Biggest Movers: QNT Close to 2-Month High Despite Recent Declines, NEAR Moves Toward 1-Year Low

Biggest Movers: QNT Close to 2-Month High Despite Recent Declines, NEAR Moves Toward 1-Year Low

Post Views: 342 QNT was trading close to recent highs on Wednesday, as prices were battling through a turbulent session. The token was mainly in the green on hump day, falling by as much 7% on the day. NEAR also declined, with prices heading toward a one-year low. QNT remained close to a two-month high…

NFT Sales Jump 10% Higher Than Last Week, Cryptopunk #4,464 Sells for $2.6 Million

NFT Sales Jump 10% Higher Than Last Week, Cryptopunk #4,464 Sells for $2.6 Million

Post Views: 928 While digital currency markets have dropped in value during the last two months, weekly non-fungible token (NFT) sales have slid lower as well. Seven-day statistics show that NFT sales managed to rise more than 10% higher than the week prior. One particular NFT sale, Cryptopunk #4,464, helped push this week’s sales volume…

Euro Reaches Parity Against the US Dollar, While the USD Index Taps a 20-Year High

Euro Reaches Parity Against the US Dollar, While the USD Index Taps a 20-Year High

Post Views: 316 Eight days ago, the euro tapped a record low against the U.S. dollar as it hit $1.028 per unit against the USD last Tuesday. This week, the official currency for 19 of the European Union’s member states reached parity against the U.S. dollar for the first time in 20 years. Even though…

EU Regulator Warns About Crypto — Questions Whether Many Will Survive

EU Regulator Warns About Crypto — Questions Whether Many Will Survive

Post Views: 272 European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) Chair Verena Ross says that the crypto market crash should be a “cautionary lesson” for investors. She noted that there is a “real question” about whether many crypto assets will survive. Emphasizing that there was no prospect of a European bailout for out-of-pocket crypto investors, she…

US Inflation Remains Scorching Hot, Jumping to 9.1% in June — White House Says CPI Data Is Already ‘Out-of-Date’

US Inflation Remains Scorching Hot, Jumping to 9.1% in June — White House Says CPI Data Is Already ‘Out-of-Date’

Post Views: 287 According to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index (CPI) report, U.S. inflation remains scorching hot as it has risen at the fastest yearly rate since 1981. June’s CPI data reflected a 9.1% year-over-year increase, even though a number of bureaucrats and economists thought May’s CPI data would be the…

Samsung Launches ‘Space Tycoon’ Metaverse Experience

Samsung Launches ‘Space Tycoon’ Metaverse Experience

Post Views: 839 Electronics giant Samsung has announced the launch of Space Tycoon, a metaverse-based experience built as part of the Roblox world. The gaming metaverse, which is directed to entertain Gen Z users, will feature a world in which Samsung products can be constructed by picking their fundamental components. The experience will also include…

Solving the Complexities of Crypto Tax & Accounting With the Experts at Ledgible

Solving the Complexities of Crypto Tax & Accounting With the Experts at Ledgible

Post Views: 312 As crypto matures and continues along its path of inevitable adoption, so too does the importance placed on adequately accounting for crypto as an asset class and a source of income. But let’s back up for a moment. A Paradoxical Equation Mass crypto adoption – particularly within hedge funds, institutions, and other…

US Bankruptcy Judge Freezes Crypto Hedge Fund Three Arrows Capital’s Assets

US Bankruptcy Judge Freezes Crypto Hedge Fund Three Arrows Capital’s Assets

Post Views: 326 A federal judge in a New York bankruptcy court has frozen the assets of crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC). “A key part of this motion is to put the world on notice that it is the liquidators that are controlling the debtor’s assets at this stage.” Judge Martin Glenn, a…

Kazakhstan President Signs Law Increasing Tax Burden for Crypto Miners

Kazakhstan President Signs Law Increasing Tax Burden for Crypto Miners

Post Views: 325 President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has signed into law a bill amending the country’s Tax Code to impose higher tax rates on crypto miners. The levy will depend on the amount and average price of electricity utilized in the extraction of digital currencies like bitcoin. source

Russian Blockchain Alternative to SWIFT to Prevent Disconnection of Nations, Banks

Russian Blockchain Alternative to SWIFT to Prevent Disconnection of Nations, Banks

Post Views: 298 A Russian university is ready to test its blockchain-based analogue to the global payment messaging network SWIFT, from which Russian banks were cut off as part of Western sanctions. The developers say their system would not allow the disconnecting of countries and banks. “The pilot version of the decentralized interbank financial messaging…