Home Authors Posts by Marie Fitzgerald

Marie Fitzgerald

Marie Fitzgerald
1652 POSTS 0 COMMENTS
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have been making headlines based on the notable growth witnessed in this sector despite being the new kid on the crypto block. NFTs have been hitting a monthly volume of $10 billion on the Ethereum (ETH) network. Data analytic firm IntoTheBlock explained: “$10B/Month - On-chain volume for...
The State of New York may soon make a move to christen “Rug Pulls” in the digital currency ecosystem as an offence, which could come as a bill, dubbed Senate Bill S8839 when it is passed into law. The Bill was introduced by Senator Kevin Thomas and alongside an accompanying...
Venture Capital (VC) firms continue penetrating the crypto sector, given that they have pumped in $17 billion so far this year. Glassnode co-founders under the pseudonym Negentropic explained: “$17bn VC crypto investments and +1k deals in 2022. This year has seen the highest median deal size at $4.5mn. Capital is...
Financial service institution Stripe announced last Friday that it will use Polygon, a decentralised Ethereum scaling network, to enable its customers to pay content creators, service providers, freelancers, and sellers in cryptocurrencies. The Irish-American financial services with dual headquarters in San Francisco, US and Dublin, Ireland, said that it will start allowing...
Popular exchange Binance has helped retrieve funds worth $5.8 million that was a part of the $625 million exploited from the Ronin Bridge, known as the home of Axie Infinity. As per the exchange's boss, Changpeng Zhao, who shared the information of the retrieval through a tweet last Friday, the stolen...
Bybit users can directly buy crypto with their credit or debit cards using fiat currencies, the cryptocurrency exchange company announced. The launch of Bybit's credit and debit card payments system "will make buying crypto as simple as making any purchase, such as books and clothes, online," the company said. “Bybit users can...
Singapore-based digital currency trading platform, Crypto.com, has announced the Digital Currency Initiative (DCI) support at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Media Lab. As announced by the company, the support is a gift of a 4-year-based partnership whose monetary value was undisclosed.  The backing will help foster the research into...
Binance exchange has responded to allegations by Reuters that its Russian subsidiary has close ties to the country’s financial regulator called Rosfinmonitoring. In the Reuters report, it was alleged that Binance shared its user data with Rosfinmonitoring in a bid to track down donations made to the opposition leader,...
Ukraine's Central Bank, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), announced last Friday that it has restricted crypto purchases using the country's local currency as part of efforts to prevent capital outflows amid martial law. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared martial law in Ukraine on February 24, when Russia...
With 2021 emerging as a strong year for cryptocurrencies, global investors made $162.7 million in realized gains, according to blockchain analytic firm Chainalysis. The result represented a 400.6% surge from $32.5 billion recorded in 2020, with Americans making the most gains. Per the report: “The United States leads by a...