Brian Brooks stands as the leader of the US Office of the Comptroller of Currency, or OCC*, and was a former executive from the Coinbase exchange. Recently, the OCC has received a letter sent by multiple congress members, who have come to express concerts regarding his leadership and its heavy focus on Read more…
PayPal executives raised crypto limits from $10,000 to $15,000. Currently, 10% of U.S. customers have access to buy, hold, and sell cryptocurrencies. Interest in buying crypto was more than double what PayPal expected. PayPal has grown in popularity throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, alongside rising demand for digital and contactless payment Read more…
Brian Brooks, who was appointed as the new chairman of the US Office of the Comptroller (OCC) in June this year, has once again caused a stir in the crypto world with a statement. As the top bank supervisor revealed in Laura Shin’s Unchained Podcast, U.S. banks are currently looking Read more…
One of the latest financial trends, the blockchain industry, is attracting entrepreneurs and investors alike with the promise of technological innovation and the revenue that comes with it. Bitcoin paved the way for blockchain technology and investors, but recent innovations in Ethereum makes blockchain tech more than just a cryptocurrency. Read more…
U.S. customers can now apply for the Coinbase Visa, a card that allows users to spend digital assets anywhere Visa is accepted. In addition to the U.S. launch, Coinbase cardholders will be able to earn up to 4% back in stellar or 1% back in bitcoin. A while back, the Read more…
During 2020, Ethereum has reinforced its status as the most popular smart contract blockchain for dapps, but there are plenty of new technologies looking to take its crown in 2021. In this article DappRadar looked at ten of these so-called third-generation blockchain contenders: Algorand, Avalanche, Cardano, Cosmos, Flow, Hedera Hashgraph, Harmony, Read more…
There’s a new player in town when it comes to cryptocurrency app development, and it’s called Polkadot. The crypto platform is proving itself to be the first-choice for developers, drawn to its flexibility and its fast-growing community. Recent reports have claimed Polkadot saw a 44 per cent increase in developer activity Read more…
Ethereum 2.0 developer, Ben Edgington, gave an update on the progress of the key components. According to his post, version v1.0.0 of candidate 0 has been released for phase 0 of the Eth2 or Beacon Chain. In that sense, he mentioned some changes made with respect to the previous version. The new version is Read more…
“Base-layer scalability for applications is only coming as the last major phase of eth2, which is still years away,” wrote Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin in the Ethereum roadmap update. But Buterin doesn’t like that crypto media is putting it out there. Buterin’s saying that the media “selectively sound-bites” him and he’s just Read more…
The hype and increased interest toward decentralized finance (DeFi) fueled Ethereum’s growth as well as its transaction fees so much that the network has finally surpassed Bitcoin’s total transaction fees. Data from Coinmetrics suggests Ethereum’s cumulative transaction fees in 2020 stands at $350 million compared to Bitcoin’s $157 million. According Read more…