Government and industry have teamed up to fight a major increase in ransomware, with a newly formed ransomware task force calling for new measures to more aggressively trace Bitcoin and crypto capital flows. The task force includes law enforcement including FBI and U.S. Secret Service agents working alongside representatives of […]

John Whelan, the head of Banco Santander’s blockchain lab in Madrid, recently touted the potential for increased decentralized ledger technology adoption in mainstream finance. Speaking during a webinar organized by Fintech Surge and the Future Blockchain Summit on Wednesday, Whelan remarked: “I could imagine a future where there is a […]

Uniswap decentralized exchange and its governance token, UNI, have been defying all expectations in recent months, with the world’s largest DEX recently recording cumulative transaction totals exceeding the $10-billion threshold. What’s more, it is estimated that Uniswap’s 24-hour trade volume currently lies somewhere around the $2.3-billion range. Uniswap CEO Hayden […]

The more than 5,000 residents of an island that forms a part of St. Vincent and the Grenadines can use crypto as a means of payment. According to a report from Euronews, both residents and visitors to the island of Bequia can use Bitcoin (BTC) to pay for goods and […]

Decentralized exchange Balancer and decentralized finance platform Gnosis have announced today a planned integration dubbed the Balancer-Gnosis-Protocol, a collaboration that will combine Balancer’s v2 pool mechanisms with Gnosis’s DEX aggregation and batch auctions designed to mitigate miner extractable value, or MEV. Balancer’s v2, which is currently live for developer testing, […]

Major Japanese game developer Nexon has become the latest publicly-listed firm to make a significant investment into Bitcoin. On April 28, Nexon announced it had purchased 1,717 BTC for roughly $100 million at an average price of $58,226 each after fees. The firm noted the investment represents less than 2% […]

The much-hyped NFT sale by popular talk show host Ellen DeGeneres has fallen flat, with the comedian selling just five out of 10 available Gold editions of her “Woman With Stick Cat” nonfungible token for $2,500 on the Bitski platform. Another 64 people paid $100 each for an open Silver […]

Time Magazine continues to warm up to crypto, naming Digital Currency Group and Coinbase in the magazine’s 2021 Top 100 Most Influential Companies list. Published on April 27, the Top 100 emphasized the impact the two crypto giants have made over the past 12 months. The list consisted of four […]

MetaMask, the Ethereum (ETH) wallet service and browser extension, has recorded 5 million monthly active users for the first time — marking a major milestone in the growth of decentralized applications. The sharp increase in adoption came just six months after MetaMask registered its first cumulative 1 million active users. […]

The cryptocurrency community has donated over $2.2 million to help India battle a resurgence in COVID-19 cases that has gripped the South Asian country over the past month. Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal established the COVID-19 relief fund to get more food, vaccines and medicine to those in need. On April […]