Solana could flip Ethereum in transaction fees within a week: Report

The last few months’ frenzy of institutional money flowing into Bitcoin (BTC) has seen crypto hitting the headlines — at the least as a novelty asset, at the most as a must-have. There is undoubtedly a trend in the market toward greater awareness and acceptance of digital assets as a new investable asset class.A June…

Curv has launched a software-based custody product allowing secure signing via multi-party computations protocols from offline devices. 1353 Total views 25 Total shares Curv, a Tel-Aviv and New York-based digital asset security platform, has launched Curv Air Gap — an institutional transaction signing solution that uses multi-party computation, or MPC, protocols on offline devices.The launch…

Bitcoin (BTC) bear markets come in many shapes and sizes, but this one has given many reason to panic.BTC has been described as facing "a bear of historic proportions" in 2022, but just one year ago, a similar feeling of doom swept crypto markets as Bitcoin saw a 50% drawdown in weeks.Beyond price, however, 2022…

Treasury Department updates SDN list to ostensibly tie infamous hacker group to last month’s mega-heist. 167 Total views 13 Total shares The United States Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN) list was updated Thursday to reflect the possibility that North Korean cyber-criminal Lazarus Group was behind last…

Switzerland-based cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift has laid off a third of its team, the exchange’s CEO Erik Voorhees announced in a tweet today, Jan. 8.According to a company blog post accompanying the Twitter announcement — entitled “Overcoming ShapeShift’s Crypto Winter and the Path Ahead” — ShapeShift has laid off 37 of its employees, reducing the size…

Raiffeisen Bank International is extending collaboration with Polish-British fintech Billon for a new form of DLT-based national currency tokenization. 938 Total views 50 Total shares While global jurisdictions are progressing with central bank digital currencies, private institutions also work on digitizing national currencies. Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI), a major Austrian bank, is working on a…

In a letter addressed to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel, Congressmen Sherman and Lynch raised concerns about the tax compliance practices in crypto. 241 Total views 1 Total shares Members of the United States Congress — Brad Sherman and Stephen Lynch — have penned a letter to the heads of the…

Bitcoin (BTC) held $49,000 on Aug. 28 after the United States Federal Reserve sparked a run-up toward critical resistance.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewAll eyes on $49,300 on the weekly chartData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD cooling at higher levels after cracking the $49,000 mark late Friday.The end of the working week…