Opera takes a giant leap into Web3, integrates Solana, Polygon, StarkEx, and others
Opera, the company behind the world’s first native web3 browser with built-in crypto wallet, today announced adding support for several major blockchain ecosystems, including Solana, Polygon, StarkEx, Ronin, Celo, Nervos, IXO and Bitcoin.
The tens of millions of active Opera users can benefit from blockchains and decentralized apps (dapps) and services within eight different blockchain ecosystems.
Polygon announces ZK-Proof-based identity solution for Web3
The decentralized Ethereum scaling platform Polygon has announced the launch of its new privacy-focused identity solution. The platform’s unique Polygon ID uses zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs to create a digital identity that doesn’t reveal users’ personal information.
Gnosis (GNO) price rallies 50% after 1 week
This week Gnosis (GNO) price notched a swift 50% rally after the project took another step forward in its transition to the Coincidence of Wants Procotol, or CoW, an interface that offers traders protection from miner extracted value (MEV).
Data from TradingView shows that the price of GNO has gained 86% over the past seven days, rising from a low of $308 on March 21 to an intraday high at $574 on March 28.
Vietnam prepares legal framework for virtual assets, virtual currency
Deputy PM Le Minh Khai has released an instruction for the Ministries of Finance, Justice, Information & Communications and the State Bank of Vietnam on the building of a legal framework on virtual assets and virtual currency.
Despite a lack of legal framework around the crypto market, Vietnamese has the highest percentage of crypto holders worldwide. According to Finder’s crypto ownership report, Vietnam tops the worldwide rankings, with 41% of its population reportedly holding crypto.
GMT rises 54.17% after 24h, hitting new ATH
GMT, the official governance token in the STEPN ecosystem, has achieved a growth of 105.52% in the past 7 days.
This asset has officially set a new ATH of $1.868, the highest since launching. GMT’s 24h trading volume reached more than 2.01 billion USD. With these achievements, GMT is now leading the Top Gainers and the Top Trending on ONUS.
Cardano on-Chain transaction volumes increase 50 times
According to data from IntoTheBlock, the number of large transactions with volumes exceeding $100,000 jumped by 50 times just in 2022.
Increased demand on the Cardano network was most likely tied to the general growth of the network as its TVL exceeded $300 million, total market capitalization broke through $40 billion and the price hit a two-month high.
Hacker drains $622m from Axie Infinity’s Ronin Ethereum sidechain
Ronin, an Ethereum sidechain developed for the hit NFT game Axie Infinity, has been targeted in a hack that saw an estimated $625 million worth of cryptocurrency drained from its bridge.
The attacker took 173,600 ETH (nearly $597 million) and 25.5 million USDC stablecoin ($25.5 million). After discovering the attack, Sky Mavis has halted the Ronin bridge and Katana DEX to to ensure no further attack vectors remain open. The team is also working with Chainalysis to monitor the stolen funds.
Terra’s LUNA sets new All-Time High following $135 million Bitcoin buy
LUNA, the governance token behind the Terra network, has spiked more than 10% earlier today to reach a new record high of $106.14. The price of LUNA has slightly backtracked since then and is trading around $103.48.
LUNA’s latest price action most likely relates to the news that Luna Foundation Guard (LFG), a Singapore-based non-profit organization supporting the Terra network, recently purchased $135 million worth of Bitcoin to back the UST stablecoin.
First time since November: Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index shows greed as BTC soared
Market sentiment has flipped firmly greedy following Bitcoin’s return to highs from early January. The Crypto Fear & Greed Index (FGI) has now reached 60 – the highest reported number since Bitcoin’s all-time high in November.
On March 28, the 24-hour trading volume of the entire market surpassed $100 billion and is now hovering around $131.9 billion.