Month: August 2022

Summary: USDC stablecoin Issuer Circle has plans to solely support the Ethereum Proof-of-Stake chain post-merge. Circle announced the decision on Tuesday amid rising speculations regarding a Proof-of-Work hard fork by major Ethereum miner Chandler Guo. The digital asset firm stated that only a “single valid version” of USDC can exist. Circle’s stablecoin is the largest
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Magic Eden submits a proposal to launch the “ApecoinDAO” NFT marketplace The marketplace intends to provide utility to Apecoin holders by building a custom marketplace to trade and purchase NFTs.  Leading Solana NFT marketplace Magic Eden has submitted a proposal to the ApecoinDAO to build a special NFT marketplace for $Apecoin users.  Magic Eden Proposes
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According to Twitter user @0xdev0, on Monday, Web3 development platform Alchemy and Infura.io blocked remote procedure call (RPC) requests to cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash, preventing users from accessing the applications. The day prior, the U.S. Treasury placed 44 smart contract addresses linked to Tornado Cash in the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN) list.
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On Tuesday, one day after the U.S. Treasury sanctioned cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash for its alleged role in cryptocurrency money laundering operations, intervals of 0.1 Ether (ETH) transactions began materializing from the smart contract to prominent figures such as Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and American television host Jimmy Fallon. It is not possible to trace the source of
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Bitcoin (BTC) consolidated lower on Aug. 9 after familiar resistance preserved a multi-month trading range. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Bitcoin navigates whale price ladder Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD falling under the $24,000 mark overnight after rejecting near $24,200.  The pair had seen swift gains to start the week
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Crypto platform Bitcoin.com is looking to expand its ecosystem by introducing Bitcoin (BTC) holders to the world of decentralized finance (DeFi) and implementing new services such as a decentralized exchange (DEX) in its platform.  Speaking with Cointelegraph’s Andrew Fenton at the Korea Blockchain Week (KBW) 2022, Bitcoin.com’s head of financial services Corbin Fraser said that
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