Passive income opportunities are one of the biggest draws in the cryptocurrency ecosystem because it gives investors an easy opportunity to grow their portfolio size regardless of the day-to-day price action. The latest token to get a bump in its price after announcing the upcoming implementation of staking is Chainlink (LINK), the decentralized oracle network
Buterin praised the governance model, saying that it would lead to long-term success through the representation of non token holders’ interests. Optimism airdropped the OP governance token earlier in the week. Community members and others have shown a lot of excitement for the new governance experiment. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin offered some praise and support
“The Market Report” with Cointelegraph is live right now. On this week’s show, Cointelegraph’s resident experts give you the details about Ethereum 2.0, its main competitors, and how they differ from each other. To kick things off, we break down the latest news in the markets this week. Here’s what to expect in this week’s markets
On Tuesday, Ethereum (ETH) bridging and scaling solution Aurora announced it had paid out a $6 million bounty to ethical security hacker pwning.eth, who discovered a critical vulnerability in the Aurora Engine. The exploit allegedly placed over $200 million worth of capital at risk. The sum was paid in collaboration with Immunefi, a leading platform
Crypto exchange Binance published a lengthy response to an article published by Reuters that claims that the exchange has been a “hub for hackers, fraudsters and drug traffickers,” saying that there’s at least “$2.35 billion in illicit funds” laundered within the exchange. In a blog post, Binance addressed the issue and noted that the article’s
Following a move towards $32,000 to start the week, BTC was fighting to stay above $29,000 during Tuesday’s session. The red wave which captured bitcoin bulls, also overcame ETH, pushing prices nearly 8% lower, as of writing. Bitcoin Following a strong start to the week, bitcoin was once again trading lower, as prices dropped below
Minutes before 12 a.m. UTC on June 6, the CEO and co-founder of the Elrond Network, Beniamin Mincu, tweeted that he and his team were “investigating a set of suspicious activities” on the Maiar decentralized crypto exchange (DEX). Soon after the exchange was taken offline with Mincu reporting the issue was identified and an “emergency fix” was
Bitcoin (BTC) firmly recommitted to its trading range on June 7 after a fresh move higher was met with a swift sell-off. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView “Some of the best chop we’ve seen” Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD rejecting decisively at resistance it last encountered on June 1.
Another business jumps aboard the Bitcoin bandwagon. Octagon Networks, a global cybersecurity network company with over 20 employees announced on June 6 that it had “finished the process of converting its liquid assets and entire balance sheet into Bitcoin (BTC).” The group will also “start accepting Bitcoin payments for all of our services, with a
Bitcoin (BTC) retained new higher levels at the June 6 Wall Street open after BTC/USD snapped a nine-week losing streak. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Stocks could take BTC as high as $37,000 Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed the largest cryptocurrency as it circled $31,500 on the back of 6% daily
While Kazakhstan’s government is catching up with the tremendous volume of crypto mining in the country by introducing new taxes and regulations, the local central bank intends to explore the possibilities that crypto offers. On Tuesday, June 7 during the press conference the chairman of Kazakhstan’s National Bank Galymzhan Pirmatov stated that the nation aims
The bull market euphoria that carried prices to new highs throughout 2021 has given way to bear market doldrums for any Bitcoin (BTC) buyer who made a purchase since Jan. 1, 2021. Data from Glassnode shows these buyers “are now underwater” and the market is gearing up for a final capitulation event. Bitcoin net unrealized
Affluent investors in Asia are neither shy nor ignorant about crypto, with research revealing that 52% of them held some form of a digital asset during Q1 2022. According to research from Accenture published on June 6, digital assets, which include cryptocurrencies, stable coins, and crypto funds, made up on average 7% of the surveyed
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating whether Binance Holdings broke securities rules when it launched its BNB token in an initial coin offering (ICO) five years ago, Bloomberg reported on June 6. Binance is the world’s largest crypto exchange, and BNB is the fifth largest cryptocurrency. The BNB ICO took place
Avalanche (AVAX) shows signs of continuing its ongoing rebound move as it paints a classic bullish reversal pattern. AVAX price to $35? Dubbed as “double bottom,” the pattern appears when the price establishes a support level, rebounds, corrects after finding a resistance level, pulls back toward the previous support and bounces back toward the resistance
Bitcoin was created to give the average person a peer-to-peer economic system and a store of wealth asset that could provide financial autonomy and access to banking, especially for people living in places where financial services are sparse or non-existent. In the last five years, there have been a number of blockchain projects that aim
