Man who minted 14M ICX tokens due to a bug can pursue lawsuit to keep them
A flaw in an upgrade to the ICON blockchain in 2020 allowed a user to repeatedly mint millions of ICX...
Year: 2021
Venmo enables users to automatically buy crypto with ‘cash back’ rewards
Paypal-owned payments firm Venmo has expanded its crypto support by enabling credit cardholders to convert their cash back rewards into...
Ethereum supply flips briefly into deflation as gas fees spike
A spike in gas fees and ETH burn rates has produced almost 800 deflationary blocks so far. The theoretical deflationary...
Fake vax certificates renew calls for blockchain-based solution in Australia
Experts are demanding the introduction of a blockchain-based vaccine registry in Australia as counterfeit Covid passports proliferate online. With counterfeit...
Man Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison for Stealing Nearly $7 Million of Crypto in Israel
Afek Zard, a resident of Israel, has been sentenced to eight years in prison for embezzling a large sum of...
Commissioner Criticizes SEC for Taking Enforcement-Centric Approach to Crypto Regulation
A commissioner with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has criticized the securities watchdog for focusing on enforcement actions...
$1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill Passes Senate With Troubling Crypto Requirements
The U.S. Senate has passed the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill with a crypto reporting requirement provision that has been described...
Paypal’s Venmo Launches ‘Cash Back to Crypto’ Feature to Auto Purchase Cryptocurrencies
Venmo, a Paypal service, has introduced the “Cash Back to Crypto” feature to allow credit card customers to automatically buy...
Coinbase’s Q2 profits top $1.6B as ETH volume surpasses BTC’s for the first time
Coinbase beat analyst estimates in Q2, after it generated $2.23 billion in revenue compared to estimates of $1.78 billion. Coinbase...
Helium (HNT) gains 40% after $111M fundraise and 100K active nodes milestone
HNT price hit a 3-month high after the network’s active nodes surpassed 100,000 and the project raised $111 million through...
VanEck takes new approach with SEC, files for Bitcoin Strategy ETF
SEC chair Gary Gensler recently hinted he would be more open to accepting ETFs based on crypto futures rather than...
Teller Finance deploys mainnet on Polygon, migrates 2,200 NFTs
Polygon allows Teller Finance to port its solutions onto a scalable network, thereby overcoming many of the current challenges associated...
Biconomy launches cross-chain transaction infrastructure for EVM chains
The new infrastructure, dubbed Hyphen, allows users to transfer USDC stablecoins between Ethereum and Polygon in a more efficient manner....
Bitcoin (BTC/USD) Market Pushes Higher Past $45,000
Bitcoin Price Prediction – August 10The market activity involving Bitcoin and the US Dollar presently pushes higher past the line...
Bitcoin Price Prediction: BTC/USD Targets $50,000 Level
Bitcoin Price Prediction – August 9 The Bitcoin price prediction reveals that BTC breaks $45,000 for the first time in...
