Dogecoin suffered a big blow on April 20, popularly known as “Dogeday” thanks to the failed test launch of SpaceX’s Starship rocket and downturn in the broader crypto market. The SpaceX rocket, which featured the Dogecoin mascot on its side, disintegrated four minutes after its launch. Still, the company’s employees including Elon Musk cheered the failure as they expressed optimism…
OPNX, an exchange jointly founded by members of the Three Arrows Capital (3AC) and Coinflex teams, has revealed the venture capital firms purportedly backing it. An April 21 video posted by the company featured CEO Leslie Lamb thanking some of the major backers of the project, including AppWorks, Susquehanna (SIG), DRW, MIAX Group, China Merchant Bank International, and Token Bay…
From tokenizing investment assets to game avatars, nonfungible tokens (NFTs) have an array of applications that go beyond digital art, with more projects coming online despite the market downturn in 2022. At the NFT.NYC 2023 conference, Cointelegraph’s team learned first-hand from experts, projects, companies, and the NFT community how the technology is shaping the digital world. Check out the highlights…
Bitcoin and select altcoins have fallen below their respective support levels, a worrying sign that the bulls could be losing their grip. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/price-analysis-4-21-btc-eth-bnb-xrp-ada-doge-matic-sol-dot-ltc
The Solana Foundation, in collaboration with data platform Trycarbonara, announced the launch of a real-time tracking dashboard to measure carbon emissions on the Solana blockchain. 1/ Today, the Solana Foundation is leading the charge in the climate fight by making Solana one of the first blockchains to have its emissions measured in real time, thanks to a new data portal…
Another sleeping Bitcoin whale just woke up. Today, a holder who hadn’t touched their cryptocurrency for a decade moved over 279 BTC—or $7.8 million worth—to three new wallets, according to a tweet from on-chain sleuth, Lookonchain. The blockchain tracker said in a Friday tweet that the whale in question had originally received 1,128 BTC in the months of October 2012…
Following the transfer of $60 million worth of bitcoins on April 19, after more than nine years of dormancy, another whale has made its move. The whale, who acquired 1,129 bitcoins in 2012 and 2013, has transferred 464 bitcoins worth $13 million for the first time in nine years. 464 Bitcoin Move From an Old 2012-2013 Stash The price of…
The show Macro Markets, hosted by crypto analyst Marcel Pechman, which airs every Friday on the Cointelegraph Markets & Research YouTube channel, explains complex concepts in layman’s terms and focuses on the cause and effect of traditional financial events on day-to-day crypto activity. This week’s show starts by discussing the mutual fund industry, including the well-known BlackRock, Fidelity and Vanguard,…
press release PRESS RELEASE. In recent years, meme coins have gained significant traction due to various social media trends and hype. This is because these coins are often associated with fun and accessible ways to invest in cryptocurrency. Moreover, they are easy to understand and trade, making them attractive to new investors, particularly millenials and Gen Z, who are attracted…
The Texas House of Representatives, a 150-member lower chamber of the Texas State Legislature, has approved a bill that will require cryptocurrency exchanges to maintain reserves ‘in an amount sufficient to fulfill all obligations to digital asset customers.’ The bill seeks to amend the state’s Finance Code to add a chapter on digital asset regulation that will ensure exchanges maintain…
