Coinbase offers 'thousands of tokens' in expanded swap service

Coinbase has added BNB Chain and Avalanche to its list of supported networks for the Coinbase Wallet which will give traders far greater access to tokens that are not listed on the Coinbase exchange. America’s largest crypto exchange Coinbase has added the BNB Chain (formerly Binance Smart Chain) and Avalanche to the Coinbase Wallet’s list of supported networks where users can swap and store cryptocurrencies.The May 24 blog post from the exchange boasts that the added functionality will provide access to “thousands of tokens” which constitute a “greater variety than most traditional centralized exchanges can offer.”One Wallet.

OpenSea launches 'Seaport' ​​marketplace protocol allowing NFT bartering

“OpenSea does not control or operate the Seaport protocol — we will be just one, among many, building on top of this shared protocol,” said the platform. Nonfungible token marketplace OpenSea has announced the launch of a Web3 marketplace protocol for “safely and efficiently buying and selling NFTs.”In a Friday blog post, OpenSea said the marketplace protocol, dubbed Seaport, will give users the option to obtain NFTs by offering assets other than just payment tokens like Ether (ETH).

Twitter Declares 'Death' of Azuki NFT Collection Following 45% Price Drop

After Azuki's founder published a blog post revealing their involvement in past NFT projects, the collection's floor price plummeted.

Between 'The Path to the Merge' and ETH 'gas fees'- Here's the latest

Tim Beiko, an ETH core developer, in a blog post, elaborated on the much-awaited 'The Merge' which is supposed to happen in late 2022.

Kraken NFT marketplace opens waitlist for beta

According to the exchange, users will not incur any gas fees for trading NFTs custodied with Kraken — only transferring tokens and NFTs off the platform. Crypto exchange Kraken has opened a waitlist for its nonfungible token, or NFT, marketplace in beta more than four months after CEO Jesse Powell announced the initiative.In a Tuesday blog post, Kraken said it had opened the waitlist for its marketplace, which will allow users to buy and sell NFTs and reportedly, use tokens as collateral for loans.

Crypto.com (CRO) slumps 30% as staking rewards are slashed

The world’s sixth-largest exchange has shot itself in the foot by announcing substantial reductions in rewards for its Visa cardholders, causing CRO price to tank. Crypto exchange Crypto.com announced severe reductions to CRO staking rewards for most tiers of its VISA prepaid card which has forced the token price to fall around 30% in less than a week.Its May 1 blog post explains that card rewards will be reduced by an average of 69.5%, and 100% on its lowest tier Midnight Blue card “to ensure long-term sustainability.” On its highest tier Obsidian card which requires at least $400,000 in CRO to be staked, rewards will drop from 8% to 5%.

Coinbase CEO responds to insider trading allegations with changes for token listings

“There is always the possibility that someone inside Coinbase could, wittingly or unwittingly, leak information to outsiders engaging in illegal activity,” said Brian Armstrong. After some crypto sleuths made allegations of insider trading by individuals potentially connected to Coinbase, CEO Brian Armstrong said the crypto exchange would change some of its token listing practices.In a Thursday blog post, Armstrong did not confirm whether any Coinbase employees had received disciplinary action or been referred for criminal charges in response to allegedly receiving insider information used to profit off certain token listings.

Coinbase announces beta of NFT marketplace with social engagement

More than 8.4 million email addresses were on the waitlist for Coinbase NFT, with the project saying it would be available to everyone over 18 years old “in the coming weeks.” Crypto exchange Coinbase’s nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace has moved into beta more than six months after the company announced it planned to open a waitlist for the site.According to a Wednesday blog post, the crypto exchange said beta testers for Coinbase NFT would be able to create online profiles as well as buy and sell NFTs.

Fantom's reaction to Cronje's latest comment on crypto regulation is...

Following his departure from Fantom and the entire crypto space which was marked by a 6% decline in the total DeFi market cap, Andre Cronje in a blog post noted that the crypto space was ‘dead’ anThe post Fantom's reaction to Cronje's latest comment on crypto regulation is...

Coinbase to increase transparency on potential 2022 listings

The exchange issued the names of 50 projects that could possibly be listed in the second quarter of 2022 as a way of adding information symmetry to crypto markets. America’s largest crypto exchange, Coinbase, announced a long list of tokens it could potentially list in the second quarter of 2022 in an effort to increase transparency.An April 12 blog post from the exchange includes a list of tokens under consideration, but notes that other tokens may be under consideration but not specifically mentioned.

Bitmex Co-Founder Arthur Hayes Says Bitcoin Could Drop to $30K Amid a Stock Market Rout

The co-founder and former CEO of Bitmex, Arthur Hayes, has published a new blog post concerning the current state of cryptocurrency markets.

Coinbase to Host Crypto Community Event in India to Support Entrepreneurs

As contained in a Blog post shared by Coinbase Global Inc, it will be hosting a crypto community event in Bangalore to discuss the future of crypto and web3 in the country.

April Fool’s Day Joke? Ethereum (ETH) Creator Vitalik Buterin Defends Bitcoin (BTC) Maximalism in New Blog Post

Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin is passionately defending Bitcoin (BTC) maximalism – which may or may not be an April Fools’ Day joke.

Vaneck Report Calculates Bitcoin Price Could Tap $4.8M if BTC Becomes the Global Reserve Currency

On Thursday, the investment firm Vaneck published a blog post that calculates how much gold or bitcoin would be worth if the two assets became global reserve assets.

Co-Founder of Bitmex Predicts Gold Rising to $10K, Bitcoin Marching to $1 Million

On March 16, Arthur Hayes, the co-founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Bitmex, published a blog post called “Energy Cancelled,” which describes the economics behind the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.

Nansen's indexes reveal insightful trends in the NFT space

The platform's newly-introduced NFT-500:ETH index reports a 68.5% growth for the top-500 Ethereum NFT’s since the beginning of the year, despite experiencing a corrective 28.8% decline over the course of the past 30-days. The research branch of Nansen, a popular blockchain data firm, has published a meticulous twelve-page report quantifying the performance of Ethereum-based nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, since the turn of the year, unveiling a number of compelling indications as to the economic and cultural future of the ecosystem.Citing the profound impact of traditional financial indexes such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite, the report contemplates the vast potential for comparable models focusing on NFT's, arguing that both education and adoption could be significantly enhanced through their wide-scale utilization.Last month, Nansen released six NFT indexes: Nansen NFT-500, Nansen Blue Chip-10, Nansen Social-100, Nansen Gaming-50, Nansen Art-20, Nansen Metaverse-20, all which according to the accompanying blog post, were designed to “raises the bar for quality financial infrastructure that supports the growing depth of the NFT industry.”Nansen’s NFT-500 index aggregates the performance of the leading 500 NFT collections on Ethereum for both ERC-721 and ERC-1155, across ETH and USD market capitalization. The

Coinbase Blacklists Over 25,000 Crypto Addresses Tied to Russian Individuals and Entities

The cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has addressed the company’s procedures toward complying with sanctions in a blog post published on Sunday.

Dragonfly Research claims Ethereum is the 'MS-DOS' of blockchains

Research shows that throughput on Solana surpassed the leading EVM chain by a wide margin, leading researchers to predict that competing Layer 1 chains will out-do EVM chains. An experiment from Dragonfly Research that compared the performance of six blockchains by testing the capacity of Automated Market Makers on each has found Solana’s Orca DEX was the clear winner in trades per second. It managed 273.34 trades per second and created a new block every 590 milliseconds.Binance Smart Chain (BSC) wasn’t too far behind with 194.6 trades per second on PancakeSwap, followed by Polygon (MATIC), Avalanche (AVAX), Celo (CELO), and finally Ethereum (ETH).A blog post by researcher “GM”  argued that while there was a rich ecosystem built on Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatible chains, the results showed “if you want really high performance now you have to look outside the EVM space.”  A now deleted line in an earlier version of the post suggested users will eventually need to “abandon the EVM.”Dragonfly Research is the research arm of Dragonfly Capital and its portfolio page shows that it has invested in Celo, Avalanche, Cosmos, and Near, which is mentioned in the report.

US-based crypto firms join forces for Travel Rule compliance

“We ... adding new members so that TRUST can provide comprehensive compliance across the crypto industry,” said the joint announcement. Many major crypto companies based in the United States have released a solution for the Financial Action Task Force's Travel Rule.In a Wednesday blog post, crypto services provider Paxos announced the launch of the Travel Rule Universal Solution Technology, or TRUST, with members, including Coinbase, BlockFi, Gemini, Kraken, Robinhood, Circle and Fidelity Digital Asset Services.

Cydia Dev Discloses Ethereum L2 Bug — Optimism Attacker Could Have ‘Printed an Arbitrary Quantity of Tokens’

On February 10, the well-known developer of Cydia and iOS Jailbreak, Jay Freeman, otherwise known as Saurik, published a Twitter thread about a bug he found in the Layer-2 (L2) scaling protocol known as Optimism.

Hungary's central bank chief wants EU-wide crypto trading and mining ban

Governor György Matolcsy reciprocated the need for a crypto ban, currently imposed by China and proposed by Russia's central bank. György Matolcsy, Governor of the Hungarian National Bank, has proposed a blanket ban on all cryptocurrency trading and mining operations across the European Union. Governor Matolcsy cited the recent crypto ban imposed by China in a blog post shared by the Hungarian central bank a.k.a.

Coinbase partners with OneRiver to roll out new institutional platform

The separately managed account will be exclusively available for Coinbase Prime users and specifically targets the institutional investor. Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has penned a partnership agreement with One River Digital Assessment Management to provide institutional-grade wealth managers with an exclusive platform to acquire digital asset investments and engage in related activities.Detailed in an official blog post, Coinbase claimed that the creation of the ONE Digital SMA will grant exposure to “a suite of digital investment strategies and indexes in an easy-to-use separately managed account platform."The function will be exclusively accessible to Coinbase Prime users, a premium subscription service offering enhanced trading capabilities, and a bespoke custody model to protect assets tailored for the niche requirements of high net-worth individuals. In the announcement, Coinbase summarized the service by saying:“ONE Digital SMA is a solution for wealth managers that want to give clients access to crypto through direct ownership of assets, complete transparency and the ability to optimize future returns through value-added services, like staking.”Related: One River Digital raises $41M from Goldman Sachs and CoinbaseCoinbase Ventures were one of three cryptocurrency firms alongside Liberty Mutual Insurance and banking titan Goldman Sachs, to invest in the $41 million Series A funding raise of crypto hedge fund One River Digital — a subsidiary of One River Asset Management — in September 2021.The initiative sought to enhance the exposure and subsequent adoption of the digital asset space among institutional clientele in the United States and wider regions.

Coinbase users can receive US tax refunds in crypto as part of TurboTax deal

The exchange said users could send the funds to their Coinbase accounts in fiat, or automatically convert it to crypto with no trading fees. Tax filing platform TurboTax is allowing US filers to get their refunds directly in crypto as part of an arrangement with crypto exchange Coinbase.In a Thursday blog post, Coinbase announced users who filed their tax returns using TurboTax would have the option to receive any returns in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) and others supported on the platform.

Google Cloud ramps up blockchain efforts by launching digital assets team

The New Google Cloud team aims to accelerate customers' efforts in the emerging blockchain and crypto spaces, a blog post explained. Blockchain, cryptocurrency and decentralized technology are all fascinating topics that have been heating up for almost a decade.

Meta unveils Metaverse AI supercomputer, claims it will be world’s fastest

The social media giant said that the “AI Research SuperCluster” supercomputer is already operational, and it expects it will be fully completed around the middle of the year. Facebook’s parent company Meta says that its newly-created artificial intelligence (AI) “Research SuperCluster” (RSC) will “pave the way” towards building the Metaverse.The social media giant said that it believes RSC is already one of the fastest supercomputers in the world and will snag the top spot when it’s fully operational in mid-2022, according to a Jan, 24 blog post unveiling the hardware.

Coinbase partners with Mastercard for NFT marketplace purchases

The agreement is aimed at allowing non-crypto natives to get into NFTs without using a wallet and first buying Ether or other tokens. Credit card company Mastercard has announced users for Coinbase’s upcoming nonfungible token marketplace will be able to use their cards to make purchases as part of a new partnership.In a Tuesday blog post, Mastercard executive vice president of digital asset and blockchain products Raj Dhamodharan said under the agreement, NFTs would be considered “digital goods” and able to be purchased using a credit card.

dYdX outline plans for full decentralization in late 2022

The blog post prompted participants of the platform to “trust code instead of corporations” in their pursuit of decentralization. dYdX, the layer-two derivates protocol, has published the fourth iteration of its roadmap detailing its intentions to evolve into an open-source, community-governed and fully decentralized exchange by the end of this calendar year.The platform currently runs on a hybrid model whereby a portion of operations are decentralized, most notably staking and governance, while other components, such as the off-chain order book and matching engine, are managed by dYdX Trading Inc, alongside external support from a number of partnered centralized servers such as Amazon Web Services."There will no longer be central points of control or failure of the protocol," they stated, before continuing on to say that "all aspects of the protocol that can be controlled will be fully controlled by the community.”dYdX’s mission is to build the world’s leading crypto trading platform Decentralization is core to dYdX’s mission.

IMF: Bitcoin matured to ‘an integral part of digital asset revolution’

Crypto assets are no longer on the fringe of the financial system, which raises financial stability concerns, a new IMF research argues. Crypto is no longer an obscure asset class within the financial ecosystem, but a growing correlation with the stock market undercuts the “investment hedge” role of Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies, according to new International Money Fund (IMF) research.A blog post accompanying the survey highlights new risks associated with the growing interconnectedness between virtual assets and financial markets.

Stellar Development Foundation Launches New Account Model, How Users Will Benefit

Via an official blog post, the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) announced a new account model called Muxed.

Coinbase Offers Access to DeFi Yields With DAI and Compound

More assets and other DeFi protocols will follow, Coinbase said in a blog post.