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VanEck, Pudgy Penguins and Anichess – Top NFT News Today – 18 January
18.1.2024
Source: pudgypenguins / Twitter Today in NFT news: VanEck becomes an NFT Paris conference partner, Pudgy Penguins are up over 170% in a month, and the NFT-based chess strategy and spell game Anichess launches for all players. Since yesterday, the non-fungible token (NFT) sales volume is down just...
Top NFT News Today – 16 January, 2024
16.1.2024
Source: Nyan Heroes There is no such thing as a boring day in the non-fungible token (NFT) world. In today’s NFT news selection, read about South Korean Starbucks launching a first-of-its-kind NFT collection, the Epic Games Store releasing the Nyan Heroes game, and Pudgy Penguins jumping...
Coin Center Responds to Scathing Letter from Senator Elizabeth Warren
15.1.2024
Adobe Coin Center has responded to allegations made by Senator Elizabeth Warren claiming the crypto non-profit was working to “undermine bipartisan efforts in Congress” by hiring “former defense, national security, and law enforcement officials.” Coin Center pushes back...
BuyUcoin Announces Zero Fee Transfer From Offshore Exchanges Amid Ongoing Crackdown in India
15.1.2024
Indian crypto exchange BuyUcoin has announced that it will now reimburse the entire withdrawal fees for local users transferring their assets from offshore exchanges amid ongoing crackdown. The FIU-IND, a unit of the Finance Ministry, recently issued show cause notices to numerous offshore crypto...
GameStop Bails On Its NFT Marketplace
15.1.2024
Cast your mind back to July 2022. It was around the time the marketplace for NFTs was collapsing, and crypto scams were falling apart everywhere you looked. That was when GameStop declared its intention to get into all that cool web 3.0 stuff. Well, you’re never going to believe it, but it hasn’t...
Top NFT News Today – 15 January, 2024
15.1.2024
Source: universalpage / Twitter Non-fungible token (NFT) global sales have seen a lot of green over the past month. The day’s picture has turned red, though. Per CryptoSlam, at the time of writing, sales volume is up 8% over 30 days, while the number of buyers and sellers went up 46% and...
Game Over for NFTs? Will the Market Recover in 2024
15.1.2024
Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, have faded into the background with all the chatter and excitement around a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund being approved in the US market. Earlier today GameStop revealed it has shut down its NFT marketplace, signaling its withdrawal from the cryptocurrency space....
Cryptocurrency Rights Bill Lands in Indiana
15.1.2024
Indiana is adding its name to the list of states that intend to guarantee the cryptocurrency rights of its citizens. A cryptocurrency bill that guarantees the non-intervention of the state government of Indiana in cryptocurrency self-custody, mining, validation, and other issues was recently...
Google Removes Apps of Binance and Other Global Crypto Exchanges in India
15.1.2024
Google has removed several prominent global crypto exchanges, including Binance and Kraken, from its Play Store in India. This move comes as a response to allegations of these exchanges operating “illegally”, with the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) issuing show cause notices to nine...
Gamestop’s Cryptocurrency Adventure Pauses: NFT Marketplace Closure Looms
15.1.2024
In an announcement prominently displayed on the Gamestop non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace, the company has revealed its intention to shut down the platform on Feb. 2, 2024. This decision means that users of the Gamstop NFT market will lose the ability to “buy, sell, or create NFTs.”...
US Lawmaker Expects Donald Trump to Become ‘a Lot More’ Crypto Friendly in Second Term as President
14.1.2024
U.S. Representative Tom Emmer expects former U.S. President Donald Trump to become “a lot more” friendly toward cryptocurrency if he returns to the White House. Trump has launched three non-fungible token (NFT) collections since leaving office. Meanwhile, some analysts predict that...
$311 Million in NFT Sales Amidst Fluctuating Blockchain and Collection Performances
13.1.2024
In the last week, the non-fungible token (NFT) market experienced unremarkable sales, totaling $311.31 million. This figure represents a slight uptick of just 0.05% from the previous week. Despite this, Bitcoin NFT sales have consistently outperformed other blockchain networks since November 2023....
India Blocks Websites of Offshore Crypto Exchanges After Non-Compliance Warning
13.1.2024
  India blocked access to websites of several offshore crypto exchanges, including Binance, Kucoin, OKX , Gate.io and many others on January 12 . This action followed the removal of these platforms from the Apple App Store in the country just a few days earlier. The move is a consequence...
Genesis Global Trading Settles With New York for $8M Over Regulatory Non-Compliance, Forfeits Bitlicense
12.1.2024
According to the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), Genesis Global Trading has agreed to a settlement fine of $8 million and will forfeit its New York state Bitlicense as part of the agreement over compliance failures. Adrienne Harris, the DFS Superintendent said Genesis...
Top NFT News Today – 12 January, 2024
12.1.2024
Source: hub.cryptopunks.app The non-fungible token (NFT) revival seems to be well on its way for now. And today is quite a Yuga Labs day. Last November, Yuga Labs announced a collaboration with Magic Eden to launch the Magic Eden Ethereum Marketplace by the end of the year. The team, however, said...
Here Are the Coins that Will Benefit the Most from the Bitcoin ETF Approval
12.1.2024
Source: DALL·E Some cryptocurrencies are likely to benefit more than others following the SEC’s spot Bitcoin ETF approval in the USA. Spot Bitcoin ETF approval give non-web3 savvy retail and institutional investors easy access to gain direct exposure to Bitcoin (BTC). Spot Bitcoin...
Near Foundation To Reduce Workforce By 40%
11.1.2024
Source: Pixabay Non-profit organization Near Foundation has announced that it will reduce its workforce by approximately 40%. In a statement published on Thursday, the Near Foundation said it would cut around 35 employees after completing a recent review. The cuts are set to primarily affect...
Non-profit Better Markets Says Bitcoin ETFs Approval Will “Harm Investors, Markets, and Financial Stability”
11.1.2024
Source: Pixabay Better Markets, a non-profit organization that advocates for financial reform and more stringent financial regulations, has come out in stout opposition to the newly-approved spot Bitcoin ETFs. In a statement published on the Better Markets website on Wednesday, the organization’s...
Top NFT News Today – 11 January, 2024
11.1.2024
Source: AdobeStock / Passakorn Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are making (yet another) comeback. Over the last 24 hours, the NFT sales volume went up more than 30% to $50.5 million, according to CryptoSlam. That said, transactions have seen a small drop of less than 0.5%, recording 313,887 at the time...
Elon Musk’s X Abandons NFT Profile Pictures, Sidelining Ethereum Integration
11.1.2024
Image Source: Getty Images X (formerly Twitter), under the ownership of Elon Musk, has discontinued a feature that allowed premium users to use non-fungible token (NFT) images as their profile pictures. The feature, introduced in January two years ago, was aimed at Twitter Blue subscribers...