Etherscan releases v2 beta: Unifies API for over 50 blockchains

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Despite a blanket ban in China and regulatory crackdowns on exchanges in Korea, Asia remains a hotbed for crypto investments. 447 Total views 4 Total shares Digital asset manager Cobo has raised $40 million to advance institutional pathways to decentralized finance products, offering compelling evidence that more Asia-Pacific investors are seeking secure access to the…

Bitcoin (BTC) enters a new week with a question mark over the fate of the market ahead of another key United States monetary policy decision.After sealing a successful weekly close — its highest since mid-June — BTC/USD is much more cautious as the Federal Reserve prepares to hike benchmark interest rates to fight inflation.While many…

Decentralized exchange aggregator 1inch has been integrated into the crypto wallet app BitPay, enabling users to access its rates for their crypto swaps. 374 Total views 8 Total shares 1inch Network, a major decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator and automated market maker, is broadening its reach by partnering with the veteran crypto wallet provider BitPay. The two…

Uniswap announced it would start charging a swap fee of 15% from Oct. 17, evoking mixed reactions from the crypto community.

There are many halving predictions yet to come true — among them Satoshi claimant Dr Craig Wright’s ‘long term advance notice’ from 2018 that he would crash the Bitcoin price. 2794 Total views 41 Total shares There are many halving predictions yet to come true — among them Satoshi claimant Dr Craig Wright’s ‘long term…

Blockstream CEO Adam Back — inventor of the hashcash Proof-of-Work (PoW) system later used in Bitcoin’s (BTC) mining algorithm — has controversially compared Ethereum (ETH) with the now-defunct biotech startup Theranos.  As part of a Twitter exchange published on Nov. 26, Back claimed that Ethereum’s allegedly overweening promises could be compared to the failures of Theranos.…

NEO (NEO) founder Da Hongfei appeared at the Blockdown 2020 virtual conference on April 16, where he spoke about blockchain’s role in the post-pandemic world. The creator of the project dubbed the “Chinese Ethereum” suggested that the world was currently witnessing a pattern of de-globalization. According to Hongfei, blockchain will be the technology that puts humanity…

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance will open trading of two pairs using Ripple (XRP) as the quote currency, a blog post confirmed Dec. 24.Set to launch the same day, the TRX/XRP (Tron) and XZC/XRP (Zcoin) pairs represent the first time for Binance to use XRP as the base currency.As part of the update, developers will rename the…