On Friday, Daniele Sestagalli, co-founder of decentralized finance, or DeFi, protocol Wonderland and stablecoin protocol Abracadabra, issued a statement on the path forward after the doxing of his colleague Michael Patryn: “Do we wind down or continue to fight for the aspect of an investment DAO [decentralized autonomous organization] being a revolutionary new organization? For the option that I am…
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The Sandbox (SAND) metaverse token gains 40% after Snoop Dogg, Warner Music partnership
Sandbox (SAND) refused to go down despite broader negative market sentiment in the past 24 hours. Instead, the altcoin logged a breakaway recovery as traders assessed its recent high-profile partnerships as a sign that the project has strong fundamentals. SAND rose 10.23% to $3.38 at the UTC close on Jan.27, followed by another 5.42% spike to $3.57 on Friday. In contrast, Bitcoin…
U.S. Congressman wants to scrub bill provision that crypto advocates say is a potential disaster
North Carolina Representative Ted Budd submitted an amendment to the omnibus America COMPETES Act of 2022, specifically targeting the provision that would allow the Treasury Department to impose “special measures,” including surveillance and outright prohibitions, against “certain transmittals of funds.” As Cointelegraph reported, executives of crypto advocacy group Coin Center had earlier turned the spotlight on the provision, introduced by…
‘NFTs for DeFi Natives’: OlympusDAO Launching NFT Marketplace
This story comes out of PubDAO, a decentralized news wire. While we’ve seen plenty of DAOs get into NFT collecting and investing, we haven’t yet seen a DAO actually build out a platform for the blockchain-based collectibles. But OlympusDAO, which was developed as a sort of crypto central bank, is setting its sights on an NFT marketplace. OlympusDAO has announced…
Bill Introduced To Make Bitcoin A Legal Tender In Arizona
Senator Wendy Rogers has introduced a bill proposing to make bitcoin a legal tender in the U.S. state of Arizona. The bill seeks to add bitcoin to the list of instruments considered legal tender in Arizona and make the peer-to-peer digital currency a lawful medium of exchange there, enabling citizens to pay debts, public charges, taxes and dues with BTC.…
A Deep Dive Into the Concentrations of Large Crypto Holders – Featured Bitcoin News
Three months ago the crypto economy was worth more than $3 trillion and since then, digital currency prices have slid a great deal in value, as crypto assets have been sold and distributed across many hands. Over the last decade, fluctuating price cycles have made it so some addresses, typically referred to as crypto whales, have been able to accumulate…
Users flock to Curve amid lack of stablecoin liquidity on major DEXs
In a Tweet posted by user @cryptotutor Friday, a screenshot appears to show a 27% spread between stablecoin Magic Internet Money (MIM) and USD Coin (USDC) trading pair on decentralized exchange, or DEX, Uniswap (UNI). Both have a theoretical peg of 1:1 against the U.S. Dollar. “Magic Internet Money,” joked cryptotutor, as he attempted to swap approximately $1 million in…
Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Will Get Back $100M of Donated SHIB Funds
In brief Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin will receive $100 million in USDC stablecoin, pulled from the $1 billion worth of SHIB he donated in May 2021. Buterin will use the funds for biotech and medical science endeavors after the Indian charity faced issues with deploying crypto donations. When the creators of popular meme token Shiba Inu (SHIB) sent half of…
Fidelity seeks approval for 2 more crypto-metaverse ETFs
Fidelity Investments appeared undeterred by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s, or SEC’s, rejection of its Wise Origin Bitcoin Trust spot ETF on Thursday. Following the setback, the company filed two more prospectuses involving crypto-metaverse ETFs for regulatory approval. The proposals are titled are the Fidelity Crypto Industry and Digital Payments ETF and the Fidelity Metaverse ETF respectively. In rejecting the…
Terra (LUNA) at risk of 50% drop if bearish head and shoulders pattern plays out
Terra (LUNA) may fall to nearly $25 per token in the coming weeks as a head-and-shoulders (H&S) setup develops, indicating a 50% price drop, according to technical analysis shared by CRYPTOPIKK. H&S patterns appear when the price forms three peaks in a row, with the middle peak (called the “head”) higher than the other two (left and right shoulders). All…