Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Portal has partnered with the asset marketplace HighCircleX (HCX) to tokenize stocks of pre-initial public offering (IPO) companies, according to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph on Monday. The collaboration aims to make investing in private equity easier by building on top of the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain. Through this, HighCircleX is looking to solve problems such as…
According to multiple reports stemming from people familiar with the matter, Twitter has been engaged in negotiations with Elon Musk over his proposal to purchase the social media platform for $46.5 billion. Sources detail that a number of Twitter shareholders allegedly reached out to the company’s board after Musk detailed his financing plans last week. Reports Say Elon Musk Could…
XRP continued its correction trend on April 25, falling by 5.5% to reach $0.64, its lowest level since Feb. 28. More XRP price downside ahead? The plunge increased the possibility of triggering a bearish reversal setup called descending triangle. While these patterns form usually during a downtrend, their occurrences following strong bullish moves usually mark the end of the uptrend. XRP…
Both ETH and BTC fell close to five-week lows to start the week, as losses in crypto markets extended on Monday. Following bearish pressure over the weekend, BTC started the week trading below $39,000, while ETH was under $2,900. Bitcoin Bitcoin started the week trading in the red for a fifth consecutive session, as prices dropped to multi-week lows. Following…
The popular meme coin Dogecoin has jumped more than 12% in the past hour following reports that Twitter is expected to reach a deal with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Monday. Musk is a well-known Dogecoin pumper, having used the social media platform to shill the canine cryptocurrency on several occasions. A recent filing on April 21, showed…
Peckshield, a prominent blockchain security firm, has today exposed that there are numerous phishing websites for the Web3 lifestyle app Stepn. Hackers insert a forged MetaMask browser plugin through which they can steal seed phrases from unsuspecting Stepn users, according to Peckshield. When these cybercriminals obtain the seed phrase, they gain complete control over the Stepn user’s dashboard, where they…
The team behind the popular meme coin Shiba Inu has launched a new burning mechanism designed to decrease the token’s circulating supply while rewarding holders with a yield-generating token. Shiba Inu was launched in 2020 by pseudonymous developer Ryoshi as an “experiment in decentralized spontaneous community building.” SHIB can be seen as an Ethereum-based counterpart to Dogecoin (DOGE), the crypto…
Blockchain data analytics firm Chainalysis has found that the total cryptocurrency gains worldwide amounted to $163 billion in 2021, which was 5x the previous year or a 400% increase. Chainalysis on Crypto Gains Worldwide Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis published a blog post last week titled “2021 Cryptocurrency Gains by Country: Ethereum Leads as Gains Skyrocket Around the World.” The firm…
The Central African Republic (CAR) has become the center of a hot buzz in the crypto world amid various reports of it adopting Bitcoin (BTC) quite similar to El Salvador. However, contrary to popular headlines, the African nation has not adopted BTC as a legal tender, instead, it has reportedly legalized the use of cryptocurrencies in the financial markets. The…
The price of Zilliqa (ZIL), the token underpinning the eponymous blockchain aiming to rival traditional centralized payment methods such as Visa and MasterCard, is down 14% on Monday, declining to its monthly low of $0.097 by press time, according to data from CoinMarketCap. ZIL was trading at as much as $0.22 at the beginning of April, with the token rallying…
