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

Celsius Network CEO Alex Mashinsky shared his insights on the Bitcoin and Ether markets at Paris Blockchain Week Summit. During the recent Paris Blockchain Week Summit, Cointelegraph’s Joseph Hall sat down with Alex Mashinsky, CEO of Celsius Network, to talk about several topics, including where the Bitcoin and Ether markets are going.  According to Mashinsky, Bitcoin (BTC) received...Continue Reading

Brisk gains encounter resistance at $42,000, but stock markets may be to blame. Bitcoin (BTC) bulls kept up the pressure on April 20 as the Wall Street open saw a return to $42,000. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView $42,000 proves troublesome Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD reaching $42,220 on Bitstamp,...Continue Reading

I arrived in Tbilisi, Georgia, near Russias southern border, in late February just a few days after Russian forces invaded Ukraine. I had been reporting on crypto and blockchain from St. Petersburg, but after the war started, staying there had become untenable. During my first week in the city, I searched for an apartment to...Continue Reading

More than 8.4 million email addresses were on the waitlist for Coinbase NFT, with the project saying it would be available to everyone over 18 years old “in the coming weeks.” Crypto exchange Coinbase’s nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace has moved into beta more than six months after the company announced it planned to open a...Continue Reading

Industry representatives call the authorities not to go beyond the scope of the FATF Travel Rule recommendation. Forty crypto companies cosigned an open letter to the European Parliament, European Commission and other principal EU institutions with a call to ensure common-sense regulation, standardized compliance procedures and an innovation-friendly business environment.  An open letter on behalf...Continue Reading

Executives at nonfungible token service provider Finch are planning to open an office in Miami, while many employees of blockchain firm NEAR have gathered in Lisbon. Many Ukraine-based businesses have had to shutter or suspend operations following the outbreak of the conflict with Russia on Feb. 24, but some in the cryptocurrency space have been...Continue Reading

The Ministry of Finance “partially supported” the proposition, adding that it needs further consideration. Russia’s Federal Tax Service (FTS) has joined the debate around crypto regulation in Russia with an unexpectedly blunt proposition — to let Russian companies use digital currencies as a payment method when transacting internationally. On April 20, local newspaper Izvestia reported that...Continue Reading

MakerDAO is currently the 4th largest DeFi protocol as per TVL rankings with $14.24 billion in locked value. MakerDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization serving the popular DeFi lending protocol Maker, has announced an upcoming deployment schedule on the decentralized zero-knowledge (ZK) Ethereum rollup, StarkNet. Expected to become fully operational in the third quarter of this...Continue Reading

Owners of the popular Bored Ape and Mutant APE nonfungible tokens (NFT) could receive virtual lands on the Yuga Labs’ upcoming “Otherside” metaverse. ApeCoin (APE) price has exploded higher on anticipations that it would become a de-facto payment token in an upcoming metaverse land sale. APE price swelled nearly 28% in one day to reach...Continue Reading