Inflation came down a lot faster than most investors and analysts anticipated, reaching 3% in June. The recession that most analysts predicted is nowhere to be seen, according to the 3.6% unemployment rate nearing a 50-year low and the S&P 500 Index showing a 19% gain year-to-date. While the current market performance may lead investors
Month: July 2023
The cryptocurrency market is having its worst month of 2023, according to a report from Web3 outlet De.Fi shared with Cointelegraph. Losses for July totaled $486 million, more than six times the total from 2022: Source: Document shared with Cointelegraph, via De.Fi The report comes on the heels of several high profile hacks and exploits
During the intraday trading session on Sunday, BALD’s value rallied by 4,000,000$. Its market capitalization almost touched $100 million in a single day as trading intensified. However, as the project’s developers remove liquidity from the BALD/WETH liquidity pool, the meme coin’s value has plummeted. Coinbase’s Layer 2 platform Base experienced a surge in user activity
Advocates of the crypto industry in Japan demand the revision of the national tax regime for digital assets. Japan Blockchain Association (JBA), a non-governmental lobbying group, filed an official request to the country’s government, highlighting three major steps to ease up the fiscal burden on crypto holders. The request was published on the Association’s website
Authorities in the town of Miri on the island of Borneo shut down an illegal cryptocurrency mining operation and seized equipment following a tip-off from the public. According to local news outlet The Borneo Post, Sarawak Energy discovered the operation, which included 34 cryptocurrency mining servers operating using stolen electricity through cable tapping. Authorities seized all
After years of leaving 39,712 Ether (ETH) locked at the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) auction, a whale using the domain “darkmarket.eth” has reclaimed the digital assets and transferred over $119 million in ETH to a new wallet. After 2.7 years of dormancy, darkmarket.eth reclaim 39,712 $ETH ($74.17M) locked in the ENS auction just now. And
Litecoin, unlike other cryptocurrencies, put in a bottom long before the FTX collapse. Following a short period outperforming the rest of the market, the now ranked lucky number 13 by market cap has gone stagnant. The state of boredom could soon come to an explosive end, with Litecoin potentially on the cusp of a major,
Venture capital giant Sequoia Capital reportedly downsized its cryptocurrency fund from $585 million to $200 million, amid a liquidity crunch and a pivot away toward smaller crypto players. According to a July 27 Wall Street Journal report, the tech-focused VC firm told investors in March it would reduce its Sequoia Crypto Fund — along with
Amid accelerated efforts to expand its global presence, Ripple Labs has allied with Catalyze Research to boost XRP Ledger (XRPL)’s user base in South Korea. Leading web3 and blockchain-focused consultancy firm, Catalyze Research, took to Twitter to announce the strategic collaboration on July 26, following Ripple’s official blog announcement on Tuesday, July 25. This partnership will
Australia’s Bendigo Bank has become the fourth major bank in the country to announce blocks for “high-risk crypto payments,” citing the need to protect customers from investment scams. The bank said on July 31 it implemented new rules on instant payments to crypto exchanges which adds “some friction to certain genuine payments,” explained its head
Australian actress Margot Robbie, who is playing the lead in the new Barbie movie, has caused quite a stir within the crypto community after stating that simply talking about Bitcoin (BTC) gives off Ken vibes. In the last 24 hours, the crypto community on Twitter has been dissecting Robbie’s statement about Bitcoin that she said
Memecoin madness has arrived on Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution Base, bringing with it everything from remarkable shitcoin surges to classic token rug pulls. On July 30, memecoin traders were snapping up a suite of questionable tokens on Base, with one Brian Armstrong-themed memecoin dubbed “BALD” experiencing a 289,000% gain within the first 14 hours
According to a tweet posted on Sunday, March 5, Litecoin’s highly-anticipated halving event is set to take place in the next 150 days. This means that the latest and third halving of Litecoin cryptocurrency will happen on August 4, 2023. Litecoin halving is a major event that occurs when the reward for mining LTC transactions
Bitcoin (BTC) has been stuck in a narrow range for the past several days. A minor positive is that the range has formed near the recent local high. This suggests that the bulls are not rushing to the exit as they anticipate another leg higher. Bitcoin’s consolidation has pulled its market dominance to 48% from
An open letter from GitHub, Hugging Face, Creative Commons and other tech firms are calling the European Union to ease upcoming rules for open-source artificial intelligence models. The letter urges policymakers to review some of the provisions of the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act, claiming that regulating upstream open-source projects as if they are commercial products
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols are undergoing a stress test following a critical vulnerability was found on versions of Vyper programming language, resulting in the theft of millions of dollars’ worth of cryptocurrencies on July 30. A number of pools using Vyper 0.2.15, 0.2.16 and 0.3.0 have been exploited due to a malfunctioning reentrancy lock, targeting
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