The liquidity hub aims to offer a pool of liquidity to businesses in addition to Ripple’s popular cross-border payments service called on-demand liquidity.

Fintech firm Ripple has launched its liquidity solution for businesses to bridge the gap between crypto and fiat. Ripple liquidity hub was launched on April 13 after a successful pilot last year.

The service operates as a stand-alone solution in addition to Ripple’s popular cross-border payments service called on-demand liquidity (ODL). Thi

Bitrue executives promised to fully compensate all the identified users affected by the hot wallet hack that accounted for 5% of all funds on the exchange.

Bitrue cryptocurrency exchange has suffered a hot wallet exploit, allowing attackers to withdraw various crypto assets worth nearly $23 million.

Announcing the news on April 14, Bitrue said that it had to temporarily suspend all withdrawals due to a “brief exploit” of its hot wallet. The firm expects to reopen withdrawals on April 18, 2023,

The bills state that the trustee must hold a sufficient amount of gold in reserve for all units of digital currency that have been issued and are still in circulation.

Two Texas lawmakers have introduced identical bills for creating a state-based digital currency backed by gold, a move that comes despite objections from several United States lawmakers against introducing a central bank digital currency (CBDC).

Senator Bryan Hughes introduced Senate Bill 2334 on March 10, with Representative Ma

The first point to note before we go any further is only users who have traded on the decentralized exchange in the last four days are apparently affected.

A bug on a smart contract on the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol SushiSwap led to over $3 million in losses in the early hours of April 9, according to several security reports on Twitter. 

Blockchain security companies Certik Alert and Peckshield posted about an unusual activity related to the approval function in Sushi's Router Pro

The value of a layer 1, or L1, network comes from people conducting peer-to-peer transactions with that blockchain. The native token of any given blockchain – BTC in the case of Bitcoin – acts as an incentive mechanism to get people to ensure that the data stored on the blockchain is secure and accurate.

The value is especially relevant in areas of the world where central bankers have caused local currencies to hyperinflate. One of the mistakes being made by U.S. lawmakers and regulators is loo

Bitcoin stays stuck in an ever-decreasing trading range, but market participants are already eyeing a potentially explosive resolution for BTC price. Bitcoin reduced its narrow trading range even further into April 8 as risk assets waited for fresh catalysts. 

Data from  TradingView showed BTC/USD hovering near $28,000 on Bitstamp.

The pair continued sideways behaviour into the weekend after the Wall Street trading week offered few surprises.

Despite calls for $25,000 and $30,000 to enter as

While it may cause downside pressure in the short run, the Shanghai upgrade will be extremely bullish for Ether's price in the mid-to-long term, according to Vivek Raman.

While it may have some short-term negative impact on the price of Ether the upcoming Shanghai upgrade will be extremely bullish for Ethereum's native token, as it will attract more capital to staking and increase the network's security, according to Ethereum researcher Vivek Raman. 

The Shanghai upgrade, scheduled for April 1

JasmyCoin receives a low risk rating from InvestorsObserver analysis. The proprietary scoring system analyzes how much money was required to move the price over the past 24 hours. The metric looks at recent changes in volume and market cap to evaluate how much a token can be manipulated by limited trading. The score ranges from 0 to 100, with low scores representing high risk and high values equating to low risk.

Trading Analysis

JASMY's current risk score means it is a relatively low risk inv

The stock exchange operator announced its intentions last September as it looked to respond to the demand from institutional crypto investors

Nasdaq (NDAQ) is aiming to debut its crypto custody services by the end of the second quarter

The stock market exchange operator's senior vice president and head of digital assets, Ira Auerbach, said the firm is working on getting the necessary infrastructure and regulatory approval in place. Nasdaq applied to the New York Department of Financial Service

Popular YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips has been hacked this morning, with the channel’s 15.3 million subscribers seeing videos for crypto scams instead of tech hardware reviews. It’s the latest breach in a series of high-profile YouTube accounts being hacked, with scammers regularly gaining access to prominent accounts to rename them and livestream crypto scam videos.

The main Linus Tech Tips channel was breached earlier this morning, with several live videos broadcast before the hacker starte

Bitcoin market volatility dries up as sideways trading cools bullish BTC price predictions in the near term.

Bitcoin drifted lower on March 25 as eerily calm conditions saw liquidations evaporate.

Data from  TradingView followed BTC/USD as it focused on $27,500 at the time of writing.

After losing $28,000 the day prior, weekend trading offered little by way of its usual volatility as traders hoped for a break before resumption of TradFi markets.

“Looking like a slow chop around the CME close

A nonfungible token from the CryptoPunks collection worth 77 Ether  was sent to a burn address to be permanently destroyed. However, the collector intended to borrow some money against it to buy another NFT.

NFT collector Brandon Riley added CryptoPunk #685 to his collection on March 13 by paying 77 ETH, hoping to hold it for the long term.

As a seasoned investor, Riley knew the importance of procuring new NFTs right before crypto markets took off into a new bull market. As a result, he decide

Rumours are flying around that Amazon will be launching a bespoke NFT collection for its users and community . E mails have surfaced to confirm this news.

Amazon has not yet commented publicly on the reports.

Crypto news site Blockworks first touted the idea in January, citing anonymous sources. According to the report, the new "digital assets enterprise" would focus on "blockchain-based gaming and related NFT applications." Crypto site The Big Whale then followed up with a report earlier this

Interpol says a man arrested in Montenegro is Kwon Do-hyeong, also known as Do Kwon, the disgraced founder of a collapsed crypto company who is wanted in South Korea and the United States on fraud and other charges.

Kwon, a South Korean national, founded the blockchain platform behind the TerraUSD stablecoin and its sister coin Luna. Both coins lost their value in a matter of days in May 2022, wiping about $40 billion from the crypto market and setting off panic across the speculative sector.

As of March 22, the Fed's balance sheet surged by nearly $94.5 billion — a $297 billion increase from the last week when the banking crisis started.

New QE hopes boost Bitcoin price

Overall, the U.S. central bank's liabilities increased by $393 billion in the last two weeks to $8.734 trillion. That is closer to the all-time high of $8.95 trillion a year ago when the Fed started its quantitative tightening program and reduced its assets by $600 billion.

But the Fed did not use new dollar reser

The emergency preparation will allow the takeover to proceed without the usual “six-week consultation period” with shareholders, according to people familiar with the situation.

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) and Switzerland’s financial regulator reportedly believe that the acquisition of investment bank Credit Suisse by UBS — Switzerland’s largest bank — is the “only option” to prevent a “collapse in confidence” in Credit Suisse.

According to a March 18 Financial Times report citing three peop

The bitcoin price has topped $27,000 per bitcoin, up over 30% since this time last week, hitting a level it hasn't seen since June last year. The bitcoin boom has also sent the Ethereum price and other major cryptocurrencies sharply higher.

Now, after JPMorgan analysts said the Fed's new bank backstop program could inject up to $2 trillion into the financial system, technology investor and former CoinbaseCOIN +10.6% chief tech officer Balaji Srinivasan has warned the latest banking crisis could

A “halving” is a periodic event where Bitcoin’s mining rewards (that is, the block rewards that miners receive for solving blocks) are cut in half. This takes place every 210,000 blocks or approximately every four years.

As the block rewards are basically the amount of new BTC supply being created, being halved means that the asset becomes more scarce. This is why the halving is a feature of the BTC blockchain; by controlling scarcity like this, the inflation of the coin can be checked.

So far

Analyst and trader Nicholas Merten has reservations about Bitcoin (BTC) despite the flagship crypto asset’s massive rally over the past week.

Merten tells his 511,000 YouTube subscribers that although the Bitcoin-to-Nasdaq stock index correlation looks bullish, the macro environment is unfavourable.

“I definitely have to say that this chart right here, the Bitcoin-to-Nasdaq, ratio is what has gotten me most excited. Seeing that we’ve been able to get above the 200-week and 200-day moving avera