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A group of developers within the Ethereum ecosystem, operating independently of the Ethereum Foundation, have announced Ethereum R1 — a layer-2 (L2) scaling solution for the Ethereum network that does not include a native token. According to the announcement, the project relies entirely on donations, does not have venture funding, and does not have any …
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Love it or leave it, New York State has been a force in crypto regulation. Ten years ago, the state created the United States’ first comprehensive regulatory framework for firms dealing in cryptocurrencies, including key consumer protection, anti-money laundering compliance and cybersecurity guidelines. In September 2015, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) issued …
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Bitcoin (BTC) gained 3% on May 1 as a new month saw shorts struggle to keep price pinned.BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView Bitcoin pressures shorts after 3% daily gains Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD reaching $96,955 on Bitstamp, its highest since Feb. 22. Increasingly close to six figures, Bitcoin rose with …
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Opinion by: Vikash Singh, Principal Investor at Stillmark The Bybit hack resulted in the largest loss of funds to cyber hackers by a cryptocurrency exchange in history. It served as a wake-up call for those complacent about the state of security threats in the digital assets space. Everyone must learn the lesson from this heist …
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Bitcoin’s expanding institutional adoption may provide the “structural” inflows necessary to surpass gold’s market capitalization and push its price beyond $1 million by 2029, according to Bitwise’s head of European research, André Dragosch. “Our in-house prediction is $1 million by 2029. So that Bitcoin will match gold’s market cap and total addressable market by 2029,” …
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The demand for yield-generating strategies around Bitcoin (BTC) is surging, especially from firms seeking liquidity without liquidating their BTC, according to Ryan Chow, co-founder and CEO of Solv Protocol. During a fireside chat at the Token2049 conference in Dubai on May 1, Chow said institutional interest in Bitcoin yield products has grown exponentially over the …
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Ethereum developers are working to improve blockchain interoperability with two new token standards: ERC-7930 and ERC-7828. “There’s no standard way for wallets, apps, or protocols to interpret or display this information,” decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem development organization Wonderland wrote in a May 1 X post. Wallets, decentralized applications (DApps), block explorers and smart contracts follow …
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Major European cryptocurrency investment firm 21Shares has filed for a spot Sui exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the United States, marking another step in its expansion to the US market. 21Shares on April 30 submitted the Form S-1 registration for a spot Sui (SUI) ETF to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Called the 21Shares …
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Amid the intensifying global race to tokenize real-world assets, the market is still too nascent for institutional adoption, according to Chris Yin, the co-founder and CEO of Galaxy-backed RWA platform Plume. Institutional capital is yet to enter the RWA market, and it will take some time for institutions to see its value, Yin told Cointelegraph …
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What is a Google subpoena scam? The Google subpoena scam is a type of phishing attack where fraudsters impersonate Google to create a false sense of urgency and fear. Typically, you will receive an email that appears to come from no-reply@google.com, claiming to inform you of a subpoena, a formal legal request. The email will …
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