Alphabet’s Google has hired former PayPal executive Arnold Goldberg to run its payments division, Google confirmed to CoinDesk on Wednesday. The search giant had previously retreated from a push into banking, according to Bloomberg, which first reported the news of the hire.Goldberg’s hire is part o

OpenSea, the prominent marketplace for non-fungible tokens(NFTs), is acquiring Ethereum wallet-maker Dharma Labs to help it build on a landmark 2021.In a Tuesday blog post, OpenSea said it's in "build mode" after the market for NFTs, or digital pieces of art tied to the blockchain, boomed last year.

A historically significant 30% of the Bitcoin(BTC) supply is now held at a loss — and that has ended in a bullish rebound twice since March 2020. BTC hodlers face a crucial week in more ways than one as $42,000 rekindles a familiar battle.As noted by on-chain analytics firm Glassnode on Monday, 30%

The retail giant Walmart may also be planning to create its own cryptocurrency and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) which was first reported by CNBCApparently dominating retail competition in the real world isn't enough for Walmart, which filed seven trademarks at the end of December that signal its plan

Cooper Turley, an investor and influencer at the heart of crypto’s burgeoning DAO scene, has been kicked out of Friends With Benefits (FWB), the exclusive online social club he helped build over the past year.“The Code of Conduct committee has made the formal recommendation of removal from the FWB D

LinkedIn, the popular social networking site for professionals, said last week that the number of job ads related to the digital asset industry soared in 2021.Postings related to "Bitcoin," "blockchain," "Ethereum," and other terms surged 395% between 2020 and 2021, according to LinkedIn. By compari

Electric carmaker Tesla is testing a previously teased Dogecoin (DOGE) payment option, according to its website's source code.The DOGE payment option was added for testing around three days ago, a software engineer who goes by "Tree of Alpha" on Twitter told The Block. The engineer analyzed Tesla's

The 20,000-person country, the Republic of Palau in the Pacific has partnered with blockchain research firm Cryptic Labs to launch the world’s first digital residency program as a plan to revamp its economy and now they are eyeing stablecoin.The program uses Cryptic Labs’ Root Name System (RNS) tech

The Chinese state-backed blockchain deployment infrastructure platform Blockchain Services Network (BSN) is moving closer to supporting NFTS -- under the condition that the NFTs aren’t connected to cryptocurrency or public blockchains.According to the South China Morning Post, the BSN will offer Chi

Amid the current economic situation and coupled with the fact that Turkey’s fiat currency — the lira has not stopped depreciating in recent weeks, a vast majority of Turks have now found a safe haven in cryptocurrencies especially Bitcoin and Tether.Turkey Chooses Crypto Over LiraAs is common with m