News and Articles by Anahit

International audit, tax, and advisory services provider KPMG predicts a slowdown in crypto investments for the next months of 2022. According to a report on the performance of fintech companies in the first half of 2022 by KPMG, the blockchain/crypto sector still sees big deals. KPMG mentioned...

Charles Hoskinson, a co-founder of the Cardano blockchain protocol, finds that Ethereum Classic is a dead project. He shared this opinion while responding to a user tweet on the rejection of his recent proposal to make changes to the ETC's treasury fund. The Cardano executive recommended changing...

Armenia, a country at the crossroads between Europe and Asia increases its Bitcoin mining capacity. Recently, the digital platform ECOS revealed adding 60 megawatts of capacity to its mining facility running from 2018. Processing at one of the hydroelectric plants on the Hrazdan river, the mining...

Cryptocurrency mining pool Poolin announced that its service PoolinWallet is halting all withdrawals, flash trades, and internal transfers within the system from September 5. According to the company, the aim is to preserve assets and stabilize liquidity along with operations amid the dull market....

Leading crypto exchange Binance revealed stopping support for the second largest stablecoin USDC. According to a press release, the platform will exchange users' holdings to its Binance USD in an automated way. Binance will no longer offer USDC Savings and DeFi Staking options, and all USDC...

Australian law enforcement is working to increase crypto expertise and monitor transactions by forming a dedicated police group. According to the Australian Financial Review, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) reached its aiml to raise $600 M from illicit money transfers. This is despite the...

New rules by the UK Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) of Her Majesty’s Treasury define that crypto exchanges should report and freeze accounts suspected of avoiding Russian sanctions or potentially facing criminal charges. The announcement by the financial authority says payment...

Saudi Arabia’s Central Bank assigned a lead for virtual assets and the digital currency program to bring its cryptocurrency goals into reality. Previously, officials of the country expressed worries about the speculative nature of digital assets. According to Bloomberg, the head of the program is...

US Senator Brad Sherman says the Senate hasn't banned cryptocurrencies because there's too much money and power behind them. According to him, money used for lobbying and campaigns work otherwise people wouldn't enter the sector, and it's the reason why the US hasn't banned crypto. The lawmaker...

A technical error in Coinbase resulted in Georgian users' cashing out funds with prices 100 times higher than their actual rates. This happened as the price of the country's official currency, the lari (GEL) was shown at $290 on August 31 instead of $2.90. So, users having $100 worth of lari on the...

After an NFT auction where American actor and comedian Bill Murray raised 119.2 ETH (about $185,000) for charity, hackers stole the funds. According to the blockchain explorer EtherScan, hackers started to attack the actor's wallet at 7:00 p.m. ET on Thursday. The wallet was controlled by Murray's...

KyberSwap, a decentralized crypto exchange aggregator and liquidity platform developed by Kyber Network was hacked. Today the team announced that they identified and fixed the issue leading to a frontend attack. The protocol added that affected users will be compensated. The team tweeted that they...

In a recent interview with blogger Noah Smith, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin talked about the current crypto market state and the future of blockchain. He said it was predictable that the prices would fall, however, he didn't know when it would happen. According to Buterin, in the...

Celsius, a cryptocurrency lender which filed for bankruptcy nearly a month ago, filed a request to return custody holders' funds while implementing a restructure and resuming of its services. The paper says the company has about 58,300 users who made deposits of more than $210 M with custody and...

Data by CoinGecko unveils that the state most interested in Bitcoin and Ether in the USA is California. The study is based on the crypto data platform's website traffic within the US between May to August 21, 2022. Other states included in the top 5 are Illinois, New York, Florida, Washington. 43%...

European Union’s lawmakers rejected a Green Party plan to explore other methods of proof-of-work mining that powers the Bitcoin blockchain. Earlier, the European Parliament didn't approve the proposal to impose limitations on the PoW systems. A Spanish member of the parliament's Green caucus...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said the country will provide over $200 M in infrastructure investments to upgrade Bitcoin Beach. The beach El Zonte was renamed Bitcoin Beach as it accepts Bitcoin. The place has become a tourist hotspot, and investments will serve for the construction of...

Leading NFT marketplace OpenSea announced integrating Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution Polygon into its web3 marketplace protocol Seaport. OpenSea introduced Seaport in June to allow users to buy and sell NFTs efficiently. The platform was launched on Ethereum with the aim to reduce the costs of...