News and Articles by Anahit

Leading payment processing company PayPal revealed adding support for crypto transfers between PayPal, and other digital currency wallets and platforms. The company published a press release that says the new feature has been one of the most wanted possibilities by users since the team started...

On June 6, the capacity of Bitcoin's Lightning Network (LN) set a new ATH. Data from Glassnode shows that this metric surpassed 3.970. Capacity indicates the overall amount of BTCs locked in the network. Launched in 2018, Lightning operates on top of the BTC blockchain and enhances its scalability....

The Securities and Exchange Commission of the US is investigating Binance in connection with the sale of the platform's BNB coin in 2017, when the company raised $15M. The agency is to find out whether Binance broke securities laws by selling the coins at the time of the launch. According to a...

In May, the Tron blockchain issued its USDD algo stablecoin. At present, the team is looking to modify the coin, adding collateral and enhancing transparency to avoid the scenario that the Terra ecosystem faced. Data from the Tron DAO Reserve website displays, the reserve account now holds 13,040.6...

Tom Tate, the mayor of the Australian city Gold Coast says the city’s residents may pay council rates or local property tax in Bitcoin in the future. In an interview with Australian news provider ABC News, the Mayor said such a use case serves as a signal that the city is innovative and will draw...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a report on crypto scammers cashing in on the crypto craze. According to the analysis, Americans have lost over $1 bln to crypto scams since the beginning of 2021. Based on the reports, scammers widely use social media to realize their activities. Almost...

Popular digital assets platform Binance officially sponsors The Weeknd’s tour "After hours Til Dawn," which will start next month. It’s the first time a major crypto firm funds a famous artist. "After hours Til Dawn" is the 7th concert tour by award-winning singer-songwriter...

The White House is exploring the mining of cryptocurrencies and its impact on the environment. A report by Bloomberg informs that a task force now is examining the benefits and shortcomings of the sector to develop proper policy suggestions. Costa Samaras, who serves in the White House Office of...

The US regulator of the futures market, presented claims against the crypto platform Gemini, established by Winklevoss twins in 2014. It claims that the company falsified data provided to the CFTC in around 2017 at meetings and in papers by breaking the regulation principles. The federal agency...

On June 1, 26 computer scientists, software engineers, and technologists from different companies published a letter to US lawmakers, expressing their concerns about the crypto sector. With the letter they urged Congress to be critical, and skeptical about web 3 and cryptos. They said not to view...

American restaurant chain Chipotle revealed accepting cryptocurrencies as a means of payment across the US. To provide the option, the chain partners with the digital payments services company Flexa. Chipotle accepts BTC, Eth, and other cryptos from any application that supports Flexa for burritos,...

Leading bank Goldman Sachs published its yearly survey on the insurance sector. The release included cryptos as well. 328 high level financial officials took part in the survey. They present about half the $26 T world’s insurance field. The results of the survey showed that 6% of participants...

An ex-employee at the popular NFT platform OpenSea, Nate Chastain, is accused of fraud and money laundering. Each of these counts carries a max sentence of 20 years. However, a judge's sentence is yet to come. According to an announcement by the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New...

On June 1, the Solana blockchain faced a technical difficulty, as a result of which the network was halted for over 4 hours. The team tweeted that a bug led to nodes' generating different results for the same block, because of which operations stopped advancing. After about a 4 and a half hour...

Ethereum layer 2 scaling solutuion Optimism launched its native token OP today through an airdrop. After the launch the price of the token dropped by around 70%, falling from $4.5 to $0.7. Currently, OP trades at around $1.3. The Optimism team announced an airdrop of the 5% of the total supply of...

Major investment bank Goldman Sachs holds talks with the crypto trading platform FTX to integrate some solutions of their derivatives operations. A report by Barron's says a person close to the subject informed that the company aims to expand its crypto derivatives offering by using some functions...

The United Kingdom government released a consultation paper on May 31 that recommends improving the current legislation to face risks related to stablecoins. The news came after the Terra ecosystem's collapse. The paper suggests giving the Bank of England additional power to manage the...

Fidelity's crypto unit is going to double the number of its employees as it assumes the demand for cryptos will rise this year. The international financial services company launched Fidelity Digital Assets in 2018 to enable the storage and trading of Bitcoin. A publication by Wall Street Journal...