Ethereum

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has donated $4 million worth of USD Coin (USDC) to the University of New South Wales (UNSW) to support the development of a pandemic detection tool. The capital, which equates to roughly $5.3 million Aussie dollars, is part of Buterin’s self-described “moonshot anti-COVID effort” dubbed Balvi Filantropic Fund in partnership with

Aurora, an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) designed to scale decentralized applications (DApp) built on the Near protocol, has launched a token fund worth $90 million.  The fund was launched today in partnership with Proximity Labs and will be focused on financing decentralized finance (DeFi) applications on the Near protocol. Near Protocol is a DApp platform

Decentralized blockchain technology has been around for a relatively short period of time, in the grand scheme of things, but its decentralized nature has the power to keep data and information out of the hands of censors looking to create a “safe” and “faultless” version of history.  Decentralized blockchain technology has been around for a

Summary: Aurora has launched a token fund worth $90 million geared towards financing DeFi-based applications on the Near Protocol The fund also is geared toward attracting developers to Aurora and the Near Protocol Aurora is an Ethereum Virtual Machine created by the team at NEAR Protocol Aurora has launched a $90 million token fund geared

Ethereum’s native token Ether (ETH) plunged to its lowest level in almost two months against Bitcoin (BTC) as a crypto market sell-off intensified on May 12. Macro headwinds catch up to ETH/BTC finally The ETH/BTC trading pair fell by 7.5% to 0.0663 in the past 24 hours. The downside move came as a part of a correction

With crypto markets tanking, three crypto-focused exchange-traded funds (ETFs) picked a difficult day to commence trading on local exchange Cboe Australia today. The trio’s launch marks the first crypto ETFs to go live in Australia, with two of them focused on offering exposure to Bitcoin (BTC) and the other focused on Ethereum (ETH). So far

The crisis with Terra’s stablecoin TerraUSD (UST) and the freefall in Terra’s LUNA token has dented crypto sentiment further. Although Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon announced a relief plan, the community does not seem too hopeful about the revival. Another hindrance to a quick improvement in sentiment is that the United States Consumer Price Index

Nubank unveiled support for cryptocurrency investment Users will be able to trade Bitcoin and Ethereum Paxos will power the service and offer blockchain-based facilities Brazil’s Senate recently voted in favor of crypto adoption The largest neobank in Brazil and one of the biggest fintech institutions in Latin America, NuBank announced crypto trading integration on Wednesday

Global equity markets extended their decline on May 9 and the S&P 500 fell to a new 52-week low. Bitcoin (BTC) dropped to a new year-to-date low and most major altcoins extended their decline as they tracked the weakness in the stock markets. Data from blockchain analytics firm Glassnode shows that Bitcoin inflows to centralized

Quick take: Compound Finance’s Treasury has received a B- credit rating from S&P Global Ratings This makes Compound Finance the first institutional DeFi offering to be rated by such a credit agency Traditional institutions have begun to weigh the significance of DeFi services Regulatory clarity could increase Compound Finance’s ratings and see more DeFi protocols

Bitcoin (BTC) set a new record low price for 2022 on May 9 as crypto markets continued selling off prior to the Wall Street open. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView BTC price sinks under $36,700 Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView confirmed the firmly bearish achievement for BTC/USD, which hit $32,637 on Bitstamp.

Quick take: The 2020 hackers of Pickle Finance have laundered 1,800 Ethereum through Tornado Cash Roughly $20 million in the stablecoin of DAI was stolen from the protocol at the time of the exploit Tornado Cash continues to be the preferred mixer for these individuals and groups of hackers The perpetrators of the 2020 exploit

There’s been a tremendous amount of hype and misinformation about nonfungible tokens (NFTs) since they appeared on the scene in 2014, particularly since the total market for them passed $24 billion. You can’t open a news feed without an article about nonfungible tokens popping up. These inevitably contain the obligatory “An NFT is a” paragraph

Summary: The US Treasury Department has sanctioned a cryptocurrency mixer for the first time Blender.io has been added to the OFAC’s SDN list for assisting in illicit transactions that pose a threat to the United States and for aiding the North Korean hacker group, Lazarus, in laundering stolen funds The US Treasury Department has also

In May 2021 OpenSea closed out nearly $140 million in total volume. Fast forward a year and the most dominant NFT marketplace closed over $880 million in less than a week partially because of the Yuga Labs’ The Otherside mint.  As a result of this mint, a fresh surge of liquidity was injected into the

The United States Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced Friday that it was sanctioning cryptocurrency mixer Blender.io for its role in laundering proceeds from the hacking of Axie Infinity’s Ronin Bridge. North Korean state-sponsored hackers Lazarus Group have been identified as the perpetrators of the attack.  Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and