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…

Google Cloud is adding support for the Solana blockchain in BigQuery, to make it easier to access Solana data. It is also working on bringing Solana support to its Blockchain Node Engine. Support for Solana will go live in the first quarter of next year, Nalin Mittal, Web3 lead for Google Cloud, said at Breakpoint,…

Breaking crypto news from the last week (Oct. 29 – Nov. 4, 2022): Oct. 29: Mike Winkelmann, a digital artist, also known as Beeple, is planning to build his own museum in the US to exhibit digital art, including NFTs. Known for his record-breaking sale of NFT artwork at a Christie’s auction, the artist is…

Top investment deals across the crypto sector over the last week (Oct. 29–Nov. 4, 2022): Fireblocks-powered crypto custodian RakkaR Digital raises $10 million RakkaR Digital, a Singapore-based crypto custodian that uses technology from Fireblocks, has raised $10 million in a seed funding round. The round was backed by a single investor — SCB 10X —…

Top crypto news from the Middle East region over the last week (Oct. 29 – Nov. 4, 2022): Visa announces World Cup NFT auction In partnership with the exchange giant Crypto.com, payments giant Visa has launched a new NFT initiative dubbed “Visa Masters of Movement” to celebrate the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar. The…

Swiss investment bank UBS AG introduced its digital bond, claiming to be the world’s first publicly traded bond settled on both blockchain-based and traditional exchanges. The bond will be issued on the blockchain platform of SIX Digital Exchange (SDX), not requiring a central clearing counterparty. Issuing the blockchain-based bond will probably encourage more banks to…

As blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies become more popular, they can help overcome financial bias, strengthen financial markets and enhance law enforcement, Bas Lemmens, SVP & GM International, Chainalysis, explains in an interview with ZAWYA. In the popular mind, the blockchain and cryptocurrencies are often linked with ransomware and money laundering. But according to Bas Lemmens,…

One of the most popular crypto wallets MetaMask has partnered with NFTBank to power necessary pricing information with its new NFT portfolio product for about 5000 NFT collections owned by its users. MetaMask intends to resolve NFT pricing complications using an advanced machine-learning algorithm. On October 31, Metamask announced its partnership with NFTBank. As part…

Changpeng Zhao, CEO of the world’s largest crypto exchange Binance, says he’d be willing to join Twitter’s board of directors if invited by its new owner Elon Musk. Zhao says Musk has “lots of things to change,” including firing Twitter employees. While speaking at Web Summit 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao said that…

Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said crypto assets regulation should be an international priority and will be a hot topic at a summit next month, opening India’s yearlong presidency of the Group of 20 nations. The country will host the annual G-20 summit next year and thus help shape the agenda. Speaking at an annual…