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Binance Alpha, Binance’s exclusive pre-selection pool for potential token listings, has announced the addition of three new projects: HAT, AIXCB, and NEUR. Binance Alpha Adds New Projects HAT, AIXCB, and NEUR to Listing Pre-Selection Pool This announcement marks the continued activity on Binance Alpha, which provides early access to promising blockchain projects as part of Binance’s listing evaluation process. These additions reflect Binance’s focus on expanding its ecosystem with diverse and innovative tokens. What is Binance Alpha? Binance Alpha serves as an incubator-like platform where projects are evaluated based on their technological potential, market fit, and community engagement. Tokens selected…

Hunters of Web3, the biggest Web3 Alpha Discord out there, has revealed that it has decided to partner up with Wilder World, a metaverse platform that is a part of Web3. The idea is to create a decentralized ecosystem for virtual reality based on the developments of the community that would bring together experts in different fields. Happy to announce our partnership with @WilderWorld Wilder World is a metaverse that leverages advancements in photorealism, artificial intelligence, and blockchain technology to create a decentralized, community-driven virtual reality.Stay tuned for more details. pic.twitter.com/oYdWyaO0qx — Hunters of Web3 (@HuntersofWeb3) January 6, 2025 A…

HTX has officially launched its flagship product Flexible Crypto Loans, designed to meet the growing demand for flexible financial solutions. The launch is followed by additional incentives with the initiative featuring a prize pool of 2.7 billion in HTX tokens. HTX launches Flexible Crypto Loans and offers prize pool of 2.7 billion in tokens HTX and the Flexible Crypto Loans: the characteristics of the new product The report on memecoin HTX launches Flexible Crypto Loans and offers prize pool of 2.7 billion in tokens HTX has announced the launch of the flagship product Flexible Crypto Loans, to meet the growing…

This is a segment from the Empire newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. It’s SEC Chair Gary Gensler’s last month in office. A new SEC is on the horizon, one that’s potentially far more crypto-friendly. Here’s the thing: That doesn’t mean that the old actions (aka lawsuits) taken by the SEC just disappear overnight. It’s unfortunately not that simple. But what happens next is a loaded question right now. Haynes Boone’s Matthew Frankle does think there’s a possibility that we will see some of the cases dropped as the regulator recalculates how it plans to approach crypto. Frankle said he’s…

Binance to support aelf network upgrade, temporarily halting deposits and withdrawals on Jan. 15, 2025. In anticipation of a network update, Binance has announced that it will temporarily suspend token deposits and withdrawals on the aelf (ELF) network on Jan. 15, 2025, at 17:00 (UTC+8). The purpose of this planned update is to enhance the overall user experience on the ELF blockchain. The upgrade is scheduled to occur at block height 252,256,057, and the process is expected to commence at approximately 18:00 UTC+8 on the same day. Block height refers to the position of a specific block within the blockchain,…

Publicly-listed Rumble Inc, a video-sharing and cloud services provider, announced Monday its board has approved a strategy to allocate up to $20 million of its cash reserves into Bitcoin. Its move aligns with a growing trend of corporate Bitcoin adoption championed by firms like MicroStrategy and Metaplanet Holdings. The Nasdaq-listed company’s said its diversification strategy underscores its belief in Bitcoin as a hedge against inflation and a tool for long-term value preservation. “We believe that the world is still in the early stages of the adoption of Bitcoin,” Rumble’s Pavlovski who is also chairman and CEO, said in the statement.…

The Solana Virtual Machine’s upcoming project, COMMing SOON NFTs, has quickly gained traction, raising $200 million in subscription pledges within 16 hours of its announcement. The minting process, set to begin at 12:00 PM UTC on January 14, has already been oversubscribed by 8 times. COMMing SOON NFTs TWO HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS 🔴 $200,000,000 has been committed to the COMMing SOON NFT Mint within the first 16 hours of launch. This makes the mint around 8x oversubscribed. LFSOON pic.twitter.com/loKNxwVwFz — SOON – Solana Optimistic Network (Alpha Mainnet) (@soon_svm) January 7, 2025 However, the surge in COMMing’s growing popularity caused rate-limiting…

Amid a cryptocurrency bull run, Ripple (XRP) has surged in price to $2.67 at press time and briefly enjoyed a market cap greater than 88% of the stocks in the S&P 500 today. In the past seven days, XRP’s market cap has more than doubled in size from $75.3 billion on November 26 to $158.5 billion today, overtaking Solana and Tether by market cap. According to Stock Analysis, thisranked XRP 61st out of 503 stocks in the S&P 500 — outperforming a whopping 88% of them. XRP’s market cap was just above the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock ($BLK at…

The beginning of Do Kwon’s discovery process is the latest step in the complicated and drawn-out legal journey that has been ongoing since the $40 billion collapse of Terra/Luna in 2022. Kwon was finally extradited from Montenegro to the US on December 31 and he kicked off the US leg of his ongoing legal saga by pleading not guilty to nine federal fraud charges, including money laundering conspiracy and securities fraud. There is also an “initial conference” with Judge John P. Cronan scheduled for January 8 during which the prosecution and defense will gather evidence and discuss whether or not…

Last year’s wave of Telegram tap-to-earn gaming hype may have died down, but one new title has scrapped the tapping part and is bringing in a ton of users as a result—even if it arguably feels like even less of a game than others. Zoo is the new hit on the messaging platform, bringing a FarmVille-style vibe to the world of Telegram games with a promise of payouts in tokens to players. You build up your zoo, filling it with more and more animals, which all results in earning more in-game currency—and yes, that will supposedly translate to on-chain tokens…