The price of Bitcoin and Ethereum has fallen in the last 24 hours, with the total crypto market cap now sitting at $914 billion, a 10.6% drop in the past 24 hours. The surprise FTX acquisition claim by Binance has sparked a significant overnight drop for Bitcoin and Ethereum. Ethereum’s price now sits at around…

According to a new report on its priorities, the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) is working on integrating crypto assets into the local financial system. The CBR is also working on the digital ruble, a central bank digital currency (CBDC). The CBR released a report on digital assets and crypto regulation, focusing on integrating them…

Neon Labs plans to deploy an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), an Ethereum smart contract layer, on the Solana blockchain on Dec. 12. The solution will allow developers to port Ethereum-based decentralized applications (DApps) to the Solana ecosystem. The new solution – also known as Neon EVM – aims to bring support for Ethereum Virtual Machine…

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Monday that more than $3.36 billion worth of Bitcoin affiliated with the DarkNet marketplace Silk Road was seized by law enforcement last November. This seems to be the DOJ’s second-largest Bitcoin confiscation to date. The announcement from the US Attorney’s Office comes after James Zhong, the man who…

Circle, the issuer of stablecoin USDC, is expanding Euro Coin to the Solana blockchain in the first half of 2023. The payments firm plans to launch its cross-chain protocol, and it will also be expanded to Solana. In June, Circle launched Euro Coin as a European take on its popular stablecoin USDC but pegged to…

To be informed of market movements, crypto investors need to identify and track wallets that hold large volumes of the cryptocurrencies they are interested in. How using on-chain tracking tools helps with the automation of the tracking process — explains Arunkumar Krishnakumar on Cointelegraph. What are crypto whales? Most cryptocurrencies have a number of large…