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Yosuke Matsuda, President and CEO of the Japanese computer games company Square Enix, wished all users a Happy New Year and spoke about the company's plans for the coming year. Matsuda called 2021 "the year of the metaverse" because the interest in it is extremely high. Large corporations...

The native token of the Cosmos blockchain protocol, ATOM is close to its all-time high of $44.7, reached in September 2021. In the last 7 days, the ATOM price went up by more than 17%. Currently, the coin trades at around $40 and is the 25th largest crypto with a market cap of over $8.8 billion. ...

Leading payments company PayPal considers releasing its stablecoin. As per a report by Bloomberg, the company is exploring a digital currency pegged to the US dollar. At the moment, details of the project development aren't known. Paypal's senior vice president of blockchain, crypto, and digital...

The number of criminal transactions involving Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies reached record levels in 2021. A study by Chainalysis says that the volume of such transactions amounted to $ 14 billion. Compared to 2020, the use of digital currencies in fraudulent schemes, in the spread of...

Ethereum-based decentralized oracle network Chainlink announced that it will launch the Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) this year. Talking about the ecosystem’s future, the CEO Sergey Nazarov said that the CCIP is an app addressed to solving challenges of cross-chain...

According to the CEO of Real Vision Raul Pal, by the end of this decade, the capitalization of the cryptocurrency market may increase 100 times. Now the value of all digital currencies exceeds 2 trillion. At the end of last year, capitalization was growing, however, already in the first days of...

The Solana protocol announced on Jan. 6 that there were some issues causing performance degradation. In the published tweet, the team mentioned that the reason for the slowdown was the high volume of activities, which is dropping the protocol’s capacity to carry out txns in a second. Because of...

The regional government of Hong Kong reported that law enforcement agencies managed to arrest crypto scammers, the search for which lasted about two years. A 28-year-old woman and a 21-year-old man, who are each other's brother and sister, opened accounts in different banks in their names. For a...

Mexico joined the list of countries that have already officially announced their intention to develop their digital asset. This information was recently posted on the official account in one of the social networks of the President of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador. In a statement, the...

In the last 7 days, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies saw a major decline, except for Chainlink LINK, Cosmos ATOM and some others. Bitcoin dropped by over 12%, and currently trades at around $42.400. The second largest crypto, Ether, declined by over 14%. Ether's price at the moment is...

The leading game retailer, GameStop is said to launch a division to release an NFT marketplace, and start collaborations with crypto companies. Washington Street Journal reported the news on January 6, mentioning that the source was persons aware of the company's plans. It was mentioned in the...

In the expert community, many believe that in the future, Bitcoin will be able to bypass gold in terms of capitalization. That will happen thanks to the ongoing institutional adoption of the cryptocurrency. Analysts at investment bank Goldman Sachs adhere to the same point of view. In a study...

During a recent podcast of the program Bankless, Vitalik Buterin talked about the future of Ethereum, what the protocol will look like when the upgrades are complete, how much time is needed for it, and more. Buterin said that the previous year was great for the adoption of crypto, mentioning the...

Despite the holidays, the Coinbase crypto exchange has seen high activity of bitcoin whales since the end of December. According to the analytical company Kaiko, the number of transactions with a large volume of BTC has been increasing on the trading floor since last week. As a result of the...

Co-founder and CEO of e-marketplace Airbnb, Brian Chesky announced that the top suggestion by the platform's users is to have the option of crypto payments. On Jan. 3, the CEO asked on Twitter, if Airbnb would launch anything this year, what it would be. Chesky mentioned that there were various...

Tether, the issuer of the USDT stablecoin, has blocked 560 addresses over the past five years. According to the EtherScan service, at the beginning of January, Tether added another wallet to the blacklist of Tether, containing more than $ 1 million worth of stablecoins. USDT developers have been...

Leading NFT marketplace OpenSea revealed raising $300 M in the Series C investment round. Currently, the company's market value stands at above $13.3 bln. Investment companies Paradigm and Coatue led the round. In the published blog post, OpenSea says there were also new and exciting investors...

The government of the Republic of Kosovo told Bitcoin and other crypto miners to stop activities, while the country faces challenges with electricity. Kosovo local media Gazeta Express informs that the Minister of Economy, Artane Rizvanolli said that law enforcement suggests identifying locations...