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Value Locked in Defi Descends Below $50B Range 9 Days After 2023 High
The total value locked in decentralized finance (defi) has descended below the $50 billion range after reaching a 2023 high of $53.63 billion on April 14. This shift has been felt across the board with the top 18 defi protocols recording…
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Non-Fungible Token Sales Spiked This Week Despite Crypto Market Volatility
In the midst of a turbulent week for the crypto market, non-fungible token (NFT) sales have shown resilience, experiencing a surge of 7.74% in weekly sales, totaling $181.82 million. Data also reveals that there has been an increase of 41%…
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Bitcoin Stamps Surpass 18,000 Collectibles, Creativity Takes Center Stage
With the latest non-fungible token (NFT) trend on the Bitcoin blockchain, known as Bitcoin Stamps, users have issued more than 18,000 digital collectibles on the network. While this figure falls short of the number of Ordinal inscriptions,…
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Helium Finishes High-Profile Migration to Solana (SOL) As HNT Token Surges 11% This Week
Helium (HNT) Network officially completed its much-publicized migration to the Solana (SOL) blockchain on Wednesday.
Abhay Kumar, the Helium Foundation’s chief executive, says the upgrade will help with the project’s scalability…
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Toy Manufacturer Mattel to Launch P2P Marketplace for Virtual Collectibles on NFT Platform
On April 20, the American toy manufacturing company Mattel announced an update to its virtual collectibles platform, which will go live on April 27. The peer-to-peer platform, called Mattel Creations Virtual Collectibles, will coincide with…
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Bitcoin Whale Transfers $13 Million Worth of Dormant Coins Dating Back to 2012 and 2013
Following the transfer of $60 million worth of bitcoins on April 19, after more than nine years of dormancy, another whale has made its move. The whale, who acquired 1,129 bitcoins in 2012 and 2013, has transferred 464 bitcoins worth $13…
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Dormant Bitcoin Wallet Linked to Mt Gox Saga Moves $60 Million for the First Time Since 2013
According to onchain data, a bitcoin whale address transferred 2,071.5 bitcoin, worth approximately $60 million, after remaining dormant since December 19, 2013. Interestingly, this bitcoin address is linked to two wallets that sent 10,000…
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Bitcoin Miners Contend With Fifth Network Difficulty Increase of 2023
Bitcoin miners are contending with the fifth network difficulty increase since February 24, 2023, following a 1.72% rise on April 20 at block height 786,240. The network’s difficulty now stands at 48.71 trillion, marking a 22.62%…
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Sotheby’s to Auction 3AC’s NFT Collection, Including Larva Labs’ Zombie Punk and Dmitri Cherniak’s…
On Wednesday, Sotheby’s, one of the world’s largest brokers of fine and decorative art, announced its plans to auction a number of non-fungible token (NFT) assets that were previously owned by the now-defunct crypto hedge fund…
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