Thu, February 13

ARK Dumps $90M Worth of Coinbase Shares After Q4 Earnings

Coinbase Global (COIN), the Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange, saw one of its largest institutional supporters, ARK Invest, sell about $90 million worth of its shares on Friday. This happened after the exchange posted strong fourth-quarter earnings that led to several analyst upgrades. Coinbase shares surged nearly 27% to $180.31 last week,

February 19, 2024 1 min read

FixedFloat suffers $26M hack in Bitcoin, Ether

FixedFloat, a decentralized crypto exchange, has confirmed a hack that resulted in the theft of at least $26 million worth of Bitcoin and Ether. Since February 17, a number of users have complained on the exchange’s X page about stalled transactions and funds being lost.  Shortly after it was originally

February 18, 2024 2 mins read

FTX Creditors Sue Bankruptcy Law Firm S&C Over Fraud Allegations

Creditors of the defunct FTX exchange have taken legal action by suing the law firm managing the bankruptcy case in a class-action lawsuit. Creditors of FTX claimed in a court document dated February 16 that Sullivan & Cromwell, or S&C, “actively” took part in the “FTX Group’s multibillion dollar fraud,”

February 17, 2024 2 mins read

Binance Futures Launches Challenge: Win a Tesla Model Y and Bitcoin Vouchers

The biggest and most liquid cryptocurrency derivatives platform, Binance Futures, today unveiled the Futures Ultimate Challenge, in which users can contend for bitcoin token prizes by correctly forecasting the daily price of bitcoin and compete to win a Tesla Model Y in four weekly challenges. The four-week Binance Futures Ultimate

February 17, 2024 2 mins read

Mocaverse and KuCoin Collaborate to Redefine Cross-platform Identity

Mocaverse, the Animoca Brands membership network and metaverse project, KuCoin, a cryptocurrency exchange, and Halo Wallet, a Web3 wallet, have partnered to improve user navigation across numerous sectors, such as crypto trading, social finance, gaming, and decentralized finance (DeFi). A collaboration statement was made on February 15th, stating that the

February 16, 2024 2 mins read

JPMorgan Upgrades Coinbase Rating from Underweight to Neutral

From “underweight,” JPMorgan’s rating for crypto exchange Coinbase was raised to “neutral” in a surprising move. The announcement of the full-year results is imminent, and the rating arrives at a critical juncture. The stock was raised from underweight to neutral by JPMorgan, which improved Coinbase’s rating. The investment bank has

February 15, 2024 1 min read

Crypto Exchange Bybit Witnesses Eightfold Market Share Growth

Despite the volatility in the cryptocurrency market, Bybit, which has over 20 million users and is among the top three exchanges globally in terms of volume, has grown remarkably in 2023. According to recent statistics from Kaiko, Bybit outperformed the other leading exchanges in terms of growth in spot market share,

February 15, 2024 1 min read

Kraken Reportedly Enters Custodianship Race for Spot Ethereum ETFs

The Spot Ethereum ETF frenzy has begun, after the Spot Bitcoin ETF mania. Amidst the excitement around the Ether ETF, it has come to light that Kraken, the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange in the US, is considering joining the crypto ETF custodian race, similar to Coinbase. Of the eleven Spot Bitcoin

February 13, 2024 1 min read

Coinbase’s New Ad Pushes Crypto Adoption on National Lost Penny Day

According to a new advertising campaign from cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, the conversion of the US dollar to a “well-designed blockchain” has the potential to repurpose billions of “clunky” pennies in circulation. The initiative was launched on February 12 in celebration of National Lost Penny Day, an annual event that has

February 13, 2024 1 min read