Sui network’s persistent growth propelled it into the league of the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, but the value of the SUI token has been on a downward trajectory. Sustaining this heightened market position presents difficulties, as demonstrated by the recent performance of the Sui token’s value. Sui token is currently priced at $0.591478, according to CoinGecko, with a 0.3% drop in the past 24 hours and a 6.0% decrease over the past seven days. The Sui network experienced a big surge, reaching unprecedented heights before undergoing a sharp decline…
Month: August 2023
'Suspicious' Multichain Wallet Dumps $1.8M WOO Network Tokens; Price Drops 8%
An Ethereum wallet funded by a beneficiary of the Multichain exploit has sold $1.8 million worth of WOO Network (WOO) tokens on Uniswap, causing the price to slump by 8%. Source
Bitcoin Vortex Indicator Flashes Buy Alert
Bitcoin has flashed an important high timeframe buy signal on the Vortex Indicator. Find out why this suggests a storm of buying could be brewing in crypto — and why it could soon suck up everything in its path. Forecasting A Storm in Crypto Like a meteorologist can with some degree of accuracy forecast the weather, a technical analyst can increase the probability of predicting price movements. Both fields rely on on watching for potentially cyclical behavior, repeating patterns, seasonality, and historical trends. But instead of classifying cloud formations, technical…
Ensuring integrity of blockchain transactions: Trust through audits
Blockchain auditing is the process of examining and verifying the data and transactions stored within a blockchain network. It focuses on assessing the integrity and accuracy of the information recorded on the blockchain to ensure it aligns with the intended rules, protocols and regulations. Through the audit process, smart contract code is painstakingly examined to identify vulnerabilities of all levels, ranging from minor loopholes to critical weaknesses that could potentially expose millions to risk. Auditors review and reveal centralization issues, ensure the project code functions as the developer intended, and…
Will Binance’s Zero-Fee Trading Help Bitcoin And Ethereum Prices
Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, recently added the BTC/FDUSD and ETH/FDUSD trading pairs to its zero-fee trading program. Binance recently listed FDUSD, a 1:1 USD stablecoin on the BNB smart chain issued by Hong Kong-based licensed trust company, First Digital. With the new zero-fee trading program, users can buy and sell supported cryptocurrencies using FDUSD without paying transaction fees. Binance Introduces Zero-Fee Trading Program The zero-fee trading program is part of Binance’s efforts to increase trading volumes between stablecoin pairs. The company currently has a zero-fee bitcoin trading &…
U.S. Added 187K Jobs in July, Missing Estimates 200K; Bitcoin Slips to $29,100
The unemployment rate TKTK to 3.X% versus estimates for 3.6%. Original
Crypto Exchange Upbit Moves Up to No. 2 in Spot Trading Volume
Coinbase, the biggest publicly traded U.S. crypto exchange, announced that Base, its layer-2 blockchain built with Optimism’s OP Stack, will open to the public next Wednesday. Base went live for developers in July so that they could test applications on the network. Users are now able to transfer their ether to Base, Coinbase wrote in a blog post. The Base announcement came ahead of Coinbase releasing its second-quarter results. Its revenue topped analysts’ expectations, and its loss was narrower than expected. Source
Crypto Exchanges Face Tough, Costly Hong Kong License Approval Process
Licensing consultants can charge up to $1 million to advise companies on the application, a person familiar with the matter said. Exchanges are required to maintain a paid-up share capital of 5 million Hong Kong dollars ($640,000), and liquid capital of at least $380,000. They must hold liquid assets equivalent to at least a year of operating expenses, not counting virtual assets. Source
Coinbase Moves to Dismiss SEC Lawsuit, Alleging Crypto Falls Out of Regulator’s Oversight
“The transactions over Coinbase’s platform and Prime are not, and do not involve, contractual undertakings to deliver future value reflecting the income, profits, or assets of a business. They are commodity sales, with the obligations on both sides discharged entirely the moment the digital token is delivered in exchange for payment,” the filing said. Source
Google accused of illegally terminating contract staffers who worked on AI: Report
Google and Accenture, who have a joint business venture, are being accused by the Alphabet Workers Union of being in violation of federal labor laws in the United States, according to a Bloomberg report. The union claims that Alphabet Inc. acted against a law that prohibits retaliation against employees for organizing, the report says, citin an Aug. 3 complaint from the union to the U.S. National Labor Relations Board. Allegedly, Alphabet ended contract employment for a majority of Google Help workers as they were in the process of unionizing. The…