It has been a tumultuous year for the crypto investors who have witnessed the total crypto market capitalization tumble from about $2.2 trillion at the beginning of 2022 to about $850 billion in December. The sharp erosion in valuation was caused due to several high-profile bankruptcies in 2022. The entire Terra ecosystem imploded with the collapse of its LUNA token…
Month: December 2022
We’re already living in the Metaverse – Cointelegraph Magazine
Magazine: Animoca was a successful mobile gaming company, with 10 million downloads and various apps in the top 10 on Apple’s App Store. Then you were suddenly thrown off the store in 2012. How did that change your views on Big Tech? Yat Siu, Animoca co-founder: The fact that platforms could become as powerful as they became — the App…
Y00ts, BEANS – Dumb Ways to Die, Treeverse – Plots, Taiyo Robotics and more collections added to Kraken NFT
We’re thrilled to announce that we have added ten new NFT collections to Kraken NFT for our current beta testers to explore, collect and trade. After revealing the first 70 collections earlier this year, and dozens more over the past few weeks, we carefully selected these new collections so you can continue to build the NFT collection of your dreams…
Trading for Ethereum 2.0 (ETH2) starts now for USA and CA!
We are excited to announce that ETH2, the token representing staked ETH on Kraken, is now available for trading for residents of the United States and Canada! Trading Trading is live. ETH2 is tradeable on Kraken and the Kraken Terminal interface. ETH2 (Ethereum 2.0) on Kraken represents the ETH token staked to support the Ethereum PoS network upgrade. ETH2 cannot…
Bear markets are for building: Introducing Kraken’s new and improved Pro trading interface
Over the last year, our engineering team has been working tirelessly to deliver a brand new, more powerful trading experience that is designed to meet the rapidly evolving needs of our clients. Whether you are an advanced professional trader or even just finding your way in crypto, we have created something special that we hope will change the way you…
40% of survey respondents plan to buy crypto in 2023
Despite the gloom of the ongoing cryptocurrency winter, coupled with failures of crypto giants like FTX, the community appears to remain bullish about crypto, according to a new survey. Crypto markets saw a massive sell-off in 2022, with the total market cap plummeting nearly 70% since Bitcoin (BTC) reached its all-time highs at $69,000 in November 2021. But this didn’t…
Argentina football league scores metaverse partnership after World Cup triumph
Argentina’s World Cup triumph in Qatar is already bearing fruit for its national football association through a new metaverse partnership. The country’s professional football league will make the first foray into Upland’s metaverse through an official licensing agreement between the Argentine Football Association (AFA) and the Silicon Valley-based firm. The deal will see the AFA take the Liga Profesional de…
Vote on who you think should make it
The Cointelegraph Top 100 Most Influential in Crypto 2023 edition will bring the most prominent, influential and artistic individuals, concepts and characters who influenced the crypto and blockchain industry in 2022 and are likely to make a further impact in the space in 2023. With everything happening within the crypto space, it’s very difficult to create a list that will…
Immunefi says it has facilitated $66M in bug bounty payouts to whitehats since inception
According to a new report released on Dec. 21, blockchain security firm Immunefi said that it has processed more than $65,918,994 crypto bounties paid to ethical hackers over 1,248 reports since its inception on Dec. 9, 2020. Web 3.0 projects list bounty programs on ImmuneFi to encourage whitehat hackers to report vulnerabilities and claim monetary rewards, which the company then…
Filecoin Plummets 30% Over the Week, Hovers Near All-Time Lows
Filecoin (FIL) has been one of the market’s worst-performing assets in the past week, with the storage protocol’s FIL token plunging 30% over the last seven days. FIL was trading at $2.96 by press time which is up 2.1% over the day, but the overall performance has been pretty dismal throughout the year, with the token hitting an all-time low…