More than 109,000 traders were liquidated over the past 24 hours. The latest price declines in cryptocurrencies are inflicting widespread pain on traders who had made leveraged bets in the notoriously volatile markets, resulting in more than $340 million of liquidations just in the past 24 hours.Mor

The Associated Press news agency is launching a non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace for collectors to purchase photographs taken during its 175-year history. The marketplace will be built by blockchain technology firm Xooa, with NFTs to be minted on the Polygon blockchain.The marketplace is being b

The US Federal Reserve’s Tapering announcement and the crypto-market’s recent performances have kept investors’ confidence low. However, several altcoins demand community attention in the year ahead.IOTA, for instance, integrated smart contracts capabilities through a beta release on its platform in

The U.S. Department of Transportation's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program unveiled a raft of proposed research areas this week, including one that proposes investigating the use of crypto tokens to incentivize approaches to what it calls "modality use by consumers."The information wa

The largest cryptocurrency Bitcoin’s price rose on Sunday, after snapping a six-day losing streak and avoiding a drop below the key psychological level of $40,000 that some cryptocurrency analysts had warned might trigger a steeper sell-off.As of press time bitcoin (BTC) was changing hands around $4

Arab Bank Switzerland, the Geneva-headquartered affiliate of Middle Eastern lender Arab Bank PLC, has extended its wealthy investor-focused cryptocurrency offerings to include 10 of the major decentralized finance (DeFi) tokens.The bank, which began offering crypto custody and brokerage of bitcoin a

Shortly after blockchain-powered game CryptoKitties launched on Ethereum in 2017, the immense demand for the NFT collectibles game clogged up the blockchain platform, driving up fees and slowing transactions. Now we’re seeing the same kind of issue with a new NFT game released on Polygon—a network d

Bitcoin (BTC) dipped below initial support at $45,000 on Wednesday, but later stabilized around $42,000, which is near the Dec. 5 crash low. Oversold signals remain intact, which suggest selling pressure could subside. Oversold signals remain intact, although upside is limited.Given the series of lo

Bitcoin tumbled to its lowest price in a month as minutes from the Federal Reserve’s last meeting in December showed officials discussed whether to start shrinking the U.S. central bank’s swollen $8.3 trillion balance sheet.Prices for the cryptocurrency rallied in recent years as a growing number of

OpenSea’s market value has now surpassed $13.3 billion following the new cash injection. The nonfungible token (NFT) market is gaining momentum as the next frontier in collectibles, gaming and the metaverse. To accelerate this vision, OpenSea announced on Tuesday that it has secured $300 million in