Reduced inflationary pressure fueled crypto investors’ appetite for risk markets, eliminating the possibility of bears profiting from the Jan. 20, $580 million Bitcoin options expiry. Bitcoin (BTC) price has held above $20,700 for 4 days, fueling bulls’ hope for another leg up to $23,000 or even $25,000. Behind the optimistic move was a decline in...Continue Reading

Join us as we discuss decentralized finance, how it performed in 2022, and what its potential is in 2023. Hosting the show will be Cointelegraph’s head of markets, Ray Salmond, with special guest Grant Shears. On this week’s episode of Market Talks, Cointelegraph welcomes Grant Shears, founder of Blocmates — an educational and consultancy company...Continue Reading

Tightening reserves and offering real-time pricing data to the market are among the ways the stablecoin space could better weather volatility. With a value pegged to another currency, stablecoins in theory maintain steady price levels — hence the name. However, as investors saw in the Terra (LUNA) and UST crashes in May 2022, even stablecoins...Continue Reading

Bitcoin will be just one of the risk assets which “crater” as the Federal Reserve is forced to abandon quantitative tightening in future, the ex-BitMEX CEO warns. In his latest blog post released on Jan. 19, Arthur Hayes, the former CEO of BitMEX exchange predicted a “global financial meltdown” thanks to future United States economic...Continue Reading

A hierarchical deterministic wallet uses a single seed to create an infinite number of addresses, allowing users to recover funds using a master key. Are HD wallets safe? HD wallets are as secure as the medium (physical or digital) on which they are stored. BIP-32 enables an HD wallet to produce a tree-like hierarchical structure...Continue Reading

When hes not working on hastening humanitys rush toward the Singularity by creating an artificial general intelligence (AGI), Ben Goertzel plays in a jazz-rock band called Jam Galaxy fronted by a robot named Desdemona. Its one of his many side projects, which naturally led him to try and tokenize the music business by reaching out...Continue Reading

The collaboration will allow both individuals and institutions to launch subnets that can operate as self-sufficient blockchain systems. The Amazon Web Services (AWS)-Avalanche “cooperation,” as it was carefully described last week, should almost immediately make it easy for developers to establish nodes on the Avalanche blockchain, including via “one-click node deployment.”  Eventually, too, it might...Continue Reading

Vitalik Buterin identified distributed validator technology, or DVT, as a key component of Ethereum’s decentralization efforts. Validator infrastructure developer ssv.network has launched a new ecosystem fund to support Ethereum proof-of-stake decentralization — a move that the company said would promote innovation around Ether (ETH) staking technologies.  The ecosystem fund, valued at $50 million, will support...Continue Reading

1inch Networks’ upcoming hardware wallet has no direct connection to the internet and doesn’t require any wired connection. Decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator 1inch Network is the latest cryptocurrency platform to move into the hardware wallet industry amid the rise of self-custody. On Jan. 19, 1inch officially introduced the 1inch Hardware Wallet, a proprietary hardware wallet...Continue Reading

Animoca Brands CEO Robby Yung believes we will see many great blockchain games released during the first nine months of 2023 as developers begin to deliver after raising funds in 2022. The celebrated union between blockchain and gaming has encountered several hurdles that have left many wondering if the new sector of crypto and gaming...Continue Reading