Altcoins move higher as Bitcoin bull flag points toward $50K BTC priceSelect altcoins continue to hit new yearly highs, while a bull flag on Bitcoin suggests traders are preparing for a run at $50,000.Feb 9, 2021Jordan Finneseth
FTX CEO claims competitor responsible for racist messages delivered to Blockfolio users'Teflon' Sam Bankman-Fried illustrates why the crypto community holds him in high regard, as Blockfolio exploit results in clear communication and a rapid response.Feb 9, 2021Osato Avan-Nomayo
TORN soars 200% as Tornado.Cash’s governance token becomes tradableApes rejoice as yet another token airdrop fattens their portfoliosFeb 9, 2021Andrew Thurman
ECB leader floats 3K threshold for digital euro holdings The central bank said it will reach a decision on releasing a digital euro "towards the middle of 2021."Feb 9, 2021Turner Wright
Former British MP says central banks should ban Bitcoin Nick Boles, who served as a Member of Parliament from 2010 to 2019, believes the world would be better off without Bitcoin.Feb 9, 2021Sam Bourgi
Press and internet freedom advocates join crypto users in support of Wikileaks' AssangeDigital and journalistic rights are at stake in the trial for Julian Assange's extradition, say 24 major advocacy groups.Feb 9, 2021Kollen Post
Bitcoin flippens Russian ruble after Tesla purchaseThe crypto asset's market capitalization has also overtaken Tesla's again, following an overnight price surge.Feb 9, 2021Turner Wright
Amid hiring spree, Blockchain Association adds Token Taxonomy Act guru to teamThe former aide to Representative Davidson will join crypto's leading trade association.Feb 9, 2021Kollen Post
Shift to DeFi and cross-chain integration back Elrond’s (EGLD) 700% rallyThe Maiar wallet release and DeFi integration with Binance Smart Chain are just a few of the new developments backing Elrond’s 700% rally to $216.Feb 9, 2021Jordan Finneseth
Curve Finance coming to Equilibrium's Polkadot parachainDecentralized finance exchange platform Curve Finance will soon be implemented on Equilibrium’s Polkadot parachain.Feb 9, 2021Osato Avan-Nomayo
IDEO CoLab Ventures files with SEC for new $100M crypto fundEarly stage investment fund IDEO CoLab Ventures is looking to launch a $100 million crypto investment fund.Feb 9, 2021Helen Partz
Ethereum hits a new all-time high as CME futures go live: Why is ETH price rallying? The price of ETH, the native cryptocurrency of Ethereum, achieved a record-high on CME launching dedicated futures.Feb 9, 2021Joseph Young
Can the launch of Colony v2 relieve DeFi’s governance woes?Years in the making, Colony aims to solve DAO pain points and bring decentralized governance to the massesFeb 9, 2021Andrew Thurman
Matic rebrands to Polygon in pursuit of ‘Polkadot on Ethereum’ strategyThe Layer-two protocol plans to become an aggregator and interoperability facilitator for Ethereum scalability solutions.Feb 9, 2021Andrey Shevchenko
‘The wealthiest time of my life was the most miserable’: Peter McCormack“Apart from having a good wife, I have everything I need in life, and money is not going to get me more of what I need.”Feb 9, 2021Andrew Fenton
Crypto-friendly US senator invites Elon Musk to move to Wyoming Saying the state has "the best laws for digital assets" in the United States, Senator Lummis asked the Tesla CEO if he would consider relocating.Feb 9, 2021Turner Wright
Rhode Island introduces ‘vital’ blockchain growth act A new Rhode Island House bill aims to revamp state legislature to create a regulatory environment more conducive to “vital” blockchain growth.Feb 9, 2021Greg Thomson
Tesla's $1.5B Bitcoin purchase leaves treasury experts scratching headsSome treasury experts are finding it difficult to understand why Tesla recently bought $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin — the best performing asset of the last decade.Feb 9, 2021Osato Avan-Nomayo
South Africa learns a hard crypto lesson amid fast growing demandSouth African authorities will be keeping a close eye on the cryptocurrency space in 2021 in the wake of major scams and booming markets.Feb 9, 2021Gareth Jenkinson
French official wants to change how Europe regulates crypto and blockchainAccording to one French official, crypto and blockchain projects should be supervised at the European level.Feb 9, 2021Helen Partz
Binance quietly drops ‘multi-million’ Forbes defamation lawsuit Binance Holdings has dropped its defamation lawsuit against Forbes regarding the publication of an article that alleged the exchange purposely sought to evade U.S. regulators.Feb 9, 2021Greg Thomson
Stablecoin flows hint at $50K Bitcoin after Tesla pump liquidates $500M in BTC shortsAround $500 million worth of positions were liquidated within hours as the Tesla news caused Bitcoin to spike over $46,000.Feb 9, 2021Joseph Young
Hackers post racist and offensive messages to Blockfolio usersA breach of Blockfolio’s signal feed saw racist messages sent to some users of the crypto portfolio platform.Feb 9, 2021Osato Avan-Nomayo
OKEx integrates .crypto domain-based payments from Unstoppable DomainsAs more exchanges start to support the simplified address format, will error-prone text-string addresses become a thing of the past?Feb 9, 2021Jack Martin
Major Thai bank's venture arm sets up $50M fund to invest in blockchain, DeFiSiam Commercial Bank, over a century old, doesn't fail to keep up with the times.Feb 9, 2021Marie Huillet
XRP risks losing top-5 crypto status as Polkadot, Cardano market caps hit $21BA second usurping of XRP by Polkadot leaves it perilously close to exiting the top five cryptocurrencies by market cap.Feb 9, 2021William Suberg
Solana announces DeFi hackathon offering $200k in seed fundingSolana will host a DeFi hackathon offering a $200,000 prize pool and $200,000 in seed funding to aspiring developers.Feb 9, 2021Samuel Haig
Binance Labs backs Polkadot ecosystem with $2.4m investment in Plasm NetworkBinance has mobilized nearly one-quarter of its Polkadot ecosystem fund to lead Plasm Network’s Series A funding round.Feb 9, 2021Martin Young
Bitcoin’s Twitter-volume spikes to new all-time highs on Elon pump Elon Musk has pushed Bitcoin’s social sentiment into new highs on Twitter.Feb 9, 2021Martin Young
ETH represented 80% of last week's institutional crypto inflowsInstitutions were aggressively accumulating ETH in the lead up to the launch of CME futures, with Ether products representing 80% of last week’s institutional crypto inflows.Feb 9, 2021Martin Young