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  • Ankr becomes an RPC provider to Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution Optimism

    Ankr becomes an RPC provider to Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution Optimism

    Ankr, one of the world’s fastest-growing Web3 infrastructure providers, announced that it has become an RPC (Remote Procedure Call) provider to Optimism.

    This partnership is also a major boost to dApp developers looking for additional Optimism RPC endpoints. Developers can access Optimism Public and Premium RPCs, make request calls, and query on-chain information that mirrors the results of running a self-hosted Optimism full node.

  • Tether sees new wave of redemptions as fear of market contagion spreads

    Tether sees new wave of redemptions as fear of market contagion spreads

    Investors pulled out about $1.6 billion in 48 hours from Tether’s dollar-pegged USDT stablecoin, reducing its circulating supply to $70.8 billion.

    This is the lowest since October 2021, according to price tracker CoinGecko.

  • VC-backed MetalCore to launch on Polygon

    VC-backed MetalCore to launch on Polygon

    MetalCore Foundation, today announces an official partnership with Polygon Studios, the team onboarding brands, developers, and creators to Web3 through investment, marketing, and community support, to launch the free-to-play mechanized combat MMO, MetalCore, on the Polygon network.

    MetalCore is being created by veteran game developers, Studio 369, with Polygon already onboard as a strategic partner for the game and now will provide its industry-leading, scalable, low-cost transaction security to Ethereum in an eco-friendly way.

  • Uniswap Labs hires former NYSE president to be adviser

    Uniswap Labs hires former NYSE president to be adviser

    Uniswap Labs, the company behind Uniswap, an Ethereum-based decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, said Wednesday via a Twitter thread that it has hired Stacey Cunningham to be an adviser.

    Cunningham most recently worked at the New York Stock Exchange, where she served as its first female president from 2018 to 2021. According to the Twitter thread, Cunningham joined Uniswap Labs because “she believes in the potential of decentralized exchange and in Uniswap’s commitment to fairer markets.”

  • Chainlink integrates with Moonbeam to provide price data to Polkadot developers

    Chainlink integrates with Moonbeam to provide price data to Polkadot developers

    Decentralized oracle network Chainlink (LINK) has integrated its service called Chainlink Price Feeds to Moonbeam, a smart contract parachain on Polkadot (DOT), to provide data to developers in the platform.

    Chainlink’s team noted that going live on Moonbeam will allow those who build within the platform to access price information that’s compiled and aggregated from many different exchanges.

  • SEC launches insider trading inquiry into crypto exchanges

    SEC launches insider trading inquiry into crypto exchanges

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had sent a letter to a major crypto exchange asking about the kinds of protections it has in place against insider trading, according to Fox Business.

    The SEC is also reportedly looking into whether Terraform Labs, the company behind UST and LUNA, violated U.S. laws in its marketing of the cryptocurrencies.

  • FITFI rises 65.77% after 24 hours

    FITFI rises 65.77% after 24 hours

    FITFI rises 65.77% after 24 hours

    Many altcoins have experienced substantial growth in the past 24 hours, the most prominent of which is FITFI, the governance token that works on the Step App platform. FITFI is witnessing a significant recovery since dropping to a low on June 13h.

    In the last 24h, this asset has gained 65.77% in value. Currently, FITFI is holding the No. 1 position in the Top Gainers on ONUS, with a trading volume of $8.19 million.

  • 601 million TRX scooped up by whales

    601 million TRX scooped up by whales

    WhaleStats crypto tracker has shared that over the past 12 hours, two massive TRX transactions have been conducted, carrying 301,807,767 TRX and 299,999,999 TRX.

    These chunks of tokens cost investors $15,724,471 and $15,248,973.

  • Study reveals 30% of billionaires have direct or indirect investments in crypto

    Study reveals 30% of billionaires have direct or indirect investments in crypto

    Study reveals 30% of billionaires have direct or indirect investments in crypto

    According to Forbes’s report, almost 30% of them have either direct or indirect investments in crypto, “a rate that is higher than among non-billionaire investors”.

    18% of the surveyed billionaires have at least 1% of their wealth in crypto. Most of the survey participants in this group are investing only as a small side experiment. Indeed, 80% have said that they had much less than one-tenth of their fortune invested in crypto, while 3.2% said they had more than half of their wealth in it.

  • Brazilian proposal would make crypto payments legal and protect private keys

    Brazilian proposal would make crypto payments legal and protect private keys

    Federal Deputy Paulo Martins issued the proposal to the country’s legislature on June 10.

    If passed, the bill would grant Brazilians the right to use cryptocurrency as a means of payment while protecting their private keys from being taken by the courts.