Jerome Powell’s pivot heralds a boring summer for Bitcoin

Last week, Facebook rebranded to Meta and announced its plans to kickstart the development of the Metaverse — an entirely new way of interacting and navigating the internet. Now, the Metaverse landscape has a multi-billion dollar corporate behemoth vying for the helm, which has made its future all the more uncertain.Whether we like it or…

ICP’s DecaHack event highlighted the transformative potential of blockchain and the importance of nurturing talent in the sector.

Climate activism via blockchain is becoming a serious topic of discussion among academics and industry professionals as carbon offsets are tokenized. 1058 Total views 10 Total shares Climate-change focused Klima DAO has accumulated over 9 million tonnes of carbon offsets according to a Nov. 8 announcement. The USD value of those offsets has surpassed $100…

The Web3 tech investment firm will contribute up to $7 million to as many as 25 companies across Europe, Asia, and North America with the new funds. 855 Total views 6 Total shares Tech venture capital firm White Star Capital has secured $120 million in funding for its second Digital Asset Fund (DAF II) to…

Like many people in crypto, Sam Bankman-Fried is in it for the money. As the founder of quant trading firm Alameda Research, exchange FTX and DeFi protocol Serum, the curly haired 28-year-old has amassed a $10 billion fortune in just three years in the industry.Unlike most people in crypto though, he’s building up a fortune…

Bitcoin (BTC) has had an interesting year, recovering from major sell-offs to eventually skyrocket to new all-time highs.However, Bitcoin's performance and cryptocurrencies increased adoption worldwide have still failed to bring some observers into the crypto camp. Yet compared to other bull run years like 2017, 2020 has seen much less crypto criticism, with a number of…

A billion ZIL have been staked in a few hours as Zilliqa embraces staking rewards, governance tokens, and a new DEX . 836 Total views 7 Total shares The official launch of Zilliqa’s non-custodial staking platform on its mainnet has seen more than a billion tokens staked within a few hours.Zilliqa is a high-performance and…

One legal team looks to lead the three ongoing suits against IFinex alleging that illegal conduct involving iFinex’s subsidiaries Tether and Bitfinex was behind Bitcoin’s (BTC) 2017 bull run.Per a Jan. 13 filing with the court of the Southern District of New York (SDNY), the counsel for Eric Young, Adam Kurtz and David Crystal are…

The mood across the cryptocurrency is one of growing anticipation as the price of Bitcoin (BTC) continues to trade just below $47,000. The sideways price action has analysts warning that an “explosive volatility period” is rapidly approaching but few have been willing to predict the direction of the breakout. While Bitcoin price compresses, the altcoin market…