Crypto News
Crypto stories without the hype
My favourites from the cryptouniverse in the past month
Advice
↑ = encouraging more acceptance/watch out for FOMO, ↓ = negative/watch out for FUD
Loopring: What Is LRC and How Does Make Ethereum Gas Fees Cheaper? — makeuseof — 30 December 2021 (LINK)
Here's Why I Still Won't Buy Bitcoin, and You Shouldn't, Either — fool — 26 December 2021 (LINK)
I teach cryptocurrency at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Here are 3 things every new crypto investor needs to know — marketwatch — 23 December 2021 (LINK)
What Is Loopring and What’s Driving Its Rise? — coindesk — 22 December 2021 (LINK)
The blockchain-based project Loopring has developed a layer 2, or companion system, technology to help Ethereum scale, or increase capacity, ahead of its upgrade - by as much as 1,000x, according to the former head of business.
These Are the 10 Biggest Media Cryptocurrencies — entrepreneur — 17 December 2021 (LINK)
How to Pay With Crypto on Amazon — makeuseof — 17 December 2021 (LINK)
The Top 5 Reasons Why Cryptocurrencies Crash — ambcrypto — 15 December 2021 (LINK)
Risks of DeFi hacks can magnify as we head into 2022, here's why — makeuseof — 16 December 2021 (LINK)
WEF's crypto report: a 50-minute analysis by CoinBureau's Guy (youtube) — youtube — 14 December 2021 (LINK)
November blockchain funding recap — theblockresearch — 13 December 2021 (LINK)
Netflix over Bitcoin payment channels (technical proposal) — coingeek — 13 December 2021 (LINK)
Quick Reference about All Things About Terra (LUNA) For Beginners — thecurrencyanalytics — 13 December 2021 (LINK)
How Bitcoin Fixes The Old World Bureaucracy Of Payments — bitcoinmagazine — 12 December 2021 (LINK)
My Node Runs On Home Solar: How Solar Energy Offers Protection From Government And Inflation Like Bitcoin — bitcoinmagazine — 12 December 2021 (LINK)
UK's Atom Learning picks up $25M from SoftBank for an AI-based online learning platform aimed at elementary school-aged students — techcrunch — 9 December 2021 (LINK)
The Craig Wright saga — decrypt — 9 December 2021 (LINK)
How to Sell on Trust Wallet — cryptopolitan — 6 December 2021 (LINK)
How to Connect Trust Wallet to MetaMask — cryptopolitan — 5 December 2021 (LINK)
Everything you need to know about Uniswap before investing — newsbtc — 5 December 2021 (LINK)
Crypto Exchanges in 2022: More Services, More Compliance, and Competition — cryptonews — 4 December 2021 (LINK)
Academic research claims ETH is a 'superior' store of value to Bitcoin — cointelegraph — 3 December 2021 (LINK)
Global
2021 in Review: the Top 10 Crypto Moments of the Year — cryptobriefing — 23 December 2021 (LINK)
2021 was the most eventful year for the crypto industry to date. Major events of the year included a boom in meme coins and NFTs, crypto adoption at a nation state level, and rising corporate interest in the Metaverse.
The pandemic supercharged the creator economy in 2021 — engadget — 23 December 2021 (LINK)
SpyWolf launches web portal contributing to a safer crypto space — ambcrypto — 22 December 2021 (LINK)
Metamining Uses an Innovative Cooling Solution To Make Bitcoin Mining Farms Viable in the Middle East — dailyhodl — 22 December 2021 (LINK)
Coinbase Lists Mco2, The World's First Green Digital Asset — dailycoin — 22 December 2021 (LINK)
"We believe this to be a landmark in the global voluntary carbon credit market. MCO2 has already been used by more than 300 companies around the globe." Moss's innovation consists in backing in blockchain a real green asset generated by environmental projects in the Amazon Rainforest and which can be traded on exchanges or used to neutralize gases in the atmosphere.
Funding Round for African Blockchain Startups Raises $6 Million — cryptoknowmics — 18 December 2021 (LINK)
Why Binance withdrew its Singapore license application, and what this means for Zilliqa — cryptoslate — 15 December 2021 (LINK)
UNICEF launches NFTs to help connect schools to the internet — beincrypto — 13 December 2021 (LINK)
Bitcoin Exchange Balance Hits Three-Year Low — bitcoinmagazine — 10 December 2021 (LINK)
SPLC report examines use of Bitcoin and Monero by right wing extremists — cointelegraph — 10 December 2021 (LINK)
Kickstarter Announces That It Will Move to Blockchain using CELO — cryptobriefing — 9 December 2021 (LINK)
Nonprofit Sats Center Launches To Educate U.S. Regulators On Bitcoin — bitcoinmagazine — 9 December 2021 (LINK)
FTX Crypto Exchange Proposes 10 Key Principles for Regulating the Crypto Market — coingape — 4 December 2021 (LINK)
Meta Relaxes Facebook's Cryptocurrency Ad Policy — Says Crypto Continues to 'Mature and Stabilize' — bitcoin.com — 3 December 2021 (LINK)
5 year study: Can token rewards improve HIV patient outcomes in Africa? — cointelegraph — 3 December 2021 (LINK)
Thai Crypto Unicorn Bitkub Plans to Become the Coinbase of Asia — newsbtc — 2 December 2021 (LINK)
Miami to use PlanetWatch and Algorand for air quality monitoring — cointelegraph — 2 December 2021 (LINK)
Crime?
Ethereum Project Airdrops Scam Token, Then Pulls the Rug — cryptobriefing — 31 December 2021 (LINK)
Hacker Exploits Vulnerability To Steal 801,601 MATIC Tokens From Polygon — bitcoinist — 31 December 2021 (LINK)
Convicted UK Terrorist Got In Jail Again For Dark Web BTC Trading — dcforecasts — 22 December 2021 (LINK)
US Authorities To Return Over $150m in Embezzled Bitcoin Back to Tech Conglomerate Sony — dailyhodl — 22 December 2021 (LINK)
Revenue from crypto scams spike 81% to a near-record $7.7 billion in 2021, says Chainalysis — businessinsider — 16 December 2021 (LINK)
Huobi, Shiba Inu Communities Extend Support to BitMart Following the $200M Hack — cryptopotato — 6 December 2021 (LINK)
US SEC Charges Latvian With Defrauding Crypto Investors in Two Digital Asset Securities Offerings — news.bitcoin.com — 5 December 2021 (LINK)
FBI Confiscated Around $2.3 Million in Crypto Tied to Ransomware Gang REvil — cryptopotato — 4 December 2021 (LINK)
Largest DeFi Hack Yet? BadgerDAO Hack Results In Loss Of $120M+ — newsbtc — 3 December 2021 (LINK)
Coins
Polkadot Successfully Concludes 6th Parachain Slot Auction With Enjin’s Efinity Now Set To Bring NFTs To Polkadot — zycrypto — 31 December 2021 (LINK)
Opera Partners With Polygon to Integrate Ethereum Dapps Into Browser — cryptopotato — 23 December 2021 (LINK)
Will Zilliqa Price Surge of 100% Following Its Foray Into Metaverse? — coinpedia — 22 December 2021 (LINK)
6,118 ETH Worth $24,657,165 Was Burned on 21 December — benzinga — 22 December 2021 (LINK)
Cardano Has Launched a New Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Testnet to Accelerate Decentralization — cryptoknowmics — 18 December 2021 (LINK)
Bitcoin declared 'dead' 42 times this year, 3x as many as entire 2020 — finbold — 18 December 2021 (LINK)
XRP to Be Delisted by Yet Another Canadian Exchange — u.today — 13 December 2021 (LINK)
The First of Its Kind Metachain Project, ShuttleOne Joins Tezos Protocol — bitcoin — 13 December 2021 (LINK)
Cryptocurrency Internet Computer Down More Than 11% Within 24 hours — benzinga — 13 December 2021 (LINK)
10% of Cardano wealthiest addresses control 94% of all ADA circulating supply — finbold — 13 December 2021 (LINK)
Polygon (MATIC) Announces Nearly $500,000,000 Deal in Effort To Lead Ethereum-Scaling Solution Race — dailyhodl — 12 December 2021 (LINK)
Bitcoin hash rate recovers to nearly same level before China cracked down — seekingalpha — 9 December 2021 (LINK)
Bitcoin and Ethereum Prices Tumble 5% After Evergrande, Kaisa Default in China — decrypt — 9 December 2021 (LINK)
Whales Are Actively Accumulating Three Altcoins — And Selling Two Others, According to Crypto Analytics Firm Santiment — dailyhodl — 4 December 2021 (LINK)
Qtum (QTUM) & Vertcoin (VTC) to Undergo Halving in December — Multi Coin Analysis — beincrypto — 2 December 2021 (LINK)
National
Gibraltar is trying to revamp itself as a big crypto haven — livebitcoinnews — 31 December 2021 (LINK)
Estonia's new laws set to clamp down on crypto industry — cointelegraph — 31 December 2021 (LINK)
U.S.SEC Appoints New Senior Advisor for Cryptocurrency Oversight — cryptopotato — 31 December 2021 (LINK)
100 digital payment token firms in Singapore fail to win licenses — cointelegraph — 22 December 2021 (LINK)
El Salvador Buys 21 Bitcoins on 21st Day of Last Month of 21st Year of 21st Century — coindesk — 21 December 2021 (LINK)
In announcing the purchase on Twitter, President Nayib Bukele also noted the country's land area is 21,000 square kilometers.
XRP, BTC, ETH, LINK, BCH, DOT Now Can Be Bought by Ordinary Investors via New Japanese SBI Crypto Fund — u.today — 18 December 2021 (LINK)
$XLM: Ukraine Uses Stellar To Pilot New Digital Currency Program — cryptoglobe — 18 December 2021 (LINK)
Bitcoin Soars Against The Turkish Lira After Erdogan's Rates Cut — dcforecasts — 18 December 2021 (LINK)
Reserve Bank of India requests board to impose a total ban on crypto — finbold — 18 December 2021 (LINK)
Paraguay: Senate passes bill to regulate crypto activities — cryptopolitan — 18 December 2021 (LINK)
According to the bill, Bitcoin will never be recognized as a form of legal payment. The bill included a proactive measure from regulators against entities mining Bitcoin across the country. The bill will also provide consumers with massive protections while limiting risks of trading in the market.
Brazil Stock Exchange B3 Plans to Enter Crypto Market in 2022: Report — coindesk — 14 December 2021 (LINK)
Russian Mutual Funds Banned From Holding Crypto: Central Bank Directive — benzinga — 13 December 2021 (LINK)
Anti-Junta Groups in Myanmar Using Tether to Fund Resistance — beincrypto — 13 December 2021 (LINK)
Kenya Based Fintech Kwara Raises $4 Million in Seed Round — bitcoin — 12 December 2021 (LINK)
India releases a five-year roadmap for adopting blockchain technology — coinnounce — 10 December 2021 (LINK)
Japan is looking to tighten oversight for the stablecoin sector — coinnounce — 10 December 2021 (LINK)
Volatility, hyperinflation and uncertainty: How everyday Venezuelans are using stablecoins to protect their livelihoods — cointelegraph — 9 December 2021 (LINK)
Colombia's Largest Bank Taps Gemini to Offer Bitcoin, Ethereum Trading to Clients — decrypt — 6 December 2021 (LINK)
Crypto Investors are Trying to Buy a Private Island in the Bahamas and Tokenize Its Ownership — crypto island group / yahoo — 6 December 2021 (LINK)
South Korea Delays Plans to Tax Crypto to 2023 — coindesk — 3 December 2021 (LINK)
Cabinet note suggests India will regulate, rather than ban, crypto — cointelegraph — 3 December 2021 (LINK)
Another One Bites The Dust: SEC Rejects WisdomTree's Bitcoin ETF Application — benzinga — 2 December 2021 (LINK)
Crypto Adoption Grows In Croatia: Supermarkets, Post Offices, Car Dealerships, + — bitcoinist — 2 December 2021 (LINK)
Swiss
Dfinity’s Internet Computer Opens Ethereum Bridge — coindesk — 25 December 2021 (LINK)
Dfinity Foundation Launches $215 Million Grant To Boost Developer Ecosystem — newsbtc — 22 December 2021 (LINK)
Swiss SEBA Bank Launches Gold-Backed Digital Token — cryptoslate — 15 December 2021 (LINK)
BBVA Switzerland becomes first traditional bank in Europe to offer ETH to clients — ambcrypto — 14 December 2021 (LINK)
Swiss Minister's Data Got Exposed In Recent Crypto Data Breach — dcforecasts — 12 December 2021 (LINK)
Business
Bitwise Crypto Asset Manager Launches World’s First NFT Index Fund — dcforecasts — 18 December 2021 (LINK)
Crypto-Loving Social Media Platform Reddit Files To Go Public — dcforecasts — 18 December 2021 (LINK)
Justin Sun Steps Down As Tron CEO To Join Grenada Government — dcforecasts — 18 December 2021 (LINK)
New Credit Card By Ledger in a Partnership with FTX, Coinbase, and Rarible — cryptoknowmics — 18 December 2021 (LINK)
Crypto exchange Binance US hires its first-ever Chief Risk Officer — coinnounce — 18 December 2021 (LINK)
Nike Acquires Non-Fungible Sneaker Studio RTFKT — cryptobriefing — 14 December 2021 (LINK)
Wells Fargo and HSBC to Use Blockchain to Settle Forex Transactions — cryptopotato — 13 December 2021 (LINK)
OKEx Blockdream Ventures completes a partnership with WAX — cryptopolitan — 13 December 2021 (LINK)
Flexa adds Shiba Inu as a payment option — cryptopolitan — 13 December 2021 (LINK)
Remote working startup Deel adds USDC and Solana withdrawals — theblockcrypto — 13 December 2021 (LINK)
Crypto Offers Women a Seat at the Male-dominated Finance Table — beincrypto — 12 December 2021 (LINK)
Binance is Planning a New Crypto Venture in Indonesia — coingape — 10 December 2021 (LINK)
EOS Community Blocks Ongoing Payments of $250 Million in EOS to BlockOne — cryptopotato — 9 December 2021 (LINK)
Goldman Sachs and other top US banking institutions to consider Bitcoin-backed loans — fxstreet — 3 December 2021 (LINK)
Payment firm Square rebrands to Block as focus shifts to cryptocurrency — fxstreet — 2 December 2021 (LINK)
On the Wild Side (includes prices and predictions)
The first text message is now a $150,000 NFT: Vodafone will donate the proceeds to the United Nations Refugee Agency — engadget — 23 December 2021 (LINK)
This Plot Of Digital Land Just Sold For $29,392 In MANA In Decentraland — benzinga — 22 December 2021 (LINK)
Adidas' Metaverse NFT Collection Sold for $23 Million in Minutes — cryptoknowmics — 18 December 2021 (LINK)
Dreaming of an Innovative Wedding? You Can Now Get Married in the Metaverse — dailycoin — 13 December 2021 (LINK)
Financial Adviser Warns Crypto Is 'One of the Biggest Bubbles Ever' — Says 'It's Going to Be Ugly' — bitcoin — 10 December 2021 (LINK)
Ross Ulbricht NFT Collection Raises Over $6 Million in Ethereum, Free Ross DAO Wins Auction — bitcoin — 10 December 2021 (LINK)
Virtual Land Adjacent to Snoop Dogg's Sandbox Estate Sells for $450K in Ethereum — news.bitcoin.com — 4 December 2021 (LINK)
Ex-Trump Attorney Michael Cohen To Sell NFT Of His Prison Badge — benzinga — 1 December 2021 (LINK)
Omicron (OMIC) token pumps 900% in a weekend, then nose-dives — finbold — 1 December 2021 (LINK)
Catch Up
Earlier roundups