Author: Crypto Insider

Trillion-dollar asset management firm Franklin Templeton’s recent praise for the Solana network on X (Twitter) has sparked new hope for a potential Solana exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the distant future. In a Jan. 16 social media post, the asset manager’s official X account — which was temporarily manned by the firm’s digital asset team —…

U.S. presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump has vowed to “never allow” the Federal Reserve to create a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the United States. The pledge came during a campaign speech in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on Jan. 17 where the former president of the United States said: “Tonight I’m making another…

The newest upgrade to the Ethereum network, codenamed “Cancun-Deneb” or “Dencun,” has gone live on the Goerli testnet for the first time, according to a Jan. 17 social media post from Ethereum developer Parithosh Jayanthi. According to Jayanthi, a bug delayed the network’s launch for approximately four hours. But once this problem was fixed through…

Crypto exchange OKX’s Dubai subsidiary received a virtual asset service provider (VASP) license from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) for exchange services. While the company was awarded the license, OKX highlighted that it would remain “non-operational” until it could fulfill the regulator’s requirements. Rifad Mahasneh, OKX’s general manager for the Middle East and North…

SUI, the native token of the Sui layer 1 smart contract platform is making waves in the DeFi sector after posting a 300% move in three months. SUI price and traders’ attention fell to the wayside in October 2023 amid allegations of supply manipulation from South Korean regulators, but recent technical and on-chain data suggest that SUI’s…

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has sparked discussion on how various layer 2 scaling solutions are classified, claiming that the blockchain’s validiums are not genuine rollup solutions. On Jan. 16, Buterin agreed with a comment posted to X (Twitter) by Daniel Wang, the founder of the Ethereum rollup solution Taiko, who said if an Ethereum rollup…