Twitter enables users to give and receive Ethereum tips natively

In Sept. 2021, Twitter enabled Bitcoin payments as the first cryptocurrency payment option available via its tipping jar. Wednesday, the social media platform added a slew of fresh payment services to these existing... Read more »

BlockDown returns with an NFT-enabled festival of Web3 culture on the Croatian coast

Following on from the BlockDown: DeData conference last December, BlockDown is returning this May 11-13 for its first in-person festival in the coastal city of Sibenik in Croatia for the world’s first... Read more »

Making sense of the Bitfinex Bitcoin billions

It’s the Netflix script that wrote itself. A story so outlandish, it’s stunned the crypto community; an industry accustomed to apparent suicides in Spanish jail cells and nonfungible token auctions for dead... Read more »

President Lukashenko Signs Decree to Create Crypto Wallet Register in Belarus

President Alexander Lukashenko has signed another decree regulating the crypto economy of Belarus. It envisages the establishment of a register for cryptocurrency wallets and addresses certain legal aspects pertaining to the circulation... Read more »

Following a hefty penalty, BlockFi to offer the first SEC-registered crypto interest-bearing security 

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently announced reaching a $50 million settlement with crypto lending platform BlockFi. To settle all charges over a failure to register its crypto lending product... Read more »

Traders say $4,000 Ethereum back on the cards ‘if’ this bullish chart pattern plays out

Global and macroeconomic concerns ranging from rising inflation rates in the United States to the prospect of Russia invading Ukraine continue to spark volatility in financial markets. To the surprise of many... Read more »

DeFi Project Spotlight: Redacted Cartel, DeFi’s Meta-Governance Protocol

Key Takeaways Redacted Cartel is an emerging project that’s hoping to become the leading meta-governance protocol in DeFi. Since launching just over two months ago, the Cartel has become one of the... Read more »

SEC Warns Against Interest-Bearing Crypto Accounts — Says They’re Riskier Than Bank Deposits

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has warned investors about the “risks with accounts that pay interest on crypto-asset deposits.” The warning coincides with the first enforcement action the agency took... Read more »

Warren Buffett invests $1B in Bitcoin-friendly neobank, dumps Visa and Mastercard stocks

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway dumped a portion of its Visa and Mastercard holdings and increased exposure in Nubank, the largest fintech bank in Brazil that’s also popular among the country’s Bitcoin investors.... Read more »

Ethereum investment products finally break a nine-week run of outflows

Last week, Ethereum investment products finally broke a nine-week long streak of outflows, while Bitcoin saw a fourth consecutive week of inflows, according to the latest report by institutional crypto fund manager... Read more »