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Robert Kiyosaki, the author of several best-seller books, continues to display his support for bitcoin, gold, and silver above all other assets. In his latest tweet on the matter, he praised the aforementioned three assets while warning that the rich will get richer in the wake of the US government’s policies. Sticking With BTC The largest US stock market indexes registered some gains over the week, with the Dow jumping by over 3% and the S&P 500 by just shy of that...

The recently hacked cross-chain router protocol Multichain announced it is shutting down its operations, citing a lack of operational funds and information about its CEO Zhaojun, who is in the custody of Chinese police. The latest update provided by the team confirmed the rumors about the exec’s arrest. On July 14, Multichain took to Twitter to reveal that Zhaojun has been out of contact with the team since being apprehended by the Chinese police from his home. His sister was...

On July 13, Ripple scored a big win in its nearly three-year-long legal battle against the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) after a court ruled that the majority of XRP sales do not fall under the classification of securities transactions. This has raised questions about the potential implications for cryptocurrencies, such as Solana (SOL), Cardano (ADA), Polygon (MATIC), and other tokens facing similar allegations of being unregistered securities. Let’s examine...

After marking a new 13-month high yesterday at almost $32,000, bitcoin has been rejected once again and even dipped below $30,000 hours ago. Most altcoins are also in the red today following the recent gains, except for DOGE, SHIB, OP, and a few others. BTC Stopped Most of the working week went by quietly for the primary cryptocurrency as the asset spent it trading sideways in a tight range between $30,000 and $31,000. All that, however, changed on Thursday evening when Judge...

Ripple’s partial victory in its fight with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in a court ruling paved the way for small but significant regulatory clarity that the cryptocurrency industry was deprived of for so long. Now all eyes are on the security regulator who, according to Congressman Ritchie Torres, is acting like “an overzealous traffic cop arbitrarily ticketing drivers while keeping the speed limit a secret.” As such, Torres wants the SEC to be...

Ethereum layer-2 ecosystem is heating up with the space seeing yet another entry by ConsenSys, an already established player in the industry. ConsenSys, the firm behind MetaMask, announced the launch of its layer-2 network – Linea – to the main Ethereum blockchain this week. It will soon begin onboarding partners as well. The new layer-2 scaling solution is a zkEVM rollup network leveraging zero-knowledge proofs while making it an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) equivalent....

Non-custodial decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, Arcadia Finance, is the latest victim of a $455,000 exploit that occurred on both the Ethereum and Optimism networks. Confirming the hack, Arcadia revealed that it is working with security partners to minimize the damage after pausing the contracts. The platform has also roped in law enforcement to deal with the issue. Blockchain security expert PeckShield was first to notify the attack on Arcadia and claimed that it was...

The Portuguese soccer megastar Cristiano Ronaldo launched a new NFT collection called “Forever CR7: The GOAT.” The digital items are live on Binance NFT Marketplace and depict historic goalscoring moments from his career. Ronaldo’s memorable bicycle kick goal against Juventus in 2018 is featured as a Super Super Rare NFT with a bidding price of 15,000 USDT.  A Closer Look of CR’s NFTs The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange inked a deal with one of the greatest soccer...

Conor Grogan – the head of product at Coinbase – said he found $322,000 worth of digital assets that belonged to a person who was unaware of that since the funds were transferred after Ethereum’s hard fork in 2016. The executive discovered that the owner of the crypto stash had previously become a victim of hackers who drained their entire life savings. Lucky Day for Numerous Investors Thanks to Grogan Coinbase’s director announced on Twitter that he had tracked down “6+...

With less than a year remaining until Bitcoin’s fourth ever halving, speculation has already begun on whether this one will be followed by the same or similar bull runs as the previous ones. In-depth data shows that the asset’s price performance has been rather identical before and after the last two such events. The Halving Effect Upon creating the network, the anonymous developer Satoshi Nakamoto incorporated an event called the halving, which occurs every 210,000 blocks...