AMC Theatres will accept DOGE and SHIBA INU via BitPay
AMC Theatres customers next month will be able to pay with meme coins Dogecoin (DOGE) and SHIBA INU (SHIB) using crypto payments provider BitPay.
AMC CEO Adam Aron announced that BitPay will be live for AMC online payments on AMC website by March 19, and live on AMC mobile app by April 16.
eBay could soon integrate crypto payments on its platform
American multinational e-commerce giant eBay is eyeing to integrate crypto payments. In a recent interview, CEO Jamie Iannone said the firm might leap very soon. Primarily, eBay wants to capture the GenZ and millennial audiences.
Iannone said the official announcement for the much-anticipated crypto integration platform could be revealed during the upcoming investor’s day on March 10.
Terra (LUNA) gains 70% in 7 days, overtaking Cardano and Solana by market cap
LUNA is trading at $85.83, up 15.3% on the day. On the weekly chart, however, the coin’s price surged by 71.9% since last Monday.
Consequently, the price hike has boosted LUNA’s market capitalization to nearly $32.1 billion, making it the seventh-largest crypto in the world. Notably, Terra has outpaced both Cardano (ADA) and Solana (SOL)—now ranked 9th and 8th, respectively—on its way to the top.
Ruble-denominated Bitcoin volume surges to 9-month high
Trading volumes between the Russian ruble and Bitcoin increased to 9-month highs as the country’s fiat currency plunged to record lows due to the fallout from Ukraine invasion.
Data tracked by Kaiko, a Paris-based cryptocurrency research provider, shows that ruble (RUB)-denominated Bitcoin volume surged to nearly 1.5 billion RUB on Thursday, hitting the highest since May. The spike in the ruble-based crypto trading volume came as investors scrambled to move out of the ruble, fearing stricter sanctions from the West.
Top 10 Daily Gainer – Top 100 Category
In the last 24h, Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, has been recovering and gainning 13.49% to 44,225 USD, leading to a growth in the price of the entire market.
Leading the chart is WAVES, which has risen 47.28% in the last 24 hours to a price of $17.43. WAVES has gained 104.57% after only 1 week and 76.82% after 1 month. Following behind are KNC (up 33.13%), LUNA (up 23.56%), THETA (up 21.62%),…
REQ becomes one of the most-purchased tokens by Ethereum whales
Request Network’s token, REQ, surprisingly became one of the most purchased tokens among Ethereum whales, according to WhaleStats tracking service. REQ gained sixth place as one of the most widely purchased assets among Ethereum whales.
Celo announced performing hard fork Expresso
Celo announced that Celo’s second Hardfork, called Espresso, will be activated on March 8, 2022.
The hard fork is expected to bridge the gap between Celo and the Ethereum protocol codebase, allowing dApp developers to migrate or deploy their contracts to Celo easily.
Top 5 most-mentioned cryptocurrency on social media
Bitcoin, the largest cryptoasset by market capitalization, has attracted 410.52 thousand comments and has become the most-mentioned cryptocurrency on social media in the past 24 hours.
ETH was followed by market leader Bitcoin which had 115.73 thousand comments on social media. SHIB also made the list along with XTZ and DOGE. These had over 54.88 thousand, 53.25 thousand, and 46.75 thousand comments respectively.
Ukraine vice prime minister calls on crypto exchanges to freeze Russian accounts
Mykhailo Fedorov, vice prime minister and minister of digital transformation of Ukraine, has called on crypto exchanges to freeze the accounts of both Russian and Belarusian users.
Fedorov posted the plea on Twitter on February 27, following several days of intense fighting in Ukraine after Russian forces invaded the country late last week. Jesse Powell, CEO of Kraken, one of the world’s largest exchanges, today responded that such a move could not be taken “without a legal requirement to do so”.
Ethereum validators near 300,000 as amount of ETH staked surpasses 9.5 million
As shared by a top Ethereum developer, the number of validators nodes on the Ethereum network has now reached 299,085. The amount of Ethereum staked has also been steadily increasing, and it now stands at 9,570,639 ETH.