Chainlink (LINK) is not yet a top 10 cryptocurrency by market cap, but at this rate, it soon might. Chainlink today shot up by close to 20% in price and is currently trading for $5.80, eclipsing its previous all-time high of just under $5 that it hit in March of this year. Read more…
Binance-backed booking platform Travala.com has partnered with online travel agency Expedia. The partnership will enable Travala customers to book with crypto at Expedia’s 700,000 hotels and accommodations. Travala’s AVA token has surged by 30% following the news. Travala.com, a Binance-backed booking platform that allows its customers to pay for hotels with cryptocurrencies, Read more…
Simplex, the leading provider of global credit and debit card processing for digital currency exchanges, brokers, and wallets, has just added Bitcoin SV (BSV) support. “Through Simplex and its extensive partner network, it just became much easier for consumers in numerous geographic territories to acquire BSV by simply using a payment card,” said Read more…
The Bank of Japan has announced it will begin experimenting with a central bank digital currency (CBDC) to check its feasibility from a technical perspective. BoJ wants to digitize cash but it remains to be seen if Japan can catch up with China which has already begun testing its own Read more…
When cryptocurrencies first appeared in 2009 with the release of Bitcoin, the ideals of this new generation of digital currencies were clear: empower individuals to manage their own finances without reliance on a centralized force. Despite these ideals, Binance has risen up to become the de facto emperor of the Read more…
Cardano (ADA), the eighth-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, has surged in price today by nearly 12%. ADA is now trading for roughly $0.0930. This marks the tallest peak that the cryptocurrency has reached in one year. At the end of June last year, ADA was trading right at the $0.90 mark, meaning Read more…
Binance Coin (BNB) is now the third cryptocurrency with a branded emoji on Twitter. The Bitcoin (BTC) emoji was added back in February and Crypto.com Coin (CRO) got its emoji last month. Binance likely paid between $50,000 and $1 million for the emoji. Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency spot exchange, Read more…
A hacker has stolen $500k worth of Ethereum and other coins from a Balancer Pool. The hacker took out a flash loan, which allows you to take out a lot of money for a specific purpose, and then used it to attack the Balancer Pool. Balancer Pool has said that Read more…
An hour ago, the head of the largest exchange, Binance, CZ, tweeted that trading operations on Binance had resumed. An hour before that Binance reported the completion of upgrading the spot trading system. CZ has called it the largest upgrade to date. The entrepreneur stated that in the course of working on upgrading Read more…
Debit cards of Crypto.com and TenX customers have been frozen for use in the UK and Europe. The sudden freeze occurred due to the Wirecard scandal. The company allegedly lied to auditors over $2.1 billion of its funds. It has since filed for insolvency. The companies say that customer funds Read more…