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Decentralized finance (DeFI) has grown at an unprecedented rate since the summer of 2020 with its promise to enable anonymous and private financial transactions. The new tech leverages blockchain technology to introduce more efficient and secure, peer-to-peer dealings that eliminate intermediaries from the borrowing and lending process.  The fast-growing sector in the crypto industry now boasts nearly $78 billion locked in multiple protocols, per the latest data from DeFiPulse. The DeFi movement has shown no signs of slowing down over…

Get the weekly summary of crypto market analysis, news, and forecasts! This Week’s Summary The Crypto Market ends the week at a total market capitalization of $1,766 trillion. Bitcoin registers a slight 0.2% increase after a highly volatile week. Ethereum is down by almost 5% and continues to drop. XRP lost only 1% of its value in the past seven days. Almost all altcoins are trading in the red after a seesawing week. The DeFi sector added roughly $7 billion…

Hip-hop legend Snoop Dogg is looking to turn Death Row Records into an NFT label. Like other artists, the California-based rapper delves into blockchain-based applications to fuse music with the new digital age. If all goes well, his NFT could be among the best projects to keep an eye on in 2022. Snoop Dogg announced his enthusiasm regarding NFTs and the Metaverse on the social media platform Clubhouse on February 15: Death Row will be an NFT label. We will…

The Metaverse concept is much older than Mark Zuckerberg made it sound in 2021. However, it has always lacked the technological backing to gain mainstream adoption. This also prevented it from gaining enough community support. Now, all of that is about to change thanks to MetaBody’s high-quality avatars and realistic features. The MetaBody and the 3D Avatar Revolution In 2022, the advance of blockchain-based applications and NFTs are ushering a new digital age. One of its creations, the Metaverse, is…

Some of the largest crypto exchanges in South Korea have barred Russian users from accessing their services. These bans extend beyond sanctioned individuals and blacklists all Russian IP addresses as well.  IPs Blocked Amid Evasion Concerns According to a local report, most South Korean major exchanges have blacklisted their Russian customers from using their services. This comes after Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov called on all cryptocurrency exchanges to block Russian users from accessing their platforms. And of course,…

Sandbox launched its second alpha season while reaching a major milestone of 2 million registered users. During the four-week event, all players will get free access to more than 35 solo and multiplayer experiences. This includes a sneak-peek into Snoop Dogg's "Snoopverse", and a Hong Kong time-traveling tour called Hong Kong's Star Ferry Pier. New experiences also include a walk through Dracula's Castle, New dungeons, Kingdoms with puzzles, and fights against demons. Furthermore, players will compete in 200 quests for…

Brian Armstrong – CEO of Coinbase – refused to freeze Russian users’ assets at his exchange despite officials’ calls to help financially cripple Russia. Damage From Russian Sanctions Similar to the CEOs of Kraken and Binance, Armstrong cited financial sovereignty and crypto-centric values as reasons to continue protecting Russian accounts. “We believe everyone deserves access to basic financial services unless the law says otherwise.” said Armstrong in a Twitter thread discussing the matter on Friday. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Brian…

In a move that highlights the importance of digital currencies going forward, Venezuela pegged its minimum wage to its own state crypto. On Friday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced pegging the value of minimum wage to half a Petro, its state-sanctioned digital currency. Although authorities modeled it on the Bitcoin fork Dash, Petro (PTR) is centralized around government issuance. That makes it more like a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) than crypto. Half a petro worth roughly 126 bolivars or…

With the war in Ukraine raging on, and Russia targeted by crippling sanctions, fear is taking hold of the markets, including crypto. Crypto investors are struggling to assess the effects of war in Ukraine on cryptocurrencies. One of the risks is a hit to Bitcoin's hash rate. The hash rate, a measure of the computing power involved in validation, is a key measure of network security. In Bitcoin's network, it depends on mining. Now, Russia, the third-largest Bitcoin miner faces…