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Cryptocurrency company MoonPay is known for helping celebrities buy large NFTs. Now the company wants to help bring new people to the non-fungible token space with a simple three-step method. Here are the details. What Happened: MoonPay announced the launch of NFT Checkout on Thursday, which...

Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) traded over 4% at $93.67 higher over 24 hours leading up to Tuesday night as a buzz grew that non fungible token marketplace OpenSea is working on integrating the cryptocurrency.  Solana traded 2.75% and 2.1% higher against Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH)...

Beginning with a tweet in 2019, athletes have been publicly interested in receiving a portion of their salary in Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC). The number of athletes receiving a portion of their salary continues to rise. Here is a list of several major athletes that receive a portion of their salary in...

The Best Daily Overview Of The Crypto Space On today's episode of Crypto Breakdown, Benzinga's Blockchain Editor Joe Dewitt looks at some coins that have great potential and solid utilities but are not as well known as Bitcoin and Ethereum. Listen to the full episode...

Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) was hit by an alleged distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Tuesday, which caused transactions to fail on the network, but the project’s co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko denied such reports. What Happened: Chinese journalist Colin Wu said on Twitter that Solana...

The year 2021 could go down as the year that NFTs became the talk of cryptocurrency and a favorite for many investors. This may be the start of a multiple year run or a one-time moment in the spotlight. Benzinga recently chatted with several NFT investors and industry experts to...

Melania Trump’s Solana (CRYPTO: SOL)-based non fungible token platform is not an official initiative, as per the team behind the open-source project. What Happened: The team disassociated themselves from the former first lady’s NFT endeavors by issuing a denial to Decrypt, a...

Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) rose 7.22% to $175.26 over 24 hours leading up to early Thursday morning. What’s Moving? The token of the blockchain project known for scalability and speed has fallen 8.19% over a seven-day trailing period. Against larger coins Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and Ethereum (CRYPTO...

Traders are bullish on Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) and two other coins, according to a weekly survey conducted by an autonomous bot of the on-demand financial television channel Real Vision. What Happened: The results of this week’s survey conducted by...

Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has predicted a strong 259% rally for Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) rival and smart contract platform Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) by early 2022. What Happened: Solana remains in a massive broadening ascending wedge since 2020 and appears to be in the early innings of a fourth...

Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) charted record-outperformance against Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) recently, but Polygon (CRYPTO: MATIC) and Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) are writing the beyond-ETH story. What’s Moving? MATIC traded 9.3% higher over 24 hours to $2.08. The layer-2 ETH-based token has shot up 15.8%...

The leader of the third biggest cryptocurrency exchange had a debate on Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) after being called out over valuation of a coin. That led to several bets on price and a massive all-in callout on the coin on Jan. 9 of this year. What Happened: A Twitter account belonging...

The Best Daily Overview Of The Crypto Space On today's episode of Crypto Breakdown, Benzinga's Blockchain Editor Joe Dewitt lists the top three coins with the highest gains last week. Bitcoin(BTC) Ethereum(ETH) Solana( SOL) IoTex (IOTX) Loopring (LRC) Livepeer (LPT) Listen to...

The non-fungible token market continues to heat up with strong sales volume on OpenSea, an NFT marketplace for buying and selling items. A waitlist for the highly anticipated Coinbase Global Inc (NASDAQ: COIN) NFT marketplace has more than 2.5 million people signed up, which could increase the...