American video game retailer GameStop Corp (NYSE: GME) today launched its non-custodial, browser-based Ethereum wallet similar to MetaMask. The wallet would let users store, send, and receive cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) across various crypto apps. It will support NFT trading through the upcoming launch of GameStop’s NFT marketplace in Q2 2022. The wallet leverages Loopring’s ZK-rollup technology, an Ethereum…
With crypto markets coming to grips with potentially another Crypto Winter, many of the industry’s long-standing critics have taken the opportunity to add fuel to the fire. Now, you can add the president of the European Central Bank to the list. Appearing on the Dutch program “College Tour” last night, ECB chief Christine Lagarde stated flatly her belief that recent…
sponsored Gate.io is one of the longest running secure exchanges in the world and over time, surpassed 10 million users worldwide. To mark this milestone, the exchange is launching a rebranding and a sweepstake with $9,000,000 in prizes! Read on to find out more about what makes Gate.io such a success and what the team has in-store for users as…
Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of cross-border payments company Ripple, spoke during a panel discussion Monday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Garlinghouse, who also occupies a role as a member of the company’s board of directors, commented on a wide range of topics, most notably the current status of regulation in the United States versus G20 nations. Ripple CEO Brad…
Global payment giant PayPal is doing its best to bring all possible blockchain and cryptocurrency integrations to its services, according to a senior executive at the firm. PayPal is working hard on supporting all possible digital services, including digital currencies and central bank digital currencies (CBDC), vice president Richard Nash said in an exclusive statement to Cointelegraph at the World…
The International Monetary Fund has mentioned it is providing technical assistance to the government of El Salvador in various ways. According to Gerry Rice, a spokesperson for the organization, the group is having talks with people of the Salvadoran government about tax and money laundering matters, including critical issues that the IMF raised in earlier reports. International Monetary Fund…
Cointelegraph’s editor-in-chief Kristina Cornèr interviewed Brooks Entwistle, Ripple’s senior vice president (SVP) for global customer success at the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos, Switzerland, discussing his time in Ripple and the current “crypto winter” and what market participants should focus on. Having worked in prominent firms like Goldman Sachs and Uber, the Ripple SVP shared that his experience in…
The price of Fantom (FTM), the token underpinning the eponymous blockchain network, surged by 12% over the past 24 hours, hitting a daily high of $0.502 in the early hours on Monday. As data from CoinMarketCap shows, FTM is also up an impressive 45% over the last seven days, making it the top-performing cryptocurrency among the industry’s top-100 largest assets.…
The recent Terra revival plan announced by Do Kwon, the co-founder and CEO of Terraform Labs, received mixed reactions as many questioned the effectiveness of a hard fork in reviving the fallen prices of LUNA and UST tokens. Instead, the part of the community recommended burning LUNA tokens as the most plausible way to achieve a comeback. Kwon’s proposal to…
Bitcoin (BTC) is off to a better start than most this week as bulls avoid serious losses into the weekly close. Still heavily tied to declining stock markets, the largest cryptocurrency is nonetheless defending $30,000 on May 23 and eyeing the top of its post-LUNA trading range. While there are no signs of an impending miracle price recovery, some are…
