Base stablecoin transaction volume briefly tops all other chains

With the Bitcoin (BTC) halving more than a year away, don’t expect crypto industry narratives to change anytime soon. Nay, crypto winter is still in full force, and the nasty headlines show no signs of abating. This week, Silvergate Bank’s parent company announced it would shut down and liquidate the crypto bank “in light of recent…

Bitcoin (BTC) miners have pocketed over $5 million from creating nonfungible tokens (NFT) inscriptions using the Ordinals protocol.Transaction fees for Ordinals transactions exploded 240% from $1.5 million on March 10 to 5.2 million by April 12, according to Dune Analytics data.The rise came on the back of a relatively slow period between Feb. 16 and…

There was a 1,300% increase in the number of Bitcoin extortion cases reported to BitcoinAbuse.com in April versus March, with sextortion leading the charge. 1275 Total views 32 Total shares The number of Bitcoin (BTC) extortion reports filed by the users of BitcoinAbuse.com database increased 1,300% in April, perhaps with scammers taking advantage of the…

Major web browser Opera has announced the upcoming launch of Opera Touch for iOS, according to an official press release published Tuesday, March 5. Opera Touch is a Web 3 browser with an integrated crypto wallet and support for Ethereum (ETH) and interactions with decentralized applications (DApps).Back in December, Opera launched its “Web 3-ready” browser…

Music-related use cases for Web3 technologies are piling up as the industry goes all in on adoption. From democratizing song rights royalties and blockchain licensing to legacy companies like Sony Entertainment filing patents for nonfungible token-authenticated music.While electronic dance music and pop seem to be picking up the most attention in terms of NFT music, they’re even…

BTC price gains since the weekend have transformed market sentiment, but not all Bitcoin traders think the good times will return so easily.

Proof of reserves (PoR) has gone from a buzzword to a roar in recent weeks as the crypto world tries to recover from the shock and losses of the current crypto winter. After a flurry of discussion and work, criteria and rankings for adequate PoR are beginning to appear, but the fine points of how…

Institutional investors are paying close attention to digital assets as Bitcoin (BTC) continues to soar past record-breaking levels, almost reaching the valuation of $24,000 for the first time in its history.Recent findings from a Bank of America–Merrill Lynch survey conducted between Dec. 4 and 10 show that about 15% of fund managers with $534 billion…