Kosovo seizes hundreds of ASICs after Bitcoin mining ban
Kosovo, a partially recognized state in Southeast Europe, which announced a blanket ban on cryptocurrency mining last week, confiscated 272 different ASICs that were used for mining Bitcoin.
The arrest of an individual who was found to be an authorized miner has also been conducted. This continues to be an information that seriously affects Bitcoin mining worldwide.
Total value of ETH in 2.0 deposit contract skyrockets to an ATH of 8.9 million ETH
According to on-chain data from crypto analytics platform Glassnode, the amount of staked Ether (ETH) has reached an all-time high of 8,965,186 ETH. At today’s value, the staked ETH is worth over $28 billion.
Top 03 Daily Gainers
$PYR: +18.44%
$GODS: +16.03%
$SHILL: +15.83%
At the top of the growth chart today on the ONUS app is PYR – Token of the blockchain game development project Vulcan Forged, which has started to increase in price after a long time. In 2nd and 3rd place are 2 other game projects, GODS and SHILL with both recovery rates above 15%.
Bitcoin’s on-chain volume increased by 317%, reaching $4.2 trillion in 2021
Bitcoin’s on-chain volume grew by 317% year-on-year (from $1 trillion in 2020 to $4.2 trillion in 2021).
The market leader in terms of total market value also broke its previous all-time high and nearly 100% in 2021 while adding roughly $545 billion to its market capitalization.
LG to follow Samsung adding NFT features to flagship TVs
LG Electronics, one of Samsung’s biggest competitors, revealed that the company “definitely” plans to incorporate NFT features into its TV lineup in a press conference.
The company annnounced that LG Electronics’ latest organic light-emitting diode TVs are optimized for displaying digital artworks.
6.5 Billion SHIB added by crypto whales to their holdings within 1 hour
Data provided by blockchain tracker etherscan shows that two crypto whales have acquired over 6.5 billion SHIB tokens.
The two massive transactions were made from the wallets of Binance and Kucoin crypto exchanges, carrying 4,085,088,583 SHIB from the Binance 16 wallet and 2,533,125,045 SHIB from the KuCoin 3 address.
Play-to-Earn crypto gaming apps surpass DeFi in user popularity
According to data from DappRadar, nearly 50% of active cryptocurrency wallets connected to decentralized applications in November were for playing games.
The percentage of wallets linked to decentralized finance, or DeFi, dapps fell to 45% during the same period, after months of being the leading dapp use case.
BitTorrent File System(BTFS) 2.0.1 Testnet is now live
Underpinned by BTTC, the BTFS V2.0.1 Testnet supports cross-chain connectivity and multi-channel payments, making the distributed BTFS network easier to use and applicable to more use cases.
Solana network faces degraded performance for the second time this week
The Solana blockchain has faced its second network performance degradation incident this week. This is happening because of a rise in high compute transactions.
The network capacity, which was originally advertised to be 50,000 transactions per second (TPS), was reduced to several thousand TPS. Solana cited this as the reason why users experienced failed transactions and added that its developers are already working to fix the issues.
Serum community foundation raises $75 million in token sale
The Incentive Ecosystem Foundation, a community-led foundation of Project Serum, has raised $75 million in a new funding round.
Through this ecosystem fund, the foundation plans to support upcoming Serum projects across areas such as DeFi, NFT, gaming, and growth initiatives for Project Serum, such as hosting hackathons and hiring.