Price-charts suggest support at current levels and resistance at $1,900, which acted as pivotal support earlier this month. Similar prices were previously seen in July 2021, and losing the level could see ether drop to the $1,300-$1,500 range or lower. Source
On April 7, 2022, Coinbase launched operations in India, with executives touting how easy it would be to trade on the company app with payments being processed by Unified Payments Interface, or UPI, a widely used payments system in India. Hours after the event, though, the entity that governs UPI, (National Payments Corporation of India, under the aegis of the RBI) tweeted to clarify that it was “not aware of any crypto exchange using UPI.” Source
“Some traditional internet business models, like advertising, are likely to persist in the metaverse. However, with blockchain-adjacent technologies such as decentralized identity and zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP), one’s privacy can actually be preserved in the metaverse, if we construct the foundations just right. Nonetheless, leveraging these kinds of privacy and identity technologies, especially ZKPs, may come with the additional hurdle of poorer latency [because] the zero-knowledge proof itself can be computationally expensive to perform.” (CoinDesk columnist Daniel Kuhn) … “And yet, even if met with dogma or incredulity, innovation is rarely…
“Terraform Labs was extremely good to us as developers so we want to support them in launching the fork, but we can’t commit to building yet,” a Terra developer told CoinDesk. “The thinking is, there’s not any downside with aligning with Terra until things with the new chain become clearer.” Source
The Chinese crypto exchange is seeking to expand in Latin America, but Bitex will continue to operate under the same name and with its current management team. Source
Bitso has more than four million users in Mexico, Argentina, Colombia and Brazil. The company told CoinDesk in January that it’s aiming to become the largest exchange in Brazil before the end of 2022. In Brazil, Bitso competes with local crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin, the leader with more than four million customers. Source
Visions from Remembered Futures is leaping into the metaverse and simultaneously, out into the real world. Source
“Hemos visto un aumento en el uso de criptomonedas en América Latina durante el último año, lo que hizo evidente que necesitamos expandir nuestras ofertas”, dijo el director de tecnología de Tether, Paolo Ardoino. La compañía anunció este esfuerzo como un “programa de prueba” en América Latina que espera “allanar el camino” para crear otros tokens vinculados a dinero fiat en la región. Source
Popular “move-to-earn” crypto game STEPN will exit the Chinese market due to regulatory concerns, the company said Thursday. Source
Bitcoin (BTC) was roughly flat over the past 24 hours, while altcoins such as ether (ETH) underperformed. That indicates a lower appetite for risk among crypto traders. Meanwhile, stocks traded higher on Thursday. Source