Bitcoin’s price fell approximately 8% in a span of 10 minutes, leaving crypto investors scrambling to make sense of the drop. Elon Musk’s SpaceX reportedly selling its Bitcoin holdings, the bankruptcy of a Chinese property giant, and fears of interest rate hikes have been among the theories raised as to Bitcoin’s freak price dip. On Aug. 18 around…

The M2 platform will launch later in 2023, allowing UAE-based retail and institutional clients to buy, sell and custody digital assets. The Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) has granted financial services permission to virtual asset firm M2 to operate a multilateral trading facility from the United Arab Emirates…

Even if the filings for Bitcoin spot ETFs are rejected, Lee predicts Bitcoin’s halving event will still push up BTC’s price — but not to six figures. The price of Bitcoin will surge past an eye-watering $150,000 by the end of 2024, as long as the current slew of United States spot-Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are approved,…

Shiba Inu and related-token prices plunged since Shibarium’s launch, while rumors of a significant technical error in the new Shibarium network have been swirling. The launch of the Shibarium mainnet — a layer 2 scaling solution for the Ethereum network — appears to have gotten off to a rocky start, at least when it comes to the…

The ultimate impacts of CBDCs on the crypto industry may be a mixed bag of positives and negatives, and insiders need to monitor developments. In June 2023, the Atlantic Council, based in the United States, announced the results of a study on global nations’ interest in and progress toward creating their own central bank digital currencies. Eleven…

The financial details weren’t disclosed, but the investment gave the Stellar Development Foundation a seat on MoneyGram’s board of directors. The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has become a minority investor in payments provider MoneyGram International. In an Aug. 15 X post, Stellar Development Foundation CEO and Executive Director Denelle Dixon announced the new investment saying…

GameFi developers have been focused on raking in money — and they’ve forgotten that they need to make games fun in order to win over players. Blockchain games began as a means to effectively test technology’s true potential. However, making sure they reach that potential remains a challenge. While Illuvium was one of the most highly anticipated…

Layer 1 trading blockchain Sei Network has reached a fully diluted valuation of $1.8 billion on the initial day of token listing. On Aug. 15, major exchanges such as Binance, Bybit and Bitget jointly listed the network’s native Sei (SEI) token. On Binance, the token opened at $0.064 a piece before surging as high as…

The Web3 gaming company announced that its fully Ethereum-compatible network is now available for public testing. Web3 gaming platform Immutable has commenced public testing of its Immutable zkEVM in collaboration with Polygon Labs. Work on the zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) network began in March after Immutable announced a partnership with Polygon Labs. Polygon’s own…

Bitcoin’s future price surge and mainstream adoption could happen independently of institutional adoption of the digital currency. The connection between Bitcoin and gold goes back to Bitcoin’s origin. While it is not mentioned in the Bitcoin white paper, Satoshi Nakamoto actually referred to gold’s rarity in a Bitcointalk forum post when introducing the first version…