“The United States is committed to ensuring that no asset, no matter how complex, becomes a mechanism for the Putin regime to offset the impact of sanctions,” said Treasury. The United States Treasury Department has added Russia-based crypto mining services provider BitRiver and several subsidiaries as firms facilitating the evasion of sanctions.  In a Wednesday...Continue Reading

Google search data and exchange activity point to the declining interest from retail traders as crypto investors search for the next big spark that will bring fresh capital into the ecosystem. One of the main narratives of hope for cryptocurrency investors is that there will be a major shift in public perception that sparks a...Continue Reading

On-chain data suggests that the market has “already capitulated” and traders identify a bullish technical analysis pattern with a breakout target near the $41,300 level. Traders’ struggle to build sustainable bullish momentum persisted across the cryptocurrency market on April 20 after prices slid lower during the afternoon trading session and ApeCoin (APE) appaers to be one of...Continue Reading

BTC and altcoins remain stuck within a tight range, suggesting that the sideways trading could continue in the short-term. The U.S. dollar currency index (DXY) turned down sharply after rising above 101 on April 20 but this weakness in the dollar has not helped Bitcoin (BTC), possibly because the S&P 500 is struggling to build upon...Continue Reading

The symbol was quickly “erased” via a community effort to bid on land around it, altering its shape into a window. In a statement posted by Shiba Inu (SHIB) Metaverse developers late Tuesday, it appears that a user’s wallet address has been blacklisted for drawing a swastika using the project’s Metaverse land. The team at...Continue Reading

Individuals typically do not need to worry about capital gains taxes while trading in an IRA. For crypto investors, this could be an attractive feature. Cryptocurrency individual retirement accounts (IRA) provider iTrustCapital revealed Wednesday that the total transaction volume on its platform had surpassed $5 billion, marking a 60% increase in nine months. As told...Continue Reading

A classic technical indicator risks sending AAVE’s price toward $105 in the next few months. A sharp rebound move witnessed in the Aave (AAVE) market in the last three days has raised its potential to rise further in May, a technical indicator suggests. AAVE price rebounds from key support Dubbed a “rising wedge,” the pattern...Continue Reading

Victoria McLoughlin will be responsible for supervising crypto firms based in the U.K. as well as supporting development of a regulatory framework in line with government policy. Victoria McLoughlin, who has worked more than11 years at the Financial Conduct Authority, is temporarily heading the digital assets department of the United Kingdom’s financial watchdog. According to...Continue Reading

DappRadar and the Blockchain Game Alliance produce the Q1 numbers behind the top play-to-earn and GameFi DApps. Market tracker DappRadar and the Blockchain Game Alliance, or BGA, published the Blockchain Games Report for Q1 2022 on Wednesday. After citing that $720 million was invested into blockchain games and infrastructures in February in a previous report,...Continue Reading

So many metaverses, so little interoperability: The isolation of different metaverses from each other might be the main challenge to overcome to gain mass adoption. In his monthly crypto tech column, Israeli serial entrepreneur Ariel Shapira covers emerging technologies within the crypto, decentralized finance and blockchain space, as well as their roles in shaping the...Continue Reading