Grayscale rebalances its funds, removing 5 cryptos from its portfolio

    Grayscale, the world’s largest digital currency asset manager, has announced rebalancing its Fund Components for the second quarter of 2022. However, the organization revealed it removed some crypto tokens from its portfolio. According to the release, Grayscale mentioned that in accordance with the Large Cap Select Index methodology it has removed Bitcoin Cash, Chainlink, Litecoin,…

    Crypto Trends Weekly July 2 – 8

    Breaking crypto news from the last week (July 2 – 8, 2022): July 2: European authorities have reached a milestone deal to regulate the trading of crypto assets in the bloc, to rein in what lawmakers call the “wild west” of financial markets. These standards are designed to protect consumers and increase transparency from companies….

    Crypto is trying out traditional finance’s failures in hyperspeed, but it’s going to be fine

    What is going to be most interesting here is seeing what happens to bitcoin and other cryptos during these Hard Times — writes George Kaloudis on CoinDesk. The last time I wrote about a stablecoin, it failed spectacularly. So when a colleague of mine suggested I write about MakerDAO’s proposal to invest in US Treasurys…

    Burn-to-Earn: German entrepreneur in Dubai merges fitness and crypto

    Ferhat Kacmaz, a German entrepreneur who moved to Dubai, took the risk of merging fitness and crypto, incentivizing his customers to train with cryptocurrency in his own “burn-to-earn” app Fit Burn. His Fit in Time chain has already spread in the UAE, Bahrain, and Kuwait, with plans to soon open in Saudi Arabia, reflecting the…

    Central African Republic announced the launch of its own CBDC

    President of the Central African Republic Faustin-Archange Touadera announced on July 3 that the country would be launching its own CBDC, Sango Coin. The national-backed cryptocurrency initiative to increase the opportunities to build the digital assets industry in the country was revealed during the ‘Sango Genesis’ online conference. Besides the announcement of a CBDC, speakers…

    Most Ethereum 2.0 stakers are currently not in profit amid the bear market

    After Ethereum’s price declined above 78% since November’s all-time high, just 17% of Ethereum 2.0 stakers are currently in profit, the Glassnode report revealed. Also, the number of deposits into the Ethereum 2.0 contract has fallen in the last few months. According to the latest report from blockchain analytics firm Glassnode, Ethereum 2.0 stakers are…