The top meme tokens by market capitalization saw a significant jump on Monday after being fueled by dogecoin’s recent price rise. Crypto meme coins like shiba inu, dogelon mars, and floki inu saw 2-13% gains over the last 24 hours. The entire meme token economy is worth $35.8 billion, up 9.4% today. Meme Token Assets See Double-Digit Gains on Monday…
Month: April 2022
Crypto lender Maple Finance expands support to Solana
Crypto capital markets platform Maple Finance has expanded support to the Solana blockchain and has deployed a $45 million fund to spur ecosystem growth. Maple provides undercollateralized loans for institutional borrowers on Ethereum (ETH) and now Solana (SOL) from several pool delegates. The project stated in an Apr. 25 blog post that it has already “originated over $1.2 billion in…
Decentralized Twitter Project Bluesky Says It’s Unaffected by Elon Musk Purchase
Back in late 2019, when Jack Dorsey was still CEO of Twitter, he set in motion a plan to “develop an open and decentralized standard for social media” that would explore elements of crypto and Web3. That effort, which came to be called “bluesky,” gained steam in 2021 with a January “ecosystem review” of decentralized social apps and the August…
The Recent Release Of A Bitcoin Core Update
Watch The Episode on YouTube Listen To The Podcast Here: In this episode of “Bitcoin, Explained,” hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discuss Bitcoin Core 23.0, the recent major release of Bitcoin’s de facto reference implementation. The duo highlights some of the most notable changes in this new software client and they offer a bit of extra context about…
Decentralized Finance Crypto Exchange Uniswap Starts Blocking Addresses Linked To ‘Blocked Activities’ – Defi Bitcoin News
Uniswap, one of the main decentralized finance exchanges in the cryptocurrency world, is now taking measures to ensure illegal funds cannot be transacted using its platform. The company has already started blocking addresses linked to “blocked activities” and will apply a filter with data provided by TRM Labs, a blockchain analysis firm that focuses on detecting illegal activities. Uniswap…
SEC Adds ‘Misleading’ Crypto Firms to Public Alert List
The SEC has added a handful of “misleading” crypto trading firms to its list of unregistered entities. In its press release, the SEC made it very clear that the Public Alert: Unregistered Soliciting Entities (PAUSE) list is meant only as a warning to investors and does not imply the firms on the list have violated U.S. securities laws. The list…
Contrary To Claims, Bitcoin Is Alive And Well
Embittered nocoiners love to cherry-pick moments when Bitcoin doesn’t live up to arbitrary expectations. The joke’s on them as Bitcoin grows ever stronger. Mainstream economists, pundits, journalists and others trapped in a fiat mindset never miss the opportunity to dig a grave for Bitcoin. And Bitcoin offers plenty of such opportunities: the popular site 99bitcoins tracks “Bitcoin Obituaries,” a repository…
NFL Releases 2022 Draft ‘Virtual Ticket’ NFTs on Flow
In brief The NFL has released Draft-themed NFT collectibles minted on Flow. Each of the league’s 32 teams is offering 52 NFTs that sell for $52 each. The 2022 NFL Draft takes place later this week from April 28-30, and the league is marking the occasion with the launch of a new NFT collection, which offers collectibles inspired by each…
DAO Maker, UniX, and SL2 Teams up for Its One of a Kind ‘FINAL ROUND’ Launchpad – Press release Bitcoin News
press release PRESS RELEASE. Zug, Switzerland, April 25, 2022) – UniX Gaming, a leading crypto gaming guild, has partnered with industry giants DAO Maker and SL2 Capital to launch its own launchpad, ‘Final Round’. UniX also announced that Delysium would be one of the first games to debut on ‘Final Round’. Invested in by the likes of Y Combinator, Delysium…
Alleged ‘Shadow Banker’ Reggie Fowler Pleads Guilty to Fraud in Crypto Capital Case
In brief Reggie Fowler was an operator of Crypto Capital. Crypto Capital helped get exchanges bank accounts, often through shell companies. Reginald Fowler, a former minority owner of the Minnesota Vikings, has pleaded guilty to fraud over his involvement in opening and operating bank accounts for cryptocurrency companies. While working for the Panama-based Crypto Capital, Fowler allegedly helped exchanges get…