The first tweet ever sent on Twitter was turned into an NFT and sold by founder Jack Dorsey for $2.9 million, but is pulling about one percent of that in a current auction. The nonfungible token (NFT) of the first ever tweet made on Twitter by founder Jack Dorsey is currently struggling to attract a...Continue Reading

A spokesperson for Commerzbank confirmed to local media that it applied for the license with BaFin earlier this year in a first for a major bank in Germany. One of the largest banking institutions in Germany has confirmed it applied for a local crypto license earlier this year, marking the first time a major bank...Continue Reading

AUSTRAC also urged financial institutions from debanking clients who may be engaged in suspicious account activity, as a mistake could be costly to “Australia’s economy.” Australian financial compliance enforcement agency AUSTRAC has released two new guides to help entities to spot when customers are using crypto for illicit means, or when they are being forced...Continue Reading

dYdX said that it is looking at full decentralization to offer its users advantages of DeFi that centralized services can’t. Ethereum Layer 2-based crypto derivatives trading platform dYdX has vowed to become “100% decentralized by EOY” via the protocol’s V4 update. dYdX primarily offers perpetual contracts, which are derivatives products that borrow elements from both...Continue Reading

The Swiss firm will conduct all interactions with the Liquity smart contract on its clients’ behalf but only a select few with over $500,000 on the platform will have access to the product. Bitcoin Suisse has begun offering decentralized finance (DeFi) services to its clients with the addition of the Liquity protocol to its product...Continue Reading

Binance made a public apology after releasing an emoji that looked like a swastika on Twitter. Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, released a new Binance Emoji on Twitter that users noticed bore a striking resemblance to a swastika.  On Wednesday morning, Binance CEO, Changpeng Zhao (CZ) retweeted Binance’s original post, adding “#binance” to show...Continue Reading

An expert psychologist has said the way the results were gathered were “pretty much uninformative” and the connection between psychopathy and buying crypto was “very weak”. A study claiming that psychopaths and others with ‘Dark Tetrad’ personality traits are drawn to crypto has been criticized as “meaningless” for showing very weak correlativity by a psychology...Continue Reading

The asset manager said it would purchase “exchange-traded protective put options” and write “exchange-traded call options on Bitcoin futures and/or a Bitcoin related ETF or ETFs.” Asset manager Simplify has filed a registration statement with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission to list shares of an exchange-traded fund linked to Bitcoin futures, Treasury securities,...Continue Reading

On-chain data suggests that the market has “already capitulated” and traders identify a bullish technical analysis pattern with a breakout target near the $41,300 level. Traders’ struggle to build sustainable bullish momentum persisted across the cryptocurrency market on April 20 after prices slid lower during the afternoon trading session and ApeCoin (APE) appaers to be one of...Continue Reading

“The United States is committed to ensuring that no asset, no matter how complex, becomes a mechanism for the Putin regime to offset the impact of sanctions,” said Treasury. The United States Treasury Department has added Russia-based crypto mining services provider BitRiver and several subsidiaries as firms facilitating the evasion of sanctions.  In a Wednesday...Continue Reading