Blockchain is rapidly becoming the innovative force industry insiders have been promising for years. The number of projects and artists offering their works using it as a core technology may be shifting the current economic model under which most musicians operate. Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, allow independent artists to earn income and engage with their fan base without always relying…
Wall Street opened its doors for the first Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) on Oct. 19, with the listing of ProShares Bitcoin Strategy (BITO) on the New York Stock Exchange. The fund attracted more than $1 billionin trading volume on its first day, while BTC price rallied to a new record high of $67,000. But the spot gains did not…
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has issued a warning that registered investment advisers are not allowed to engage in unregistered activities. This warning includes crypto activities since crypto is currently an unregulated industry in India. SEBI Warns Registered Investment Advisers Cannot Engage in Crypto Activities Indian securities and commodity market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of…
Another week has gone by, and with it, a cacophony of historical, inspired, and questionable events proliferated across the ever-expansive world of Crypto Twitter. On Monday, Sanchan Saxena, a VP at Coinbase, shared details about the exchanges upcoming NFT marketplace. With a waitlist that has already surpassed 1.5 million applicants, Sanchan reassured the community that Coinbase would not erect a…
The Ethereum network has come a long way over the last few years. Everything from the rise of decentralized finance (DeFi) to the recent London upgrade has made the network the most compelling attempt to instill a world computer, but theres still work to be done. For global adoption to be the backbone of Web 3.0, the network will need…
In brief Over 3 million email addresses of CoinMarketCap users have reportedly been collated and sold on hacker forums. At the moment, CoinMarketCap says that no signs point to a breach. Yesterday, a site that scans the internet for data breaches reported that 3.1 million email addresses had been stolen from CoinMarketCaps database. Have I Been Pwned discovered on October…
Mance is the co-founder and CEO of Hedera Hashgraph, a next-generation distributed ledger technology that claims to possess higher speeds and security guarantees than existing blockchain solutions. “When we talk about decentralization, I think it’s very important to be specific about what we mean. When talking about layer-one protocols, precisely what is being measured when we talk about decentralization? Two…
It’s the oldest clich in crypto: that blockchain still has no “killer app,” still awaits its “Netscape moment.” The term refers to the 1994 launch of the web browser that made it easy for ordinary people to surf the Internet. The web had been around for years, but Netscape’s arrival ignited a turning point that brought the “information superhighway” mainstream.…
This week in crypto, market leaders Bitcoin and Ethereum set new all-time highs. On Wednesday the Bitcoin tsunami loomed up higher than it ever had before, broke, and fell back down, but not before setting a new high watermark of $66,930. The reason? After more than eight years of proposals by the crypto community, the United States Securities and Exchange…
Just a few days after reports emerged that it had refused to process a company registration application by Flint API limited, the Nigerian agency Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has now registered the blockchain start-up. The agency however blames an unnamed employee for the failure to process the application. The CAC’s About-turn According to a report, the agency’s reversal of its…
