Here’s what happened in crypto today

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX created a strange Twitter thread starting on Nov. 14 attracting the attention and speculation of the crypto community.The latest tweet at the time of writing posted by Bankman-Fried at 5:30 AM UTC on Nov. 15 is Bankman-Fried saying “this is all as…

Select merchant partners will be able to rollout exclusive goods for NFT tokenholders. 406 Total views 5 Total shares As part of a new series of connect-to-consumer initiatives developed this year, Shopify will allow merchants to connect with fans and drive sales by creating exclusive merchandise for tokenholders. The initiative, dubbed "tokengate," is available in…

A yearlong price rally in the Bitcoin (BTC) market and hopes for more upside moves in the future has prompted traders to hold the token instead of trading it for other assets, Glassnode data shows.The blockchain data analytics service revealed Thursday that the total amount of "hodled or lost coins" reached a nine-month high of over…

Stablecoin operator Tether accidentally minted and subsequently burned 5 billion USDT tokens, Whale Alert tweeted on July 13.Whale Alert — a Twitter account dedicated to reporting large cryptocurrency transactions — noted that 50 million USDT tokens were transferred from cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex to the Tether Treasury via the Omni protocol on the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain.…

Scammers hacked the official McDonald’s Instagram account to promote a sham memecoin based on the fast food giant’s mascot Grimace. 

Friday, September 14: After yesterday’s bullish upswing, crypto markets have today been hit with widely-dispersed corrections. Ethereum (ETH) is today’s most resilient large-market-cap altcoin, seeing the most notable growth on the day among the top twenty cryptoassets, as data from Coin360 shows.Market visualization by Coin360After soaring 18 percent on the day yesterday, September 13 –…

The crypto lending firm intends to get the liquidity and support its operations with the funds from the sell-off. 350 Total views 6 Total shares Celsius Networks, a crypto lending company that had frozen the withdrawals in June and has been proceeding through Chapter 11 bankruptcy since July, asked the United States Bankruptcy Court for…

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One of Loom Network's former employees recently leaked information about the company's Kickstarter-funded game, Relentless (also called Zombie Battleground). The leak alleged that the project, and potentially the entire Loom Network, were no longer actively being developed. The former employee, who has not worked for the company in over a year, claimed that the issues…