Category: ICO

Integrating With TON Network to Widen Its Stablecoin Dominance

When examining the top three blockchain platforms and their stablecoin usage, TRON transactions are heavily dominated by USDT, with a dominance of 98.2%. On TRON, USDT transfers typically range from 95 cents to approximately $2, though gas fees can vary. Meanwhile, the TON wallet is natively integrated into the Telegram app, allowing users to conduct peer-to-peer USDT transactions within the TON wallet for free. Transactions between two USDT users outside the wallet reportedly incur a network fee of 0.0145 TON, which equates to about $0.09 as of May 6 2024.…

Injective, Underperforming in Crypto Markets, Now Plans Layer-3 Chain on Arbitrum

“The significance of Injective’s integration with Arbitrum extends beyond just building blockchain networks or infrastructure,” said Eric Chen, the co-founder of Injective Labs, in the press release. “It enforces the fundamental principle of interoperability – closing the gap between Ethereum, Cosmos and other widely adopted L1s – for an ecosystem where cross-chain assets and liquidity can be truly composable across ecosystems.” Source

Thiel-Backed Cryptography Startup Lagrange Raises $13M

As EigenLayer continues to build out its core technology, Lagrange will have “a set of operators from very, very reputable groups that run our infrastructure,” said Hishon-Rezaizaheh. Those operators will include Kraken, the crypto exchange, and Galaxy, a crypto-financial firm, among others. Source

Crypto Derivatives Principal Trader Arbelos Markets Raises $28M Led by Dragonfly Capital

The fundraising consisted of seed equity and debt financing led by crypto venture capital firm Dragonfly Capital. A wide range of investors also participated in the round: investment firms Room40 Ventures, Selini Capital and Breed VC, corporate partners FalconX, Circle Ventures, Paxos, P2 Ventures (previously Polygon Ventures), Deribit, Chorus One, StarkWare and Immutable, and angel investors at Aevo, Cega, Talos, Amberdata, and Framework, the press release listed. Source

Bitcoin (BTC) Price Hovers Above $62K

Bitcoin slid toward $62,000 during the Asian and European mornings on Wednesday as part of a broader dip across the crypto market in which tokens lost more of their gains from the rally at the end of last week. BTC is priced at around $62,200 at the time of writing, down nearly 2.9% in the last 24 hours. The CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20), which measures the performance of the whole digital asset market, has sunk around 3.65%. Solana is one of the worst affected of the leading altcoins, falling 6.5%…

Key Bitcoin (BTC) Price Indicator Points to Period of Calm in Crypto Market

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Japanese Crypto Exchange Coincheck Sees SPAC Nasdaq Listing Completion in Second, Third Quarters

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The Crypto Lawsuit State of Play

It seems increasingly unlikely that Congress will actually pass a legislation, which addresses the woes of the crypto industry in the near term. As a result, the industry’s growing strategy of looking for court victories may well be the right one, so to speak – if federal judges, appeals courts, and (I’m guessing) the U.S. Supreme Court start to create case law for companies and regulators to use, that will be one way of securing what the crypto industry calls regulatory clarity. Source