Trump NFT sales volume soars 461% following indictment

Ad Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s NFT collection sales volume rose 461% to $185,783 in the last 24 hours despite a grand jury indictment of March 30. The NFT collection was involved in 183 sales transactions in the last 24 hours, according to CryptoSlam’s data. Meanwhile, OpenSea’s data showed that the digital assets saw 459…

1 Year until the Bitcoin halving – BitTalk #12

In this week’s episode of BitTalk, your weekly bite-sized Bitcoin news, we look at CFTC coming after Binance, the potential for Bitcoin ETFs, rate hikes, and Bitcoin development on Lightning. In recent times, the US regulatory landscape has been reacting to the evolving cryptocurrency market, particularly in the case of Binance and the CFTC. The…

KCC upgrade to enhance performance goes live on testnet

Ad KuCoin Community Chain (KCC) V.1.4.0 upgrade went live on the test net on March 29, according to the KCC weekly report published on March 31. The update is exclusive and will target the merge of upstream code. The main goal of the update is to improve performance. However, the KuCoin team also noted that…

CryptoSlate wMarket Update: Mixed market performance sees Bitcoin drop below $28,000

Ad The cryptocurrency market cap saw net outflows of around $20 billion over the last 24 hours and currently stands at $1.17 trillion — down 1.55% from $1.19 trillion. During the reporting period, Bitcoin and Ethereum’s market cap fell by 2.38% and  2.04% to $539.89 billion $216.15 billion, respectively. All top 10 crypto assets performed…

CNBC’s Jim Cramer calls Binance “way too sketchy”

Ad CNBC host Jim Cramer said Binance is “way too sketchy” for him to use the platform. The comment came following a CNBC appearance by former Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chair Tim Massad, in which Cramer had the opportunity to hear Massad speak about the exchange. “After listening to Tim Massad on last night’s…

Over 1M Arbitrum tokens lost to phishing attack

Ad Two malicious players have stolen over a million Arbitrum (ARB) tokens, blockchain security firm Peckshield reported on March 31. According to the report, a wallet “0xbd4E” connected to an exploiter converted 933,375 ARB to 713 Ethereum (ETH) — worth $1.27 million — and bridged those tokens to Ethers mainnet. Another wallet — “0x7AFd,” which…

Ripple CEO says SEC Chair Gensler behaves like an ‘autocrat’

Ad Ripple (XRP) CEO Brad Garlinghouse said the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler behaves like an “autocrat,” urging elected officials to take note of the regulator. Garlinghouse commented on a news report where Gensler said there was no additional need for crypto legislation as existing rules cover the sector. The SEC…