The bill authored by a Republican state legislator would prevent the use of cryptocurrency as a medium of exchange after July 1, 2024. Legislation has been introduced in the American state of South Dakota to amend the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) to limit the definition of money to exclude cryptocurrencies. Central bank digital currencies (CBDC)...Continue Reading

The company says users’ losses will be 100% reimbursed by mid-March. According to an official Telegram statement on March 1, Singaporean cross-chain crypto wallet developer BitKeep says it has reimbursed 50% of user assets lost during a security breach stemming from Dec. 26, 2022. On the date of the incident, an estimated $8 million was...Continue Reading

The firm plans to partner with companies that are already experienced in local fiat payment processing. On Mar. 1, nearly two years after Jack Dorsey’s technology conglomerate Block (known as Square at the time) announced plans to build a self-custodial Bitcoin wallet, the company revealed that more work still needs to be done regarding its...Continue Reading

Join us as we discuss what March 2023 holds in store for Bitcoin. Will it touch $25,000 again or will it break past and flip it to support? In this week’s episode of Market Talks, Cointelegraph welcomes Adrian Zduńczyk, or as he is known on Twitter, CryptoBirb. He is the founder and CEO of The Birb...Continue Reading

To successfully “rebrand” NFTs in the mainstream public consciousness, companies need to double down on utility instead of hype. There’s widespread public confusion around much of what the crypto industry does and is hoping to achieve, but it’s likely there’s no facet of the space that has attracted as much negative attention as nonfungible tokens....Continue Reading

The NFT marketplace Sparkles launched on the layer-1 EVM oracle platform Flare for interoperable protocols to expand use cases for NFTs and their holders. Flare, the layer-1 Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) blockchain, went live on Jan. 10 after it launched two core protocols for decentralized interoperability applications. The blockchain network allows developers to create applications...Continue Reading

Bitcoin, the original blockchain, struggles to gain traction among blockchain advocates; an opinion from one of Europe’s largest blockchain conferences. Bitcoin (BTC) popularised the term blockchain. Blockchains, or “decentralized and distributed digital ledgers used to record transactions across a network of computers,” have been around for over thirty years, the household name for a blockchain...Continue Reading

Bitcoin wobbles over fresh concerns over crypto firm solvency, but BTC price performance remains stronger than Coinbase and Silvergate bank stock. Bitcoin (BTC) erased early-month gains on March 2 as fresh market uncertainty erupted over solvency of crypto bank Silvergate. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView BTC price avoids Silvergate, Coinbase stock slip Data...Continue Reading

The Polygon network and Mercy Corps Ventures partnership target underserved communities in blockchain awareness and education initiatives. Blockchain technology continues to make its way into mainstream view, as many companies adopt it as a part of their operations. With the push for adoption comes the simultaneous need for more education about the technology.  A new partnership announced...Continue Reading

How and where to get analytics on the emerging projects in the GameFi space. From the massive fall of Bitcoin’s (BTC) price to the collapse of crypto exchange FTX, 2022 was full of upheaval for the blockchain industry. But the blockchain community has always been resilient, finding new ways to develop in the most challenging...Continue Reading