According to the results of a community vote on Feb. 22, users and validators of The Open Network (TON), a layer one blockchain previously created by Telegram, have voted to suspend miners’ wallets for four years if they are inactive and have never made an outgoing transaction. The decision resulted in 1,081,389,416 TON being suspended, worth an estimated $2.58 billion […]

Mainstream crypto and crypto-based services adoption continues, with more companies bridging traditional financial (TradFi) solutions with decentralized financial (DeFi) solutions. In an announcement on Feb. 22, a new pilot program launched between the crypto exchange, Binance and credit card service company Ingenico, allows in-store crypto payments via Binance Pay. Currently, the initial test of this offering is only available on […]

Coinbase, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, is currently facing an SEC investigation into its staking program. A staking program is an earning program that allows users to earn rewards for holding certain cryptocurrencies on the exchange. The investigation comes in the wake of a similar case involving the Kraken exchange, which settled with the SEC for […]

Solana Spaces will close down its two Solana (SOL)-themed, community-oriented retail stores in New York City and Miami at the end of the month, as the physical stores didn’t onboard as many users as initially anticipated. Solana Spaces tweeted the news on Feb. 21, sharing a note from founder Vibhu Norby explaining the reasons behind the store shutdowns. Norby — […]

The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has announced enhancements to its ability to detect illegal activities with virtual currency among the entities its regulates. The new capacities are part of its efforts to keep pace with the industry and respond proactively to the virtual currency market, it said. The NYDFS released a short statement on its new […]

The Proof of Stake Alliance (POSA), a nonprofit industry alliance, has published two white papers examining on the status of deposit tokens in United States securities and tax law on Feb. 21. The papers were authored by representatives of over 10 industry groups. Liquid staking is the practice on blockchains using a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism of issuing transferrable receipt tokens […]

Last week, Guy Turner, founder and host of the highly popular crypto market commentary show Coin Bureau, explained why he is bullish on Cardano ($ADA). According to a report by The Daily Hodl, during an interview on the CryptoBusy podcast, Turner had this to say about Cardano: “I’d go for ADA at the moment. Yeah, it’s got its problems. And […]

Roger Ver – often dubbed “Bitcoin Jesus” and the founder and former CEO of Bitcoin.com – says he’s willing to pay up when it comes to the $20 million lawsuit posed against him by Genesis, the now bankrupt crypto lending division of the Digital Currency Group (DCG). Roger Ver Discusses the Genesis Lawsuit On Reddit, Ver posted the following: I […]

This week on The Market Report, the resident experts at Cointelegraph discuss dozens of pump-and-dump tokens purporting to be related to ChatGPT and Bing AI chat. We will be doing things a little differently this week since our handsome and charming host, Joe Hall, will be somewhere over the Atlantic during the livestream and will not be able to join us. […]