Matic rebrands to Polygon in pursuit of ‘Polkadot on Ethereum’ strategy
The Layer-two protocol plans to become an aggregator and interoperability facilitator for Ethereum scalability solutions. The Matic Network, a project...
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Rhode Island introduces ‘vital’ blockchain growth act
A new Rhode Island House bill aims to revamp state legislature to create a regulatory environment more conducive to “vital”...
Tesla’s $1.5B Bitcoin purchase leaves treasury experts scratching heads
Some treasury experts are finding it difficult to understand why Tesla recently bought $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin — the...
South Africa learns a hard crypto lesson amid fast growing demand
South African authorities will be keeping a close eye on the cryptocurrency space in 2021 in the wake of major...
French official wants to change how Europe regulates crypto and blockchain
According to one French official, crypto and blockchain projects should be supervised at the European level. France’s top financial regulator...
Binance quietly drops ‘multi-million’ Forbes defamation lawsuit
Binance Holdings has dropped its defamation lawsuit against Forbes regarding the publication of an article that alleged the exchange purposely...
Stablecoin flows hint at $50K Bitcoin after Tesla pump liquidates $500M in BTC shorts
Around $500 million worth of positions were liquidated within hours as the Tesla news caused Bitcoin to spike over $46,000....
Hackers post racist and offensive messages to Blockfolio users
A breach of Blockfolio’s signal feed saw racist messages sent to some users of the crypto portfolio platform. Some Blockfolio...
OKEx integrates .crypto domain-based payments from Unstoppable Domains
As more exchanges start to support the simplified address format, will error-prone text-string addresses become a thing of the past?...
Major Thai bank’s venture arm sets up $50M fund to invest in blockchain, DeFi
Siam Commercial Bank, over a century old, doesn't fail to keep up with the times. Siam Commercial Bank — Thailand's...
Solana announces DeFi hackathon offering $200k in seed funding
Solana will host a DeFi hackathon offering a $200,000 prize pool and $200,000 in seed funding to aspiring developers. Solana...
Bitcoin’s Twitter-volume spikes to new all-time highs on Elon pump
Elon Musk has pushed Bitcoin’s social sentiment into new highs on Twitter. Social media activity for Bitcoin is at an...
ETH represented 80% of last week’s institutional crypto inflows
Institutions were aggressively accumulating ETH in the lead up to the launch of CME futures, with Ether products representing 80%...
Bitcoin volatility almost returned to ‘Black Thursday’ levels in January
A report from Kraken has identified last month’s BTC volatility at levels not seen since the ‘Black Thursday’ crash of...
G7 to discuss CBDC and digital taxation this week
The G7 will begin its Feb. 12 meeting on the subject of central bank digital currencies, before moving to digital...
