Congressman Tom Emmer, a well-known advocate for the cryptocurrency industry, has been named Vice Chair of the House Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence. Committee Chairman French Hill made the announcement on January 14 as part of the House Financial Services Committee’s subcommittee assignments for the 119th Congress. Appointment Details Emmer expressed […]
TL;DR Shibarium has processed over 800M transactions, while the network wallets are beyond two million. Previously, it launched updates for faster blocks and token burning. SHIB’s oversold levels and reduced selling pressure hint at potential recovery despite recent underperformance. Shibarium Keeps Advancing Shiba Inu’s ecosystem expanded substantially in August 2023 when the layer-2 scaling solution […]
The floor price of CryptoPunks NFTs surged nearly 15% in just three hours on January 14. The price movement was driven by speculation that Yuga Labs, which owns the collection, might be selling CryptoPunks’ intellectual property (IP) rights. The False Statements These rumors were apparently started by Wale.moca, a researcher at NFT firm Azuki. They […]
On Jan. 15, the Chainlink team announced that the Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol v1.5 upgrade was now live on mainnet for all developers. The upgrade empowers developers to take their tokens cross-chain “in a self-serve manner” and deploy Cross-Chain Tokens (CCTs) across more than twenty blockchains in minutes, it added. CCIP is a secure and easy-to-use […]
TL;DR XRP’s price hit a 7-year high of almost $2.90 amid optimism over its use in banking transactions, ETF speculation, and bullish predictions. Experts forecast the asset could hit $4 and $8 soon, with some projecting its market cap might exceed $500 billion. XRP Makes the Headlines The cryptocurrency sector experienced a substantial revival in […]
XRP is the best-performing asset in the crypto top 50 by market capitalization, with a gain of more than 13% on the day. As a result, the cross-border payment token reached an intraday high of $2.87 during trading in Asia on Wednesday morning. XRP has neared its peak from this cycle, which was close to […]
TL;DR Ripples’s (XRP) price rebounded to $2.53 after recent volatility, with analysts predicting further growth fueled by Donald Trump’s inauguration, SEC leadership changes, and Ripple’s stablecoin launch. Shiba Inu’s TREAT token goes live today, with major exchanges like KuCoin and Gate.io offering airdrops to incentivize user engagement within the ecosystem. Bitcoin (BTC) recovered from a […]
That’s not necessarily an indication of anything going wrong with Dogecoin this week. Most major crypto tokens were trading down significantly Monday after an exuberant rally around the time of the new Congress convening in Washington. By Monday afternoon in Chicago, Bitcoin had fallen some 10% for the week’s trading. Meanwhile, Ethereum had fallen by […]
Bitcoin has recovered from its 2025 and 8-week low of just below $90,000 during late trading on Monday, Jan. 13. The asset gained around $5,000 over the past 12 hours from that drop or so to tap the $95,000 level during trading in Asia on Tuesday morning. BTC is now back in the middle of […]
Fidelity’s latest report predicted that nation-states, central banks, sovereign wealth funds, and government treasuries may strategically position themselves in the cryptocurrency market by 2025. The prediction follows the approval and launch of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded products (ETPs) in 2024, which triggered significant demand from institutional and retail investors. This new accessibility has streamlined Bitcoin allocations, […]