The ongoing case of the Securities and Exchange Commission v Ripple Labs could have a significant impact on the future of cryptocurrency regulations.  Ripple first popped up in 2012 with the promise of providing financial institutions and other entities with faster, more affordable clearance of cross-border fund transfers. To that […]

Amid the prevailing bearish trend in the crypto market, XRP has stayed afloat above other assets with impressive gains. A report from a leading crypto market intelligence product provider, Messari, revealed the Ripple native currency XRP took the lead in the overall crypto market in Q1. XRP Takes The Lead […]

Earn Your First Bitcoin Sign up and get $12 Bonus Referral bonus up to $3,000 The effects of the 2022 bear market haven’t fully disappeared, it seems. There are many companies out there still dealing with the repercussions of those bearish ripples, the Gemini exchange in New York being a […]

Chainlink has dropped slightly in the market today as bears seized control of its price. LINK’s current price depicts a loss of 87.7% from its all-time high of $52.88 on May 10, 2021. The asset has been fluctuating between the $6 and $7 price levels since the beginning of May […]

The BIT token will soon undergo a branding transformation to become Mantle, after a measure was approved through a high majority vote on May 19 to optimize the token ahead of the launch of a new layer-2 mainnet. As Cointelegraph reported on May 12, the BIP-21 proposal sought to unify […]

Lido (LDO), the leading liquid staking derivatives (LSD) protocol, recently made waves in the crypto community by enabling staked ETH (stETH) withdrawals. Expectations were high as many anticipated a surge in stakers unstaking their ETH. However, contrary to these predictions, Lido has witnessed a remarkable increase in ETH deposits, reaching […]

In this episode of Hashing It Out, recorded on the eve of Bitcoin 2023 in Miami, Cointelegraph’s Elisha Owusu Akyaw spoke to Cointelegraph journalist Joe Hall about what it means to be a Bitcoin (BTC) supporter and the current state of the Bitcoin network. The discussion ranged from Bitcoin maximalism and […]

Legislation that could require exchanges to maintain reserves “in an amount sufficient to fulfill all obligations to customers” has made it one step closer to becoming law in Texas. On May 15, the bill passed a vote in the state Senate and now awaits only the governor’s signature.  Texas House […]

Crypto needs to establish itself as a “brand new” component of traditional finance, rather than try to squeeze itself into existing financial products, suggests the CEO of crypto exchange Bittrex Global. The company’s United States arm recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, announcing it intended to return customer funds and wind […]

Australian-based cryptocurrency exchanges have lined up to quash contagion fears after the payments provider for Binance Australia was told to offboard the exchange, though some have warned risks still loom. On May 18, Binance Australia told users that Australian dollar services were suspended after its payments partner Zepto was told […]