In brief A single Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT sold for $3.4 million at a Sothebys auction that finished this morning. Its a new record for the popular Ethereum NFT avatar collection, which has generated nearly $1B in secondary trading volume across its sets. The Ethereum-based Bored Ape Yacht Club has been one of this years biggest NFT sensations, notching…
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U.S. regulators are exploring ways for traditional banks to hold bitcoin. Banks’ BTC holdings could be used for client trading, as collateral for loans, or held as assets in their balance sheets. “I think that we need to allow banks in this space,” the FDIC chairman said. A team of U.S. bank regulators is trying to provide a more straightforward…
Data archiving protocol, KYVE, has announced a Series B funding raise of $2.875M instigated by institutional capital firms Permanent Ventures and Hypersphere Ventures, and participated by a vast collection of crypto projects and individual angel investors including, but not limited to, Coinbase Ventures, Volt Capital, Justin Kan and Robin Chan. KYVE has expressed the ambition of becoming the leading project…
Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady nearly lost ownership of the ball behind his 600th touchdown pass, but now hes paying for it in Bitcoin. In an Oct. 24 game between the Buccaneers and Chicago Bears, Brady threw his 600th career touchdown pass to fellow teammate Mike Evans he is the only player in NFL history to have ever achieved…
The price of Ether (ETH) nearly hit a new all-time high on Oct. 21 before falling below $4,000 after the $435-million options expiry on Oct. 22 soured the mood. The Ethereum network is set to take another step toward Ethereum 2.0 on Oct. 27 at epoch 74240 with the Altair upgrade to Beacon Chain. Eth2 will be an entirely proof-of-stake…
The market history of non-fungible token (NFT) sales has been steadily expanding during the last three months, according to statistics from nonfungible.com’s historical market data. NFT sales over the past three months have increased by 464% since June 27 and the Binance Smart Chain NFT market called Mochi Marketplace is nearing close to a billion dollars in sales. NFT Sales…
The central bank of Spain is introducing new registration guidelines for local virtual currency service providers, or VASPs, including banking institutions. The Bank of Spain has issued instructions on VASP registration for Anti-Money Laundering, or AML, purposes, requiring institutions to submit their registration requests through an electronic registry, Cointelegraph en Espaol reported Oct. 25. Issuing the guidelines on Oct. 19,…
Shiba Inu (SHIB) may see a pullback by almost 25%-35% on fears that the cryptocurrency’s excessive price rally in October has left it overvalued, a key indicator shows. Dubbed Relative Strength Index (RSI), the indicator measures the magnitude of an instrument’s recent price changes to evaluate its oversold and overbought conditions. The result can be anywhere between the number 0…
Lightning node cloud hosting platform Voltage has announced Flow, a new interface that aims to make the Lightning Pool liquidity marketplace more accessible to everyday users. Pool is an open market that allows Lightning nodes to open channels and purchase inbound or outbound capacity for a fee. “Flow gives the Lightning liquidity market an easy interface for those in need…
