“Remember, Remember, The 5th of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why the Gunpowder Treason Should ever be forgot.” –Traditional Guy Fawkes Night rhyme On what better day and in what better way to remind everyone why we’re all here in the first place, than a little excerpt inspired by “V For Vendetta”? On this…
On April 1, Bitcoin.com News published an in-depth report on the Smart Bitcoin Cash (Smartbch) protocol and its compatibility with Ethereum’s EVM and Web3 API before any Smartbch projects were seen in the wild. Seven months later, Smartbch has matured a great deal and metrics indicate that between three decentralized finance (defi) protocols, there’s roughly $12.8 million total value locked…
Bitcoin mining and crypto company BitFury has announced that Brian Brooks, former Binance.US CEO and Comptroller of the Currency, has been appointed CEO. BitFury is an established leader in the digital asset industry, renowned for its sustained research and development efforts and best-in-class proprietary technologies, Brooks said in a statement. As the adoption ofand use cases forBitcoin, other crypto assets,…
Bitcoin (BTC) may be over seven times higher than at its last halving, but is history repeats, that number could grow another 300% and more. As tracked by on-chain data source Ecoinometrics this month, BTC/USD has the potential to eclipse estimates simply by following historical precedent. Bitcoin: Compared to 2017, you ain’t seen nothing yet Bitcoin currently trades 7.3 times…
In brief Game studio Faraway has raised nearly $30M for Solana-powered browser games. FTX, Lightspeed, Andreessen Horowitz, and Solana all invested in the startup. Axie Infinity showed the world that NFT games can thrivewith more than $2.8 billion worth of NFT trading volume to dateso its no surprise to see new firms make a crypto gaming play. Today, startup game…
EQIFI the first DeFi in partnership with a global, digital bank has launched a new exchange partnership. EQX, a native token of EQIFI, has been listed on both Changelly and Changelly PRO. From now on, users will be able to exchange EQX for over 200 cryptocurrencies already available on the platform at floating rates. Additionally, the EQX/BTC and EQX/USDT trading…
While the Ethereumblockchain has the community advantage, the competition with Solana is heating up thanks to the rise of blockchain-based play-to-earn games, which is now simply called GameFi. Founded by Scopely and Glu Mobile veterans, game developer and publisher Faraway announced that the studio has raised $21 million in a Series A funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and…
Bluzelle, a decentralized storage network, has announced the release of its mainnet R2 file storage system designed to enhance the decentralization of nonfungible tokens (NFT) and their corresponding data. The solution was created amid the rise in concerns around the lack of immutability on the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) protocol, a relatively undiscussed model of storage that currently serves as…
October was dubbed UPtober” by many in the crypto market as the price of bitcoin, ether and other cryptoassets raced to new all-time highs. In its latest report Up, Up and Away, the Kraken Intelligence team examines the factors that led to an upswing in BTC and other cryptos. Additionally, the team analyzes a number of on-chain metrics, fund flows…
Kevin Durant, a two-time NBA champion, has launched a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) to look at collaborating with technology-driven businesses, including cryptocurrency enterprises. The firm was established in conjunction with Durant’s business associate Rich Kleiman. Durant, who was an early Coinbase backer, isn’t done exploring the sector yet. His new SPAC company is planning to invest in crypto and…
