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Flare and Uppercent Team Up Establishing First NFT Marketplace for E-Learning

An educational marketplace driven by NFTs has been launched by the interoperable blockchain network Flare in collaboration with the edtech firm Uppercent. High-quality online courses taught by the top 1% of achievers globally will be made accessible via the usage of non-fungible tokens, issued on Flare. Members may purchase, sell, and

February 8, 2023 2 mins read

Core DAO Launched Its CORE Token

Today, a layer 1 blockchain Core DAO publicly launched its first-ever Airdrop for its native token CORE. Also, the token was made available to users with an opening price of $4.27. At the time of writing, CORE traded at $5.95, which surged over 40% in just half an hour of

February 8, 2023 2 mins read

Bank of England Launches Digital Pound CBDC Project with Limitation 

United Kingdom intends to launch a central bank digital currency (CBDC) as they issued a consultation paper outlining the proposed digital pound known as “Britcoin”. On February 7, 2023, the Bank of England (BoE) and the UK Treasury jointly released the 116-page consultation paper. That explains various aspects of the

February 8, 2023 1 min read

Barry Silbert’s DCG Reportedly Sells Portion of Grayscale Shares

It has been reported that Digital Currency Group (DCG), a cryptocurrency holding company, has started selling its stake in crypto funds run by its subsidiary Grayscale Investments in an effort to raise cash and retain liquidity. U.S. securities documents seen by the Financial Times on February 7 revealed that DCG

February 8, 2023 1 min read

ConsenSys To Support Lawsuit Challenging IRS Over Tax on Staking Rewards

On Tuesday, leading blockchain firm ConsenSys made public its intention to contribute to a case that challenges the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) authority to tax staking rewards. The Jarretts, a Tennessee couple, filed a claim against the IRS in 2021 to recoup the federal income taxes that had been withheld

February 8, 2023 1 min read

DeFi Protocol CoW Swap Exploited of 551 BNB in Recent Attack

A vulnerability in the smart contracts underlying the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol CoW Swap has resulted in the theft of around 551 BNB worth around $181,600. The attacker reportedly added a wallet address as a “solver” of CoW Swap. And then used a transaction to authorize DAI transfers to SwapGuard

February 8, 2023 1 min read

Mining Firms Hut 8 Mining Corp and US Bitcoin Corp Announce Merger

In an all-stock transaction, Hut 8 Mining Corp. of Canada and US Bitcoin Corp. of the United States have declared their intention to merge. Thus, creating a crypto-mining behemoth in North America. Each company’s board of directors has given its stamp of approval to a corporate merger deal. The Board

February 7, 2023 1 min read

Dubai Regulator Issues Regulations For Virtual Asset Service Providers

New regulations for virtual asset service providers (VASPs) in Dubai have been announced by the Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA). It is the government body in charge of regulating cryptocurrencies there. Irina Heaver, a lawyer specializing in blockchain and cryptocurrencies located in the United Arab Emirates. She has informed that

February 7, 2023 1 min read

Tether (USDT) Users Experience Transaction Outage

After “TRON’s Proposal No. 83, to activate dynamic energy”, which becomes active on the 5th of February, 2023, TRON-powered TRC-20 transactions faced interruptions. Users of USDT encounter a problem with transferring their funds to other exchanges.  Following the proposal, the stablecoin Tether “USDT” has buzzed social media with transaction issues.

February 7, 2023 2 mins read

Binance Exchange Is Suspending All USD Bank Transfers

Binance, the world’s leading centralized crypto exchange is suspending all USD bank transfers. The restriction mentioned above will be placed into action from the 8th of February. Also, this is applicable to all transactions taking place outside the US. From February 8th, we will temporarily suspend all USD bank transfers.

February 7, 2023 2 mins read