NFT comeback pushes 2024 volume to $8.8B: Nifty Newsletter

Mattel plans to use its intellectual property featuring brands such as Barbie and Hot Wheels to create playable avatars sold as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in an upcoming metaverse. 236 Total views 12 Total shares Major toy brand Mattel has signed a multi-year partnership with forthcoming toy-focused non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace Cryptoys to exclusively feature its…

Joe DiPasquale, CEO at Bitbull Capital, discussed the role of Bitcoin in the Ukraine crisis and explained his bullish view on the crypto markets for the upcoming months. 401 Total views 9 Total shares Bitbull Capital CEO Joe DiPasquale thinks Bitcoin (BTC) is still on track to reach $100 thousand within the next 24 months…

Belarus has lots of abandoned industrial sites that could be used to generate revenue through cryptocurrency mining, the Belarusian president said. 448 Total views 26 Total shares Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has called on the government to mine cryptocurrency use spare power infrastructure.Lukashenko spoke at the opening of the Petrikovsky mining and processing plant on…

One year ago to the day, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) came into existence after a hard fork from the Bitcoin blockchain. It has been an interesting 12 months since the fork gave birth to BCH, as proponents have continuously argued the merits between Bitcoin (BTC) and BCH. Nevertheless, on the anniversary of the creation of Bitcoin…

Unlike in other countries, where startups are at the heart of blockchain development, the South Korean blockchain landscape has “chaebols,” large, family-owned business conglomerates in Korea, at its heart. Just about every month, reports and announcements of large South Korean companies — including Samsung, Naver and NHN, just to name a few — entering into…

Bitcoin's (BTC) ongoing price rally above $64,000 has coincided with a substantial drop in its reserves across all exchanges.According to data provided by CryptoQuant — a South Korea-based blockchain analytics service — the amount of Bitcoin held in exchanges' wallets dropped to as low as 2.379 million BTC earlier this week, the lowest in more…

The $279 million figure is more than all of the whistleblower awards issued for the entirety of 2022, with the SEC dishing out $229 million across 103 awards last year. 86 Total views 1 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued…

Smart contracts on the Ethereum network are up almost 3x from the previous month to nearly 2 million, while deployment costs for the network are at a low. 848 Total views 49 Total shares The number of smart contracts deployed on the Ethereum network reached 1,971,632 in March, hitting a new all-time high and marking…