Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan shared new details about the country’s e-Human project powered by blockchain. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan unveiled new details about the e-Human project powered by blockchain ahead of Turkey’s national blockchain summit.  Cointelegraph Turkey reported the e-Human project will be based on blockchain tech to keep all services, data and...Continue Reading

An early draft of the 2022 IRS tax form sees cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and nonfungible tokens grouped under a new ‘Digital Asset’ category. American taxpayers will find a broader, more defined category encompassing cryptocurrencies and nonfungible tokens (NFTs) in their 2022 IRS tax forms. The draft bill released by the Internal Revenue Service features a well-defined...Continue Reading

There are currently 450 Web 3.0 startup in the country, including four unicorns. According to a new study published by the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), a non-profit organization in India with over 3,000 members, the country currently possesses 11% of the world’s Web 3.0 talent. The figure makes India the world’s...Continue Reading

Federal prosecutors have argued against a claim made by the former OpenSea product manager that the term “insider trading” is “inflammatory.” United States prosecutors have opposed a motion by a former employee of nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea to remove “insider trading” references from his charges. Prosecutors said the phrase accurately describes the crimes the...Continue Reading

D’Agostino also said the recent battles between the SEC and CFTC is a good thing for crypto because it indicates that it will be a “vitally important piece of market structure” moving forward. Institutional adoption of digital assets is “moving very, very fast,” and much faster than the rate nascent industries ordinarily develop at, says...Continue Reading

BNY Mellon CEO Robin Vince pointed to a survey earlier this year which found 91% of institutional asset managers were interested in investing in tokenized assets. BNY Mellon CEO Robin Vince says “client demand” was the “tipping point” that ultimately led to the bank’s launch of institutional-focused crypto services last week. BNY Mellon, America’s oldest...Continue Reading

Nuri will maintain crypto trading services until the end of November, and has encouraged users to withdraw their assets before the mid-December deadline. German crypto bank Nuri has told its 500,000 users to withdraw funds from their accounts as the firm prepares to shut down and liquidate the business, marking it as another victim of...Continue Reading

A dormant nonfungible token (NFT) wallet from 2017 with 141 CryptoPunks has been found to have minted the now ludicrously expensive NFTs for a possible $7 each. Dormant Punks Nonfungible token (NFT) sleuths have dug up an old wallet from 2017 that minted 141 CryptoPunks for 0.02 ETH, which was around $7 at the time...Continue Reading

The whereabouts of “Cryptoqueen” Ruja Ignatova are still unknown but the charges against OneCoin members are starting to pile up. Three associates of fugitive OneCoin founder Ruja Ignatova, known colloquially as the “Cryptoqueen,” have faced a German court over allegations of fraud, money laundering and banking crimes. Appearing in court on Oct. 18, a Munich-based...Continue Reading

Despite the European Union rejecting a proposal banning crypto mining earlier this year, more regulations could soon be implemented to mitigate the environmental impacts of crypto mining. Bitcoin (BTC) has seen a 41% increase in energy consumption Year-on-Year (YoY) despite dramatic improvements in energy efficiency and a more diverse and sustainable energy mix — but...Continue Reading