NFTs show signs of life as weekly volumes turn positive

The upcoming $1.9 billion Bitcoin (BTC) monthly options expiry on Aug. 25 is key to defining whether the $26,000 support level will hold. One could pin the recent cryptocurrency market sell-off to the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission decision to delay the spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETF), but there’s also the macroeconomic perspective.If the U.S. Federal…

Saturday, Feb. 9 — as Coin360 data shows, major cryptocurrencies are facing a mix of mild gains and losses, following a major market surge since yesterday. Bitcoin (BTC) is holding steady above the $3,600 price point.Market visualization from Coin360BTC gained over $200 in value on Friday, Feb. 8, reaching a multi-week high of $3,691 throughout…

A lucky trader turned 0.34 BTC into 4.6 BTC in just one swap. 1642 Total views 7 Total shares A recently launched decentralized finance platform, Saddle Finance, has netted one particular trader a more than 10x return on an arbitrage trade between different permutations of synthetic Bitcoin (BTC).According to transaction data from Etherscan, a user…

XLM has turned most overbought since April 2021, boosting risks of a 30% price decline by September. 624 Total views 6 Total shares Stellar (XLM) is basking in the glow of Ripple's partial win against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), up around 60% since the court ruling on July 13.XRP fuels XLM price…

Sopnendu Mohanty, Chief FinTech Officer at the Monetary Authority of Singapore, spoke at BlockShow Asia 2019 about the importance of blockchain for the economy, highlighting its indispensability for the development of green finance.Mohanty defined green finance as follows: “How to monitor, how to measure, and how to mobilize finance for green assets.” He said blockchain…

A group of ransomware hackers has reportedly stolen sensitive information from a major Costa Rican state-owned bank, Banco BCR. A group of hackers dubbed Maze claims to have compromised the infrastructure of Banco BCR, a Costa Rican state-owned bank, and is now threatening to leak millions of credit card numbers.On April 30, Maze claimed that…

The Senate of Hamburg has introduced the first comprehensive report on the development of blockchain activities in the city.Hamburg Senate expects the role of blockchain to increase in the coming yearsIn an official statement on July 23, the Hamburg authority stated that several blockchain initiatives have been piloted in the city as the senate expects…