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Salvadoran teenager becomes Bitcoin teacher, no longer earning ‘6 dollars a day’

In a series of tweets, 18-year-old Gerardo Moran explained his journey back to his former high school in El Salvador, where he is now teaching senior professors about Bitcoin. NEWS A Salvadoran teenager has shared his journey after completing El Salvador’s Bitcoin diploma program, Mi Primer Bitcoin — my first Bitcoin. Now, Gerardo Moran has […]

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Circle, Tether freezes over $65M in assets transferred from Multichain

Multichain has suspended its operations after an unexplained transfer of crypto assets worth millions of dollars took place on July 6. NEWS Stablecoin issuers Circle and Tether have frozen over $65 million in assets tied to the suspected exploit of cross-chain router protocol Multichain. The move follows unexplained large outflows from the Multichain MPC bridge […]

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Open-source advocates launch OP Stack testnet to fund public goods

The Public Goods Network from Gitcoin promises to redirect most net sequencer fees into public goods instead of giving them to tokenholders or developers. NEWS Layer-2 blockchain Public Goods Network launched a testnet on July 7, promising to spend “the vast majority of net sequencer fees” on public goods instead of paying them out to […]

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What is The Graph, and how does it work?

Cointelegraph 1. What is The Graph (GRT) cryptocurrency? The Graph is a decentralized indexing system that allows users to query data from blockchain networks, making DApp development easier. The Graph is an open-source protocol hosted on the Ethereum blockchain, designed for indexing and querying, much like Google. It collects, organizes and stores data from other blockchains, […]

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DeFi meets AI: Can this synergy be the new focus of tech acquisitions?

The convergence of AI and DeFi can be a game changer, with trading and portfolio management being the major use cases. SPOTLIGHT The crypto industry has faced significant challenges over the past few years, dealing with issues such as failed exchanges, regulation, collapsing projects and depegged stablecoins. These hurdles have contributed to an atmosphere of uncertainty and skepticism within the industry. However, […]

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Twitter receives money transmitter licenses in three US states

Michigan, Missouri and New Hampshire have granted money transmitter licenses to Twitter Payments LLC, leaving 47 U.S. states yet to weigh in. NEWS Twitter Payments LLC, a subsidiary of Elon Musk’s Twitter social network, appears to have received its first money transmitter licenses after Michigan, New Hampshire and Missouri approved the company’s applications.  A money transmitter license […]

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Chinese city of Jinan accepts CBDC payments for bus rides

The Chinese city of Jinan is pushing for CBDC adoption by implementing digital yuan payments across its entire bus network. NEWS Jinan, the capital of eastern China’s Shandong Province, has started encouraging the adoption of the country’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) by introducing digital yuan payments across all its bus routes. In its pilot phase, the […]

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Here’s what happened in crypto today

Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, NFTs, Web3 and crypto regulation. MARKET UPDATE In Asia, there’s hope that account abstraction or Ethereum “smart accounts” could onboard a billion users to Web3. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom has reminded crypto […]

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TON blockchain launches on-chain encrypted messaging feature

The network previously allowed users to post on-chain messages but only in an unencrypted, completely public way. NEWS The Open Network (TON) has released an on-chain encrypted messaging feature, according to a July 3 announcement from the network’s developer, TON Foundation. The new feature allows for private messages to be sent between TON users.  TON […]

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Nifty News: Blue chip NFT prices wobble, Credit Suisse tries tokens and more

The floor prices for some of the largest NFT collections sunk to nearly two-year lows, but have started to edge up in the past 24 hours. NEWS ‘Blue chip’ floor prices near two-year lows The largest nonfungible token (NFT) collections by market capitalization are in a sea of red as the cheapest NFTs in their […]

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