The community has warned others to stay vigilant after reports of phishing websites and scams offering Arbitrum Airdrop tokens. Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution Arbitrum’s upcoming “ARB” token Airdrop appears to have become a popular target for scammers, with the community warning of hundreds of phishing scams aimed at tricking crypto users. Announced in a March…

The Howey test’s impact on cryptocurrency, explained — legal implications, compliance requirements and more. What is the Howey test? The Howey test is a legal test used in the United States to determine whether a transaction qualifies as an investment contract and, thus, is considered a security under federal law. The test was established by…

What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system.  To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a distributed system communicate with one another. A distributed system’s computers may be housed in one physical place or dispersed across several regions….

Balaji Srinivasan has predicted Bitcoin will reach $1 million within 90 days as a consequence of hyperinflation in the United States. Former Coinbase chief technology officer Balaji Srinivasan has made a millionaire bet on Bitcoin’s price over the next 90 days, predicting the cryptocurrency price will reach $1 million by June 17. The wager was initiated on March…

Rising interest rates, which brought down the U.S. banking system’s market value of assets by $2 trillion, combined with a large share of uninsured deposits at some U.S. banks, threatens their stability. The perfect mix of losses, uninsured leverage and a greater loan portfolio, among other factors, resulted in the fall of Silicon Valley Bank…

The supposed screenshots show a non-custodial crypto and NFT-friendly Microsoft Web3 wallet embedded into Edge. Microsoft is reportedly working on integrating a crypto and nonfungible token (NFT) friendly Web3 wallet into its Edge web browser. In a March 17 Twitter thread, software documenter — and occasional info leaker — Albacore shared a series of supposed Edge user…

Assets tokenization has been held back by lack of infrastructure and regulatory standards worldwide. The next generation of securities and asset tokenization has been held back by a lack of infrastructure and regulatory standards worldwide, according to BlackRock’s Larry Fink. The merger between decentralized finance (DeFi) and traditional assets, however, has been held back by…

Bitcoin’s performance has outpaced Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway over the past six months, with crypto markets appearing to have turned a corner. The total crypto market capitalization increased by 26% in seven days, reaching $1.16 trillion on March 17. Bitcoin was the biggest winner among the top 20 coins, up 31.5%, though some altcoins gained 50%…

Grayscale will take 180 days at max to decide whether, when and in what manner to sell ETHPoW on behalf of the record date shareholders. Cryptocurrency investment firm Grayscale Investments is taking more time to decide whether it should acquire and sell post-Merge forked Ethereum tokens. Grayscale announced on March 16 that the company intends to extend…

The bailout of Silicon Valley Bank provided a significant advantage to BTC bulls on the weekly $1.2 billion BTC options expiry. The rejection that followed Bitcoin’s rally to $26,500 may appear to be a victory for bears, but $24,750 on March 14 was the highest daily close in nine months. Furthermore, Bitcoin has gained 26.5% since…