Institutions flocking to Ethereum for 7 straight weeks as Merge nears: Report
"Greater clarity" around the Merge has driven institutional inflows into Ethereum products, according to a CoinShares report. Institutional investors are...
Day: August 8, 2022
F2Pool co-founder responds to allegations it’s cheating the Ethereum POW system
The response comes after researchers in Israel alleged the mining pool has been manipulating Ethereum block timestamps to obtain higher...
20M JavaScript devs can now build applications on NEAR: KBW 2022
“A student can build an app without needing to learn new languages without needing to learn new skills,” said NEAR...
Trend Micro calls out vulnerabilities in metaverse security development
"Illegal or criminal activities are likely to flourish in the darkverse since it will be difficult to track and monitor,"...
Australia-based crypto miner doubles hash rate after energizing Canadian rigs
Daniel Roberts, Iris Energy co-founder, said the firm had energized the facility on time “despite the current market backdrop and...
Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin Downplays Ethereum PoW Fork, Hopes It ‘Doesn’t Lead to People Losing Money’
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently discussed what he thinks about the recent Ethereum proof-of-work (PoW) fork topic that’s been finding...
US Government Bans Ethereum Mixer Tornado Cash, Platform Added to OFAC’s SDN List
On Monday, the U.S. Treasury Department’s watchdog the Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) banned the ethereum mixing application Tornado...
Native Payment Infrastructure, Airswift, Raises $2M in Pre-Seed Funding Led by CE Innovation Capital
PRESS RELEASE. Vancouver, August 8, 2022 – Airswift, a fintech startup pioneering Web 3.0 native payment solutions, announced that it...
Crypto Lender Hodlnaut Pauses Withdrawals — Company Cites Market Conditions, Despite Recent Crypto Rally
On August 8, the crypto exchange and lending platform Hodlnaut announced that the company has paused withdrawals, token swaps, and...
Dave Portnoy’s SafeMoon position is down 94%, claims he’s being sued by project
The Barstool Sports founder panic-sold Bitcoin in 2020 and has expressed fleeting interest in digital assets ever since. Barstool Sports...
Circle freezes blacklisted Tornado Cash smart contract addresses
Stablecoin issuers can blacklist interactions with the Tornado Cash dApp on the Ethereum smart contract level. According to crypto data...
Tornado Cash co-founder reports being kicked off GitHub as industry reacts to sanctions
OFAC issued a statement implying prohibited transactions with Specially Designated Nationals could include "downloading a software patch from a sanctioned...
Two more lawsuits for Coinbase: Law decoded, Aug. 1–8
Both plaintiffs claim that Coinbase made fraudulent and deceptive representations regarding the company’s business. The Coinbase drama, which started at...
White hat hackers have returned $32.6M worth of tokens to Nomad bridge
The cross-chain bridge was drained of its assets in less than three hours. Mere hours after the Nomad token bridge...
Price analysis 8/8: BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, ADA, SOL, DOGE, DOT, MATIC, AVAX
Bitcoin price aims to break from its current range and flip $24,000 to support, while altcoins are following the upside...
