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Metamask users 5 Million

The Number of MetaMask's Users Reached 5 Million

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The wallet and extension Metamask now has 5 million active users per month which is five times more compared to October 2020, when the number crossed 1 M for the first time. 🥳 A new milestone!6 Months5 Million Monthly Active Users2 Billion USD in accumulated transactions100% more ethical...

Ethereum performance

Ether Surpassed $2.700. The Blockchain Hits New Records

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The price of Ethereum reached a new all-time high surging over $2.730. Its market cap went up to $314.1 B. Ethereum ecosystem keeps growing and getting ways to solve scalability problems. Recently the launch of the Berlin hard fork took place. The upgrade London is scheduled to release on July 14....

Elon Musk Dogefather

Elon Musk Calls Himself Dogefather, The Coin Surges

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On May 8 Elon Musk will be the guest of the American show Saturday Night Live (SNL). The businessman tweeted about this, posting "The Dogefather, SNL May 8". Following this, DOGE has gained over 20%. Now the coin trades at around $0.3 ranking the 7th by market cap. The DogefatherSNL May...

Indonesia crypto

Indonesia Views Taxing Cryptocurrency Activities

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The regulatory body of Indonesia, called Bappebti is implying laws towards crypto activities that are performed on regulated crypto platforms of the republic. There are now 13 crypto platforms registered with Bappebti. The executive of the agency Sidharta Utama informed that the tax amount hadn't...

Gemini exchange credit card

Gemini and Mastercard Will Bring Out Crypto Credit Card

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Crypto services provider Gemini has teamed up with Mastercard to release crypto returns credit card. The product's debut will be in the summer. We are excited to announce Mastercard as the network partner for the #GeminiCreditCard! We are thrilled to work with one of the most trusted and globally...

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Ethereum's Gas Fee Drops to 3-Months Lows

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According to the data provided by cryptocurrency performance analytics Santiment, the average transaction gas fees of the protocol dropped under $10 first time in three months. It even went down to $8.14, while during the last months the cost was above $20. In addition, active Ethereum addresses...

Tesla sells 10% of its BTC

Tesla Benefits $272 M Selling 10% of Its Bitcoins

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On Monday electronic car company Tesla reported its financial results for the first quarter of this year. It became known that the business owned by Elon Musk sold 10% of its $1.5 Billion worth of Bitcoin holdings acquired in February. The report stated that Tesla holds and may invest in digital...

PayPal CEO Crypto

PayPal CEO Says There Is a High Demand for Crypto Offering

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Dan Schulman, CEO of the major payment company PayPal said in a recent interview with Time that the demand for the company's crypto offering is more than the team expected at first. The payment giant allowed crypto trading in November 2020. As stated by Schulman, the current financial structure...

Solana SOL surge

Solana Keeps Surging: The New High is Above $48

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In the previous 7 days, the price of Solana's native token SOL has grown by over 47% reaching a new all-time high of $48.43. The token ranks the 13th by market cap, which stands at about $12.3 B. The surge occurred at a time when most of the cryptocurrencies were seeing declines. This can be...

Eminem NFT

Eminem Auctions His NFTs on Nifty Gateway

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On April 25 famous rapper, Grammy, and Oscar winner Eminem issued his first NFTs. The collectibles are on sale on the platform owned by Gemini, Nifty Gateway. There are represented three types of NFTs, which are in the form of animation accompanied by an original beat performed by Eminem. The...

Binance stock tokens

Binance's New Stock Tokens: Microsoft, Apple, MicroStrategy

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Within the next few days tokenized shares of Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSTR), and MicroStrategy (MSFT) will become available for purchase on the widely-used cryptocurrency network Binance. Thus, together with Tesla and Coinbase, Binance now introduces five stock tokens overall. New Stock Tokens to...

Grayscale Bitcoin Trust down

Grayscale Bitcoin Trust to Hit Laws

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The Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) hit a record low of -18.92% on April 22. This means that the market price of GBTC shares is 19% down than its net asset value (NAV). GBTC started trading at a discount price first time in late February. There are several reasons for this. One of the main ones is...

NFTs and science

Harvard Professor to Present His Genetic Code As An NFT

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Professor of genetics George Church announced he will auction an NFT representing his genetic code. The Ph.D. is going to introduce his genome in sequence through artistic representations. In 2018 Church together with Dennis Grishin co-founded the blockchain-powered establishment Nebula Genomics,...

Pantera Capital CEO BTC

Pantera Capital CEO Assumes BTC May Hit $200.000 by 2022

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The CEO of California-based venture capital firm Pantera Capital, Dan Morehead assumes that the price of Bitcoin may break $200.000 by 2022. He shared the analysis on social media. Morehead's view is based on the growing number of BTC adoption. In the published paper, he presented statistics that...

Cardano Stellar ETPs

21Shares to Issue Stellar and Cardano ETPs

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Switzerland-located digital asset investment company 21Shares releases the first XLM and ADA exchange-traded products. They will go live on April 26 on the SIX Exchange under the tickers AXLM and AADA. The team mentioned their goal to meet customers' demand for financial instruments for crypto...

Ethereum $2560

Ether Broke an all-time High of $2.560

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Today the price of Ether set a new record high surpassing $2.560. It's the first time that the cryptocurrency has gone above $2.500. Recently the token's options market surpassed 3.3 billion, which indicates the growing demand for Eth investments. The biggest altcoin's market cap crossed $298...

Natwest crypto

UK Bank NatWest Won't Assist Clients Dealing in Crypto

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United Kingdom retail and commercial National Westminster Bank, otherwise called NatWest stated it won't provide services to business clients that allow payments in cryptocurrencies. British news and website the Guardian published the news on April 21. Morten Friis, NatWest's head of risk...

Bitcoin dominance index

BTC Dominance at 50% For the First Time in 3 Years

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Bitcoin price has been wavering around $52700 and $56.000 in the previous 24 hours. The weakening price caused the dominance index decline which went as low as 50.98%. When BTC loses its dominance to altcoins, then alt season begins. Statistics show that whenever this happens, altcoins began to...

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