Category: Blockchain

GOP Senators Urge US Olympic Committee to Bar Athletes from Using Digital Yuan

Three U.S. Republican senators urged United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) Monday to ban American athletes from acquiring or using the Chinese Communist Party’s digital electronic currency Payment, or digital yuan (e-CNY), during the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022. The letter to Susanne Lyons, the board chair of the United States Olympic & Paralympic

New London Upgrade Could Help Ethereum Hit $3,000, Crypto Expert Says

Some crypto pundits believe that Ethereum could knock Bitcoin off from its first position and eventually become the first largest cryptocurrency market cap. However, the Ethereum network has been facing serious issues that needed urgent solutions. In May, the average transaction fees on the network soared above $70, thus making the crypto unsuitable for daily

Bank of America Opens Bitcoin Future Trading to Clients

Bank of America (BofA) has established trading of Bitcoin futures for some of its clients. Despite its quite conservative approach in response to cryptocurrencies, the second-largest bank in the United States has now given the green light to some of its clients to access such digital assets due to the amount of margin required to trade the

Cathie Wood-led ARK Invest Purchases Another $54M Shares in Square

Cathie Wood-led Ark Investment Management has purchased 225,937 shares, estimated to be about $53.7 million in Square last Friday, the American financial services and digital payments company, according to online media Business Insider. The accumulation just came after Jack Dorsey, CEO of Square, announced that the company was actively creating a new non-custodial, permissionless, and decentralised financial services business

Alibaba’s Largest E-commerce Platform Taobao Firstly Presents NFT Artworks in Festival Week

China’s largest e-commerce website, Taobao, a subsidiary of Alibaba Group, exhibited artworks in the form of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) for the first time in the Shanghai Taobao Maker Festival recently. Reportedly, this cooperation consists of a tripartite collaboration, including a decentralized application (Dapp) platform NEAR Protocol, Web3Games- a decentralized digital game integration platform developed based on Polkadot Substrate,

Bitcoin’s Sentiment on Twitter Remains Negative, Which Could Signal a Price Upswing

The consolidation period in the Bitcoin (BTC) market continued making a negative sentiment recently on Twitter, as acknowledged by Santiment. The crypto analytic firm explained: “Twitter’s sentiment toward Bitcoin remains negative in the amount of volume and tone that our algorithm is picking up. Generally, when there is negativity, there is a higher degree