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The NEAR protocol was built by Alexander Skidanov and Illia Polosukhin in 2018, and NEAR crypto is the ecosystem's native token.

The NEAR protocol was built by Alexander Skidanov and Illia Polosukhin in 2018, and NEAR crypto is the ecosystem's native token.

Bankoff, a Delaware-registered company with operations in Azerbaijan, had been a way around harsh Western sanctions for ordinary Russians. No more.The company provided virtual debit cards that could be topped up with USDT, a U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin. (A virtual card is like

Play-to-earn games reward players with in-game tokens, NFTs or other digital assets just by participating and playing video games. 

It seems as if new cryptocurrency startups and memecoins are launching every other week, and many investors may be concerned that this is leading to a bubble.

If you’ve spent any time on Crypto Twitter over the past few months, you may have noticed a strange new presence on your feed – an army of tiny, anime-inspired avatars, plastered across an array of fresh accounts.You know these portraits when you see them: bug-eyed, u

The world is coming to trust cryptocurrencies in a significant, but uneven way, according to recently released research.This is more than the victory of slick marketing operations and social media influencers, however. It represents the work of an important ecosystem of watchdogs

Last week, Goldman Sachs offered its first ever lending facility backed by Bitcoin, as Bloomberg reported, in a move reflecting the increasing institutional adoption of the digital asset. Now, the...

Regulatory authorities have been increasing their attention towards the paradigm of stablecoins, and if designed well and appropriately regulated, stablecoins hold tremendous potential to transform our financial system by making payments more efficient, secure and instantaneous.

The core values behind crypto are decentralization, democratization, and transparency.

At the Arab Federation of Capital Markets Conference in Bahrain, Anna Theorin, Head of Clearing Technology at Nasdaq, discussed how technology can help clearinghouses meet collateral management challenges in cleared derivatives while improving operational efficiency.

Last week, Goldman Sachs offered its first ever lending facility backed by Bitcoin, as Bloomberg reported, in a move reflecting the increasing institutional adoption of the digital asset. Now, the...

There are plenty of alternatives to Bitcoin and other big-name cryptocurrencies. If you’re ready to invest in some crypto, consider these affordable options.

Imagine yourself stranded on an island, unable to communicate with anyone. Would you embrace this isolation, or try to find ways to communicate with the outside world? So why would we wish to be on a platform, a virtual space, or metaverse that is essentially an island?

To what extent can NFTs educate your child on business and economics?

ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm covering trends in the global ETFs/ETPs ecosystem, reported today that Crypto ETFs and ETPs listed globally gathered net inflows of US$785 million during March.

Many aspects of daily life are going digital, from our jobs to the assets we own. Although video games have always been digital, it has not been possible to monetize playing them in a scalable way until the introduction of play-to-earn (P2E) gaming.

New York State Senate Bill S6486D, which proposes a two-year moratorium on mining for proof-of-work cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC), has passed the State Assembly and will now be moved to the State Senate for further debate and voting.

Following Coinbase’s (COIN) 2021 listing, Binance.US is set to become the latest cryptocurrency exchange to make waves on Wall Street as the company raises some $200 million in a seed funding round with an upcoming IPO firmly on the cards. 

A loud humming noise rings out from thousands of machines running calculations all the time in a secluded building every single day of the year. While this may not sound like an appealing image, it is the reality for the $20 billion dollar industry of Bitcoin mining.