Nigerian fintechs crack down on crypto, users face account blocks

Bearer instruments such as stablecoin harken back to the days of pre-central bank “free banking,” with all the risks that implies, a BIS working paper says. 219 Total views 2 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTThe singleness of money is the assurance that public and private money trade…

Bitcoin is hogging all the limelight, but SOL, AR, GRT and FTM are also trying to move higher.

A report from Kraken has identified last month’s BTC volatility at levels not seen since the ‘Black Thursday’ crash of early 2020. 893 Total views 9 Total shares With Bitcoin rallying from $30,000 to $42,000 and back again during January, BTC’s annualized volatility rose to levels last seen in April 2020, according to a new…

All 191 UNI token holders voted in favor of the proposal to launch the DEX on Polygon's zkEVM. 561 Total views 12 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTDecentralized exchange (DEX) Uniswap is seemingly set to launch on the new zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) roll-up solution from scaling…

Bitcoin (BTC) price continues to trade below its 2023 high, a sign that investors may have underestimated the strength of the $44,000 resistance. Even as BTC price trades below $42,000, it doesn't necessarily mean that reaching $50,000 and beyond is no longer possible. In fact, quite the opposite seems more likely to occur. Looking at

The exponential rise in Bitcoin’s price and hash rate is driving critics to once again question the largest blockchain’s energy efficiency — with calls for “green hackers” to band together to mount an attack on the network.Total world production and consumption vs. Bitcoin. Source: CBECIA self styled “developer and ecologist” who goes by the name…

China’s central bank is reportedly developing its own digital currency in response to Facebook’s Libra as the latter could purportedly pose a risk to the country’s financial system, the South China Morning Post reported on July 8.Wang Xin, director of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) research bureau, argued that “if [Libra] is widely used…

While major fashion brands are going all in on the metaverse and NFTs, brands native to the Web3 space are heading back to physical reality for visibility. 424 Total views 36 Total shares Web3 fashion is subverting the narrative at New York Fashion Week (NYFW) this fall. Fashion brands native to the Web3 space will…

After initiating the BitGo acquisition in May, Galaxy Digital expects to close the deal in the first three months of 2022. 94 Total views 7 Total shares Galaxy Digital Holdings, Mike Novogratz’s cryptocurrency investment management firm, is not going public in the United States in late 2021 as the firm previously planned.Galaxy Digital has postponed…