Stacks (STX) makes 30% gain as mainnet upgrade and stablecoin launch approach

After leading Lukka’s Series C funding round in late 2020, State Street partners with the firm to offer new digital asset services. 162 Total views 2 Total shares Major American financial services and bank holding company State Street Corporation is expanding its push into the cryptocurrency industry by launching new digital asset services.State Street, the…

William Burgamy and Hyrum Wilson pleaded guilty to conspiring to firebomb a pharmacy in Nebraska. 1294 Total views 18 Total shares A dark web drug lord and a Nebraskan pharmacist pled guilty to federal charges on July 13 after both were accused of conspiring to bomb a competing business.According to the indictment by the U.S.…

Cathie Wood thinks Bitcoin and Ether are acting as “risk-off” assets and as a “flight to safety” for investors amid macroeconomic uncertainty. 2483 Total views 31 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTRecent turmoil in the banking sector has shown that Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) can withstand a…

Crypto data tracker CoinMarketCap.com (CMC) has launched a professional, paid API targeting developers and funds, according to an official announcement published August 1. The new product reportedly aims to serve as a key “pipeline” that will provide accurate and differentiated data for developers and funds across crypto product prices, market capitalization, conversions, and trading pair data…

Chinese non-profit Zhiyuan Hui — reportedly the world’s largest volunteer service platform — has announced its partnership with token economy infrastructure firm EveriToken. The news was announced Jan. 12 in an official EveriToken blog post.As of December 2018, Zhiyuan Hui reportedly serves over 430,000 non-profits, and its 71 million users are reported to have worked…

Toward the end of our hour-long interview, Bitcoin.com founder Roger Ver drops a bombshell: He had considered killing himself to escape a jail sentence at the age of 23. Even for the most freedom-loving libertarian, this seems extreme. But Ver had worked out a way to escape his own death by having himself cryonically preserved,…

On June 29, Tether announced a sizable swap of USDT from the Tron blockchain to the Ethereum protocol. Tether explained that the amount of USDT in circulation would remain the same, meaning that USDT (TRC-20) will be burned and the same number of tokens will be issued on Ethereum.Tether makes use of several blockchains to…

Nicolas Maduro, a former bus driver and Venezuela’s sitting president, has announced a campaign to support his country’s medical staff amid the coronavirus pandemic by airdropping one Petro to each doctor.The ‘Doctors of the Homeland’ initiative will see each Venezuelan doctor air-dropped one of the administration’s oil-backed Petro cryptocurrency tokens, as per an April 2…

Swiss-based investment bank and financial services company the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) said that Bitcoin’s (BTC) scalability and volatility are still too high for the cryptocurrency to be used as “money,” CNBC reported August 2. In a note to clients, UBS strategist Joni Teves claimed that until regulatory support is in place and technical…