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Crypto exchange Binance has added Circle’s USD-pegged stablecoin USD Coin as a quote asset for several new trading pairs in its combined Stablecoin Market (USDⓈ). The exchange has announced this in an official post published Dec. 14.USD Coin (USDC), first announced by Goldman Sachs-backed Circle this May, and released in September, is one of a…

The total crypto market capitalization reached its highest close in three months on April 3 at $2.23 trillion, but the performance between March 28 and April 4 was a mere 1.9% gain. During this time, Bitcoin (BTC) presented a 2.6% negative performance, although that was more than offset by the gains from altcoins.Total crypto market…

Together with Stellar, Dogecoin passes Bitcoin Cash by market cap and leaves the struggling altcoin in 12th place. 1132 Total views 12 Total shares The fortunes of beleaguered Bitcoin (BTC) spin-off Bitcoin Cash (BCH) took a turn for the worse on Feb. 8 as it was chased out of the top ten cryptocurrencies — by…

Corrections in a bull phase are usually a bullish sign as they reduce the frothy excitement and allow stronger hands to enter the markets. However, the recent correction in Bitcoin (BTC) from its all-time high at $64,849.27 does not seem to have scared novice traders. Data from DappRadar shows that decentralized exchange volumes have picked up…

Ethereum developer Preston Van Loon encouraged GitHub to fully restore Tornado Cash’s repositories after partial unbanning. 49 Total views 12 Total shares Crypto mixer Tornado Cash has returned to the software development platform GitHub after several weeks of being banned on the website.Ethereum developer Preston Van Loon took to Twitter on Thursday to report that…

The first auction on Sotheby’s Metaverse will go live on Oct. 18, with the auction featuring prominent collections such as Bored Ape Yacht Club, MoonCats and CryptoKitties. 134 Total views 8 Total shares Prestigious auction house Sotheby’s has launched a new Metaverse themed NFT platform. The platform is dubbed “Sotheby’s Metaverse” and was announced alongside…

Polkadot (DOT) and Kusama (KSM) rose in tandem on June 3 as traders assessed a venture capital firm's major investment into their blockchain ecosystems.Dubbed as Master Ventures, an Asian blockchain incubator and venture capitalist announced that it had launched a $30 million venture capital fund called Master Ventures Polkadot VC Fund. In a press release published…

nBTC will be usable across more than 50 app-chains connected to Cosmos IBC. 172 Total views 7 Total shares Osmosis, the largest decentralized exchange (DEX) on Cosmos, will be bringing Bitcoin (BTC) to the namesake inter-blockchain communications (IBC) protocol together with Nomic and Kujira.According to an October 3 announcement during the Cosmoverse 2023 Conference, users