Cointelegraph Markets Pro is an all-in-one institutional-grade crypto market intelligence platform offering traders of all backgrounds real-time alerts for potential price movements before they occur. The Cointelegraph Markets Pro platform was created with the aim to narrow the divide between institutional and retail investors. Its proprietary tools, like the Newsquakes™ indicator, the VORTECS™ Score and the Tweet Sentiment indicator, are…
Month: February 2023
Cointelegraph Top 100 reveals the second-place of the 2023 edition
Cointelegraph has reached the No. 2 spot on its 2023 Top 100 list: Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, who had a significant impact in 2022 and is expected to continue influencing the crypto space in 2023. Sitting among a sizable list of other co-founders of the Ethereum blockchain, Buterin was the one who wrote its white paper. DISCOVER COINTELEGRAPH’S TOP 100 IN CRYPTO…
New York Attorney General Sues Crypto Exchange Coinex — Claims Trading Platform Offers Unregistered Securities – Regulation Bitcoin News
New York Attorney General Letitia James has sued cryptocurrency exchange Coinex “for failing to register as a securities and commodities broker-dealer and for falsely representing itself as a crypto exchange.” The NY attorney general also stressed that Coinex is not registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) even though the platform lets users trade crypto tokens that are…
Regulation stole the show at Barcelona’s European Blockchain Convention
Some 2,500 crypto-curious blockchain believers descended on Barcelona’s Hyatt Tower conference suites last week in a networking bonanza. The 8th edition of the European Blockchain Convention, and the fourth occurrence in Barcelona, also coincided with Bitcoin (BTC) sitting tight below $25,000. Despite an over 60% crypto drawdown, the conference was packed, and reportedly 2,500 attendees from banks, blockchain companies and crypto…
Coinbase Is Building Its Own Ethereum Layer-2 Network Called ‘Base’
Coinbase has today unveiled Base, its own Ethereum layer-2 network. The company says Base will be the new home for the Coinbase’s on-chain products and—it hopes—an open ecosystem for millions of new decentralized apps. Though only publicly announced today, a testnet for Base has actually been live since the start of the month, Coinbase Senior Director of Engineering Jesse Pollak…
DeGods and y00ts Are Leaving Solana—Here’s How It’s Going to Work
DeGods, the most valuable NFT project on Solana, has a history of announcing unexpected twists—from upgrading its artwork to buying majority control of a BIG3 basketball team, and even recently putting some of its previously-burned NFTs on Bitcoin. But the project’s creators delivered one hell of a Christmas surprise: DeGods will leave Solana. On December 25, DeLabs founder Rohun “Frank”…
Web3 Social Startup Towns Raises $25.5M Led by Andreessen Horowitz
Web2 was built around the idea of connecting people, and companies like Twitter and Facebook, now Meta, built global empires around this idea. But the connectivity they offered came with a hefty price as users were commoditized to sell ads. Towns, a new project by Here Not There Labs, aims to change that. The project is centered around the idea…
Retro-Style Ethereum NFT Metaverse Game Worldwide Webb Raises $10M
Most metaverse games opt for 3D environments, with varying degrees of success, but Worldwide Webb has charted a different path: this massively multiplayer online (MMO) world opts for a retro, Super Nintendo-esque style, yet it supports more than a million Ethereum NFT avatars. And it’s expanding, thanks in part to a new funding round. Worldwide Webb, founded by artist and…
Blur founder Pacman puts the NFT marketplace war into perspective
In this episode of Hashing It Out, Pacman, the founder and core contributor of the nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace Blur, joins Elisha Owusu Akyaw to discuss how Blur has captured the attention of the NFT market. The tides in the NFT ecosystem changed in December 2022 when the newly launched NFT marketplace overtook OpenSea as the largest NFT trading platform…
ETH, BTC Rebound Following Fed Minutes – Market Updates Bitcoin News
Ethereum rebounded on Feb. 23, as markets reacted to the latest Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) minutes. The minutes showed that the Fed hinted at maintaining its current policy until further signs that inflation is “substantially” slowing. Bitcoin was also higher, as it rose back above $24,000. Bitcoin Bitcoin (BTC) moved back above $24,000 on Thursday, as cryptocurrency markets rebounded…