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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced a tender for blockchain analytics firms. The cost of the contract is £ 500,000 ($672,000). “FCA is looking for a third-party service provider in this area that can provide access to a platform that supports reliable and efficient analysis of...
Over the next five years, we will see the price of bitcoin (BTC) jump above $ 500,000. This forecast was announced by the CEO of ARK Invest fund Cathie Wood. Moreover, it is not the first time that it has declared that the leading cryptocurrency is aimed at growth in the long term. Even in moments...
A study by Elliptic says that users of projects deployed in the DeFi market have lost $ 10.5 billion since the beginning of 2021 as a result of hacker attacks and fraudulent schemes. Last year, the damage was only $ 1.5 billion. According to DeFiLlama, in June 2020, the value of funds blocked in...
Bitcoin (BTC) kicks off the new week with a deeper dive than many analysts previously expected. They predicted that the cryptocurrency would be able to stay in the $ 60,000 area, but now it is safe to say that this psychological mark has transformed into a zone of strong resistance. Before the...
President of Kazakhstan Kasym-Zhomar Tokayev met with business representatives. The head of the republic expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that miners do not pay taxes to the state budget. He recalled that Kazakhstan ranks second after the United States in terms of the amount of generated...
The El Salvadorian government has struck a deal with Blockstream and iFinex (the parent company of Bitfinex and Tether) to place a $ 1 billion bitcoin bond on the Liquid Network. Half of the proceeds from the sale of bonds will be directed to the development of the infrastructure for mining the...
The Lydia payment application has integrated the services of the Bitpanda broker. That will allow 5.5 million users to trade more than 170 digital assets without commissions. Lydia offers a wide range of services including checking and shared accounts, express loans, instant bank transfers, mobile...
The drop in Ether (ETH) last week triggered a sharp increase in the number of unprofitable addresses on the network. Now, this figure exceeds 3.115 million - this is the highest value since the beginning of October, according to a review by the Glassnode team. ETH dropped to $ 4,000 last Friday,...
On November 20th, 2021, TRADOCAPS, a new ecosystem powered by BSC Chain, released the SEED SALE of its native token, $TADOC. TRADOCAPS aspires to integrate all smart traders, investors, and crypto assets into a unified blockchain ecosystem via smart contracts, which will make trading experience...
In Israel, the founder of ICO startups Sirin Labs, Stx Technologies Limited (Stox), and Leadcoin Moshe Hogeg was arrested on suspicion of cryptocurrency fraud, money laundering, and sexual crimes. The entrepreneur also owns one of the leading football clubs in the country, Beitar (Jerusalem). Along...
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) plans to recover billions of dollars worth of cryptos in delinquent claims next year. During the 2021 fiscal year, the department replenished the treasury under this item by $ 3.5 billion. This is the equivalent of 93% of all seized assets in illegal...
Many states have already announced plans to create national digital currencies (CBDCs). In addition to the CBs of China and Sweden, many other regulators from Europe and Asia have issued a series of statements of intent over the past two years to introduce tokens pegged to fiat currencies. The...
On Thursday, November 18, an unknown buyer bought a historically valuable copy of the US Constitution at Sotheby’s auction for $ 43.2 million. The DAO, specially created by a group of crypto investors to buy the artifact, could not outbid his bid. A week before the auction, enthusiasts launched...
The non-profit Oasis Foundation has launched a $160M fund to finance developers of Dapps powered by the Oasis Network, including DeFi, NFT, and the metaverse. The fund will also invest in companies involved in tokenization and data management, develop privacy applications and create projects in the...
A study by CoinShares says that last week, hedge funds invested about $ 151 million in crypto-focused products. Thus, under the control of institutions, there are now cryptocurrencies worth a record $ 56 billion. Since January 2021, financial institutions have invested $ 6.5 billion in digital...
The venture capital arm of the KuCoin cryptocurrency exchange announced the creation of a $ 100 million fund. The structure will provide funding for projects focused on the creation of the metaverse. The funds will go to early-stage startups from emerging economies, primarily from Africa and South...
ConsenSys, a specialist in solutions for the Ethereum ecosystem, has closed a $ 200 million funding round. Investors including HSBC, Marshall Wace, and Coinbase Ventures have valued it at $ 3.2 billion. The company will use the funds raised to develop the Infura infrastructure platform and the...
The government of the People's Republic of China intends to impose harsh penalties on government agencies that continue to mine digital assets in the short term. The authorities want to speed up the process of the complete eradication of cryptocurrencies from all areas of activity. As of today, the...
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