Fidelity hires more crypto stuff amid growing institutional interest

    Fidelity Digital, the crypto subsidiary of the global asset management giant Fidelity Investments Inc., will reportedly hire 100 more people to service the growing needs of institutional investors. As Bloomberg reported, Fidelity Digital is planning to increase its staff size by about 70% to handle the growing patronage from big-money crypto investors. Numbering at least…

    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…

    NFT trading volume in USD fell by 70% in June, but the sales pace remains steady

    In the past month, the total volume of NFT trades has fallen by 55% in terms of ETH, or about a 70% decrease when valued in USD. However, the number of weekly active NFT sales hasn’t changed much. The state of the NFT market isn’t all bad amid the bear market. According to Nansen data,…

    As Ethereum mining is going away, miners are not happy, Bloomberg reports

    The shift from Proof-of-Work (PoW) to Proof-of-Stake (PoS) will cut power consumption sharply – and leave some expensive technology searching for new uses, write Olga Kharif and David Pan on Bloomberg. The Ethereum mining community is a diverse bunch, geographically and demographically. There’s a 28-year-old translator in Ukraine, running computing hardware on his balcony to…

    Bitcoin goes under $17,800 as Ether touches $897

    On Saturday evening, at 20:30 UTC, Bitcoin plunged to about $17,749, and Ether fell to about $897 as the sell-off in the crypto market accelerated. The world’s two most popular cryptocurrencies are down more than 35% in the past week, as both breach symbolic price barriers. Two hours later, at 22:30 UTC, Bitcoin bounced back…

    Mike Novogratz says the crypto market is nearing a bottom

    Mike Novogratz, the CEO of the institutional crypto investment firm Galaxy Digital, said that the bottom might be near after the recent market turmoil. He is drawing parallels between crypto and Long Term Capital Management, a highly leveraged hedge fund that blew up in the late 1990s. “We’ve gone to a level that should be…