The S&P 500 may try to move up in the short term and that could trigger a recovery in Bitcoin and select altcoins. The cryptocurrency markets are trading at record low volatility as investors have largely stayed away during the holiday season. That could be because investors are unsure about the cryptocurrencies that could lead...Continue Reading

The two-year project produced a white paper in February. Research results will continue to appear, with the Fed’s partner at MIT scheduled to make a research report in January. Project Hamilton, the research project of the United States Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, announced its conclusion in the run-up to...Continue Reading

Crypto custodians generate public attestations about their cryptocurrency holdings through proof-of-reserves audits to demonstrate their solvency to depositors. With the rising interest in digital assets from institutional and retail investors, custody options have also experienced parallel growth. As a result, different kinds of custody choices have evolved as the market changes, and new providers are...Continue Reading

Fantom has previously pledged to cut its token burn rate by 75% to incentivize DApp development. According to a new Medium post published on Dec. 26, decentralized finance (DeFi) architect Andre Cronje reaffirmed goals and priorities for the Fantom (FTM) ecosystem in 2023. Cronje, who previously created protocols such as Yearn Finance and Keep3rV1, also...Continue Reading

Bitcoin hodlers may not have much longer to wait before BTC price action gets interesting again. Bitcoin (BTC) hodlers are enjoying another day of zero volatility on Dec. 26 as hopeful forecasts se signs of a trend change. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Opinions diverge further over BTC price bottom Data from Cointelegraph...Continue Reading

A look at some of the biggest disappointments in the crypto space form this year as the industry readies itself for better things to come. 2022 has been a bumpy year for the cryptocurrency market, with one of the worst bear markets on record and the downfall of some major platforms within the space. The...Continue Reading

Someone has been accumulating BTC throughout the 2022 Bitcoin bear market, and the trend shows no sign of reversing. Bitcoin (BTC) accumulation is nearing a new milestone this Christmas as redistribution of the BTC supply continues. Data from on-chain analytics firm Glassnode shows that the total BTC balance of so-called “accumulation addresses” is nearing all-time...Continue Reading

“Merry Christmas guys. We got a lump of coal from Santa Claus,” wrote one user in response to the allegations and the incident. On Dec. 26, blockchain security firm CertiK issued a warning alleging that Defrost Finance, a decentralized leverage-trading platform on the Avalanche blockchain that recently suffered an exploit, is an “exit scam.” The...Continue Reading

BTC.com, the seventh-largest Bitcoin mining pool, said that its client fund services are unaffected by the recent $3 million cyberattack. Major cryptocurrency mining pool BTC.com has suffered a cyberattack resulting in a significant loss of funds by the company and its customers. BTC.com experienced a cyberattack on Dec. 3, with attackers stealing around $700,000 in...Continue Reading

Research and Market’s latest NFT market report for Italy predicts a 47.6% growth in the country’s NFT market by the end of 2022. Italy is one of the cultural hubs of Europe, with centuries of history, art and culture. Now it is also posed to create the crypto art Renaissance via its nonfungible token (NFT)...Continue Reading