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With rising rates and over $100 billion in reserves, Tether turned monetary policy into profit, and it’s not alone.
Transactions News
Transactions form the backbone of any economic system, facilitating the exchange of goods, services or assets between parties. In the digital age, cryptocurrency transactions, notably those involving Bitcoin (BTC), have revolutionized how we exchange value. In the crypto world, a Bitcoin transaction involves transferring ownership of a specific amount of Bitcoin from one digital wallet to another. These transactions are recorded on a public ledger called the blockchain, ensuring transparency and security.
The sender generates a digital signature to verify ownership before initiating a Bitcoin transaction and broadcasting it to the network. The validity of the transaction is then confirmed by miners using intricate mathematical algorithms. The transaction is recorded permanently on the blockchain after it has been verified and added to a block.
A digital wallet, which can be hardware or software-based and contains cryptographic keys that let the owner access and manage their money, is required to spend Bitcoin. Funds can be safely transferred using the recipient’s Bitcoin address, allowing people to easily participate in the global digital economy.
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From Silk Road to today, dormant wallets and mixing tools are no longer enough to hide illicit funds onchain, as ZachXBT’s investigations continue to prove.
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Countries that ban crypto payments often have no restrictions on using crypto abroad, but such legal overlaps may attract scrutiny from global regulators like the FATF.
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Created jointly with Flashblocks, World’s Priority Blockspace for Humans aims to ensure the best transaction speed for real humans.
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Rising institutional interest in crypto may include the settlement sector, especially stablecoins, which have seen a 55.5% growth in market cap in one year.
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Core developer Barnabé Monnot says six-second block times would slash confirmation delays, boost DeFi efficiency and create smoother user experiences across the Ethereum network.
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RBF lets you resend unconfirmed transactions with higher fees, but it requires a clear understanding of fee units, wallet behavior and transaction structure.
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OneBalance raised $20 million to launch a developer toolkit enabling one-click crosschain crypto transactions, aiming to fix fragmented UX and boost app conversions.
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The UK Insolvency Service has hired a former police investigator to help creditors recover cryptocurrency from failed companies and criminal cases.
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Stablecoins may anchor Ethereum’s real-world adoption, but an analyst warns that the network must solve cross-layer fragmentation to stay ahead in the next phase of DeFi.
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Coinbase’s layer-2 blockchain Base saw a short-lived surge in transactions per second amid a token launch on the Virtuals AI platform.
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Donut’s AI agents understand page intent and autonomously execute blockchain transactions for token swaps, yield farming or portfolio optimization.
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Standard Chartered’s latest report warns that Solana may be a “one-trick pony,” with memecoin trading dominating its usage and now in decline.
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Sui-based DEX Cetus offered the hacker a $6 million white hat bounty offer as the protocols are trying to recover the stolen $220 million, with $162 million remaining frozen.
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Master the art of crypto accounting! Learn how to handle crypto gains and losses on your balance sheet to stay tax-compliant and organized.
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