Memecoin frenzy intensifies as US election nears

Ice Cube said he is down with the “DogeArmy” after Bill Lee bought $625,000 worth of NFTs tied to the rappers’ BIG3 basketball league in DOGE. 124 Total views 1 Total shares Iconic rapper Ice Cube — also known as O'Shea Jackson Sr — has jumped on the Dogecoin bandwagon with his endorsement of an…

Major United States-based cloud software firm Salesforce, has introduced its own blockchain platform, the firm said in a live stream on May 29.The new product, Salesforce Blockchain, is based on the firm’s own application builder Salesforce Lightning and open source blockchain technology by Hyperledger.Salesforce Blockchain is a low-code blockchain platform that provides companies with the…

Without a doubt, one of the best-performing cryptocurrencies in the past few years is Chainlink (LINK). In recent days, the cryptocurrency surged from $6.80 to $9.30 capping a 40% percent move and becoming the number nine cryptocurrency by market capitalization. Can Chainlink continue moving upward and even reach the magical number of $10 or higher?Crypto market…

Elwood is set to sell its blockchain-focused ETF index to CoinShares for $17 million. 205 Total views 2 Total shares European digital asset manager CoinShares announced it is acquiring the exchange-traded fund (ETF) index business from crypto firm Elwood Technologies for $17 million. The transaction is expected to be completed in the second week of…

News requires an element of trust. Blockchain may be able to help. 1217 Total views 15 Total shares Verizon unveiled "a blockchain-based, open-source newsroom product designed to raise the bar for corporate accountability," today according to a public statement. Called Full Transparency, the platform is meant to immutably document the company's own news releases on…

A Dune analytics platform user has found that more than $18.5 million worth of Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) and Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC) Nonfungible tokens (NFTs) have been marked as stolen or flagged for suspicious activity on Opensea to date. According to data from Dune, a user known as “Beetle” discovered that 130 BAYC…

Senator Shelby claims he supported the cryptocurrency provisions of the amendment to the infrastructure bill that his sole objection blocked from passing the senate. 1306 Total views 6 Total shares On July 29, Cointelegraph reported that provisions had been hastily added to the infrastructure bill that sought to raise $28 billion through expanded taxation and…

Another gathering of cryptocurrency and blockchain professionals has been postponed as the global coronavirus crisis continues. The TEAMZ Blockchain Summit — the largest blockchain conference in Japan — was going to take place from April 22–23, but has moved to September 28.  Organizers said in an official statement:“TEAMZ has been closely monitoring the global development of…

Japan’s financial regulator, the Financial Service Agency (FSA), has issued a business improvement order to Japanese investment firm and Zaif crypto exchange operator Fisco.According to Cointelegraph Japan, the FSA has identified shortcomings in Fisco’s internal control systems — such as anti-money laundering measures — and found it to be insufficiently compliant with local laws and…