Crypto exchange FTX gives cash to Ukrainians on its platform
Sam Bankman-Fried — the founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, announced that the exchange had given $25 to each Ukrainian registered on the platform.
This is the crypto community’s global latest move to show solidarity with the Ukraine fight against the Russian attack that started on the 24th of February.
VOXEL rallied after launching its marketplace
Data from TradingView shows that after hitting a low of $0.90 on Feb. 22, VOXEL, the native utility currency of Voxie Tactics price spiked 25.75% to a daily high of $1.42 on Feb. 25 with a trading volume of 178 million USD.
The turn of fortune for VOXEL comes as the protocol announced the Feb. 26 launch of the Voxie Tactics marketplace which will allow users participating in the game’s beta launch to buy or sell items for gameplay.
15.43 million SHIBA INU burned in past 24h
As reported by Shibburn, in the last 24 hours, there have been a total of 15.43 million SHIB tokens burned.
SHIBA INU has gained 9.34% in the last 24 hours and is trading at $0.0000238. At press-time, SHIB remains on spot 14 on the CoinMarketCap scale with a market capitalization of $13,131,531,669.
MATIC and LINK enter list of most wanted crypto
WhaleStats data aggregator has spotted three hefty crypto transactions made by three of the top 1,000 Ethereum whales. The first investor acquired 2,700,000 MATIC worth $3,483,000, the second whale has bought 896,990 MATIC – the equivalent of $1,336,515. The third transaction carried 99,990 LINK, which comprises $1,364,863.
According to the WhaleStats website, over the past 24 hours, MATIC and LINK have been on the list of the top 10 purchased cryptocurrencies.
US Bitcoin miners expanding operations despite price volatility
Crypto mining operations based in the United States are committed to increasing their hash power with more hardware despite Bitcoin’s (BTC) three-month downturn.
The Marathon Digital Holdings and GEM Mining companies in the U.S. announced this week that they each expect the size of their respective operations to grow through 2022 by at least doubling the number of machines at their facilities.
Chainlink number of “hodlers” reaches fresh highs despite price declines
The on-chain analytics data provider notes that despite the price slump, the number of ”hodlers” (Chainlink addresses that have held for more than a year) has increased.
Presently, 279,440 addresses are now holding Chainlink for over a year. This figure represents 43.9% of the total holder composition, IntoTheBlock notes.
Bitcoin bounces back to $38,000 after Biden addresses Russia-Ukraine conflict
President Biden issued a new round of economic sanctions Thursday meant to punish Russia for attacking Ukraine. The president also promised to send more forces to Germany to support the NATO alliance along the eastern flank. However, he also made clear that no troops would be sent directly to Ukraine to take part in the conflict.
Bitcoin responded immediately to the news. Sitting at $36,300 as of 2:02 PM EST, it moonshot to $39k exactly one hour later. Bitcoin has gained 10.55% after 24h and is trading at $38,737.
ACA rises 44.5% after 24h
The data shows that since falling to a fairly low level of 0.861003 USD on February 24th, the price of Acala Token (ACA) has rallied 44.5% and bounced back to 1.28 USD this morning of February 25th.
ACA trading volume spiked to 14.61 million USD, 3 times higher than the average trading volume of the previous 10 days. With these achievements, ACA is currently leading the Top Gainers on ONUS.
$460 million worth of remaining crypto longs liquidated
According to Coinglass, $460 million worth of orders were liquidated in the last 24 hours as the market faced the strong selling pressure that sent Bitcoin below $35,000—a price that the market saw last time back at the end of January.
First place in terms of liquidated volume is Bitcoin, with $146 million worth of orders wiped from the market. Second place in liquidated volume is Ethereum, with $122 million worth of orders liquidated in the last 24 hours.
SM Entertainment partners with Binance to launch global play-to-create NFT ecosystem
On Feb.23, the Korean entertainment powerhouse revealed that their subsidiary SM Brand Marketing (SMBM) has established a strategic partnership with Binance as they begin their venture into NFTs and blockchain markets.
According to the agreement, the two companies will collaborate to expand their play-to-create (P2C) ecosystem in which users can create games, music, dance and goods on their own.