The Department of Treasury, the Australian Government ministerial department responsible for economic policy, fiscal policy, market regulation, and budgeting, announced that the country will introduce stricter rules for crypto in early 2023. Minister in charge of the Treasury, Jim Chalmers, said in a press release that Australia’s government under Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is taking action to improve the regulation […]

The Cardano ecosystem continues to roll out innovations that will play a major role in its development in 2023. One such innovation is Carp, a new Cardano SQL indexer and replacement for dbSync. The tool released by product-based blockchain company dcSpark allows anyone to run a local price indexer for Cardano native assets. According to dcSpark, the tool does this […]

Retail investors’ Bitcoin holdings hit an all-time high, according to a new report from Glassnode. The group’s total Bitcoin ownership now stands at 17% of the total supply, a 5% growth from its 12% figure in 2020. Although current statistics from the report show that Bitcoin ownership is largely decentralized, critics argue that the survey did not account for wrapped […]

Tokyo, Japan, 23rd December, 2022, Chainwire Astar Network, the smart contract platform for multichain, has been awarded the Product of the Year at the 4th annual Blockchain Award by the Japan Blockchain Association. Astar Network’s founder and CEO Sota Watanabe bagged the Person of the Year award for the second consecutive year at the same event. Both Astar Network and […]

Hackers from the sanctioned nation of Iran have allegedly hacked several servers of the United States government as a means of installing software to mine digital currencies. These hackers also allegedly sought to steal various network passwords and compromise the nation’s systems. Iran May Have Compromised the U.S. It is believed that hacking attempts by Iran may have started back […]

This year has been filled with a great deal of activity throughout the cryptocurrency world. We witnessed the collapse of Terra, the failure of other crypto firms, a meteoric rise in the number of scams and crimes involving cryptocurrencies, and most recently, the infamous downfall of FTX. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was never a particularly big supporter of […]

Bullish, a crypto firm that came to public attention in July 2021 for seemingly being unclear on what products or services it was offering, has announced the termination of a deal aimed at taking the company public. In a Dec. 22 announcement, Bullish said it had reached a mutual agreement with Far Peak Acquisition to no longer merge in a […]

Jair Bolsonaro, the President of Brazil set to leave office on Dec. 31, has signed off on a bill aimed at legalizing the use of crypto as a payment method within the country. In a Dec. 22 publication of the official journal of the federal government of Brazil, Bolsonaro’s office said the president had signed bill 14.478 into law following […]