In brief OpenSea had a record-breaking January, with more than $5 billion in trading volume between Ethereum and Polygon. Other marketplaces put up sizable numbers last month, as the Bored Ape Yacht Club, Azuki, World of Women, and NBA Top Shot all rose. Leading NFT marketplace OpenSea generated more than $5 billion in total trading volume in January between Ethereum…
Leading U.S. companies can now offer their employees the option to get paid in bitcoin by opting into NYDIG’s newly launched product, Bitcoin Savings Plan. The offering is an employee benefit program through which the worker can choose what percentage of their paycheck they would like to receive in bitcoin each month, at no additional cost. NYDIG said in a…
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On Monday, the first cross-chain governance proposal passed on decentralized finance, or DeFi, borrowing and lending platform Aave. According to DeFi Llama, the amount of total value locked on Aave is approximately $12 billion. As told by its developers, an executed proposal on Aave, which is built on the Ethereum (ETH) network, was sent to the Polygon (MATIC) FxPortal. The mechanism…
After a successful NFL career spanning 22 seasons and seven Superbowl wins, Tom Brady has announced he is retiring from football at age 44. Going forward, he plans to focus on his family, his NFT business Autograph, his clothing line Brady Brand, and his fitness equipment brand TB12 Sports. “I have loved my NFL career, and now it is time…
Bitcoin is deliberate, predictable, open, and transparent, features that set it apart from every other decentralized network in existence, said Jack Dorsey, the CEO of financial services company Block and ex-CEO of Twitter. Dorsey joined Michael Saylor, CEO of software intelligence company MicroStrategy, for a conversation about Bitcoin, finance, Block, Twitter, and Facebook, now called Meta, in a Tuesday online…
Solana was trading close to 15% higher on Tuesday, as crypto markets were mostly in the green to start February. This comes as markets look set to move past January’s red wave. Biggest gainers Cryptocurrency markets were mostly bullish during Tuesday’s session, with several projects seeing their value rise to start the new month. One of these was solana (SOL),…
“The Market Report” with Cointelegraph is live right now! In this week’s show, Cointelegraph’s resident experts discuss which play-to-earn (P2E) games have the potential to dethrone Axie Infinity. But first, market expert Marcel Pechman carefully examines the Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) markets. Are the current market conditions bullish or bearish? What is the outlook for the next few months?…
Erik Voorhees is a “big fan” of Coinbase. That may come as a surprise since Voorhees, an early Bitcoin entrepreneur, is a radical advocate of decentralized power—so much so that he recently dismantled the company he founded, ShapeShift, and turned it into a DAO. But as Voorhees explained on the latest episode of Decrypt’s gm podcast, he likes Coinbase because…
In 2020, newly launched NFTs projects experienced costly gas wars that are gas priority auctions where buyers battle to secure their spot on the next block, potentially losing Ether (ETH) to failed transactions. In 2021, digital scarcity and utility drove the NFT hype in the constantly surging markets, and toward the end of the year, how much attention any collection received…
