On Monday, Circle Internet Financial, the firm behind the stablecoin USDC, made the formal announcement that it was dissolving its special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) with Concord Acquisition. The original proposal for the corporate merger was made public in July 2021. The firms’ boards of directors, both at Circle and
$HOOK, the native token of the Hooked Protocol ecosystem, is continuously witnessing a dramatic price surge in the global crypto market. Following the token’s launch on the Binance innovative zone on December 2, 2022, the value of Hooked Protocol ($HOOK) has seen a remarkable 2000% surge. Hooked Protocol is the
Coca-Cola and Crypto.com will memorialize the passion, intensity, and remarkable skill of the top teams playing in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ in a series of NFT artworks inspired by the distinctive “heatmaps” formed by each team’s on-field attacks, tackles, and winning goals. The 10,000 unique NFTs were produced by
Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are seen by regulators throughout the globe as a method to improve fiat capabilities by emulating the technological innovations that fuel cryptocurrencies and their associated financial prowess. Following suit, Pakistan has announced new legislation to facilitate the introduction of a domestic CBDC by 2025. Moreover,
Swyftx, an Australian cryptocurrency exchange, has announced the layoff of 90 employees in preparation for a “worst-case scenario” resulting from the collapse of FTX and a possible reduction in global trading volumes in 2023. Moreover, Swyftx co-CEO Alex Harper announced the decision in a statement on December 5, stressing that
While the cryptocurrency market is surrounded by lots of scandals Reddit’s Non-Fungible tokens (NFT) collection achieved an all-time high on December 3. A total of 255,000 Reddit NFT avatars were minted in a single day. In addition, more than 200,000 Reddit avatars were minted each day on Aug. 30 and
In a hearing on Thursday titled “Why Congress Needs to Act: Lessons Learned from the FTX Collapse,” U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), the ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, discussed bitcoin and cryptocurrency regulation. Moreover, the committee’s mandate includes monitoring the American commodities markets.
The Nobel prize laureate Paul Krugman is warning that blockchain-based projects, such as Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency networks, will soon enter an unending cryptocurrency winter. A column written by an economist and published in the New York Times on December 1st explains the technology’s true value and the warning signals
The efforts of mainstream media to tone down the frauds perpetrated by FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) did not perform well in persuading the crypto community and entrepreneurs. Instead, Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s efforts to promote Twitter as the most reliable source of information ran head-on into the disinformation campaign.
Crypto exchange Bybit has announced yet another round of widespread layoffs for the year 2022. Bybit co-founder and CEO Ben Zhou recently unveiled a restructuring plan that includes a significant decrease in staff in the face of a protracted bear market. All staff will be impacted by the “planned downsizing”.
