Switzerland-based dYdX Foundation provides legal, R&D, marketing and technical support to the crypto trading project, which includes a perpetual futures contract exchange and specialty blockchain in the Cosmos and Ethereum ecosystems. The Foundation’s goal is to grow dYdX into “the exchange layer of the internet,” according to its pitch. Source
Layer-2 network Polygon is reported to have competed with Ethereum in 2023, as both networks saw the most influx of new users. This development has once again raised concerns about MATIC’s price, considering that such an achievement should potentially mean that new money moved into the ecosystem last year. Polygon and Ethereum Acquired The Most Users In 2023 According to a report by Blockchain analytics firm Flipside, Polygon and Ethereum led the pack with 30.6 million acquired users in 2023. Giving a further breakdown, Polygon is said to have acquired…
Solana has been on a downward trend over the past week, following a surge from multi-year low levels. The token suffered when its biggest promoter, crypto exchange FTX, fell, but the ecosystem continued to thrive, leading to the high timeframe recovery. As of this writing, Solana’s native token SOL trades at $87 with a 2% profit over the past 24 hours. Over the previous seven days, the cryptocurrency records a 12% correction. SOL’s price trends to the upside on the daily chart. Source: SOLUSDT on Tradingview Rising Stars In The…
Chinese investors remain resolute in their pursuit of Bitcoin, despite the government’s ban since 2021. Bitcoin continues to attract substantial investment from Chinese capital, as Reuters reports today. Mainland China Is Still Buying Bitcoin Dylan Run, a finance executive in Shanghai, epitomizes this trend. Concerned about China’s economic outlook and the sluggish domestic stock market, Run ventured into Bitcoin in early 2023. As detailed in the Reuters report, he employed an astute strategy, utilizing bank cards issued by rural banks and keeping each transaction below 50,000 yuan ($6,978) to evade…
Hut 8 Corp. counters an activist short-selling firm’s report, asserting the allegations as misleading and affirming its financial stability and operational integrity. Hut 8 Corp., a leading North American digital asset mining company, rebuffed allegations made by a short-selling firm JCapital Research, labeling them “false and misleading.” The paper criticized Hut 8’s business practices and management, but the company counters these claims as inaccurate and speculative. Hut 8, also a provider of high-performance computing infrastructure, dismissed the report as an attempt to tarnish its reputation and undermine its share price…
The report by short-selling firm JCapital Research led to HUT sliding more than 23% on Jan. 18. Original
Coinbase CLO Paul Grewal slammed the U.S. GAO’s crypto report as ‘shoddy work,’ accusing it of sensationalizing crypto’s role in sanctions evasion. Coinbase‘s Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal has publicly criticized the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) recent crypto report, accusing it of clickbaiting the topic of crypto usage in sanctions evasion. Grewal, who joined Coinbase in 2020, highlighted in an X thread several shortcomings in the GAO’s analysis and questioned the taxpayer funds allocated to what he called “shoddy work.” Zero comparative analysis performed. Heck, zero analysis whatsoever performed.…
Crypto-friendly bank B. Riley Financial Inc. is said to be facing an undisclosed investigation from U.S. authorities. The Los Angeles-based investment bank B. Riley Financial Inc. is reportedly under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for its transactions with a client associated with securities fraud, Bloomberg reports, citing sources close to the matter. According to the report, the investigation apparently linked to Brian Kahn, an unnamed co-conspirator in a U.S. Department of Justice criminal case linked to the 2020 collapse of the Prophecy Asset Management hedge fund.…
The report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said that “Online gambling platforms, and especially those that are operating illegally, have emerged as among the most popular vehicles for cryptocurrency-based money launderers, particularly for those using Tether or USDT on the TRON blockchain” in the region. Source
CoinGecko’s most recent report details the failure rate of cryptocurrencies in the last 10 years. Exhibiting the increasing number of “dead” altcoins over the years as projects deactivate, rebrand, lose trading activity, or are revealed to be scams. Related Reading: These Altcoins Are Showing Most Bullish & Bearish Divergences: Santiment An 11.01% Failure Rate For The Altcoin Sector The first half of the ten-year period that CoinGecko studied showed 1,546 dead cryptocurrencies, 11.01%% of the total amount. 2014 saw the death of 37 cryptocurrencies, 2015 had a lower number with…