The crypto exchange cited Coin Center’s work in challenging the proposed FinCEN self-hosted wallet rule as well as the STABLE Act from the U.S. government. Kraken has pledged $100,000 to Coin Center, a cryptocurrency advocacy group based in Washington D.C. In a blog from the crypto exchange today, Kraken said it had donated the funds to promote Coin Center’s work in educating regulators about digital assets an advancing the rights of crypto users. The exchange said that the advocacy group “has been a vanguard for challenging policies […]

Bitcoin’s price is supported by “robust network fundamentals,” says ARK Invest. If more companies allocate a portion of their balance sheet to BTC, the price could skyrocket. The Bitcoin (BTC) price could be headed a lot higher as more companies allocate a portion of their treasuries to the digital asset, according to new research from ARK Invest.  In its annual Big Ideas report, ARK said Bitcoin’s price would increase by roughly $40,000 if “all S&P 500 companies were to allocate 1% of their cash” to BTC. This […]

The Coincheck crypto exchange will list Chiliz and Socios fan tokens on its new NFT marketplace. Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck has partnered with major global fan token makers, Chiliz and Socios, Cointelegraph Japan reports. As part of the new partnership, Coincheck will list Chiliz and Socios’ fan tokens on Coincheck’s non-fungible token, or NFT, marketplace, the company announced Monday. Coincheck originally announced that it was considering launching an NFT platform in August 2020. According to the latest announcement, Coincheck’s platform has already listed several NFTs for five […]

The derivatives platform uses AMMs to optimize for large DeFi traders. After the success of the automated market maker, or AMM, model for building decentralized spot exchanges, several projects are now racing to take this concept to the world of derivatives. One of these is Futureswap, an AMM-based futures exchange specifically designed for large trades. Futureswap has recently launched Version 2 of its platform, which features a unique oracle design that allows to increase capital efficiency for large trades. Benji Richards, co-founder of Futureswap, explained the idea […]

The increasingly popular blockchain game will encourage users to migrate land and items early with a limited edition NFT gift. Pokemon-inspired blockchain game Axie Infinity has announced that its long-touted Ethereum sidechain, Ronin, has gone live. Developer Sky Mavis developed the sidechain to ease the pressure of Ethereum network congestion and gas fees on players. The Axie community has grown exponentially over the past year, and Sky Mavis described operating on the Ethereum mainnet as “a bit like training inside the hyperbolic time chamber”; a reference to […]