For the next five years, trends tied to the global NFT boom continue to factor in the growing involvement of mainstream influencers, gaming communities and the rising demand for digital artworks. Reflecting the growing interest in the non-fungible token (NFT) space among today’s investors, new research predicts that the existing $3 billion market size will...Continue Reading

Does the war in Ukraine demonstrate that cryptocurrencies have an unprecedentedly vital role in humanitarian crises or that they are completely untamable? Shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, the Ukrainian government tweeted a request for funds in the form of Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) and Tether (USDT). The total received now stands at...Continue Reading

Today, the revolutionaries are gathering again. But this time, they have the most powerful economic weapon citizens have ever had: Bitcoin. If Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were somehow transported to the present day and given a newspaper, the apparent lack of class conflict would probably make the revolutionaries think they’d won. They would see...Continue Reading

Weak retail demand and bearish derivatives data reflect a dismal short-term outlook for the crypto market. The total crypto market capitalization has been trading within a descending channel for 24 days and the $1.65 trillion support was retested on May 6. The drop to $1.65 trillion was followed by Bitcoin (BTC) reaching $35,550, its lowest...Continue Reading

On May 4, the FOMC voted to raise interest rates by 50 basis points. Here’s why Bitcoin investors need to care about central bank policy. Wall Street’s slow embrace of crypto means we all have to start watching the Federal Reserve again. Cointelegraph parsed through the latest Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) policy statement on...Continue Reading

The crypto mixer is said to have processed $20.5 million out of the $620 million taken by North Korean Lazarus Group hackers. The United States Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced Friday that it was sanctioning cryptocurrency mixer Blender.io for its role in laundering proceeds from the hacking of Axie Infinity’s Ronin...Continue Reading

The week in DeFi saw European lawmakers write a new chapter on DeFi, Virginia county plans to put its pension fun in a DeFi yield, DeFi protocols lost $1.6 billion to exploits and more The past week in the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem saw many new developments from an adoption perspective and protocol developments. The...Continue Reading

NFT art continues to grow in popularity, but what other industries could the technology disrupt in the next few years? The nonfungible token (NFT) sector has undergone a surge in popularity over the past year and a half as projects like Bored Ape Yacht Club and CryptoPunks captured the attention of the general public.  While...Continue Reading

The decentralized space continues its expansion and major brands are adopting Web3 tools, including Google’s cloud unit. Google’s cloud unit announced on Friday the formation of an internal team that will build services for blockchain developers and those running blockchain-based applications. This comes amid an explosion of interest, activity and adoption of crypto and Web3...Continue Reading

“Globally, more than two-thirds of central banks consider that they are likely to or might possibly issue a retail CBDC in either the short- or medium-term,” said the BIS. A survey conducted by the Bank for International Settlements, or BIS, suggested that many central banks around the world are looking into rolling out a central...Continue Reading