Crypto-news

Ethereum scaling solution Polygon plans to continue hiring despite the bear market and choppy macro conditions, as its HR exec told Bloomberg this week. She said the company aims to add 200 people to its team by the end of the year. Meanwhile, Polygon raised $450 million this year through a token sale. According to…

BNB chain, a Layer-1 blockchain by Binance, has announced its own zero-knowledge (ZK) proof scaling technology, called zkBNB. Binance claims zkBNB will improve scalability metrics and transaction speed. Zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs are one of the viable long-term solutions for decentralized blockchain scalability, as Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said in his ‘Endgame’ article. It is an…

Franklin Templeton joined the metaverse with a new thematic ETF. The global investment firm has launched The Franklin Metaverse UCITS ETF that tracks the Solactive Global Metaverse Innovation Net Total Return Index. The new ETF will list on the Deutsche Börse Xetra (XETRA) on Sept. 7, and the Borsa Italiana and London Stock Exchange (LSE)…

The Ethereum Merge could flood the crypto industry with out-of-work miners, impacting not only Ethereum but all PoW coins. This is likely to force many crypto miners to give up and abandon their expensive mining rigs amid plunging profits. As Cointelegraph reported, the transition of the Ethereum blockchain from a proof-of-work (PoW) consensus is likely…

Crypto exchange Binance, the issuer of the world’s 3rd-largest stablecoin, BUSD, said it will convert customers’ holdings in rival stablecoins USD Coin (USDC), Pax Dollar (USDP), and True USD (TUSD) into its own stablecoin (BUSD) on September 29 to “enhance liquidity and capital-efficiency for users.” Meantime, Binance has no plans to “auto-convert” Tether (USDT) to…

Poolin, one of the world’s major crypto mining pools, has suspended Bitcoin and Ether withdrawals citing “liquidity problems.” Poolin CEO and founder Kevin Pan assured users that funds are safe and said the company might look to debt to solve its liquidity troubles. “As you may have known, Poolin Wallet is currently facing some liquidity…