The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control blacklisted Nobitex and three other Iranian cryptocurrency platforms for allegedly aiding in the funding of terrorism and sanctions evasion. Nobitex is the biggest digital asset exchange in Iran. According to the Treasury Department, Nobitex handled over half of Iran’s digital asset
One step toward further integration of blockchain-based payments into the infrastructure of the global financial system might be Mastercard’s decision to extend its settlement network to accommodate regulated stablecoins. Intraday, weekend, and holiday settlement, in addition to onchain settlement utilizing regulated stablecoins, would be available to issuers and acquirers, according
The original white paper for The Open Network’s cryptocurrency, Toncoin (TON), suggested the name Gram (GRAM), and the company says it intends to rename its token to that moniker. In the original white paper, TON’s token was originally named Gram, according to a Monday post by Pavel Durov, founder of both Telegram and TON.
After Monday’s admission of a minor BTC sale by Strategy (MSTR), the crypto markets continued to hemorrhage downward, with bitcoin (BTC) leading the pack. Bitcoin was trading around $69,000 an hour before U.S. stock markets opened on Tuesday morning, reflecting a 4.5% decline over the previous 24 hours. Although the
nGRND.io, known as the nGRND Gold Protocol, a Web3 and blockchain initiative backed by a treasury of verified in-ground preserved gold and revenue generated from monetisation of preserved gold sites, has reported growing participation across its sponsored mobile gaming titles, Gold Fest and Dig It. According to the protocol, the
With the release of its Committee Sync MVP on Ethereum and Arbitrum, Orbs, a decentralized Layer-3 blockchain infrastructure centered on sophisticated on-chain trading, announces a significant milestone in the development of Orbs V5. The upgrade is intended to increase validator involvement, decrease infrastructure cost, and enhance the way decentralized trading execution is
More than 7,000 U.S.-listed stocks and ETFs are now accessible to qualified customers thanks to Binance’s introduction of U.S. equities trading. The launch underlines Binance’s belief that as opportunities become easier to access and more integrated, financial inclusion increases significantly. In keeping with its goal of becoming a multi-asset financial super
The on-chain trade and security platform Guardis, which tracks smart money and identifies frauds, has officially debuted. To assist users in making better trading choices and preventing scams, the platform combines wallet intelligence, automatic fraud detection, and low-latency trading tools into a single interface. Guardis is a non-custodial platform that first launched
As part of its further expansion into India, one of the world’s most rapidly developing marketplaces for digital assets, Coinbase has allowed direct rupee bank rails, facilitating the transfer of funds between local users’ bank accounts and the cryptocurrency markets on the exchange. In a blog post published on Sunday,
Financial services firm NYDIG’s head of research, Greg Cipolaro, speculates that last week’s $1.26 billion block transaction in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) was probably a whale quickly getting out of a directional move. A mystery trader sold 29.2 million shares of BlackRock’s IBIT on Tuesday using dark pool, a private trading
