Cointelegraph sat down with Next Earth’s David Taylor and ActiveFence’s Tomer Poran to discuss how crime will impact the metaverse. Metaverse and Web3 have become catch-all terms that describe some aspects of the future internet. Beyond the hype, however, these technologies are building immersive worlds that intersect digital and real life. As more people migrate...Continue Reading

The expansion may not necessarily include Mercado Bitcoin acquiring a Mexico-based crypto exchange to operate in the country. Brazilian crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin could begin operating in Mexico sometime in 2022, pending regulatory approval. Speaking to Cointelegraph on Thursday, Mercado Bitcoin CEO Reinaldo Rabelo said the company was awaiting regulatory approval to start operations in Mexico....Continue Reading

Billionaire CEO of the FTX exchange Sam Bankman-Fried sees a stable crypto market and wider FTX product range ahead pending regulation and a recovering world economy. The economic crisis in crypto is waning, FTX co-founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried thinks. He noted in an interview on Axios Pro Thursday that he is not getting “a...Continue Reading

The ETH price stalls following a week of gains, leading analysts to call for a pullback in the short term followed by a rally into September when the mainnet Merge is predicted to occur. Price action across the cryptocurrency market was largely subdued on July 21, as traders took a day to digest gains over...Continue Reading

According to Kladko, a combination of naive investor protection mechanisms and lack of market regulation led to the recent DeFi “supercrash.” The recent cryptocurrency bear market has uprooted decentralized finance (DeFi) and centralized finance (CeFi) projects in the crypto space. But past performance is not always indicative of future results. For starters, Ethereum’s price has...Continue Reading

BTC bulls aim to secure a $235 million profit from July 22’s BTC options expiry, but a downside move below $22,000 could nix this plan. Bitcoin (BTC) briefly broke above $24,000 on July 20, but the excitement lasted less than two hours after the resistance level proved more challenging than expected. A positive is that...Continue Reading

The investment startup made a short bet on LUNC in May using client funds. The trade blew up and wiped out 99% of its assets. South Korean crypto investment company Uprise plans to compensate investors for damages incurred during its futures bet on Luna Classic (LUNC) — a token that was built on the ruins...Continue Reading

Global crypto exchange revenue is estimated to grow at a 13% CAGR by 2028, while the hardware wallet market is expected to exhibit a CAGR of 27% by 2027. The crypto hardware wallet industry could be growing at a faster pace than cryptocurrency exchanges, data from several studies suggest. The current bear market has accelerated...Continue Reading

ADA runs out of buyers despite the long-awaited Cardano hard fork going live potentially at the end of July. Cardano (ADA) has dipped this July 21 as the market favors mounting selling pressure around its most reliable resistance levels in 2022 over a major upcoming hard fork. ADA price could plunge 20% by early August ADA’s...Continue Reading

For Buterin, building a better-decentralized ecosystem requires short-term pain for long-term gain. On Thursday, Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, shared his long-term vision for the namesake blockchain live at the annual Ethereum Community Conference, or EthCC, in Paris. As told by Buterin, Ethereum is currently at an inflection point, or period of rapid change, before...Continue Reading