News and Articles by Anahit

As per the decision of a Florida jury, announced on Monday Australian computer scientist and businessman Craig Wright did not owe 1.1 m BTC to the family of cyber forensics David Kleiman. Court decided that Wright must pay 100 m in punitive damages over intellectual properspecialistty rights to a...

New-York based crypto platform Gemini partners with Colombia's largest commercial bank, Bancolombia, thus allowing Colombians to trade BTC, Eth, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash. Services will become available from Dec. 14. From that day on, a certain group of the bank's users will be able to access...

Ex Chief Financial Officer of the ridesharing services company Lyft, Brian Roberts joined leading NFT marketplace OpenSea. Brian Roberts is the first CFO of the NFT platform. In his interview with Bloomberg, Roberts said although he loves Lyft, the decision of resignation became easier taking into...

Chicago-based automated robo-advisor for cryptocurrencies and digital assets, Stacked, raised $35 M in a Series A funding stage. The fundraising was led by Alameda Research, established by crypto influencer Sam Bankman-Fried, and Mirana Ventures. Among other companies that took part were Fidelity...

On Saturday, Bitcoin-focused technology and financial services firm NYDIG informed that around $2.5 billion of crypto leveraged positions were liquidated. $1.1 billion of the amount were Bitcoin positions. Bitcoin dropped below $47.000 on December 4 and was traded at around $46.600 according to...

Centralised crypto trading platform BitMart was exploited. On December 5, the founder and CEO of the company, Sheldon Xia tweeted that a major security breach was detected. He informed that the hack impacted one of Ethereum and one of Binance Smart Chain hot wallets. Attackers could withdraw...

Billionaire investor Charlie Munger is in the camp of Bitcoin critics. During the Sohn Conference in Sydney, the businessman said he wished crypto hadn’t been invented. As the Australian Financial Review reports, Munger finds China is right to ban cryptocurrencies, and he admires the move....

The crypto has seen a dip today. Bitcoin price fell below $50.000 for the first time since October 6. In the last 24 hours, Bitcoin dropped by over 17.5%. Currently, it trades at around $46.900, with a market cap of $897 billion. Other major cryptocurrencies, Ether, ADA, Binance Coin also declined...

The winner of Polkadot's 3rd auction became Astar Network, which is a multichain dapps hub. As announced, the protocol will be onboarded at a block with the other first 5 winners on Dec. 18. Previously known as Plasm Network, Astar supports Ethereum, dapp staking, and Layer 2...

Leading sportswear company Adidas stated its entrance to the metaverse cooperating with Bored Ape Yacht Club, Gmoney NFT, and PUNKS Comic. Today we leap Into The Metaverse with @BoredApeYC, @gmoneyNFT & @punkscomic.It’s time to enter a world of limitless possibilities.https://t.co/LmgtrRn20c...

The native crypto of the Terra blockchain protocol, LUNA hit a new ath of $69.74 today. In the last 7 days, the LUNA price went up by over 73.5%. At the moment, it is the 11th largest crypto with a market cap of over $26.2 bln. The surge happens amid the continuous lawsuit between the Terraform...

According to Cardano blockchain explorer Cardanoscan, the number of total Cardano transactions surpassed 20 million, reaching 22.056.500. Earlier, on November 2, Cardano announced that the number of ADA wallets has surged above 2 million. As the volume goes higher, Cardano developers carried out an...

An unknown hacker or a group of hackers targeted the Bitcoin-focused DeFi platform Badger DAO. They managed to seize funds worth $120 M in different crypto assets. Badger DAO announced receiving reports of wrongful withdrawals of funds. While the team is examining the case, smart contracts are...

Instant Swap platform Flyp.me lately announced it had integrated Bitcoin Lightning Network into its accountless platform. Flyp.me is an account free crypto swap platform which lets users to swap up to 40 cryptocurrencies in a secure and instant manner. With just one click visitors can swap tokens...

California-based financial services provider Square, owned by Jack Dorsey, has a new name, "Block". It will come into effect on Dec. 10. Accordingly, the name Square Crypto is changed. Now it is Spiral. As the team explains, the news indicates that Square gives the full brand to their...

Financial expert, Managing director of research at Bank of America, Haim Israel, assumes metaverse will boost the adoption of blockchain technology and increase the number of crypto transactions. In one of his recent interviews, Israel mentioned the possibilities virtual-world platforms hold for...

Tech giant Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and others, published an ad policy update, according to which running crypto ads on the platform becomes easier. To do so, the company has increased the number of regulatory licenses it accepts from 3 to 27. On the...

Tokyo-based multi-industry company SoftBank Group invested $150 million in the fashion metaverse ecosystem Zepeto. The latter was created by a South Korean development company Naver Corporation. Zepeto is a partner of blockchain-based play-to-earn protocol, The Sandbox. As reported Wall Street...