AscendEX, formerly BitMax, an industry-leading digital asset trading platform built by Wall Street quant trading veterans, has announced the listing of the Smoothy Token (SMTY) under the pair USDT/SMTY on Mar 29  at 1:00 p.m. UTC. Smoothy is a novel single pool liquidity protocol specializing in same-backed assets with low-cost zero-slippage swapping and maximum interest earning capabilities. Smoothy’s unique design […]

New York cryptocurrency exchange Gemini announced on Tuesday the pending release of the Gemini Credit Card, which will allow cryptocurrency holders to spend crypto and receive cashback rewards in the form of Bitcoin (BTC) or any other cryptocurrency available on the Gemini platform. The credit card will be released in conjunction with Mastercard and will be issued by online banking institution […]

Cryptocurrencies are volatile. For everything they want to be, this is a big issue – especially if, say, Bitcoin was to replace the dollar as a universal currency. It’s somewhat impossible to do with such a fluctuating value. It’s for that same reason the United States dropped a gold-backed dollar so long ago. That volatility also makes it quite difficult […]

Yonatan Sompolinsky, one of the researchers behind the GHOST protocol, which was part of Ethereum’s original roadmap, launches Kaspa, a new digital currency network. Kaspa implements an upgrade to the technological concept of Satoshi Nakamoto’s Proof of Work, which stands at the foundation of Bitcoin, creating a DAG- a branched chain of information, that can handle an almost limitless speed […]

Iran is continuing to explore the potential use of cryptocurrency as a tool for mitigating the devastating impact of economic sanctions imposed by the United States.  According to a report from the English-language Iranian economic news source Financial Tribune, the Central Bank of Iran, or CBI, is authorizing banks and licensed forex shops to use cryptocurrency as payments for imports. […]

The individual behind the Cøbra pseudonym is making thinly veiled threats of violence against the law firm representing Dr. Craig Wright in the defense of his copyright in the Bitcoin white paper. Last week, Dr. Wright’s copyright infringement suit against Cøbra gained momentum as a U.K. court ruled that Wright’s lawyers could serve Cøbra with papers regarding Bitcoin.org’s hosting of […]

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, confirmed on Twitter that the world’s largest electric-car maker has sold around 10% of its Bitcoin holdings. The move was made to check the liquidity of the world’s largest cryptocurrency. According to the Tweet, Musk has not sold any of his Bitcoin yet. The latest comments from Musk came as a response to accusations of […]

Bitcoin, the world’s most valuable digital currency, reported its largest weekly outflows on record last week after $21 million worth of investment left BTC-related products. Significant outflows were also reported in XRP and Binance Coin (BNB). According to the latest digital asset weekly flows report published by CoinShares, overall flows into crypto-related investment products stood at $1.3 million last week, […]

Korean Financial Services Commission (FSC) Chairman Eun Sung-soo has ordered FSC officials who hold crypto to file reports on their investments by May 7. The FSC employees subject to reporting are those who manage virtual currency tech developments, those responsible for drafting and applying virtual currency laws, and those who report on and manage crypto exchanges. An article from the […]