For the first time in five weeks, Bitcoin’s weekly trend finished on a bearish note. It soared at $24,000 but then dropped to just under $23,000. However, as long as it continues its upward tendency, the price of Bitcoin (BTC) is still comfortably rising above the $20,000 level. This has
At the StarkWare Sessions 2023, Visa’s head of crypto business Cuy Sheffield said that the corporation aims to create a “muscle memory” to settlements by enabling clients to convert digital assets to fiat currency on its platform. In a fireside discussion during the conference, Sheffield said: “We’ve been testing how
Zodia Custody, a subsidiary of Standard Chartered, and SBI Digital Asset Holdings have come to an agreement to form a joint venture in Japan that would serve as a custodian for crypto assets for institutional customers in Japan. SBI Digital Asset Holdings (SBI DAH) and Zodia Custody, which has the
On February 3rd, Protocol Labs, the company behind the Filecoin blockchain network for storing files, revealed that it would be laying off some of its staff. To provide light on the layoffs, CEO Juan Benet published a blog post titled “Focusing Our Strategy to Weather Crypto Winter.” He said the
Binance, the biggest cryptocurrency exchange, and the Agency for Innovation and Technology of Georgia (GITA) have signed a memorandum of understanding. The two groups want to collaborate on blockchain-related educational and community projects. As well as the growth of the cryptocurrency industry in the country as a whole. CEO of
In order to settle a $38.6 million debt to the New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG), the once-prominent bitcoin miner Core Scientific signed an agreement to transfer 27,403 of its mining equipment to the latter. A few days before the holidays in 2022, the firm filed for bankruptcy. Over 27,000
The Antigua and Barbuda-based holding firm Emergent Fidelity Technologies, owned by Sam Bankman Fried, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Documents filed on 3 February reveal that Emergent Fidelity Technologies voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Former CEO and
On Thursday, the fundamental contract of Orion Protocol, a liquidity aggregator for CeFi and DeFi exchanges, was compromised in both its Ethereum and Binance Smart Chains (BSC) deployments. More than 1,700 Ethereum, or more than $3 million, were stolen by the hacker. On Thursday the breach was feasible due to
Interfax reported that Moscow-based state-owned financial services provider Sberbank is developing a decentralized finance (DeFi) application. According to Konstantin Klimenko, head of products for the blockchain lab at Sberbank, the platform is now under closed beta testing. Based on Ethereum, the platform will be compatible with the Web3 wallet MetaMask.
The protracted bear market in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies led to a dramatic decrease in the value of WisdomTree’s digital asset holdings in the fourth quarter of 2022. As of December 31, 2022, the total value of the cryptocurrency funds managed by WisdomTree was $136 million. Down from $163 million
