The United States Treasury Department has added three Ethereum wallet addresses to sanctions allegedly linked to the hacker group responsible for the theft of more than $600 million in crypto from nonfungible token game Axie Infinity’s Ronin sidechain. In a Friday update, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, listed three Ethereum
As the 2021-2022 United Kingdom tax year finished on April 5, 2022, Her Majesty’s Treasury announced they were paving the way for the U.K. to become a global crypto asset technology hub. This could mean that the previously not particularly crypto-friendly U.K. is changing its strategy and trying its hand at making crypto investments more
Bitcoin (BTC) faced selling pressure at the Wall Street open on April 22 as markets began a rerun of April 21’s losses. No let-up for stocks or crypto as losses mount Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD following a grimly familiar course on April 22, hitting lows of $39,197 on Bitstamp. The previous
Memecoins briefly took the cryptocurrency market by storm in 2021 after steady attention and shilling from big-name influencers like Elon Musk and Mark Cuban helped propel coins like Dogecoin (DOGE) to 100x gains. As one should expect, in the crypto market, rapidly rising prices have a tendency to reverse course just as fast and many
The cryptocurrency market is known for its high volatility and the wild-west nature of the space is, in part, due to many of the assets having small market caps and the 24/7 operational hours of centralized and decentralized exchanges (DEXs). In addition to being high risk, crypto trading can also be a very time-intensive process.
Ethereum could re-test its support zone as the general sentiment in the crypto market hints at further losses. The second crypto by market cap has been leading this current rally with Solana (SOL), Avalanche (AVAX), and other large cap cryptocurrencies. Related Reading | Arthur Hayes’ Crystal Ball Predicts: Ethereum To 5 Digits In the coming
In a couple of months, Ethereum should fully deploy its Proof-of-Stake (PoS) capabilities with “The Merge”. The network continues to dominate the decentralized finance (DeFi) and non-fungible token (NFT) sector, some of the most important innovative trends in the crypto industry. Related Reading | The Last Time This Bitcoin Indicator Turned Bullish It Saw a
The school of thought that Ethereum will one day flip Bitcoin is one that has been around for a while. Although debates around this have subsided following the bull rallies that rocked last year. However, it seems not everyone has forgotten about this. One of those is Galaxy Digital’s trading co-head Jason Urban. The trading
Bitcoin fell 15% in the last 24 hours, plunging below $40,000 for the first time since middle of March. Meanwhile, Ethereum was down 14%, retreating below the $3,000 level for the first time since March 22. BTC was trading at $39,783 at the time of writing, while Ether (ETH) fell to $2,978.54, according to Coingecko
Ethereum gas prices have been declining for a while now. It had risen to its all-time high back in 2021 when the bull market was in full bloom. It then continued to maintain on the high spike, spiking at various intervals to high points. At its highest, average ETH gas fees were as high as
Shiba Inu still remains a whale favorite going by the activities of the top Ethereum whales in recent days. These whales seem to be undeterred by the low prices of the meme coin and rather continue to buy the digital asset in the millions. The latest purchase from an Ethereum whale has the community at
Bitcoin (BTC) regained fresh ground on April 21 after bears failed to gain control of short-term price action overnight. Trader: Holding $42,300 could open up path to $50,000 Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD reaching new local highs of $42,455 on Bitstamp Thursday. With the Wall Street open still to come, upward momentum
The crypto market was mostly in the green territory on Thursday, with Bitcoin recovering all of the previous day’s losses and even surged to a 10-day high beyond the $42,000 level. Bitcoin was trading at $42,484.88, up 3% in the last seven days, data from Coingecko show. Ethereum followed suit with a similar local high,
Some of these NFT collections are so ever-present that they are already part of the collective unconscious. Others, the general public has not even heard about. What makes an NFT collection valuable? Market capitalization is the potential value of the whole collection, based on its size and the value of the individual pieces. In the
April 22 is Earth Day and with environmental sustainability one of the key topics in the global debate surrounding Bitcoin mining, analysts say the industry has begun to naturally gravitate towards cleaner and cheaper energy sources. According to a January report by the Bitcoin Mining Council, by Q4 2021, the global Bitcoin mining industry ran
The Bank of England’s regulatory arm has raised its budget by $31.6 million (£24.3 million) for the coming financial year saying that costs have increased due to its growing responsibilities and preparations for “emerging risks in the financial system”. According to the latest business plan released on Wednesday April 20 by the Prudential Regulation Authority
Following the latest round of EU restrictions against Russia, digital asset exchange Binance is limiting services to Russian clients. The company pledged to lead the industry in implementing the sanctions and urged all major trading platforms to follow. Crypto Exchange Binance Cuts Services to Russian Accounts in Accordance With EU Penalties Binance, the world’s leading
Across Latin America, a fragmented payments landscape has resulted in low interoperability, often leading to high fees for both senders and receivers of payments. Regulators in the region are working — with varying progress and approaches — to enable real-time payment options that foster greater interoperability, increase financial inclusion, generate revenue for banks and businesses
STEPN (GMT) has rallied strongly against the U.S. dollar this week as it looks likely to form a classical bullish technical pattern called the “bull flag.” GMT eyes more upside GMT’s price rose 30% week-to-date, including a strong rally to establish an all-time high near $3.85 followed by a relatively modest correction to nearly $3.
Bitcoin (BTC) price flashed bullish for a brief moment, possibly tricking some traders into opening longs, before plunging back below $40,000 in evening trading hours. Let’s take a quick look at what traders think about the current price action and whether or not today’s brief break out was nothing more than test of overhead resistance. Resistance