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The Bank of Russia management is considering options for introducing new restrictions on cryptocurrency holders. According to the head of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina, who already has a negative attitude towards bitcoin, the regulator wants to achieve a ban on the use of the state's financial...

In May, the head of the National Bank of Kazakhstan, Yerbolat Dossayev, said that testing the digital tenge (CBDC) could begin this year. This week, the Central Bank published a report in which it revealed some details of its concept of a national digital currency. This document states that the...

Entrepreneur, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, and Polygon Network have built a $200 M initiative to drive the growth of web3-based projects. Ohanian's VC firm Seven Seven Six and Polygon will back the projects representing the industry. The Polygon blockchain will deliver the infrastructure for...

Optimism, one of Ethereum’s off-chain scaling solutions, that uses rollups techniques revealed, removing its whitelist. Now, anyone can deploy applications to the Optimism mainnet. Originally Optimism launched with a whitelist, and only projects included in it could deploy smart contracts on the...

The founder of the crypto platform Tron, Justin Sun announced that he had received the invitation to become the Ambassador of the Grenadian Government to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. I have accepted the invitation and appointment of the Grenadian Gov. to officially serve as...

Russia’s Central Bank considers forbidding crypto investments, two financial market sources standing close to the institution told Reuters. As the report informs, the regulator assumes that an increasing number of crypto transactions presents risks to financial stability. In 2020, Russia gave...

Data from blockchain analytics platform, Santiment show that the supply of the stablecoin Tether (USDT) on exchanges reached its 6-month high. Since mid-June, the amount went up by 22.5% and currently stands at around $8.99 billion. The analysis indicates that there is a high interest in buying...

Melania Trump, the former first lady of the US, presented her NFT platform MelaniaTrump.com. As the office of Melania Trump said, the platform will introduce NFTs regularly. It uses the Solana blockchain and is powered by social networking service Parler. Users can make purchases with Solana's...

On-chain data provider startup Nansen announced raising $75 M in Series B. The round was led by the venture capital firm Accel. Among the participants were GIC, Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global, and a subsidiary of Siam Commercial Bank (SCB), SCB 10X. We’re excited to announce that Nansen has...

Back in August, Kraken CEO Jesse Powell shared the point of view of those analysts who predicted Bitcoin's soar to $ 100,000 by the end of this year. Among such experts, for example, Bloomberg strategist Mike McGlone stands out. However, this week Powell unexpectedly corrected his position and...

Binance collaborates with Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk (Telkom Group), the largest telecommunication network in Indonesia to release a crypto exchange. Telkom is a state owned enterprise, with 52.09% of its shares belonging to the government. Binance has built a joint venture together with a...

The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has required all crypto companies to stop posting content promoting cryptocurrency investments. On December 15, the regulator sent appropriate notifications to such companies as Coinbase, Kraken, eToro, as well as EXMO, and Coinburp. The management also...

Block CEO Jack Dorsey revealed who the selected members of the ₿trust Board are. ₿trust is a BTC endowment. Dorsey and famous rapper Jay-Z started the program to support BTC development in India and Africa. Dorsey and Jay-Z contributed 500 Bitcoins to the initiative. The aim of ₿trust is to...

According to Santiment, Solana has exceeded the daily sending rates of two cryptocurrencies to GitHub in the last month. We are talking about the assets of Polkadot and Cardano. GitHub applications for Solana achieved 90 over the past month, followed by Polkadot (76) and Cardano (65). Solana is the...

Social news and discussion website Reddit announced filing for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) of its common stock with the US SEC. As the company mentioned in a tweet, the number of shares and the price aren't determined yet. The IPO is supposed to be held after the SEC's review, subject market,...

Bitcoin (BTC) is rebounding on Wednesday after falling below $47,000 earlier in the week. Altcoins also went on the offensive today after a prolonged correction. The most successful of the top ten digital currencies was Dogecoin (DOGE), which soared 13% to $ 0.182 in a day. This altcoin is adding...

The share price of the largest mining companies collapsed this week amid a massive pullback in Bitcoin and other digital currencies. The price of BTC fell below $ 47,000 the night before, and altcoins were also in the red. As a result, investors began to withdraw from the shares of mining companies...

The list of those waiting to open a crypto wallet is more than one and a half million people. At the moment, users of the Robinhood trading application can buy and sell some cryptocurrencies, but still, the service does not provide for such opportunities as exchanging cryptocurrencies with other...