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Bancolombia Group, one of the leading banks in Latin America and the biggest bank in Colombia, is entering the crypto business with the launch of Wenia, a cryptocurrency exchange. Wenia seeks to disrupt Bitso’s and Binance’s dominance in the cryptocurrency exchange industry in Colombia, and offer a Colombian peso-pegged stablecoin as part of its asset portfolio. Bancolombia Enters the Crypto Exchange Industry in Colombia With Wenia Bancolombia, one of the largest banking companies in Colombia, launched Wenia, a cryptocurrency exchange that will seek to disrupt the cryptocurrency space in the country. Wenia aims to wrestle market share from Binance and…

A group of prominent Ethereum developers, including Vitalik Buterin, has proposed a new transaction type (EIP-7702) to enhance the functionality and security of Externally Owned Accounts (EOAs). The proposal aims to address common issues such as transaction batching, sponsorship, and privilege de-escalation. According to the EIP-7702 draft, the new transaction type “adds a contract_code field and a signature, and converts the signing account (not necessarily the same as the tx.origin) into a smart contract wallet for the duration of that transaction.” The proposal is intended to offer similar functionality to EIP-3074. The motivation behind EIP-7702 is to provide short-term functionality…

Ark Invest and Cathie Wood have made their entrance on the Italian Stock Exchange with the listing of three ETFs active in Milan. Among these, there is ARKK, the well-known flagship fund of ARK dedicated to innovation. In addition to this, the ARK Genomic Revolution (ARKG) is also proposed, focused on genomic technologies. Moreover, also ARK Artificial Intelligence & Robotics (ARKI), a new strategy dedicated to artificial intelligence and robotics, specifically developed for the European market. Let’s see all the details below. Milan: Ark Invest’s ETFs now available on the stock exchange for investors in Italy ARKK, ARKG and ARKI:…

BadgerDAO, a prominent player in the Bitcoin (BTC) decentralized finance (defi) sector, has announced a partnership with Lido, a premier provider of liquid staking solutions on the Ethereum network. According to a press release shared with crypto.news, a new eBTC system has launched offering users the ability to secure loans without encountering any interest, repayment, or initiation fees. Instead, the protocol utilizes the Ethereum collateral by staking it with Lido to generate staking rewards, which potentially offers a more cost-effective borrowing option. The protocol aims to enhance existing wrapped Bitcoin assets by leveraging staked ETH (stETH) from Lido and simultaneously…

Crypto Twitter’s new favorite game, Fantasy Top, just paid out $1.25 million worth of Ethereum to top influencers that it turned into NFT trading cards for the fantasy football-esque experience. After launching on Ethereum scaling network Blast a week ago, the game—which allows players to create card lineups of their favorite Twitter (aka X) influencers, and earn rewards based on those influencers’ respective social engagement—took crypto by storm. The in-game “heroes” turned into cards include meme coin trader Ansem, DeGods creator Frank, and even Su Zhu—the co-founder of collapsed crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital. (Disclosure: Rug Radio co-founder Farokh…

Here is our weekly collection of digital asset listing and delisting, trading pair-related announcements by crypto exchanges that we found last week and today. Have we missed something? Do you have information about new listings and/or delistings? Let us know here. _________________________________________ MEXCListings:Pixel Prowler (PPROWLER)Ninja (NINJA)Zynecoin (ZYN)Crypto GPT (CRGPT)Ergo (ERG)Tuna Chain (TUNA)RoboHero (ROBO)Golazo (GOL)Trinity Of The Fabled (ABYS)Quantum XAI (QXA)Solgoat (SOLGOAT)Kamino Finance (KMNO)Ths Binary Hoddings (BNRY)LunarStorm (LUST)ZIGAP (ZIGAP)Gather (GAT)TUX Project (TUXC)Scrap Guilds (SUIAI)GPTVerse (GPTV)Bet45 (B45)AllStreetBets (BETS)STYLE Protocol (STYLE)Myst AI (MYSTAI)Orditt (Token (ORDITT)Luxury Travel Token (LTT)Love Power Coin (LOVE)Axiome (AXM)POG coin (POGS)Undeads Games (UDS)Replay (RPLAY)Pepe Bomb (PEPEBOMB)Base Inu (BASEINU)CATS (CATS)BTC20X (BRCX)FOMO…

ZURICH, May 6 (Reuters) – The Swiss National Bank is examining the best way that financial assets can be digitally tokenised as a way of making payments more secure and efficient, Chairman Thomas Jordan said on Monday. Jordan said central banks needed to decide how best to engage in the developments which advocates say will speed up and make payments cheaper. Tokenisation means the digital representation of claims on financial assets on a programmable platform which typically relies on distributed ledger technology. “Central banks….can take a wait-and-see stance and only act if tokenisation is adopted at scale,” Jordan told an…

Polyhedra Network, a major Web3 ZK infrastructure provider, has partnered with cryptocurrency payment giant Alchemy Pay. This partnership is a big step toward using Zero-knowledge (ZK) proof technology to change how crypto projects collaborate and grow. Earlier, Alchemy Pay announced support for Astar Network too. Alchemy Pay has entered into a partnership with @PolyhedraZK for upcoming integration of our seamless ramp solution, enhancing its accessibility and user experience for a global audience. #AlchemyPay will soon introduce support for its native token $ZK, with future plans to… pic.twitter.com/pQnX4TfcCR — Alchemy Pay|$ACH: Fiat-Crypto Payment Gateway (@AlchemyPay) March 26, 2024 Alchemy Pay to…

Binance, the world’s largest digital asset ecosystem, has expanded its service offerings by integrating the dYdX (DYDX) mainnet into its platform, marking a significant enhancement in its trading infrastructure. .@binance now supports dYdX Chain DYDX💡https://t.co/tCC24zwVKt pic.twitter.com/mWtrAJ84Zl — dYdX (@dYdX) May 7, 2024 New features unlock decentralized applications With the new integration, Binance users can now directly deposit and withdraw dYdX tokens, enhancing user experience and providing seamless access to a range of decentralized applications (DApps). This development is particularly notable for its facilitation of interactions with various DApps, potentially broadening user engagement within the decentralized finance (DeFi) space. Strengthening the…

On-chain data shows that the Bitcoin whales’ holdings have grown to 25.16% of the entire supply, and their net accumulation has continued recently. Bitcoin Investors With 1,000 To 10,000 BTC Have Continued To Buy Recently According to data from the on-chain analytics firm Santiment, the BTC whales have accumulated more than 266,000 BTC since the start of the year. The indicator of interest here is the “Supply Distribution,” which keeps track of the percentage of the total circulating Bitcoin supply that the various wallet groups are holding right now. The addresses are divided into these cohorts based on the number…