Tag: cointelegraph

May 13
Aurora launches $90M fund to finance DeFi apps on Near Protocol

Aurora, an EVM scaling mechanism on the Near protocol, has launched a $90 million token fund in partnership with Proximity Labs to attract new developers. 1286 Total views 27 Total shares Aurora, an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) designed to scale decentralized applications (DApp) built on the Near protocol, has launched a token fund worth $90 […]

May 13
SEC’s Hester Peirce says new stablecoin regs need to allow room for failure

The SEC’s “crypto mom” Hester Peirce has said the regulatory “movement” around stablecoins needs to allow for “trial and error” and room for failure. 405 Total views 2 Total shares Commissioner Hester Peirce — also known as the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SECs) “crypto mom” — has backed a regulatory framework for stablecoins that allows […]

May 13
Robinhood shares spike 30% after Sam Bankman-Fried buys $650M stake

Shares in the popular online brokerage Robinhood have spiked over 30% in after hours trading following billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried acquiring a 7.6% stake in the company. 134 Total views 3 Total shares Sam Bankman-Fried, the billionaire founder and CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX has acquired a substantial 7.6% stake in the popular online brokerage, Robinhood.  […]

May 12
Bitcoin falls below $27K to December 2020 lows as Tether’s peg slips under $0.99

Bitcoin (BTC) fell out of its long-term trading range on May 12 as ongoing sell pressure reduced markets to 2020 levels. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Tether wobbles as UST stays under $0.60 Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed BTC/USD as it exited the range in which it had traded since the […]

May 12
Breaking: Terra blockchain officially halted following LUNA price collapse

Validators decided to halt chain operations on Thursday in anticipation of governance attacks as the LUNA token plunged over 99%. 13677 Total views 43 Total shares Validators for the Terra blockchain have decided to officially halt network activity on Thursday in a move designed to prevent governance attacks following the severe devaluation of the network’s […]

May 12
Terra to burn $1.4B UST and stake 240M LUNA to ‘stop the bleeding’

The Terra Money Twitter account shared the finer points of Do Kwon’s initial rescue plan: expanding the base pool, burning UST and staking LUNA. 23419 Total views 81 Total shares The Terra rescue story continues to unravel. In a tweet thread, the Terra Money Twitter account went into greater detail regarding the CEO of Terraform […]

May 12
PancakeSwap governance proposal set to cap CAKE supply at 750M

A snapshot motion issued by the PancakeSwap team received over 11 million CAKE votes since commencement, with the majority of participants favoring the v2 evolution. 1839 Total views 43 Total shares PancakeSwap, the decentralized finance (DeFi) application built on Binance Smart Chain, synonymous with its automated market maker (AMM) service and its quirky branding style, […]

May 12
Ether plunges 13% while Bitcoin pushes BTC dominance to 2022 high — more pain ahead?

Ethereum’s native token Ether (ETH) plunged to its lowest level in almost two months against Bitcoin (BTC) as a crypto market sell-off intensified on May 12. Macro headwinds catch up to ETH/BTC finally The ETH/BTC trading pair fell by 7.5% to 0.0663 in the past 24 hours. The downside move came as a part of a correction […]

May 12
USDT-dollar peg wobbles as markets continue to struggle: Tether CTO weighs-in

LUNA/UST debacle leads to discrepancies in BTC-stablecoin trading pairs across global cryptocurrency exchanges. 2161 Total views 15 Total shares Cryptocurrencies markets continue to suffer major losses following the depegging of Terra (LUNA) ecosystem’s stablecoin UST – causing discrepancies between stablecoin pegs and the value of Bitcoin (BTC). Stablecoin Tether (USDT) showed signs of stress as […]

May 12
Aussie crypto ETFs see $1.3M volume so far on difficult launch day

The trio’s launch marks the first crypto ETFs to go live in Australia, with two of them focused on offering exposure to BTC and the other focused on ETH. 1490 Total views 27 Total shares With crypto markets tanking, three crypto-focused exchange-traded funds (ETFs) picked a difficult day to commence trading on local exchange Cboe […]