FTX crypto exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried is optimistic that clarity provided by regulators around the world will stimulate institutional adoption rates for crypto this and subsequent years.In a Jan. 3 interview with Bloomberg, SBF talked about crypto regulations, institutional adoption, and the Metaverse. Despite the rocky end to...
The decentralized information markets platform Polymarket was imposed a civil fine of $1.4 million Monday by the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CTFC) due to a failure to obtain a designated contract market (DCM) designation or registration as a swap execution facility(SEF) by providing binary options contracts based on...
NFT trading volumes on OpenSea are surging in January amid a renewed speculative frenzy on Yuga Labs’ Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) and Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC). According to data posted by “rchen8” on Dune Analytics, OpenSea has generated more than $700 million worth of trading volume...
Dogecoin whales have already started the new year with a massive transfer of assets.
In the past 24 hours, whales have transferred up to 90.3 million Dogecoin, which is over $15.5 million to an anonymous wallet, data from the Dogecoin Whale Alert's Twitter showed.
The transfer of the total amount...
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Hello and welcome back to Daily Crunch for January 3, 2022! It’s a new year, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to reinvent the wheel. This...
Crypto asset manager Grayscale Investments has rebalanced its Grayscale DeFi Fund and adjusted weightings of its Digital Large Cap Fund.A Jan. 3 announcement detailed the changes Grayscale made to its two funds. The DeFi Fund’s weightings have been rebalanced with AMP, the native collateral token of the Flexa...
LG has had a pretty incredible winning streak with its OLED televisions the past couple of years. LG’s C1 has been the flat screen to beat, so there’s little surprise that the company’s 2022 lineup caught our (virtual) attention at CES this year. It seems like the company...
New York-based crypto predictions platform Polymarket has reached a settlement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to pay a fine of $1.4 million. Polymarket is a decentralized platform that enables users to bet on the outcomes of event markets such as pro-sports games and political elections via...
Nasdaq-listed Future Fintech Group (FTFT Group) has announced that one of its subsidiaries, FTFT Capital Investments LLC, has launched its comprehensive digital currency market data aggregation website- ftftx.com.
As unveiled by the company, the platform is billed to provide institutional and individual investors with real-time, high-quality, and reliable cryptocurrency...
