to be rather underwhelming, with the asset remaining at essentially the same spot as yesterday at just over $29,000. Most altcoins are also quite stagnant today, with little-to-no movements from ETH, BNB, XRP, and others. Shiba Inu is the only exception from the larger caps. SHIB, APE, PEPE on the Rise Shiba Inu’s largest digital asset – SHIB – has been among the best performers lately, gaining double digits in the past week, as...

Sam Bankman-Fried was reportedly sent to jail on Friday as US Judge Lewis Kaplan denied his lawyers’ request to delay detention. The former crypto mogul’s court date is set for October 2nd, and he could sit in a jail cell until then if the appeal is unsuccessful. CryptoPotato reported last month the allegations presented by the New York Times that SBF had tried to intimidate one of the key witnesses in his legal battle against US authorities – the former leader of Alameda...

The once-prominent cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex has reportedly agreed to pay $24 million in penalties to resolve its quarrel with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The agency has previously accused the platform of offering services to American clients without obtaining the necessary registration. The exchange shuttered its US operations and filed for bankruptcy protection shortly after the regulator targeted it. As reported by Bloomberg, Bittrex...

Argentina’s Agency for Access to Public Information (AAIP) disclosed that it is currently conducting an investigation on Worldcoin to determine whether it complies with security and privacy rules. The cryptocurrency project, which saw the light of day in July, sparked huge controversy due to its eye-scanning requirements. Other countries, including Kenya and Germany, have also raised concerns on the matter. Argentina Joining the Club The aforementioned agency said it will...

The initial response to Coinbase’s layer 2 blockchain – Base – has been favorable so far. It has garnered substantial engagement in both DeFi operations and cross-chain bridge transactions. The daily active users on Base, for one, surpassed 100,000 for the first time. More importantly, the figure came just a day after the much-anticipated launch of the blockchain’s mainnet. Base was already live for testing by developers but launched for the public officially with more than...

Cryptocurrency trading platform Kraken dethroned its rival Coinbase to become the most liquid United States exchange for altcoins in July. According to a tweet by Dessislava Laneva, a research analyst at crypto data platform Kaiko, by the end of July, Kraken had claimed 47% of the market depth in the US for the top 10 altcoins. Kraken Claims Largest U.S. Market Depth for Altcoins As of January 2023, Kraken had only a 39% share of the market depth of altcoins, while Coinbase...

Evernode – a layer 2 smart contract solution built on top of the XRP Ledger (XRPL) – announced the first details of its airdrop intended to reach XRP holders. Such investors should provide a snapshot of their possessions by the beginning of September and must hold their tokens on-chain. The team behind the decentralized platform revealed that it will airdrop 5,160,960 Evers to eligible XRP holders. Investors will be required to send a snapshot of their stash (stored directly...

After several weeks of sideways trading and failing to register any significant price movements in either direction, these past seven days provided more volatility that resulted in both multi-day lows and highs for BTC. It all started on Monday when the primary cryptocurrency dumped by several hundred dollars after the quiet weekend to a weekly low of $28,700. However, the bulls intercepted the move and pushed the asset north. In fact, what followed was among the most notable...

Bitcoin miners have had a rocky start in 2023 after being battered by a severe market downturn the previous year. But as prices recovered over the last several months, they have been at significant capacity, according to Bernstein. The brokerage firm’s latest report weighs in on how large miners are poised to reap substantial benefits from such a growing trend. Where do Miners Stand Ahead of Bitcoin Halving? The report suggests that the 16 largest publicly listed mining firms...