After months of delays, Ethereum validators can finally withdraw their staked Ether and rewards from the Ethereum mainnet. The Shapella hard fork has officially been executed on the Ethereum mainnet — meaning that Ethereum validators can finally withdraw their staked Ether from the Beacon Chain. The long-awaited upgrade took effect at 10:27 pm UTC on April…
The United States and the greenback will suffer if stablecoin regulations are not rolled out this year, Stellar Development Foundation’s chief has claimed. United States financial regulators are tightening their grip on the crypto industry and the U.S. dollar has also been under pressure with countries distancing themselves from dollar hegemony, but the chief of…
According to CoinShares, Bitcoin saw $56 million of inflows last week, which accounted for 98% of all investments into digital asset investment products. On April 11, European cryptocurrency investment firm CoinShares published its latest “Digital Asset Fund Flows Report,” revealing that digital asset investment products experienced positive sentiment, with inflows totaling $57 million last week, bringing…
People purchase NFTs for various reasons, but according to a new survey from CoinGecko, the majority buy them for utility and long-term profits. Utility and long-term profits have been ranked as the top reasons for buying nonfungible tokens (NFTs), according to a survey conducted by CoinGecko and Blockchain Research Lab. An April 10 CoinGecko report found most considered how…
The new feature will allow users to purchase cryptocurrencies using various payment methods, such as debit or credit cards, PayPal, bank transfers and instant ACH. Cryptocurrency wallet and decentralized application (DApp) provider MetaMask has announced the launch of a new feature that will allow users to purchase crypto with fiat currency directly from its Portfolio Dapp. The…
A change to R&D tax rules means that a tech company could lose more than $1 million — but still be on the hook for hundreds of thousands in taxes. The new R&D law has overly broad language that states “any and all” software development must be amortized over five years if the development took…