A company selling smartwatch face designs through non-fungible tokens has sued LVMH, accusing the luxury fashion conglomerate of patent infringement. In a March 10 complaint filed to a Texas federal court, Watch Skins Corporation alleged that LVMH misappropriated its “pioneering NFT display technology.” Watch Skins claimed it developed a unique system that allows users to…
An Ethereum user saved several MakerDAO positions from the brink of a $360 million liquidation cascade on Tuesday, adding collateral at the final hour as the price of ETH tumbled. One of the positions had a liquidation price of $1,928, this was triggered alongside a market plunge during U.S. trading hours. The ETH was less…
Bitcoin buyers who purchased around when it hit a $109,000 all-time peak in January are now panic-selling as the cryptocurrency declines, says onchain analytics firm Glassnode, which isn’t ruling out that Bitcoin could slide to $70,000. Glassnode said in a March 11 markets report that a recent sell-off by top buyers has driven “intense loss…
Sony’s blockchain division is bringing Japanese social media giant LINE into the web3 world, with plans to adapt several popular mini-apps onto Sony’s Soeneium network, the company announced Wednesday. LINE reports approximately 200 million active users across its platform, and the agreement will bring four LINE-based games, or “mini-apps,” to Soneium: Sleepagotchi, Farm Frens, Puffy…
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has delayed its decision to approve several XRP, Solana, Litecoin and Dogecoin exchange-traded funds. In a slew of filings on March 11, the agency said it has “designated a longer period” to decide on the proposed rule changes that would allow the ETFs to proceed. Among the affected ETFs…
The establishment of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR) in the U.S. is a “monumental endorsement” of the world’s largest cryptocurrency, broker H.C. Wainwright said in a research report Monday. The move mints bitcoin’s “legitimacy in the mold of humanity’s most historically prized asset: gold,” analysts Kevin Dede and Michael Donovan wrote. President Trump directed his…
A solo Bitcoin miner using a relatively cheap, pocket-sized crypto mining rig has solved one of the blockchain’s blocks and earned the full $263,000 reward. The miner became the 297th solo miner to mine a Bitcoin block from the solo.ckpool Bitcoin (BTC) mining pool, its developer, Con Kolivas, said in a March 10 X post….
National securities exchange Cboe is asking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to allow staking in several spot ether (ETH) exchange-traded funds (ETFs), sending the price of token 2% higher over the past 24 hours. Before the funds launched in July, several issuers included staking in their applications. However, the SEC later required them…
Ethereum layer 2 Starknet is laying the groundwork to settle on Bitcoin and Ethereum to unify the two largest blockchains on a single layer. The Starknet Foundation said in its March 11 Bitcoin roadmap that it’s aiming for Starknet to become Bitcoin’s execution layer, scaling it from 13 transactions per second to thousands, reducing blocks…
“Is it safe?” For any crypto investors with any cash remaining, that’s the key question following the collapse in prices. 10X Research’s Markus Thielen had been correctly bearish headed into this latest downturn and he’s not yet ready to buy the dip. Like the speculative bubble in DeFI/NFTs that collapsed following the 2021 bull market…