- The cryptocurrency markets witnessed a major upheaval in the week gone by.
- A massive crash in cryptocurrency prices wiped out $1 trillion of wealth, reports suggest.
- Check out everything that happened in the cryptocurrency market last week.
Here’s our weekly roundup of the best cryptocurrency news from the week gone by:
China’s move to ban financial institutions and payment providers from offering services related to cryptocurrency transactions tanked prices of many cryptocurrencies, including the popular ones like
And this is not the only piece of news that triggered the fall – Tesla revealed that it will no longer accept Bitcoin as a mode of payment, going back on its earlier announcement.
Most of these cryptocurrencies are still reeling from the after-effects of these announcements – Bitcoin is down by 20% over the last 7 days, Ethereum is down by over 30%, Binance Coin is down by over 36% and Dogecoin is down by over 26%.
The crypto crash wiped out $1 trillion investor wealth, according to a media report.
In addition to this, over 8 lakh traders liquidated their investments, according to data from Bybt, a crypto tracker.
The biggest news, by far, is the snap fall in
As a result, Bitcoin’s market capitalisation fell under $700 billion for the first time since February, this year.
WazirX continued to feel the heat of sudden surges in traffic in a week that experienced massive buying and selling activity.
Despite being one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in India, WazirX witnessed outage for over an hour on May 19, causing users to vent their frustration on social media.
Two weeks prior to that, WazirX faced another outage that resulted in transaction delays and failures.
The company says it’s trying to solve this with Project Raftaar, but the results will only be visible once the server upgrades are done.
Apart from this, WazirX has now announced that its users will not be able to deposit INR (Indian Rupee) into their accounts. This is likely due to the reported informal diktat from the Reserve Bank of India on Indian banking companies.
As a result of this, WazirX does not have a banking partner to accept and transfer money, leading to the company not accepting deposits for now.
Polygon’s Matic token, on the other hand, has defied crypto market trends. The token has surged by over 37% in the last 7 days – highest among the over 5,000 cryptocurrencies currently available in the market.
As of May 21, Polygon ranks 17th among the world’s largest cryptocurrencies based on market value, which stands at $3.7 billion.
Polygon was co-founded by three Indian software engineers – Jaynti Kanani, Sandeep Nailwal and Anurag Arjun.
According to security research firm Sophos, there are over 160 fake apps out in the wild masquerading as crypto trading apps. These apps were found to be impersonating popular apps like Kraken, Bittrex and Goldenway.
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