Crypto’s benchmark cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, has pushed past $17,000 for the first time in 2023 after being range bound for several weeks between $16,380 and $16,975. Bitcoin has now been on a positive trend since the start of January when it opened the year at $16,482. Bitcoin is up 3.72% over the last seven days and…
Fan tokens rise by 7% following UPbit listing
South Korea’s largest crypto exchange UPbit said on Jan. 5 that it would list several fan tokens, including that of AC Milan (ACM), Atletico Madrid, Manchester City (CITY), Naples (NAP), Arsenal (AFC), Barcelona (BAR), and Inter Milan (INTER). The exchange said the initial tradings of the assets would be based on its users’ deposits, and…
India’s crypto tax could cause CEXs to lose $1.2T trading volume by 2026
Indian crypto exchanges lost around 97.1% of their trading volume between January and October 2022, according to recent research. The report by Indian technology policy think tank Esya Centre studied three major Indian exchanges, including WazirX, CoinDCX, and Zebpay. The study bears significance since it provides the first monetary estimate of the impact of India’s…
Founder of Goobers NFTs ‘completely broke’ after gambling away life savings, investor funds
Twitch Streamer and Goobers NFT founder DNP3 confessed in a twit longer that he is now completely broke after gambling away his life savings and all funds received from investors. Earlier in September 2021, DNP3 launched Goobers NFT as a collection of 15,000 collectibles on Ethereum. So far, the collection has recorded about 968 ETH…
ATOM and SOL beat BTC returns over the past 2 weeks
Altcoins often mirror the price movements of Bitcoin (BTC), the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. However, Cosmos (ATOM) and Solana (SOL), over the past two weeks, managed to outperform BTC. Cosmos is up nearly 15% compared to BTC over the past two weeks, Glassnode data indicates. On the other hand, SOL beat BTC by almost…
BTC market dominance exceeds 40% after 6 months
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Pi Network warns against Huobi’s unauthorized Pi token listing
On Dec. 29, crypto exchange Huobi Global announced the listing of Pi, the native token of the Pi Network. In the 24 hours following the announcement, the Pi token price surged 461.3% from $44.03 to $232.97 at the time of writing, according to CoinGecko data. In addition, the token price reached an all-time high of…
SBF allegedly moves $684,000 into Seychelles exchange, RenBridge
On-chain data suggests the fallen founder of FTX Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) moved Ethereum (ETH) worth $684,000 to RenBridge and Seychelles-based exchanges over the past 2 days. In a Twitter thread, on-chain sleuth BowTiedlguana claimed that SBF transferred $684,000 worth of Ethereum (ETH) to a Seychelles-based exchange and RenBridge. BowTiedlguana suggested that these transactions allegedly carried…
How Solana is fixing outages, and the challenges it will tackle in 2023
For Solana (SOL), 2022 has been an especially tumultuous year. With revelations of the now defunct crypto exchange FTX’s insolvency in early November, SOL price cratered 55% during the month. As of press time, SOL was trading at $11.15, down 70% from its November peak of $37.73. Solana last traded at this level in February…
Argo blockchain to suspend trading on NASDAQ for 24 hours
Bitcoin mining firm Argo blockchain has requested to suspend the trading of its US shares on NASDAQ, effective Dec. 27. The troubled mining firm said in a Dec. 27 press release, that the move to suspend trading of its shares, is related to an announcement due on Dec. 28. As a result, Argo has requested…









