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CatBoy Plunges 70% As Hopes For The 'Dogecoin Of Cats' Crumble
Tuesday, March 22, 2022 - 2:40pm | 321CatBoy (CRYPTO: CATBOY), a meme coin acclaimed as the cat equivalent of Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) and acts as a utility token, saw its price crash violently today after reporting eye-watering gains earlier this month. What Happened: Market data shows CatBoy's price fell...
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Wen Token? Metamask Users Could Get Rewarded Soon With New Funding, DAO Launch
Tuesday, March 15, 2022 - 4:27pm | 626A new funding round for MetaMask owner ConsenSys could help the company with plans for a DAO and a token. Here’s the latest. What Happened: ConsenSys raised $450 million in a Series D round Tuesday that values the company at $7 billion. ParaFi led the raise with returning investors in the...
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Shiba Inu Supporters Want SHIB To Be Included For Twitter Tipping After Ethereum Allowed
Saturday, February 19, 2022 - 5:03pm | 493Days after Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) announced that users can now tip using Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), supporters of Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB) want SHIB to be included as an option too. Twitter first announced the feature of tipping with cryptocurrencies in September 2021, when the company...
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Top Cryptos Of 2021: We Bet You Have Never Heard Of The Top Gainer!
Friday, December 31, 2021 - 5:20pm | 634In a collaboration with cryptocurrency market data platform CoinStats, Benzinga gained insight into which cryptocurrencies saw the best price-performance in 2021 — with results that could be surprising to most. What Happened: Data shared with Benzinga shows some of the top five...
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DOGE Co-Creator Explains Key Differences Between Shiba Inu And Dogecoin
Thursday, December 23, 2021 - 12:57pm | 444Billy Markus, the co-creator of meme-based cryptocurrency Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE), explained the main differences between it and rival Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB). What Happened: Markus was asked what he believed the biggest differences were between the cryptocurrencies. “I don’t...
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Crypto Exchange BitMEX Launches Its Own Token
Tuesday, December 21, 2021 - 12:00pm | 440BitMEX, one of the oldest crypto exchanges still operational, plans to launch its own native cryptocurrency token. What Happened: In a Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) announcement on Tuesday, BitMEX said it would mint a cryptocurrency token and airdrop it to new and existing users. We’re...
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Massive Glitch On DeFi Platform Compound Puts $160 Million Up For Grabs
Monday, October 4, 2021 - 2:44pm | 441An upgrade gone wrong to the decentralized finance protocol Compound Finance (CRYPTO: COMP) has led to a bigger loss. What Happened: According to Compound Labs' founder and Chief Executive Officer Robert Leshner, 490,000 Comp worth around $160 million is at risk. After...
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How INX Limited Became The Blockchain's First Of Many "Firsts"
Thursday, September 9, 2021 - 1:13pm | 679The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga. More than a month has passed since INX Limited listed the world’s first SEC-registered blockchain security token, and that isn...
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NEAR Skyrockets By 69% Even As Wider Crypto Market Plunges
Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 12:58pm | 298Tuesday’s crypto market flash crash saw the value of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), and Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) lose as much as 20% of their value in a matter of hours. Amidst the chaos, one crypto token still managed to rally by over 69% to hit a new all-time high. What...
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Major Crypto Bank Crypterium Plans To Burn 30% Of Native CRPT Token
Tuesday, July 6, 2021 - 11:10am | 766Crypterium, one of the largest cryptocurrency-based banking services, has announced that it will be burning 30% of its total CRPT token supply, starting from the current month of July. Burning Since 2019 CRPT token burning brings in a whole new era of financial wealth for the public. As the...
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Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin Proposed A New Feature For Uniswap's Token
Thursday, May 13, 2021 - 1:37pm | 559Ethereum (CRYPTO: $ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin proposed a new feature that should be added to the token of decentralized exchange (DEX) Uniswap (CRYPTO: $UNI). What Happened: Buterin filed an Uniswap governance proposal on Wednesday, proposing UNI should also become the token powering...
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Chiliz NFT Cryptocurrency Surges 89% After PSG Progression Ignites $550M Trading Frenzy In Fan Tokens
Friday, March 12, 2021 - 3:46pm | 778The sports tokenization blockchain Chiliz saw its native token CHZ surge over 89% in the past 24-hours to $0.5101. What Happened: The coin recorded gains of more than 300% over the past week, outperforming most NFT blockchains in the space. The most recent rally comes after news of...
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Department Of Treasury Tests Blockchain Tech For Payments Tracking
Tuesday, January 14, 2020 - 4:03pm | 168The Department of the Treasury, a government agency that manages revenue as well as prints and circulates currency, is completing tests of a blockchain-based program that tokenizes the details and payments in electronic federal letters of credit sent to grant recipients. The testing is part of a...
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Trading Bandwidth For Crypto: NOIA Brings New Tech, Cisco Partnership To Programmable Internet Space
Wednesday, August 14, 2019 - 2:33pm | 737Domas Povilauskas, co-founder and CEO at the blockchain and AI internet infrastructure company NOIA Network Limited, told Benzinga his firm aims to shape the future of the internet. About NOIA The company's genesis was with an experienced team of network engineers who leveraged new...