The payments company will collaborate with Paxos to launch a new range of services , including crypto trading, custody, and security management. The program will provide banks with a turnkey solution for meeting their customers' crypto trading needs. Mastercard said the service would use the Paxos trading platform to execute trades while also assisting with regulatory compliance and security requirements. According to Jorn Lambert, Chief Digital Officer at Mastercard, people are hesitant to in

A member of the ApeCoin DAO council has submitted an AIP-21 bug bounty program that would postpone the launch of ApeCoin staking by 2-4 weeks. The new bounty program will guarantee that the DAO always has resources available to provide to white hat hackers guarding APE holders. AIP idea was proposed by Maaria Bajwa, a board member and a principal in the investment firm Sound Ventures, in response to well-known exploits like the most recent one in which more than $560 million was stolen from Bin

CoinShares, a digital asset management platform located in Europe, has created an experimental Twitter bot that may assist traders in determining a fair price for some non-fungible tokens (NFT). The bot, named CoinSharesNFTAI, collects several types of data to calculate a fair price for a rotating list of top NFT collections on OpenSea, the most popular NFT marketplace. To use the bot, you need to copy the OpenSea URL for a specific NFT of interest and tweet it to the bot. The bot will then re

Avalanche is now available on OpenSea, bringing the total number of blockchains supported on this leading NFT marketplace to seven besides Ethereum, Solana, Arbitrum, Klaytn, Polygon and Optimism. The platform will allow creators to mint, list and trade NFTs on the layer 1 network. According to Ava Labs, the overall NFT sales volume has climbed by 180% since the second quarter of 2022, and OpenSea presently features 200 Avalanche-native collections with more to come. The first Avalanche collec

Google has announced that it will begin accepting cryptocurrency payments for Google Cloud in 2023. According to CNBC, Google Cloud has announced a partnership with Coinbase, the largest US cryptocurrency exchange, to handle crypto transactions from next year. Amit Zavery, vice president at Google Cloud, provided this information during Google's Cloud Next conference. Mr. Zavery disclosed that the Coinbase Commerce service would be integrated into Google Cloud, allowing a handful of customers

Mango Markets, a decentralized finance trading platform on the Solana blockchain was exploited on October 12, 2022. The hack that is being investigated is worth over $100 million in digital assets. Updated October 16, 2022 Avraham Eisenberg, who claims to be part of a group that stole $114 million from decentralized cryptocurrency exchange Mango Markets last week, returned $67 million to the Solana-based DeFi hub on Saturday, defending his actions — which some have called an exploit — as both

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Binance will run a hard fork on BNB Smart Chain (BSC) network on October 12, 2022. Binance will run a hard fork on BNB Smart Chain (BSC) network on October 12, 2022. This network upgrade and hard fork will take place at approximately 2022-10-12 08:00 (UTC), at the BNB Smart Chain block height of 22,107,423. Deposits and withdrawals on BNB Smart Chain (BEP20) will be suspended starting from approximately 2022-10-12 07:00 (UTC). Deposits and withdrawals will be temporarily suspended and will reo