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Binance.US announced it is cutting several Bitcoin trading fees, which brought the stock of several of its rivals down -- including Coinbase. The move, amid a crypto winter which led to massive...

Terra’s dramatic meltdown has sent ripples across the blockchain space, bringing its total market cap down by billions of dollars. The crisis was not lost on the powers that be, with G-7 finance ministers said to be pushing the pedal to the metal on crypto regulation.

Many of these exchanges aren’t permitted to operate in New York State, though, thanks to something called a BitLicense.

There’s something of a truism that the real work of industry gets done during bear markets. In fact, just today a Bank of England deputy governor said that crypto projects that survive this “crypto winter” could become “tomorrow’s Amazons and eBays.&

Cryptocurrency has risen in popularity in recent years, but many people still don't understand it. A 2021 survey conducted by Crypotliteracy.org found that 96% of Americans can't pass a basic crypto...

In this article, we will discuss the impact of this legislation on fiat backed stablecoins and those that are either collateralized with other assets, or not collateralized. We will also discuss the impact to current and future stakeholders in the web3/crypto space at large. 

Such carnage has wiped out more than $2 trillion from the cryptocurrency market. The worst is not over yet.

If you meet someone who dabbles in non-fungible tokens, chances are good that person trades crypto as well. Both crypto and NFTs are based on the same software and technology, both entered the public...

Cryptocurrency has often been touted as a way to decentralize our finances (DeFi), freeing money from the throes of government control. And while crypto does have its benefits, it can also be...

How many crypto billionaires will there be? Rhys Lindmark, CEO of Roote, a nonprofit startup studio, answered this question at Consensus 2022 in Austin, Texas."By 2025, or 2030, 20% of all billionaires will be crypto billionaires,” he said, if bitcoin hits $200,000. Drillin

New data this morning showed inflation in the United Kingdom has hit 9.1%, beating out the rates in the U.S., Italy, France and all other G7 nations. That highlights a possible disconnect between the rationale behind tightening U.S. monetary policy and the actual causes of ongoin

Originally known as the Matic Network, Polygon was created to scale Ethereum and improve the infrastructure. It is an India-based project aiming to make transactions cheaper and quicker on the...

Amp is a digital collateral token that was first introduced in September 2020. Its price has seen significant volatility since then. At its current price of $0.009071, it sells for over 23% less than...

The shiba inu cryptocurrency was born as a mockery of dogecoin, but what is it worth?

NFTs: You have heard about them, your grandma has heard about them, but do you really know what you get when you buy one?At this point, it is common knowledge that the immutability of blockchains has given creators and collectors credible proof of digital ownership, validity and

In 2013, the Doge meme went viral online. Based on the internal dialogue of a Shiba Inu named Kabosu, the name of the meme came from a slang pronunciation of the word "dog." Discover: 10 Reasons You...

The crypto sector is rife with liquidations and layoffs, but Ethereum developers continue to chip away toward the Merge – the blockchain network’s upcoming shift to a new, more energy-efficient mechanism for issuing blocks and staying secure.Ironically enough, the doo

Buying cryptocurrency is not enough, you need a safe place to keep it. Unlike traditional money, you cannot store crypto in the wallet you carry around in your pockets, you will need a special crypto...

Among the blockchain ecosystem's biggest uncertainties is the type and amount of regulation that will exist in the future. The only thing that seems sure is that more and more compliance challenges are coming for the industry. As I’ve written in the past, this is mostly a g

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is like a modern day robber baron in at least one way. As the digital asset industry tumbles downward in fits and starts, the titan of industry who sometimes skips lacing his shoes is thinking about ways to prevent calamity – and perhaps profit.Thi