The researchers from BIS and the World Bank identify common factors across nine central banks that face a variety of different challenges. The Bank for International Settlements, or BIS, released a paper Tuesday on central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, and how they can be used to meet policy goals for financial inclusion. The paper...Continue Reading

Crypto prices are down, but a surge in blue-chip NFT sales and OpenSea’s volume climbing above $1.3 billion in the last week could signal the return of the NFT bull market. In the last two months, OpenSea began to cool down from its New Year’s bull run and many nonfungible token (NFT) pundits began to...Continue Reading

Bored Ape Yacht Club owners can take advantage of IP rights by auditioning for a BAYC movie trilogy, while other popular NFT characters now make up the cast of iHeartMedia’s latest podcast venture. Bored Apes take on the restaurant and movie business The Bored Ape Yacht Club, or BAYC, NFT holders own the intellectual property rights...Continue Reading

But SHIB price risks another 50% decline as it continues to fluctuate inside a bearish triangle pattern. Shiba Inu (SHIB) prices soared on April 12 upon its debut on Robinhood, a U.S.-based commission-free trading platform. SHIB price climbed by more than 35% to 0.00003, its highest level in almost two months, before paring some gains. Nonetheless,...Continue Reading

The ETH futures premium turned bearish and the network’s TVL dropped 22% from its peak, but how is this impacting pro traders’ sentiment? Ether (ETH) lost the critical $3,000 psychological support level on April 11 after a 16% weekly negative performance. Bulls were definitively caught by surprise as $104 million in leveraged long futures got...Continue Reading

Only “verified accredited investors” in the United States will be able to add coins to their Earn accounts starting on April 15 while users outside the country will be unaffected. Crypto lending firm Celsius Network has announced it will be launching a custody solution for users based in the United States in response to discussions...Continue Reading

On this week’s episode of “The Market Report,” Cointelegraph’s resident experts discuss nine of the worst mistakes you can make in crypto. “The Market Report” with Cointelegraph is live right now. On this week’s show, Cointelegraph’s resident experts discuss the worst mistakes you should avoid making in crypto. But first, market expert Marcel Pechman carefully...Continue Reading

Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith took a plea deal after breaking sanctions against North Korea and was formally sentenced earlier today the final chapter in a two-year journey as bizarre as it is shocking. Journalist Ethan Lou, author of Once a Bitcoin Miner, attended the infamous event in North Korea at which Griffith spoke. He was...Continue Reading

Anyone can become the victim of a malicious NFT hack, so what more could OpenSea do to protect its users? The non-fungible token (NFT) market has been booming since the summer of 2021 and as NFT prices were sky-rocketing, the number of hacks targeting NFTs were also increasing.  The most recent high-profile hack siphoned approximately...Continue Reading

ETH/BTC could reach 0.10 this year as the market anticipates Ethereum’s proof-of-stake switch. Ethereum’s native token Ether (ETH) has dropped about 17% against the U.S. dollar in the last two weeks. But its performance against Bitcoin (BTC) has been less painful with the ETH/BTC pair down 4.5% over the same period. The pair’s down-move appears...Continue Reading