Rep. Tom Emmer introduces anti-CBDC bill

Congress member Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) introduced a bill on Feb. 22 that aims to prevent the U.S. Federal Reserve from providing a CBDC to individual retail users. Emmer wrote on Twitter: “Any... Read more »

The on-chain metric that could signal a bear market reversal

Ad Realized price is a metric often used to determine market movements in bear and bull markets. Defined as the value of all Bitcoins at the price they were bought divided by... Read more »

Paxos asserts that Binance USD is not a security under two separate tests

Ad Paxos published a letter from its CEO, Charles Cascarilla, on Feb. 21 in which the executive discussed the company’s ill-fated BUSD stablecoin. On Feb. 13, action from New York regulators led... Read more »

Friendsies NFT collection rug pulls, deactivates Twitter

Ad Popular NFT collection Friendsies tweeted Feb. 15 that it would pause its development, citing “challenging” market conditions as the primary reason for its hiatus. “We had the best intentions to create... Read more »

Binance CEO weighs in on the notion of “offshore” crypto businesses

Ad Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao took to Twitter on Feb. 19 to suggest that differentiating between on-shore and off-shore businesses constitutes a false distinction. Zhao posted his comments in response to Kraken... Read more »

DEX transaction volume on Arbitrum hits new weekly ATH

Ad Decentralized exchange (DEX) transaction volume on Arbitrum hit a weekly all-time-high of $2.62 billion after climbing 34.5% over the last seven days — making it the third most active blockchain network... Read more »

It’s now or never for Asia’s TradFi to engage with web3

Ad The following is a guest post from BTSE CEO Henry Liu. When it comes to grassroots retail crypto adoption, Asia is a standout global leader. In fact, Vietnam topped Chainalysis’ 2022... Read more »

NFT marketplace Blur.io burns 252 ETH to hit top of burn leaderboard

Ad NFT marketplace aggregator Blur.io has surpassed Uniswap, OpenSea, and Etherum transactions as the top ETH burner over the past 24 hours. Data shared by Access Protocol CEO Mika Honkasalo from Ultrasoundmoney... Read more »

NFT lending continues to rise as over 18k ETH borrowed in January

Ad According to a new report by digital asset analytics firm eBit labs, NFT lending hit a record month in January, returning to numbers not seen since the sector’s previous all-time high... Read more »

The impact of Ordinals on Bitcoin mempools & transaction size

Ad The introduction of the Ordinals Protocol, which enables the development of Bitcoin-based NFTs, has coincided with significant changes to mempool activity and transaction size, new data by CryptoSlate and Glassnode show.... Read more »