The crypto derivatives platform is expected double its order throughput and significantly reduce order latency, according to its CEO. FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried announced in a series of tweets that, over the next month, the exchange is expected to roll out various improvements to its matching engine.  3) We’ll be rolling out a whole new...Continue Reading

Multiple emirates in the UAE are looking to the metaverse to boost tourism in their respective regions. Sharjah now joins Dubai in broadening its Web3 ambitions. Artificial intelligence ecosystem Multiverse Labs has launched a new metaverse city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a move the emirate said could enhance the region’s tourism industry. The...Continue Reading

The OECD said it planned to present the Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework to a meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors on Oct. 12-13. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD, has published a framework aimed at having tax authorities achieve greater visibility on crypto transactions and the users behind them. In...Continue Reading

Legacy markets continue to negatively impact Bitcoin price, but a positive sign is that the bulls have not allowed BTC to retest its June low. The United States equities markets have started the week on a weak note as investors remain unconvinced that the Federal Reserve will pull back its aggressive monetary policy. The Nasdaq...Continue Reading

Better luck next time? Luxor’s OTC Bitcoin mining derivatives could offer miners “a much needed tool to hedge their mining operations.” Hedging against downside has always been a challenge for Bitcoin BTC miners, and the current bear market is a perfect example of how energy prices and crypto market volatility can negatively impact miners’ profit...Continue Reading

TrueFi does not expect Blockwater Technologies’ default to affect its stablecoin lending pools or capital market portfolios. On Oct. 10, unsecured lending protocol TrueFi issued a default notice to Blockwater Technologies for missing a scheduled payment related to its $3.4 million Binance USD (BUSD) loan, the first declared default on the platform to date. According to...Continue Reading

Members of the committee passed the crypto framework policy in a vote of 28 in favor and one against, with a final vote expected with the full Parliament soon. Policymakers with the European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, or ECON, have approved the Markets in Crypto-Assets framework following a vote from the European...Continue Reading

The price paid for “whale coins” is revealed as a potential new bear market bottom zone for BTC. Bitcoin (BTC) has a new downside price target as more research highlights the potential role of whales in setting a macro floor. In the latest edition of its weekly newsletter, The Week On-Chain, analytics firm Glassnode provided...Continue Reading

The anonymous creator, 0xngmi, has developed a new protocol allowing users to become liquidity providers for their nonfungible token collections. According to a recent Twitter post by 0xngmi, the anonymous creator of decentralized finance (DeFi) project aggregator DefiLlama, the smart contract code for a novel nonfungible tokens (NFT) borrowing and lending protocol dubbed “LlamaLend” is...Continue Reading

The racing competition has plans to set up an online marketplace for cryptocurrency, meta tokens, digital collectibles, crypto-collectibles, and NFTs. Formula One is looking to establish itself within the Web3 ecosystem with eight recently filed trademarks for its globally recognized “F1” abbreviation. According to licensed trademark attorney Mike Kondoudis, the race-car league filed eight trademark...Continue Reading