Strong hype around the move-to-earn sector helps GMT price establish a new record high. The native tokens of move-to-earn lifestyle app STEPN swung higher on news that they would be available to trade on Coinbase, a U.S.-based crypto exchange. The price of STEPN’s governance token Green Metaverse Token (GMT) rallied by nearly 20% to reach over...Continue Reading

Bitcoin network hash rate hit a new record high, seeing a 400% increase since the mining ban by China last year. The hash rate of the Bitcoin (BTC) network hit a new ATH, even when the price of the top cryptocurrency struggled to get past the $40K mark. The network’s hash rate hit a new record...Continue Reading

Having supported Zugs Crypto Valley in the early days and founded Crypto Oasis in Dubai to serve as blockchain innovations hubs with regulatory certainty, Ralf Glabischnig is practically a node of the blockchain industry. When Bitcoin companies began pouring into his small town in Switzerland in 2013, Ralf Glabischnig was an IT consultant turned entrepreneur...Continue Reading

“Freedom Day means you are free to use your own money to live your best life,” said BitcoinZAR, a Bitcoin advocate in South Africa. On Wednesday, South Africa celebrated Freedom Day, which honors the country’s first post-apartheid democratic election in 1994. Cointelegraph reached out to different notable individuals in the South African crypto community to...Continue Reading

A Redditor from the United States cashed in on all of their Bitcoin to pay for their dog, Derby’s cancer treatment. How much is a doggo’s life worth? For one Redditor, “dojeckahedron” saving their pooch from the clutches of cancer is worth their entire Bitcoin (BTC) stack.  In a tearjerker of a Reddit post, the...Continue Reading

Cryptocurrency investors now have more options for purchasing property without having to sell their digital assets outright. Blockchain real estate platform Propy has partnered with Abra to allow customers to obtain home loans using their cryptocurrency holdings, potentially widening the financial use cases of digital assets.  Propy customers can now put up digital assets as...Continue Reading

The AXIA native cryptocurrency becomes scarce as the activity or participation on the network increases. AXIA, the team behind the novel message-to-earn approach of AXChat, announced the mainnet launch of its blockchain and native currency on Thursday. The new network is designed to provide a “hyper-deflationary” economic model in which the cryptocurrency becomes more and...Continue Reading

The researchers also found that Bitcoin is gaining ground compared to other payment methods within El Salvador. Months after Bitcoin (BTC) became legal tender in El Salvador, a study conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) shows that 20 percent of businesses have started to accept BTC as their payment method.  The study,...Continue Reading

The measure comes along with a proposed ban on advertising of non-licensed crypto services. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) have submitted their review notes on the forthcoming “crypto bill,” developed by the country’s Finance Ministry. Law enforcement agencies push for requiring crypto firms to share transaction data with investigators...Continue Reading

Okay Bears, a Solana-powered NFT topped OpenSea’s 24-hour sales charts on Thursday, whilst a South African fine-wine NFT auction takes off netting raising more than $180,000. Okay Bears, a Solana-powered NFT, managed to top OpenSea’s 24-hour sales tracker for the first time earlier today, beating out all other Ethereum (ETH) projects on offer.  It’s the...Continue Reading