Forkast
Altcoins
Bitcoin and Ether fell during Wednesday afternoon trading in Hong Kong but remained above key price levels, while most of the top altcoins were in the red.
Zoltan Vardai
Advanced Blockchain Technologies
Indian Web3 firm Airchains has announced a partnership with the New Town Kolkata Development Authority of West Bengal, to release 500,000 NFTs in hopes to enhance registration and transfer of land ownership.
Pradipta Mukherjee
Regulation
For years, crypto and NFT investors enjoyed tax advantages that holders of stocks and bonds do not have, but legislation on the horizon could end that loophole.
David Kemmerer
Bitcoin News
Bitcoin and Ether traded little changed on Wednesday morning in Asia, while the rest of the top 10 non-stablecoin cryptocurrencies were mixed.
Danny Park
Bitcoin News
Bitcoin and Ether fell during Tuesday afternoon trading in Hong Kong, while most of the top 10 non-stablecoin cryptocurrencies by market capitalization were mixed.
Zoltan Vardai
Opinion Pieces
From pay-to-play arcade video games to sales of home consoles, gaming's evolution into peer-to-peer marketplaces is posing a new challenge to the status quo, writes Jackson Poon.
Jackson Poon
Bitcoin News
Bitcoin climbed above US$31,000 on Tuesday morning in Asia after Blackrock refiled its Bitcoin ETF application. Ether also gained amid institutional interest.
Tom Zuo
Regulation
Cryptocurrency service providers in Singapore will have to keep customer assets under a statutory trust before the end of the year, for safekeeping purposes, the city state’s central bank announced Monday.
Pradipta Mukherjee
Bitcoin News
Bitcoin fell and Ether rose during Monday afternoon trading in Hong Kong, while most of the top 10 non-stablecoin cryptocurrencies by market capitalization strengthened.
Zoltan Vardai
Regulation
Digital assets funds have been flowing in waves all over the world since crypto’s inception, writes Amy Yu, CEO of SEBA Bank. Where is crypto capital going now?
Amy Yu
Advanced Blockchain Technologies
Hong Kong's local government on Friday set up the Task Force on Promoting Web3 Development to promote the benefits of blockchain to real-world industries.
Tom Zuo
Altcoins
Bitcoin traded flat above US$30,000 while most other leading tokens were mixed. Litecoin and Solana saw the biggest gains among the top 10.
Danny Park
Advanced Blockchain Technologies
Kapoor founded the India Blockchain Alliance five years ago and gives an update on how the technology is being used in police reports to real estate transactions, as well as challenges of CBDC adoption and plans for tokenization of assets. He spoke in an interview for Forkast IQ.
Pradipta Mukherjee
Regulation
South Korea approved a bill to protect cryptocurrency investors as part of building the country’s first legal framework devoted to digital assets.
Danny Park
NFTs and Art
Dmitri Cherniak's generative art NFT, 'The Goose', sold for US$5.4 million at Sotheby's. The sale, a second highest for generative art, signals NFT art's growing prominence and potential in the Web3 era.
Yehudah Petscher
Regulation
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said the recent series of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) applications by asset managers were inadequate and not sufficiently clear, according to a report by Wall Street Journal on Friday.
Pradipta Mukherjee
NFT Marketplaces
FXHASH, the largest non-fungible token (NFT) platform by sales volume on the Tezos blockchain, has announced an upgrade that allows users to choose between Tezos and Ethereum, along with on-chain minting for both networks.
Pradipta Mukherjee
DAO Governance
ApeCoin DAO, the decentralized autonomous organization behind the ApeCoin cryptocurrency, has replaced Animoca Brands chairman Yat Siu and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, in its special council that oversees the Ape Foundation.
Zoltan Vardai
Bitcoin News
Bitcoin briefly rose to US$31,195 after Fidelity filed its spot Bitcoin ETF application. Can the wave of institutional interest keep Bitcoin above US$30,500?
Zoltan Vardai
Regulation
Ripple Labs’ Asia-Pacific branch is offering digital payment services in Singapore after receiving in-principle approval of its license application from the MAS on June 22. What does that mean for the company’s Asia business?
Jenny Ortiz
