Cryptocurrency

The leading NFT marketplace on the Solana network, Magic Eden, has raised a total of $130 million in a Series B funding round. This funding round was co-led by Electric Capital and Greylock. The seeding round, announced on Tuesday, values the platform at $1.6 billion, making it level with Series B of OpenSea, the top

Major stablecoin company Tether is expanding its stablecoin offering with a new cryptocurrency pegged to the British pound sterling (GBP). Tether officially announced on June 22 that its upcoming GBP-pegged stablecoin, GBPT, will launch in early July and will initially support the Ethereum blockchain. GBPT will be a stable digital currency pegged on the 1:1

Hublot, a Swiss luxury watchmaker, has announced that its newly released 200 limited-edition watches can now be purchased online via BitPay, using cryptocurrencies such as Shiba Inu and Bitcoin. According to a tweet from Hublot, this method of payment is only available to consumers of the Hublot United States eBoutique. The tweet from the official

Bancor, a Decentralized Finance protocol often regarded as a pioneer in the DeFi ecosystem, has come under heavy scrutiny after it announced that it would pause its impermanent loss protection program. The DeFi platform cited extreme market conditions for stopping this program. However, Bancor has been criticized for pausing the program when liquidity providers need

There is good reason to be afraid. Previous down markets have seen declines in excess of 80%. While tightfisted hodling might hold wisdom among many Bitcoin (BTC) maximalists, speculators in altcoins know that diamond handing can mean near (or total) annihilation.  Regardless of one’s investment philosophy, in risk-off environments, participation flees the space with haste.

Astaria, a non-fungible token (NFT) lending platform and liquidity engine, has acquired $8 million in early capital to support its development throughout the down market. True Ventures, Arrington Capital, Ethereal Ventures, Wintermute, Genesis Trading, LedgerPrime, Hypersphere Ventures, The LAO, and several other investors participated in the preliminary round of funding.   Users can use Astaria to

 Solend, a Solana-based borrowing and lending platform, will go back to the ballot box in a flash vote on whether to go ahead with Sunday’s proposal to take control of the platform’s largest account. The Solana DeFi Protocol’s largest account is a $100 million+ whale’s account on the verge of potential on-chain liquidation.  The cryptocurrency

Over the last couple of years, games using blockchain technology have been actively developing and attracting new players, and the decentralized games market — broadly referred to as GameFi — has gained great popularity.  The GameFi industry started back in 2013, and since then, the sphere has been slowly developing, but in 2021 the popularity

Babel, based in Hong Kong, expressed that it has reached tentative agreements on the repayment time frame of its recently acquired debts. This, in turn, has reduced the company’s short-term liquidity burden. Babel Finance, the embattled crypto lender which suspended withdrawals on Friday, has received a reprieve on debt repayments as it fights to stay

Layer-2 scaling solution Synthetix recently collaborated with liquidity provider Curve Finance to create Curve pools for sETH/ETH, sBTC/BTC, & sUSD/3CRV, allowing investors to cheaply convert synths such as sETH to Ether (ETH). Given the investors’ willingness to hold tokens instead of synths, the protocol racked up over $1.02 million in trading fees — overshadowing Bitcoin’s

Bitcoin (BTC) plummeted to $17,622 on June 18. This marked the first time in Bitcoin’s history that it has fallen below its previous cycle high. The United States Federal Reserve’s aggressive monetary tightening, a crisis at crypto lending platform Celsius and liquidity issues at investment fund Three Arrows Capital are creating a sense of panic

Not even a $258 billion class-action lawsuit alleging a crypto pyramid scheme could stop Elon Musk from publicly displaying his continued support for Dogecoin (DOGE). On June 16, a New York district court received a class action complaint against the world’s richest man Elon Musk and his companies, SpaceX and Tesla, for an alleged Ponzi

Elon Musk, billionaire and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and new owner of Twitter, stated that integrating digital payments into Twitter “makes sense.” Musk recently reached an agreement to buy Twitter for $44 billion. Despite considerable public skepticism about the deal’s completion, it appears to be on schedule, and Musk’s attendance at Thursday’s conference indicates

Babel Finance, a Hong Kong-based asset management firm and cryptocurrency lender, is the latest cryptocurrency lending provider to be hit hard by the current market. Babel Finance said on Friday that redemptions and withdrawals from its products would be temporarily halted due to “unusual liquidity challenges.” According to a note on Babel Finance’s website, “Recently,

Ripple (XRP) price stares at potential losses in the coming weeks as it breaks out of a “descending triangle” pattern, with its bias skewed toward the downside. Major XRP breakdown underway To recap, XRP started forming the technical structure after reaching $1.98 in April 2021, its second-highest level to date. In doing so, the token trended

The President of Panama, Laurentino Cortizo, has temporarily vetoed Bill No. 697, a bill dubbed the “crypto bill.” The President took this decision after saying that the bill requires more work to fit Panama’s financial regulations better. In May, President Cortizo warned that he wouldn’t sign the bill if it didn’t include additional Anti-Money Laundering