Biggest Movers: DOGE Nears 20-Day High, as TRON Also Surges

DOGE was trading higher on Monday, as prices rose to their highest level in almost 20 days. TRX was also in the green to start the week, as prices continued to climb, following a recent streak of bullish momentum.

Dogecoin (DOGE)

DOGE was a notable mover during today’s session, as prices rose to their highest point in nearly 20 days.

On Monday, DOGE/USD rose to an intraday high of $0.07839, which came less than 24 hours after trading at a low of $0.07184.

As a result of today’s move, the meme coin collided with a price ceiling at $0.07830, which is the highest point DOGE has hit since June 10.

Since hitting this peak, bulls have vacated earlier positions, pushing prices lower in the process, giving bears a green light to re-enter.

Although still up almost 6% from yesterday’s low, DOGE is currently trading at $0.0756, which is marginally below earlier highs.

This comes as the 14-day RSI hit the 53.9 level, which is its highest reading since April 26, and also a point of resistance.

Should DOGE eventually overcome this point, then we may see further gains in price.

TRON (TRX)

TRX was also trading higher to start the week, as prices continued to rise, following a recent streak of upward momentum.

Following a low of $0.06415 on Sunday, TRX/USD surged to a peak of $0.07005 earlier in today’s session.

This move saw prices climb to their highest point since June 13, when TRON was making its way down to a then one-year low at $0.04700.

Since then, prices have been in an ascending triangle, hitting a streak of higher highs in the process, with today’s the latest one of these climbs.

In order to climb further, we might need to see price strength push through an upcoming resistance level on the RSI indicator.

This point, at 50, is one of the only current obstacles in the way of the token recapturing its long-term resistance level at $0.07560.

Do you expect TRX to reach this level in July? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.

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Pocket Network Advances Its Multichain Strategy With Latest Milestone

PRESS RELEASE. TAMPA, Fla., June 27, 2022 / — Pocket Network, an infrastructure middleware protocol which facilitates decentralized multichain blockchain access to developer applications in Web3, including Ethereum, Polygon, Gnosis Chain, Avalanche, Solana, Fuse, Fantom and Near, recently marked a significant milestone in its multichain strategy with 50 supported blockchains on its network after integrating Moonbeam and Moonriver blockchains. Pocket has its sight on the century mark – with 100 blockchains supported by the end of 2022.

“As we see developer demand drive more activity and apps to a wider variety of blockchains, interoperability challenges, as well as latency and reliability, from centralized infrastructure providers will continue to grow,” said Michael O’Rourke, Co-founder and CEO of Pocket Network. “With our multichain strategy, we are positioned to cement Pocket as the true decentralized, full-node RPC protocol in the industry.”

The real breakthrough of a multichain network is in the utility this brings to Web3 developers. This is especially true with the streamlined Pocket Portal that developers can access to deploy apps to any of Pocket’s 50 supported blockchains. This interface vastly simplifies developers’ abilities to connect with any chain of their choosing and provides a one-stop RPC solution with an instantaneous process to get an endpoint, an analytics dashboard, and app notifications to monitor performance.

Regardless of blockchain, users and developers no longer have to pick between speed and security, efficiency and decentralization, and uptime and latency. Being resilient, faster, cheaper, more secure, and better for developers has been the winning formula to Pocket’s scale and dominance. This way, Pocket’s chain-agnostic mission is imperative for the development of decentralized infra.

About Pocket Network

Pocket Network, a blockchain data ecosystem for Web3 applications, is a platform built for applications that uses cost-efficient economics to coordinate and distribute data at scale. It enables seamless and secure interactions between blockchains and across applications. With Pocket, the use of blockchains can be simply integrated into websites, mobile apps, IoT and more, giving developers the freedom to put blockchain enabled applications into the “pocket” of every mainstream consumer. For more information visit pokt.network.

Media Contact: Hanna Yakimets, hanna@pokt.network

 

 

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Binance Announces New Payments Partner Amid Fiat Deposit and Withdrawal Suspension in Brazil

Binance has chosen a new payments partner amid the suspension of direct fiat deposits and withdrawals in Brazil. The company stated it will now work with Latam Gateway, a payments processing company that has been in the payments intermediation business since 2019. Binance reported it would be working to normalize the fiat deposit and withdrawal situation shortly.

Binance Partners With Latam Gateway for Payments Processing

Binance, one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges by volumes traded, has announced a new partnership to solve the problems it had been facing with fiat movements on its platform in Brazil. The exchange stated that it has enrolled the services of Latam Gateway, a payments processing company that will substitute its earlier partner, Banco Capitual.

In a blog post, the exchange told that Latam Gateway has been a payments processing company in Brazil since 2019, being founded by executives with experience in the field since 2014, when they also founded Boa Compra, another payments processing company.

About the importance of the country for the exchange, Binance stated:

Brazil is an extremely relevant market for the company and that it will continue to invest and expand services for local users, as well as contribute to the development of the blockchain and crypto ecosystem in the country.

For Binance, this is a temporary measure to let its users use its platforms normally, as the exchange is currently in the process of acquiring Sim;paul, a company regulated by the securities watchdog of Brazil.

Earlier Woes

Binance started having problems with fiat deposits and withdrawals earlier this month, when Capitual, its former payments partner, started implementing stronger KYC measures, adapting its platform to comply with the requirements of the Central Bank of the country.

While Binance announced that it would be exerting legal actions against Capitual, the payments company rebutted stating that Binance had not adapted its platform to deal with the new requirements coming from the Central Bank of Brazil. According to reports from Capitual, which also lends its processing services to other exchanges in the area, like Kucoin and Huobi, these other companies did adapt their platforms and continue to operate normally.

Binance hopes to coordinate the integration of the services offered by Latin Gateway soon to normalize the status of direct fiat deposits and withdrawals in Brazil, which are still paused at the moment, though customers can still use alternative ways of getting funds in and out of the exchange.

What do you think about the new payments partner presented by Binance in Brazil? Tell us in the comments section below.

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SEC Chair Gensler Proposes ‘One Rule Book’ Crypto Regulation

The chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, has reportedly proposed “one rule book” for the regulation of crypto assets. “If this industry is going to take any path forward, it will build some better trust in these markets,” said Gensler.

SEC Chairman Calls for One Rule Book for Crypto

SEC Chairman Gary Gensler has proposed “one rule book” for the regulation of crypto, the Financial Times reported Friday. He is looking to strike agreements with other financial regulators, including the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), to avoid gaps in the oversight of the crypto sector. He told the publication:

I’m talking about one rule book on the exchange.

The SEC chief elaborated that the rule should protect investors against fraud, front-running, and manipulation, in addition to providing transparency over order books.

The rule book will apply to “all trading regardless of the pair — [be it] a security token versus security token, security token versus commodity token, commodity token versus commodity token,” Gensler described.

The SEC boss revealed that he is working on a “memorandum of understanding” with his counterparts at the CFTC, which would be a formal deal to ensure that trading in digital assets has adequate safeguards and transparency. He explained that if a commodity token is listed on a platform overseen by the securities regulator, the SEC would “send that information over to the CFTC.”

Gensler opined:

By getting that market integrity envelope, one rule book on an exchange will really help the public. If this industry is going to take any path forward, it will build some better trust in these markets.

U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Cynthia Lummis recently proposed a framework that would extend the CFTC’s oversight of the crypto sector.

Last week, Gensler warned of “too good to be true” crypto products. He also recently warned that crypto exchanges often trade against their customers. Following the collapse of cryptocurrency terra (LUNA) and stablecoin terrausd (UST), the SEC chairman cautioned investors that a lot of tokens will fail.

Gensler has been criticized for taking an enforcement-centric approach to regulating crypto assets. SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce said in May that the securities watchdog has dropped the ball on crypto regulation and there are long-term consequences.

What do you think about the comments by SEC Chairman Gary Gensler? Let us know in the comments section below.

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Yuga Labs Sues Artist Ryder Ripps for ‘Scamming Consumers’ and Misusing Bored Ape Trademarks

The creators of the popular non-fungible token (NFT) project Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), Yuga Labs, have sued the artist dubbed Ryder Ripps and collaborators for attempting to devalue the BAYC brand. Yuga Lab’s lawsuit claims Ripps and associates trolled the company and started “scamming consumers into purchasing RR/BAYC NFTs by misusing Yuga Labs’ trademarks.

Yuga Labs Files Lawsuit Against Ryder Ripps, Aims to ‘Fight Against Slanderous Claims’

A lawsuit has been filed by Yuga Labs in the state of Califonia against the artist Ryder Ripps and a few associates. The company spoke about the lawsuit on June 24 via Twitter and said that support from the community was “overwhelming.”

“We will continue to be transparent with our community as we fight these slanderous claims,” Yuga Labs said. “In order to put a stop to the continuous infringement, and other illegal attempts to bring harm to us and the BAYC community, we have filed a lawsuit against the responsible parties. We will continue exploring and pursuing all legal options at our disposal.”

Yuga Labs accuses Ryder Ripps of “seeking to devalue” official BAYC NFTs with a copycat collection called RR/BAYC NFTs. The lawsuit claims that original BAYC images were used and Ripps is accused of marketing the NFTs as official BAYC products.

Yuga Labs’ trademarks were also allegedly used in Ripps’ “Ape Market” NFT marketplace. The lawsuit adds that this is “no mere monkey business” and that Ripps’ actions were a “deliberate effort to harm Yuga Labs at the expense of consumers.”

During the first week of February, Ryder Ripps accused Yuga Labs’ trademarks of having “Nazi ties.” Yuga Labs co-founder Gordon Goner responded to the accusations in a Medium blog post and stressed that the allegations are “insanely far-fetched.”

The blog post gives a full summary of why the BAYC creators chose to use Apes, the inspiration behind the design of the BAYC logo, and the company name, Yuga Labs. The lawsuit accuses Ripps and several cohorts of “perpetuating a scam.”

The lawsuit notes that Ripps claims his actions are “satire,” but Yuga Labs insists Ripps raked in millions of ill-gotten profit from the RR/BAYC NFT collection. Yuga Labs believes Ripps and the collection will continue to damage the business. Ripps continues to tweet about the alleged connection between specific symbols Yuga Labs leverages.

The RR/BAYC NFT collection’s creator also tweeted about the “terms people who purchased RR/BAYC’s agreed to” which says the customer “understands that this is a new mint of BAYC imagery, re-contextualizing it for educational purposes, as protest and satirical commentary.”

What do you think about the Yuga Labs’ lawsuit against Ryder Ripps and the RR/BAYC NFT collection? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.

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Harmony’s $100M Hack Was Due to a Compromised Multi-Sig Scheme, Says Analyst

On June 23, 2022, the Harmony development team announced that $100 million was siphoned from the Horizon bridge, and the organization explained it was working with national authorities and forensic specialists. According to an account published Polygon’s chief information security officer, Mudit Gupta, the Horizon bridge attacker allegedly took control of the multi-signature wallet leveraged in Harmony’s bridge.

Harmony’s Multi-Sig Exploited Polygon’s CSO Says, Harmony Protocol’s Founder Found Evidence That ‘Private Keys Were Compromised’

Three days ago, Harmony explained that it was attacked and the team witnessed $100 million siphoned from the Horizon bridge. “The Harmony team has identified a theft occurring this morning on the Horizon bridge amounting to approx. $100 [million],” Harmony tweeted on Thursday. “We have begun working with national authorities and forensic specialists to identify the culprit and retrieve the stolen funds,” the Harmony team added.

Following the exploit, the very next day, Polygon’s chief information security officer, Mudit Gupta, said that the bridge was a 2 of 5 multi-signature scheme, and anyone with two of the addresses can take control of it. “The hacker compromised 2 addresses and made them drain the money,” Gupta added. Gupta said while the details aren’t public yet he summarized what he believes took place during the hack. “The two addresses were likely hot wallets used to listen for and process legit bridging transactions,” Gupta explained.

“The attacker compromised the server(s) that these hot wallets were running on,” the Polygon CSO wrote on Friday. “Once inside the server, they could access the keys that were kept in plaintext for signing legit transactions. The server exploit was likely either SSH key compromise or social engineering. This is eerily similar to how Ronin was hacked.” The analyst further added:

This was not a ‘Blockchain Hack.’ It was a ‘Traditional Hack.’ I’ve been begging protocols to focus on traditional security too alongside blockchain security for months now…

Furthermore, an incident report written by the Harmony Protocol’s founder says “the team has found evidence that private keys were compromised, leading to the breach of our Horizon bridge — Funds were stolen from the Ethereum side of the bridge.” The Harmony founder also noted that “confidentiality is key to maintain integrity as part of this ongoing investigation — The omission of specific details is to protect sensitive data in the interest of our community.”

What do you think about the Harmony exploit for $100 million? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.

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Crypto Firm Voyager Digital Secures a $500M Line of Credit From Alameda Ventures to Cope With 3AC Exposure

Three days ago, Bitcoin.com News reported on the publicly listed company Voyager Digital after the crypto firm announced that it was owed $655 million worth of digital assets. Now according to a press release from Voyager, the company has secured funds from Alameda Ventures in order to get more access to liquidity.

Voyager Borrows $500 Million from Alameda

Voyager Digital Holdings, Inc. has revealed a collaboration with Alameda Ventures as the venture company has provided Voyager with a line of credit. The funds are “intended to help Voyager meet customer liquidity needs during this dynamic period.” Last week, reports noted that Voyager was suffering through financial hardship due to its exposure with Three Arrows Capital (3AC). Voyager said in a note to investors that it is owed 15,250 BTC and 350 million USDC, and the company gave 3AC a deadline to pay back the funds.

Voyager’s TSX-listed stock plummeted after the announcement losing more than 50% in value in less than 24 hours. By borrowing from Alameda, Voyager will use the funds to meet customer liquidity demands and strengthen operations during the crypto market volatility. “[Voyager] entered into a definitive agreement with Alameda for a US$200 million cash and USDC revolver and a 15,000 BTC revolver,” Voyager said in a statement. The company added:

As previously disclosed, the proceeds of the credit facility are intended to be used to safeguard customer assets in light of current market volatility and only if such use is needed.

Alameda Applies Certain Loan Conditions

Meanwhile, the news follows the crypto lender Blockfi securing a $250 million line of credit from FTX. Following the loan, a report published by the Wall Street Journal claims that FTX is discussing purchasing a stake in Blockfi. While Alameda is offering Voyager funds, there are some conditions that Voyager must abide by. For instance, “Alameda’s obligation to provide funding is subject to certain conditions, including: no more than US$75 million may be drawn down over any rolling 30-day period.” The loan agreement summary further adds:

[Voyager’s] corporate debt must be limited to approximately 25 percent of customer assets on the platform, less US $500 million; and additional sources of funding must be secured within 12 months.

Voyager still intends to pursue assets from 3AC and has been discussing the “legal remedies available.” The announcement notes that Voyager is “unable to assess at this point the amount it will be able to recover from 3AC.” On June 21, Voyager’s shares listed on TSX were trading for $1.23 per unit, and today, the stock is exchanging hands for $0.58 per unit. Additionally, Alameda indirectly holds 22,681,260 common shares of Voyager, equating to 11.56% of outstanding common and variable voting shares.

What do you think about Voyager securing a line of credit from Alameda? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.

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