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Hackers took over the official Twitter account of crypto exchange Gate.io, putting over 1 million users at risk of losing funds to an ongoing fraudulent Tether (USDT) giveaway. Social media platform Twitter serves as the most effective medium to reach the crypto community. As a result, the trend of hacking into official Twitter handles of

The legal battle between Ripple and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which is already going on for 20 months, is nearing its end. Monday could be an extremely important day for the outcome of the lawsuit. Jeremy Hogan, an attorney in the XRP community, has shared some very insightful thoughts on the Ripple vs.

The 10-year Treasury yield in the United States rose to its highest level since 2008. Although this type of rally is usually negative for risky assets, the U.S. stock markets recovered ground after the Wall Street Journal reported that some officials of the Federal Reserve were concerned about the pace of the rate hikes and

The take-off of digital gold has the potential to disrupt the industry to an unprecedented degree. Historically, gold has been used as a global currency as a hedge against inflation. It has also been serving as an investment venue (commodities), often preferred over other asset classes like equities or foreign exchange, particularly in conventional markets. 

The price of Quant Network (QNT) eyes a sharp reversal after an impressive 450% rally in the past four months. QNT’s downside outlook takes cues from a flurry of technical and on-chain indicators, all suggesting that investors who backed its price rally have likely reached the point of exhaustion. QNT/USD daily price chart. Source: TradingView

Even though the hype around non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has died down considerably over the past few bear market months, Ripple NFTs developer community continues to invest in this promising market segment of the crypto space. In late September, Ripple announced a $250 million fund to support tokenization innovation that will enable the creation of functional

Cardano (ADA) price is in the process of painting its seventh red monthly candle in a row as the token fell to its lowest level since February 2021. The trend saw ADA’s price rising nearly 800% to $3.16 between February 2021 and September 2021, followed by a complete wipeout of those gains entering October 2022.

Back in September, David Schwartz, the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Ripple and one of the original architects of the XRP Ledger, presented his thoughts on an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) sidechain. His idea was to enable the execution of Ethereum smart contracts on the XRP Ledger (XRPL) and thus lower the entry barriers for

XRP (XRP) has made considerable gains over the past month as traders continue to shower confidence on Ripple’s potential legal win against the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). For instance, the XRP price gained 25% thirty days after Ripple and the SEC filed for an immediate ruling on whether or not XRP sales violated U.S.

Ethereum blockchain-based metaverse projects Decentraland and the Sandbox have hit back at reports suggesting low daily user activity on platforms, arguing a “misinformed” metric was used to measure each of the platforms’ daily active users (DAU). The controversy appears to have come from data originating from DappRadar, with observers suggesting the Decentraland metaverse sees 30 DAU despite

In the midst of the 2018 crypto price slump, a young entrepreneur invested all her funds and personal money into a prototype that combined fintech and crypto services to offer virtual debit cards and crypto payment services for subscriptions. But because it was a bear market, no one wanted to invest the capital to put

BNB Smart Chain, the smart contract-enabled blockchain of crypto exchange Binance, will undergo a hard fork as a fix for the exploit that drained the platform of an estimated $100 million on Oct. 6, according to a post on GitHub.  The release for the mainnet and testnet is a “temporary urgent patch to mitigate the cross-chain

Payment company Ripple announced a partnership with a payment provider for the online marketplace Lemonway. This is the first France-based customer that will leverage RippleNet’s On Demand Liquidity (ODL) solution, supported by XRP. The payment provider will use ODL to improve its treasury payment process. As Bitcoinist reported, Ripple has been trying to expand the

Huobi Token (HT) has been up 12% in the last 24 hours and is one of the few cryptocurrencies bucking the general downtrend. Trading at over $7, HT’s price is up over 80% since the beginning of this week, which is also its best weekly performance since February 2021. HT/USD daily price chart. Source: TradingView

The United States Federal Reserve has been aggressively hiking rates in an attempt to cool down inflation and that has kept the U.S. equities markets under pressure. Investors have been watching the inflation figures closely for early signs of topping out but to no avail. Wholesale prices rose 0.4% in September, exceeding the Dow Jones’

SushiSwap, a decentralized exchange (DEX), recently appointed Jared Grey as its Head Chef. But shortly after his election, Grey is faced with heaps of accusations. Unfortunately, the level of allegations has been raging another storm for the DEX ecosystem and community. The new action from SushiSwap in its executive position was to create a more