Cryptocurrency News

US video game console and game retailer GameStop has announced that it will launch an NFT marketplace before the end of the second fiscal quarter of 2022. The firm first announced the initiative in February. The platform will be based on the second-level Ethereum solution from the Australian...

Crypto exchange Binance released a document, confirming to the Ontario Securities Commission that it ceases opening new accounts for Ontario residents. With some exceptions to protect investors, the exchange will cease trading in existing Ontario accounts. It will also provide fee waivers and...

The Rarible NFT marketplace has added support for assets issued on the Polygon second-tier network. The integration brought the number of platforms used by the protocol to four, along with Ethereum, Tezos, and Flow. Rarible said that as part of the partnership, the NFT and gaming division of...

The founder of the Terra cryptocurrency project, Do Kwon, has officially announced his intention to replenish the reserves of bitcoins, which are collateral for UST stablecoins. According to reports, the startup intends to carry out almost the largest purchase of military-technical cooperation in...

Commonwealth statutory authority, The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission announced suing Facebook parent company Meta for supposedly allowing misleading crypto ads on FB. ACCC claims that the platform is involved in misleading actions by publishing scam ads that feature popular...

Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz represents the so-called bitcoin bull camp. He periodically predicts that in the long term, the value of bitcoin will reach unprecedented heights. This week, the billionaire announced the rise of cryptocurrency to $500,000. Moreover, in his opinion, this will...

Optimism, which is an offchain scaling solution for Ethereum, attracted $150 M in a Series B funding round. Investors have valued the project at $1.65 B. Paradigm and a16z led the round. A blog post by the company says within a year since its release on the mainnet, Optimism has allowed users to...

The Chinese company Canaan has announced a share buyback from the market. For these purposes, the manufacturer of mining equipment will spend up to $100 million. During the year, the company's shares sank by 85%. The company attributed such dynamics to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and...

The Bitcoin network has seen a weakening of whale activity over the past few days. According to the Santiment team, the number of transactions worth more than $100,000 fell to the lowest level in a year. A similar situation is observed on Ethereum. Researchers believe that most of the largest...

The British Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has repeatedly expressed concern about the growth of citizens' investment in digital currencies. The regulator periodically urges the inhabitants of the kingdom not to invest in bitcoin and other virtual coins. For example, last summer the head of the...

The CEO of the financial services and investment management company Galaxy Digital, Mike Novogratz says the world won't switch to bitcoin overnight, but we are entering the world where people will try to figure out what is the reserve currency, looking to different assets like gold and digital...

With the approval by the President Volodymyr Zelenskyy crypto is now legal in Ukraine. The decision was made amid the Russia-Ukrainian war. Ukraine received about $100 M in crypto donations for military equipment, humanitarian assistance and general aid. The Press Office of the Ministry of digital...

American law enforcement officers seized about $ 450,000 worth of bitcoins, which phone scammers stole from an elderly US citizen. This is stated in a statement by the District Attorney of the State of North Carolina Dena King. In August 2021, attackers, presumably from abroad, called a resident of...

Popular NFT collection Bored Ape Yacht Club announced the launch of a token for the ecosystem, ApeCoin (APE). The cryptocurrency is an ERC-20 governance and utility token, owned and operated by ApeCoin DAO. As announced, it is the official currency of the BAYC ecosystem to allow the community to...

The aggregator of decentralized exchanges Matcha has deprived users with IP addresses from Russia of the opportunity to make transactions. The original message "trading from Russia is not supported" was later changed to "region is not supported". A similar message can be seen by...

Binance has expanded its presence in the Middle East receiving a virtual asset license in Dubai, UAE. The news comes just two days after the company was granted a license from Bahrain’s CB. In the initial regulatory stage under the supervision of the Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA),...

The popular cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced last night that the deposit and withdrawal of coins from the Polygon - MATIC project will be temporarily suspended. This information was also confirmed by the developers of the digital asset directly. The prehistory of the current situation lies...

During the Asian session on March 16, Bitcoin (BTC) rose above $40,000 several times. However, resistance increased again in this area, and the coin retreated to its previous positions. During European trading, BTC again jumped to $40,350, adding about 4.4% per day. The stock market turned out to...