Source: iStock/jxfzsy The market is not looking good for altcoins, including major tokens like ether (ETH), litecoin (LTC), XRP, and bitcoin cash (BCH). That’s the reality when measuring the returns of these coins in terms of bitcoin. Out of the top 100 coins by market capitalization, only seven are in green in the past 24 […]
Source: Adobe/kmiragaya The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has become the latest big name to join the non-fungible tokens (NFT) sector – but its decision to launch what it calls the NYSE First Trade NFTs has seen it make a somewhat unorthodox choice of blockchain protocols. The company said it was using Crypto.org Chain, a […]
These 9 CryptoPunks were auctioned at Christie’s. Source: Twitter/@ChristiesInc Crypto community members have been left fuming despite another non-fungible token (NFT) sale at the auction giant Christie’s – with some claiming that key players were excluded from the bidding process due to the auction house’s red tape and failure to showcase the artworks in a […]
Source: Adobe/splitov27 Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Akropolis is seeing its native coin AKRO drop nearly 20% in a day so far, following a hack that made the attacker some USD 2m richer. AKRO, ranked 268th by market capitalization on Coinpaprika, is trading at USD 0.0097 this morning (at 7:27 UTC). It dropped 19.88% in single […]
Source: iStock/Sadeugra DeFi (decentralized finance) is "the worst of both worlds," said Litecoin creator Charlie Lee following a recent attack on a DeFi platform, bZx, calling DeFi a "decentralized fiatre." "This is why I don’t believe in DeFi," said Lee. "It’s the worst of both worlds. Most DeFi can be shut down by a centralized […]