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Jul 30, 2020 at 02:00 UTCNewly launched derivatives platform EQUOS.io is set to become the United States’ first publicly-traded crypto exchange later this year through a “backdoor listing” on the Nasdaq. Hong Kong-based Diginex announced Thursday it is combining EQUOS.io with Singapore’s 8i Enterprises Acquisition Corp – a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) listed on the…

Blockchain BNB Chain today burned over 1.99 million bnb (BNB) tokens in a planned move under the "auto-burn" mechanism in what is the token's 24th quarterly burn event, transactional data shows.Some $484 million worth of the tokens were effectively taken out of circulation. Token burn refers to the process of permanent deletion of coins from…

A token that’s designed to fool users into thinking it's an authentic version of Aptos temporarily shut down services on Korean exchange Upbit for the APT token after some were able to deposit and cash out the counterfeit coin.According to on-chain data, the token, which originated from the airdrop scam site ClaimAPTGift.com, is held by

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Shaurya is the Deputy Managing Editor for the Data & Tokens team, focusing on decentralized finance, markets, on-chain data, and governance across all major and minor blockchains.Crypto traders are paying through the roof to get in early on newly-issued meme coins and rack up a large percentage of the supply.On-chain data shows a trader paid…

Bitcoin rose a little on Friday, but largely shrugged off an unexpectedly strong jobs report, along with a week’s worth of upset and uproar over the U.S. debt ceiling, end-game negotiations and renewed inflation concerns.The largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization was recently trading at about $27,180, up 1.2%. BTC edged above $27,000 shortly before U.S.…

Moo Deng, a baby pygmy hippo, has become an internet sensation, leading to the creation of a Solana-based memecoin that has surpassed a $100 million market cap. One trader notably turned $1,331 into $3.4 million by investing in the Moo Deng memecoin. Her appeal has transcended individual internet users to encompass corporations including Dreamworks and

news U.S. prosecutors are seeking to detain Reginald Fowler until his trial for operating an unlicensed money transmission business which may have processed funds for the Bitfinex crypto exchange. In a court filing Wednesday – which was shared online but is not yet available on the government’s Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system…

Efforts to scale ethereum, the world's second-largest blockchain, are growing more varied as one much-anticipated solution encounters pitfalls amid its continued development. At the forefront of this transition has been plasma, a concept widely heralded as ethereum's best bet for short-term scaling. Already, researchers behind the tech have built five distinct versions of the protocol –…