ShibaSwap is a DeFi platform featuring decentralized exchange (DEX) and passive income-generating services like staking, liquidity pools, and yield farming in its ecosystem. Launched in July 2021, ShibaSwap is a fork of SushiSwap, a popular DEX tweaked from Uniswap (UNI), the world’s leading DEX by volume. But unlike its rivals, ShibaSwap’s core purpose has been mostly about boosting the utility…
Month: January 2023
Former FTX Exec Nishad Singh Seeking Cooperation Deal From Authorities: Report
Nishad Singh, the former head of engineering at the collapsed exchange FTX, met with the US federal prosecutors seeking a cooperation deal, according to a Bloomberg report citing people familiar with the matter. This makes Singh the third member of Sam Bankman-Fried’s inner circle to seek leniency in the fraud case over the FTX collapse. Two of Sam Bankman-Fried’s closest…
Terra accidental airdrop leads to smear campaign, community member claims
Terraform Labs (TFL), the firm behind the defunct algorithmic stablecoin TerraUST (USTC), and its co-founder Do Kwon is back in the limelight again for allegedly running a smear campaign and issuing threats against one of their own community members. It all started in the month of May with the genesis airdrop that was planned after the original ecosystem imploded in…
Turkish automaker Togg onboards Metaco for crypto custody and governance
Turkish automotive company Togg announced a partnership with Metaco, a digital asset custody orchestration technology provider, to secure its open mobility ecosystem built on Avalanche. Togg’s Mobility-as-a-Service platform (MaaS), a.k.a, Mobility Ecosystem, aims to deliver smart contract-powered use cases — including tokenization of mobility services, assessment of CO2 footprint and nonfungible token (NFT) ownership — for users in Türkiye and…
GALA Soars 140% Over the Week as Gaming, NFT Coins Rally
So far, it’s been a green year for cryptocurrencies. The broader crypto market capitalization has zoomed 6.7% to $884 billion since the start of the year, according to data from CoinGecko. Gaming and NFT-related cryptocurrencies, including Gala (GALA), Decentraland (MANA), Apecoin (APE), and The Sandbox (SAND), are no exception and have posted hefty double-digit gains over the past week. GALA,…
Cointelegraph’s Accelerator Program launches and is seeking Web3 startups
The Web3 space is growing rapidly, and new startups are emerging daily. Overall investment into Web3 projects skyrocketed to $30 billion in 2021 and $36 billion in 2022, even amid the market crisis. While many projects have good ideas and a strong value proposition to bring to the space, this is a challenging field riddled with competition and a lack…
New Nigerian Central Bank Document Discusses Regulation of Stablecoins and ICOs – Bitcoin News
According to a recently unveiled document, the Nigerian central bank will in the future be open to developing a regulatory framework for potential implementations of stablecoins. The document also discusses the regulation of initial coin offerings (ICOs) and how these can become “a new way to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and raise capital.” ‘A Successful Payment Mechanism’ In its…
Bitcoin community not happy with Peter Zeihan’s criticisms on Joe Rogan podcast
Bitcoin (BTC) community members went on social media to respond to the claims of Peter Zeihan, one of the most recent guests on the Joe Rogan Experience (JRE) podcast. In a recent JRE episode, Zeihan, who is an American geopolitical analyst and author claimed that crypto was always a “hot dumpster fire” and that Bitcoin has no intrinsic value. The…
FTX former lead engineer in talks with federal prosecutors in Bankman-Fried case
As the investigation into FTX continues, the crypto exchange’s former engineering chief Nishad Singh followed former FTX and Alameda Research executives Gary Wang and Caroline Ellison by reportedly meeting with federal prosecutors to cut a deal. Singh attended a proffer session sometime last week at the United States Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York for prosecutors to…
Mark Cuban to face questioning under oath over promotion of Voyager
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is set to be “deposed” next month as part of a defense against a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that he promoted an alleged “ponzi-scheme” in the form of now-bankrupted crypto lender Voyager Digital. A deposition in legal terms generally refers to answering a line of questioning under oath during the pre-trial discovery stage of a…