Africa-Focused Crypto Exchange Yellow Card Raises $40 Million via Series B Round
21.9.2022
Africa-focused crypto exchange Yellow Card recently revealed it has closed its $40 million Series B funding round. The exchange’s announcement of its latest capital raise comes just over a year after it raised $15 million from its Series A round. Funds to Be Used for Development of...
Japanese Crypto Exchange Coincheck Partners with Actor Kenji Kohashi for The Sandbox Project
21.9.2022
The Japanese crypto exchange Coincheck has enlisted Kenji Kohashi, a top-billing movie director and event organizer, to design its metaverse space in The Sandbox.
In a press release, the exchange explained that Kohashi will become the “creative director” of a project named “Oasis TOKYO,” which...
USD/CAD Rises as the Canadian CPI experiences a Fall
21.9.2022
The USD/CAD pair has increased, and the CPI has shown a falling trend. The pair is currently at 1.3329, an increase of 0.59%. It is estimated that there could be a further rise if steps are not in place to control the rising inflation. Cold water to that fire is Canada’s report for August which...
Top Crypto Trending Today 21 September: ETH, ETC, CAKE, BTC, ETHw, SHIB, TAMA, XRP, BNB, HNT
21.9.2022
The cryptocurrency market is down again today after a modest rebound yesterday. Its total cap stands at $959 billion, down by 1.6% in the past 24 hours and by 6.5% in the last seven days. Its subdued state is largely the result of ongoing negative investor sentiment with regards to rising interest...
Push to Cut Ethereum Network Fees Opens Funds-Draining Bug in Scaling Tool Arbitrum
21.9.2022
The vulnerability would have allowed attackers to steal all ether deposits into Arbitrum after its latest upgrade, known as Nitro
OpenSea Adds Arbitrum to Its Marketplace
21.9.2022
OpenSea recently announced adding Arbitrum One as the blockchain to its marketplace. The integration is set to go live on September 21, along with several other NFT projects. These projects include popular collections, such as GMX Blueberry Club, Diamond Pepes, and Smolverse. After...
Fed Preview: Bitcoin Investors to Look Past Jumbo Rate Hike and Focus on Economic Assessment and Borrowing Cost Estimates
21.9.2022
The economy has remained stronger than policymakers expected in July. So hawkish risk is that chairman Powell says the inflation fight is still in early stages, implying a higher terminal or peak rate
Sharding could resolve Ethereum scalability trilemma, says researcher
21.9.2022
Scalability trilemma implies that to scale, blockchains usually need to sacrifice one of their three fundamental cornerstones — security or decentralization, or transaction throughput
Crypto Exchange CoinCorner Eyes Middle East Expansion Via Partnership With Emirates CEO's Private Office
21.9.2022
U.K. crypto exchange CoinCorner is looking to expand across the Middle East through a partnership with the private office of Sheikh Saeed bin Ahmed Al Maktoum, CEO of the Emirates airline and member of the ruling family of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
China to Expand Digital Yuan Testing in Pilot Cities to Provincial Level
21.9.2022
China’s central bank intends to enlarge the area covered by trials of its digital yuan currency in four regions of the country. A top representative of the monetary authority announced the move while highlighting that the People’s Bank has been stepping up digitalization efforts this...
Coinbase to hand out ENS usernames to simplify wallet transactions
21.9.2022
Users can get a username through Coinbase Wallet’s browser extension and use it to send and receive crypto tokens instead of the traditional address
Could Hong Kong Monetary Authority Launching CBDC Help Digital Yuan Go Global?
21.9.2022
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), the territory’s de facto central bank, is aiming to launch trials of the e-HKD, its central bank digital currency (CBDC), in the fourth quarter of this year. If successful, the initiative could facilitate the global rollout of the digital yuan, China’s CBDC...