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Singapore’s Fomo Pay Partners Ripple to Add Crypto-Power to Cross-Border Payments

Fomo Pay will now use Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) feature to enable quick and cost-efficient payments. Fomo Pay, the online payment major from Singapore, is looking to add a crypto twist to refine its...

US May Exempt Crypto Transactions Under $50 From Taxes Under New Bipartisan Bill

Senators Pat Toomey and Kyrsten Sinema are behind introducing this bill, that aims to simplify the use of cryptocurrencies. In a bid to allow Americans to use cryptocurrencies with ease, US senators have proposed...

Bitcoin Steadies Around $21,000 Ahead of Yet Another Possible Fed Rate Increase

The global crypto market cap saw a dip of 0.01 percent in the last 24 hours. Bitcoin sank to a one-week low, impacted by general investor reluctance to do much ahead of a looming...

Neutron Star Becomes Heaviest Celestial Object With 2.35 Times Mass of Sun

The pulsar was first discovered in 2017 and was dubbed the “black widow” as it has the tendency to eat its companion with female black widow spiders. In an intriguing celestial event, a collapsed...

Venture Capitalists Pour Money Into Digital Currencies Blockchain Startups Amid Crypto Winter

Investment in crypto firms from venture capitalists is on course to top the record $26.9 billion (roughly Rs. 2,14,630 crore) raised last year. It’s not all doom and gloom. Even as the cryptocurrency sector shivers in the...

Titanium Blockchain CEO Admits to Have Carried Out Fraudulent ICO in 2018

Stollery has pleaded guilty in raising $21 million (roughly Rs. 167 crore) via a fraudulent initial coin offering (ICO) four years ago. Michael Stollery, the CEO of Titanium Blockchain Infrastructure Services, has confessed about...

BTC, ETH Retain Pumped Prices Despite Minor Dips as Crypto Chart Reflects More Reds than Greens

Bitcoin dipped by over three percent to trade at $22,624 (roughly Rs. 18 lakh) as per Indian exchange CoinSwitch Kuber. These last days of July are turning out to be quite the roller-coaster ride...

Coinbase’s Token Listings Being Probed by US SEC for Securities Violations: Report

The SEC alleged last week that seven cryptocurrencies listed on Coinbase were securities. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has decided to investigate Coinbase Global to decide whether the platform allowed its clients...

Aptos Labs Raises $150 Million in Series A Funding, Plans to Expand Staff

Mo Shaikh and Avery Ching, the two co-founders of Aptos Labs formerly worked at Meta. Aptos Labs, a blockchain start-up founded by former Meta employees, has raised $150 million (roughly Rs. 1,196 crore) in...

Scientists Find Out Why Jupiter Doesn’t Have Glorious Rings Like Saturn

Jupiter is more than twice as massive as every other planet in our solar system combined. It is surrounded by 79 separate moon companions. Scientists have uncovered why Jupiter does not have rings like...