Pontem founder Boris Povod said the partnership was aimed at improving Polkadot’s current node infrastructure, with Pinknode providing “reliable and secure API endpoints.”

Russian crypto advocates are already collaborating with a consortium including some of China’s largest crypto mining-related companies.

Circle’s share of the stablecoin market has grown to 23.5% in 2021, trailing only Tether. By going public, its “share will increase further?”

As DEXs continue to accrue billions of dollars in TVL within days of their launch, some question whether they are manipulating their numbers.

Despite the tumble in stablecoin activity, average transactions of stablecoins DAI and UST still exceed those of USDT and USDC.

The crypto exchange gave no indication as to the reason, stating only that it would be shifting its "commercial focus to other product offerings."

A working paper released in English by the People's Bank of China cites cryptocurrencies as an important context for the digital yuan's development and reveals that the digital currency will use smart contracts to allow for programmability.

Japanese Ministry of Finance is hiring more staff to develop stricter global rules for digital currencies, particularly fiat-pegged stablecoins.

Ethereum restarted its decline after it failed to stay above $2,000 against the US Dollar. ETH price is holding the $1,880 support, but it must clear $2,000 for a decent increase. Ethereum started a fresh decline and it once again tested the $1,880...