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Latin America’s (LATAM) centralized crypto exchanges have grown from niche platforms into critical financial infrastructure in just three years, with flows rising ninefold, according to new research. Dune Research’s LATAM Report revealed that 2021 annual exchange flows in the region totalled $3 billion. In 2024, the total exchange flows for LATAM reached $27 billion, up by 800% in just three years, signaling digital asset growth in the region. In its early years, LATAM crypto activity was modest by global standards. However, a fragmented ecosystem of small brokers and over-the-counter (OTC) desks grew into larger, integrated exchanges serving retail and institutional…

Since Jan. 3, 2009, the Bitcoin network has mined over 910,000 blocks, with nine well-known mining pools responsible for discovering 48.78% of them. The following highlights the top ten entities that have mined 673,848 blocks, representing nearly three-quarters of all blocks produced since the network’s launch. The 10 Entities That Helped Write Bitcoin’s Ledger In Bitcoin’s early days, mining was done solo, with some participants commanding more hashrate than others, all while the hardware evolved from central processing units (CPUs) to graphics processing units (GPUs) and eventually to today’s application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). At the close of 2010, Marek Palatinus,…

Blockchain payments provider Tassat Group has appointed its president and chief strategy officer Glen Sussman as its new chief executive officer, the company said in a press release Tuesday. Sussman, who joined Tassat in 2021, will succeed outgoing CEO Zain Saidin. Saidin will remain on the company’s board and take on a new role as senior advisor, supporting Tassat’s institutional growth strategy, the firm said. During Sussman’s time with the firm, he helped launch its flagship products. That includes Lynq, a real-time, interest-bearing settlement network for digital asset institutions, built with Arca Labs and tZERO, as well as the Digital…

AtomicMeta (ATM), a DeFi network, today announced a strategic collaboration with Orbler, a Web3 marketing platform. According to fresh data disclosed today by AtomicMeta, this partnership is designed to exploit the capabilities of the two tech firms to expedite Web3 advancement. AtomicMeta stated in the data that this calculated coordination is anticipated to unlock new gateways for development, aiming to expand wider adoption of decentralized utilities and enabling the onboarding of online users into the Web3 environment. AtomicMeta (ATM) is a DeFi platform powered by its Layer-1 ATMChain blockchain, developed to support crypto trading, staking, presales, and decentralized financial solutions.…

Ethereum is knocking on the door of a new all-time high, with its price now hovering around $4,729, just 3% shy of its all-time high of $4,891 set on November 16, 2021. The crypto has already surged more than 80% over the past year, fueled by investor confidence and growing use cases across the blockchain space. BitMine chairman Tom Lee recently raised his price target from $10,000 to $16,000, while Etherealize CEO Vivek Raman has gone even further. Raman says Ethereum could evolve into a core part of the world’s financial and non-financial infrastructure, the “digital oil” powering global transactions.…

Bolivia is in the middle of a money crisis, and the boliviano is no longer the safe bet it once was. Inflation has blown up to 25%, the highest in 34 years. Dollars are almost impossible to get. Trust in the government is hanging by a thread. So people are moving fast into cryptocurrencies, as a way to keep their businesses running and their savings from shrinking. At El Alto International Airport, a shop sells candy and sunglasses in USDT, a stablecoin tied to the dollar. A top university sends paychecks in Bitcoin to foreign professors. For a while, the…

Robinhood is expanding its prediction markets to include professional and college football, opening trading on outcomes of America’s most-followed sport ahead of the new season. Football Contracts Go Live on Robinhood Robinhood Derivatives, LLC confirmed Tuesday that customers can now access contracts tied to all professional regular-season games and matchups involving Power 4 college programs and independents. “Football is far and away the most popular sport in America,” commented JB Mackenzie, VP & GM of Futures and International at Robinhood. “Adding pro and college football to our prediction markets hub is a no-brainer for us as we aim to make…

Authorities in a Russian region are planning to set up cryptocurrency mining farms near coal mining sites as part of efforts to slow down the decline in the region’s main industry. Local officials in the Siberian Kemerovo Oblast believe this will be economically feasible as it would take only a few years to return initial investments in crypto mining hardware. Coin mining could save coal mining in Kuzbas A crypto mining farm running next to a coal mine can pay for itself in about four or five years, according to official assessments made in Russia’s Kemerovo region. Economists have calculated…

Layer-1 proof-of-stake blockchain Concordium launched a mobile app that allows users to verify their age without disclosing their identity. According to a Tuesday announcement shared with Cointelegraph, the new solution — available as a mobile application for iOS and Android — uses zero-knowledge proofs (ZK-proofs) to allow users to prove their age without revealing their identity. The app creates an encrypted ID that can be used for age checks on third-party services. Concordium framed the launch as a privacy-friendly alternative to traditional ID-based systems at a time when concerns about government-mandated verification are growing. “The truth is that the web…

Liminal, a Hyperliquid-based DeFi protocol, has grown steadily since its launch in April, with its total value locked (TVL) crossing $90 million ahead of its newest feature release. The protocol surpassed $90 million on Aug. 10, a 71% increase from July 22, when it moved into its Epoch 1 phase, which opened Liminal to the public. The protocol was previously limited to users with invite codes. Liminal TVL – DeFiLlama Liminal automates delta-neutral strategies for select assets with Unit spot support on Hyperliquid. The protocol’s institutional mode allows for the generation and automation of sub-accounts on Hyperliquid, where users can…