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Ethereum's Shanghai Upgrade Could Bring $2.4B Selling Pressure to Ether: Observers
The 1 million instantly withdrawable ether has become a point of concern for the market.
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Ether Breaking Out Ahead of Ethereum’s Shanghai Upgrade: Bernstein
The rally in the price of ether is similar to the move seen before the blockchain’s last upgrade, the Merge, the report said.
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Ether Jumps to Nine-Month High Ahead of Shapella, Liquid Staking Tokens Jump
LSD sector tokens rose as much as 22% in the past 24 hours, data shows.
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Swiss Government-Owned Bank PostFinance to Offer Customers Crypto
PostFinance will begin offering its 2.5 million customers access to buy, store and sell bitcoin and ether, thanks to a partnership with Switzerland’s Sygnum Bank.
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Deribit Parent Company Leads $4.4M Seed Funding Round Into Dutch Crypto Exchange Finst
The oversubscribed capital raise will be used to expand Finst's range of products drive its international expansion plans
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As Bitcoin Platform Paxful Closes, Co-Founder Youssef Talks Up Alternatives
A whitepaper for Civilization Kit, a decentralized bitcoin peer-to-peer marketplace that also allows users to build their own decentralized marketplaces, will be published in one or two weeks, says Paxful co-founder Ray Youssef. In the meantime he endorses Noones, which describes itself as a “Bitcoin peer-to-peer super app for the Global South.”
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First Mover Asia: Chilly DOGE, While Bitcoin Simmers Over $28.6K
ALSO: The head of markets for crypto research firm Delphi Digital said Binance's loss of market share has stemmed largely from its struggles with regulators. He also called bitcoin's current threshold at about $28K "a tough spot."
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'Shark Tank' Star Kevin O'Leary Calls Litigating Your Crypto Regulator 'Really Stupid'
In Coinbase's case, O'Leary said, it would be "better to sit down and work it out" with regulators, and if a "U.S. regulator doesn't want staking or lending, so be it."
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Tokenized Gold Surpasses $1B in Market Cap as Physical Asset Nears All-Time Price High
This a type of stablecoin pegs its price to gold, while the tokens on the blockchain represent ownership of physical gold managed by the issuer.
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Crypto Funds’ Bitcoin Holdings Rise as Investor Demand Rebounds
Fund managers have added about 4,000 bitcoins in recent weeks.
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Ralph Lauren Miami Store to Accept Crypto Payments
The brand is also partnering with Web3 community Poolsuite to release a co-branded NFT collection.
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Trump NFT Sales Spike Following Ex-President's Arraignment in New York
In the hour after the 45th president was arrested Tuesday afternoon, the collection saw 30 sales, a 462% increase after a long period of token holder dormancy.
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Tether Gained Access to U.S. Financial System Using Signature Bank: Bloomberg
Tether CTO Paolo Ardoino, in response to the article, denied the company has exposure to Signature Bank.
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Google Cloud to Offer Workshops, Cloud Computing Services for Builders on Celo
Participants of Celo’s Founders in Residence program and developers on the layer 1 blockchain protocol will receive guidance and services.
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Magdalena Kala: How I Invest in Web3
“Every non-sleeping, non-exercising hour I’m working on this, because that’s what I think about.”
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Texas Bill Limiting Benefits for Crypto Miners Unanimously Passes Committee Vote
Texas is a major hub for bitcoin miners, many of whom have taken advantage of demand response programs the legislation looks to curb.
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Real-World Tokenization Is Surging as TradFi Grows More Receptive to Blockchain
A number of banks and other big brands want to bring more efficiency to their transactions.
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Ether Gains on Bitcoin but JOLTs Jobs Data Leaves Markets Unmoved
Ether and bitcoin’s reduced daily correlation could provide opportunity for ETH bulls.
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OpenSea Launches OpenSea Pro, Courting Professional NFT Traders
As part of the launch, marketplace fees will return to the main OpenSea platform at 2.5%, while Pro users will have zero fees.
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Arbitrum Governance Fracas Reopens the Question: Why DAOs?
A messy governance dispute over a major Ethereum scaling system has some complaining about “decentralization theater.”