OpenSea, the largest NFT marketplace, has surpassed the one million mark in terms of active user wallets on the platform.

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Eduardo Paes – the mayor of Rio de Janeiro – intends to allocate 1% of the city’s Treasury in bitcoin. If he proceeds, the megapolis will become the first Brazilian city to purchase the primary cryptocurrency as a store of value.

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A judge ruling has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to hand over an email containing a draft of former director William Hinman's statement on whether Ethereum was deemed a security. Hinman gave the speech in June 2018, telling a conference audience that Ether was not a security in his opinion.

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Walmart might be looking to enter the metaverse space, according to patent filings that were made in December 2021. Details are scarce, but the company may implement a virtual currency and NFTs to facilitate the initiative.

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Cratos (CRTS) has been listed on Gate exchange

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The Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV), the government agency responsible for the financial regulation of the securities markets in Spain, issued a release on Monday defining the new rules.

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Binance has teamed up with Gulf Innova Company — a wholly-owned subsidiary of Thailand billionaire Sarath Ratanavadi's Gulf Energy Development Public Company — to set up a crypto exchange in the country.

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Huobi will list Secret (SCRT)

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Crypto .com, the most prominent digital bank in the Asia-Pacific region, was hacked, leaving some customers reporting losses between 2-5 ETH.

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Great Britain is aiming at regulating cryptocurrency and the DeFi industry as a whole. Regulators have also proposed to remove references to blockchain from the definition of crypto assets, but they have not clarified how.

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Cardano Foundation has announced the launch of a new project to boost third-party smart contract development in collaboration with EMURGO, the commercial arm of the Cardano blockchain.

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Microchip giant Intel could be about to enter the crypto and Bitcoin mining hardware market.

The technology giant is set to unveil its “Bonanza Mine” processor at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) commencing on Feb. 20.

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Following a request from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Daenerys & Co., Singapore’s largest operator of the machines, said late on Tuesday, January 18, that it had suspended operations.

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Erik Thedéen, the vice-chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority has raised concerns over the growing use of renewable energy for Bitcoin mining.

In a recent interview with the Financial Times, Thedéen said that Bitcoin (BTC) mining has become a “national issue” and warned cryptocurrencies could pose a risk to climate change goals.

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According to the data provided, since Dec. 1, an astounding 2,576,326,394 SHIB have been sent to a dead wallet. That is worth $71,441.

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Shivakumar Venkataraman, Google’s engineering vice president, will spearhead the effort to take tech giant deeper into the distributed computing and blockchain space.

According to a Jan 20 Bloomberg report, the new unit is focused on “blockchain and other next-gen distributed computing and data storage technologies.”

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352.67 million dollars were printed in the last 24 hours by USDC

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Ripple has landed a small victory in their legal battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that has lasted over a year. A federal judge has ruled to grant Ripple access to emails within the SEC, which Ripple believes will help their case.

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The bitcoin price has crashed 10% over the last 24 hours, dropping under $40,000 to around $38,000, a level not seen since the summer of 2021. Meanwhile, the price of ethereum, BNB, solana, cardano and XRP have all dropped between 7% and 11%.

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Binance will list API3 (API3) and will open trading for API3/BTC, API3/BUSD and API3/USDT trading pairs at 2022-01-21 10:30 (UTC).

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Cardano’s first decentralized app (DApp) SundaeSwap has launched but is causing a frustration among users due to congestion, platform errors and failed transactions.

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