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The Stripe-hosted onramp was created with Web3 companies in mind. It is designed to cater to their varied use cases. Stripe, a financial infrastructure provider for businesses, has launched a fiat-to-crypto onramp to make it easier for Web3 companies to help their US-based clients to buy cryptocurrency. According to a Thursday release by the firm, it is also making the onramp to all Web3 users, including those on the waitlist. Businesses that provide crypto and blockchain-enabled products...

The officials claim FTX-affiliated Alameda Research had largely repaid the $8 billion borrowed from Genesis Trading, a few weeks before the former filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The bankrupt FTX and Alameda Research officials are stopping at nothing to recover lost funds by the former administration led by Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF). The crypto exchange under John J. Ray III, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Restructuring Officer, has sued several entities including soliciting...

Amid the unfolding banking crisis and interest rate hikes, Bitcoin has been showing strong resilience attempting another breakout above $30,000. On Wednesday, May 3, the US Federal Reserve announced another 25 basis points rate hike taking the US funds rate to more than 5% for the first time since 2007. In hours after the Fed announced the rate hike, Bitcoin (BTC) made a quick surge of more than 2% taking the price above $29,000. This Bitcoin price surge amid the recovery in the broader...

Google Cloud announced plans to assist Web3 startups and projects to build and scale faster and more securely. The new offering expands on the existing initiative called – “Google for Startups Cloud Program” by including additional Web3-specific benefits. The Initiative According to the official press release, eligible Web3 technology projects and startups from pre-seed to Series A will be able to apply for the Google for Startups Cloud Program. Projects can also opt-in to...

After a turbulent 2022 owing to macroeconomic headwinds, Solana’s performance improved substantially in the first quarter of the year. Data suggested that its market cap increased by more than 118% QoQ along with the broader market. Furthermore, numerous ecosystem developments fueled fee payer and transaction activity during Q1. Solana’s Performance in Q1 Solana’s network outages previously sparked conversations around potential insolvency. But its performance stabilized...

The CyberConnect CYBER token initial coin offering takes place on CoinList on May 18th, three days after the registration deadline.   CoinList recently announced the registration and sale of its CyberConnect Community tokens would soon be underway. In a blog post, the digital currency exchange said the sale of the user-empowering decentralized social network’s tokens begins on May 18th. The deadline for registration would be three days earlier on May 15th. Priced at $1.80 per token, the...

The Sui Network is adjudged to be a protocol that makes digital asset ownership fast, private, secure, and accessible to everyone. American token launchpad and trading platform CoinList is set to list SUI, the native token of the much anticipated Sui Blockchain network. As announced by the trading platform, the listing will take place on May 3 which will coincide with the scheduled date that the Sui network will be launching its mainnet. “Our mission at CoinList is to empower builders at...

According to on-chain sleuth Zachxbt, the official Twitter account of the Solana-based decentralized finance project Serum, which had over 200,000 followers, has been renamed ‘Luka.’ The original Serum account is speculated to have been sold to a different user since all the previous tweets have been deleted. Sharing a screenshot of the account, ZachXBT revealed that its PFP avatar was replaced with Milady NFT and was used for promoting “shitcoins.” For the uninitiated, Serum...

Solana price started a decent increase above the $23.80 resistance against the US Dollar. The price is now trading above $24 and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There is a key rising channel forming with resistance near $26.20 on the 4-hour chart of the SOL/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair must stay above the $24.00 and $23.80 support levels to start another increase. Solana price is trading in a positive zone above $24 against the US Dollar, similar...

On April 13, Solana said that its flagship, security-conscious, crypto-first Android device from Solana Mobile is available to those who pre-ordered. The firm will begin taking new orde1111rs for the device on May 8, it added. The Saga crypto smartphone was originally announced in mid-2022. It stated that the team has been using Saga for months now, along with “hundreds of developers.” Saga will be able to manage and store crypto assets, mint NFTs, and run decentralized...