Crypto greed index taps 7-month high as Bitcoin surges past $81K

Officials in Kazakhstan continue their close relationship with Binance, as the National Bank plans to integrate its CBDC on the BNB Chain. 256 Total views 3 Total shares In an announcement on Twitter, Changpeng Zhao, the founder and CEO of Binance, said the network will be a major component of Kazakhstan’s latest Web3 endeavor.The Binance…

Tuesday, Nov. 4: Most of the top twenty cryptocurrencies are in the green, having overcome yesterday’s losses, with Bitcoin (BTC) hovering under the $4,000 mark.Market visualization from Coin360During the day, Bitcoin has been trading in a narrow corridor between $3,768 and $4,091. At press time, the coin is trading at around $3,948, up around 1.61…

Financial services giants Visa and Mastercard have shown an increased interest in the trillion-dollar digital payment sector through their recent acquisitions of innovative fintechs. In January this year, Visa acquired fintech firm Plaid for $5.3 billion. The San Francisco-based firm enables data sharing of financial information between different fintech apps like Venmo and Chime, supporting over…

Recently Hiromi Yamaoka, the former head of payments and settlements at the Bank of Japan, said that Facebook’s Libra has forced central banks to research and consider issuing central bank digital currencies (CBDC). Currently China is leading the race in developing a CBDC but it appears that other nations are now attempting to play catch…

Malware researcher Lukas Stefanko has found four fake cryptocurrency wallets on the Google Play Store that were trying to steal users’ personal data, according to a blog post published Nov. 13.The apps were posing as cryptocurrency wallets for NEO, Tether and an extension for accessing Ethereum (ETH), MetaMask. They were purportedly designed to phish users’…

For over two weeks now, the Iota network has been down, with MIOTA token-holders being unable to facilitate any transactions since Feb. 12. This is because a hacker was able to make off with over $2 million from Iota’s native Trinity wallet, causing the project to lose around 40% of its value — which has…

The Singapore-based exchange will enable a new P2P lending feature in two weeks through its TomoDEX’s platform. 452 Total views 12 Total shares Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange TomoChain will launch a peer-to-peer, or P2P, lending feature in two weeks through its TomoDEX’s platform.According to an announcement, TomoDEX is the first decentralized exchange, or DEX, powered by…

According to Musk, users will have to rely on the “mute” function instead. 554 Total views 3 Total shares X owner Elon Musk revealed in an Aug. 18 post on the social media site formerly known as Twitter that he intends to delete the block feature for users on the app.Block is going to be…