A Binance spokesperson highlighted that there are things to be wary of when liquid staking, including smart contract vulnerabilities, slashing risks and price fluctuations. Liquid staking is a decentralized finance (DeFi) subsector that lets users earn yield by staking their tokens without losing their liquidity. It has become the biggest DeFi sector in terms of...Continue Reading

New York Representative Ritchie Torres had an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph to discuss why retail investors are still at risk following the XRP court ruling. On July 13, 2023, United States District Court Judge Analisa Torres ruled that Ripple’s XRP (XRP) token should not be considered a security when sold on retail digital asset exchanges....Continue Reading

Former globe-trotting DJ Scott Melker — The Wolf Of All Streets — worries about the circumstances leading to Bitcoin topping $1 million. Scott Melker is the host of The Wolf Of All Streets Podcast and author of The Wolf Den newsletter. If I tweeted about a small cap [crypto] of some sort right now, the...Continue Reading

Bitcoin bears are closing in on a rare win, as they have the advantage in this week’s $600 million BTC options expiry. This week’s Bitcoin (BTC) options expiry on Friday, July 21, could solidify the $30,000 resistance level and give the bears the upper hand for the first time since the 21% rally between June 14...Continue Reading

The fourth episode sees StarkWare president Eli Ben-Sasson and Giza co-founder Cem Dagdelen explore the role of AI in smart contracts. From the international stage at Davos to the soccer fields of Bedford, the Decentralize with Cointelegraph podcast dives into the nuances of crypto and blockchain, and how they intersect with everyday life. One promising...Continue Reading

Spasova emphasized that the primary motivation behind running Collectible Avatars on-chain is to empower users with freedom of use. Mirela Spasova, a Reddit senior engineer on the Collectible Avatars project, took to the master stage at the Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC) event in Paris to shed light on Reddit’s strategy for onboarding millions of users...Continue Reading

The co-founder of the liquidity protocol said the zk roll-up-based scalable solution has the potential to solve the scalability dilemma put forward by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. Amid the growing popularity of zero-knowledge (ZK) proof based layer-2 scalable solution, decentralized finance liquidity protocol Symbiosis has added support for Linea, a zkEVM-based Consensys-developed scalable solution for...Continue Reading

The government added that they are already working on regulating the crypto market and a proposed regulatory legislation was laid before parliament and debated last month. The United Kingdom government has rejected a proposal made by the U.K. Treasury Committee to regulate crypto retail trading in the same way it oversees gambling, stressing that it “firmly...Continue Reading

Sriram Krishnan said that “the world of social media is stuck in a different era, and things need to change.” An executive from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) believes that Web3 has the solutions to the headaches and problems found on Web2-based social media platforms.  During a keynote speech at the Ethereum Community Conference...Continue Reading

GBTC’s share in total ARKW’s holdings accounted for around 7.5%, roughly the same amount as Tesla, in Q2 2023, while Coinbase was the biggest allocated asset, accounting for nearly 9%. Digital currency investment product, Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), was one of the best performers at Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest in the second quarter of 2023....Continue Reading