Robinhood COO Christine Brown has praised the Shiba Inu community but said safety was the platform’s priority over the “short term gain” of listing new tokens. Brown made the comments in an interview for the Crypto Goes Mainstream event streamed live on YouTube on Nov. 10. When asked about Shiba Inu (SHIB) she said: “One
Altcoins
In an announcement to Reuters News on Thursday morning, Brazillian cryptocurrency exchange Mercado Bitcoin said it has signed an agreement with Comerc, one of the main retail energy providers in Brazil, to develop renewable energy tokens. Mercado Bitcoin and Comerc seek to implement two types of tokens. The first, set to launch in 2022, will
XRP holders went on the offense, proving once more the level of organization displayed by this community. According to a Class Action Complaint filed on September 16th, 2021, several XRP investors accused tech giant Apple of allowing bad actors to steal their assets and information. The action was filed by Hadona Diep, a cyber security
Blockchain platform Telos raised $8 million in funding led by ConsenSys and Polygon investor John Lilic. The funding was secured right before the launch of Telos’ Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) platform, ending the company’s ongoing streak of bootstrapped initiatives. Telos aims to redirect the recently secured capital on the platform’s development and marketing in addition to
Huobi Group, a Bitcoin (BTC) technology firm established in 2013, is relocating its spot-trading business to Gibraltar as a precautionary measure following China’s cryptocurrency clampdown. According to a report by Bloomberg, the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission has authorized Huobi to begin moving its spot-trading operations to affiliate Huobi Technology (Gibraltar) Co. As a result, Huobi
NFTs are now one of the most popular offerings in the crypto market. So it is no surprise to see the biggest projects in the industry jumping on the train to take advantage of the situation. This is the case with Ripple’s latest project. The launch of a new fund by the network is aimed
With Bitcoin trading within 2% of its all-time high while Ethereum, Solana, and Polkadot push into previously uncharted price ranges, CoinGecko estimates that the combined cryptocurrency market cap has broken above $3 trillion for the first time. According to CoinGecko, the total crypto capitalization broke into new highs above its previous record of $2.62 trillion
Meme tokens and dogcoins have been an integral part of the ongoing market-wide bull run in the cryptocurrency markets. Among the plethora of these tokens that have been flooding the market, two of these tokens, the longer-standing memecoin Dogecoin (DOGE) and Shiba Inu (SHIB), have gained the most traction and popularity. Most recently, SHIB started
In December 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) led by Jay Clayton introduced legal action against Ripple Labs for allegedly selling an unregistered security. The case started a chain reaction that caused a crash in the price of XRP, the token that supports the lawsuit, and its delisting from leading crypto exchanges, such as
The team behind interoperable blockchain network Cosmos (ATOM) recently hosted the Cosmoverse Conference live from Lisbon, Portugal. Cosmonauts,#Cosmoverse it’s LIVE! This event is 100% from the community to the community, and we are proud to have our Cosmos Hub Community Pool as the main sponsor! Tune now to the livestream and prepare yourself to dive
Payment solution company Ripple will join the Digital Pound Foundation to develop a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) for the United Kingdom. The company will become a foundation member and will be represented in its board by their Head of Policy Susan Friedman, according to an official post. Related Reading | David v. Goliath, How
The world of blockchain technology has undergone a significant transformation over the past decade as the concept evolved from offering a simple means of exchange between two parties to a sprawling ecosystem full of protocols with real-world applications ranging from decentralized finance to one-of-a-kind digital art. One sector of the market that has been gaining
It took just four minutes for a relatively unknown cryptocurrency to rise by over 5,600% as of Nov. 5, according to data from CoinMarketCap. Dubbed Phoenix Global (PHB), the token soared from $0.02057 to as high as $1.1413 on Nov. 5, with its volume dropping surprisingly — from $3.79 million to around $777,680 in the
As reported by Reuters Thursday morning, Tierra Viva (“Alive Earth”), a Colombian exporter of long-horned beetles based in Tunja, has been developing its own cryptocurrency to avoid high commission costs on international sales. According to the outlet, the Hercules, Neptunus, and elephant beetle species exported by Tierra Viva have a retail price of $300 a
The price of Shiba Inu has fallen 11% after a series of transactions from the whale wallet that famously transformed a $3400 purchase last August into $1.55B. On November 2, the whale moved ten trillion, one hundred thousand Shiba Inu tokens to four separate wallets. Each transaction was worth approximately $586M USD, totaling about $2.3B
Cryptocurrency charity platform The Giving Block has announced the launch of 15 new ‘Cause Funds’ to better direct donations to charities with similar goals and missions. The Giving Block was established to facilitate cryptocurrency donations to over 700 nonprofits around the world including Save the Children, Malala Fund and World Vision. The new Cause Funds