Bitcoin
$27,430.36-2.27%
Ethereum
$1,742.91-3.37%
Binance Coin
$323.32-0.33%
XRP
$0.44260241+2.99%
Cardano
$0.35970000-0.93%
Aptos
$11.92-7.10%
Dogecoin
$0.07442136-1.70%
Polygon
$1.09-3.33%
Stellar
$0.08957400-1.28%
Binance USD
$1.00-0.02%
Solana
$20.54-5.32%
Chainlink
$7.11-3.85%
Polkadot
$6.02-3.78%
Crypto.com
$0.06845149-1.86%
Litecoin
$91.82-1.58%
Shiba Inu
$0.00001055-1.31%
Uniswap
$5.85-5.06%
Tron
$0.06377702-0.17%
Avalanche
$16.79-3.01%
Wrapped Bitcoin
$27,501.41-2.37%
Cosmos
$11.17-2.89%
Quant
$120.86-3.80%
Monero
$161.23+0.57%
Ethereum Classic
$20.32-0.64%
Internet Computer
$4.93-4.36%
Bitcoin Cash
$124.37-3.94%
dYdX
$2.34-7.84%
Filecoin
$5.50-7.24%
Stepn
$0.38161711-5.03%
Lido DAO
$2.10-6.33%
Hedera
$0.05960716-2.99%
Curve DAO Token
$0.91670618-3.89%
NEAR Protocol
$1.94-2.88%
VeChain
$0.02312300-2.98%
ApeCoin
$4.14+0.46%
Algorand
$0.20817767-2.54%
Stacks
$0.95676425-14.15%
Decentraland
$0.58509262-3.02%
EOS
$1.15-2.06%
Fantom
$0.44789863-5.86%
The Graph
$0.13954265-5.70%
NEO
$12.08-7.49%
Aave
$72.03-5.40%
The Sandbox
$0.63093478-3.19%
Tezos
$1.12-3.55%
Elrond
$42.26-2.93%
Flow
$0.96768212-3.33%
Theta
$0.99905124-2.66%
Immutable X
$1.07-9.06%
Axie Infinity
$8.35-2.00%
Luna Classic
$0.00012177-1.53%
Synthetix
$2.48-6.07%
Paxos Dollar
$0.96948306-3.37%
Mina
$0.80720785-7.69%
Optimism
$2.24-5.76%
PancakeSwap
$3.70-0.52%
Bitcoin SV
$36.06-1.91%
Dash
$60.37-3.07%
Maker
$668.24-2.92%
Chiliz
$0.11827565-1.39%
eCash
$0.00003039-2.59%
BitTorrent
$0.00000061-2.13%
IOTA
$0.20728039-3.00%
Mask Network
$5.51-10.42%
PAX Gold
$1,991.66+0.08%
Convex Finance
$5.03-4.88%
Zcash
$35.31-4.77%
Zilliqa
$0.02683790-3.36%
Loopring
$0.33554944-5.88%
Compound
$41.75-4.49%
THORChain
$1.38-3.95%
FTX Token
$1.25-5.27%
Nexo
$0.73215133+2.39%
Kava.io
$0.87869129+3.06%
Enjin
$0.38348295-2.73%
Fetch.ai
$0.36324776-3.79%
Basic Attention Token
$0.23899000-2.69%
NEM
$0.03835635-3.31%
Ethereum Name Service
$13.17-3.81%
Qtum
$3.12-7.04%
Woo Network
$0.19428496-3.46%
Injective Protocol
$4.07-9.28%
Decred
$20.87-4.67%
Terra 2.0/LUNA
$1.29-2.11%
Ravencoin
$0.02558810-3.16%
Yearn Finance
$8,256.74-3.28%
Bitcoin Gold
$15.63-5.43%
Kusama
$33.02-3.24%
Celo
$0.60093137-2.12%
Gala
$0.03887154-5.27%
Oasis Network
$0.05581213-5.08%
Ankr
$0.03259899-4.15%
Audius
$0.26781485-4.67%
OMG Network
$1.87-9.67%
Sushiswap
$1.02-3.43%
IoTeX
$0.02458966-7.16%
UMA Protocol
$2.01-3.03%
0x
$0.22524098-3.49%
Band Protocol
$1.79+1.66%
JasmyCoin
$0.00460050-4.77%
Moonbeam
$0.37254911-3.28%
Ribbon Finance
$0.21600527-4.30%
Waves
$2.12-3.72%
Amp
$0.00376952-5.64%
TerraUSD
$0.02079428-1.26%
Siacoin
$0.00395225-4.46%
ICON
$0.21435603-2.93%
Nervos Network
$0.00536062-12.95%
Skale
$0.04080254-3.04%
Polymath Network
$0.16787472-1.77%
Livepeer
$6.62-4.20%
Alchemy Pay
$0.03219827-3.66%
NuCypher
$0.12011732-0.02%
Lisk
$1.06-1.19%
Wax
$0.06732206-1.69%
DigiByte
$0.00938709-3.26%
Celsius
$0.34155432-6.28%
MetisDAO
$26.62-7.73%
Cartesi
$0.14208330-5.71%
SafePal
$0.43598461-3.17%
iExec RLC
$1.91-15.42%
SXP
$0.26354887-4.10%
Joe
$0.37719231-12.33%
Secret
$0.62861393-4.74%
Nano
$0.88031608-3.05%
Syscoin
$0.17290283-4.88%
Numeraire
$17.77-2.03%
Keep Network
$0.19301722-4.20%
Bancor
$0.55747577-2.67%
Smooth Love Potion
$0.00264679-4.22%
Civic
$0.10380570-2.70%
Ren
$0.09922533-5.22%
Voyager Token
$0.32356283-3.61%
Augur
$8.61-1.59%
Spell Token
$0.00067787-3.14%
Aragon
$2.35-3.18%
Chromia
$0.15799949-3.15%
Vulcan Forged PYR
$3.58-2.69%
COTI
$0.07544199+2.45%
Steem
$0.20391290-1.81%
MOBOX
$0.47328651-2.91%
WazirX
$0.16181450-4.75%
Request
$0.09520738-3.72%
NKN
$0.10218660-6.92%
XYO Network
$0.00516050-1.60%
Sun Token
$0.00645899-2.00%
Serum
$0.19878539-4.25%
Stormx
$0.00552655-2.71%
Storj
$0.35089712-2.64%
Orchid
$0.08441063-3.93%
Ampleforth Governance
$3.21-4.12%
Verge
$0.00287503+0.38%
Yield Guild Games
$0.25244974-6.95%
Alpaca Finance
$0.30375179-2.78%
Moonriver
$8.07-3.93%
Polkastarter
$0.41402316-3.22%
Quickswap
$84.26-3.25%
Index Chain
$0.05065713-4.84%
Raydium
$0.23643334-2.96%
Enzyme
$20.65-3.49%
CLV
$0.06201995-2.24%
Harvest Finance
$33.81-3.55%
district0x
$0.02984591-0.58%
Samoyedcoin
$0.00343170-3.51%
Kyber Network
$0.68963009-2.23%
SuperRare
$0.11223896-6.69%
Mirror Protocol
$0.09191986-3.89%
Quantstamp
$0.01605360-4.18%
Star Atlas DAO
$0.26322160-0.44%
SingularDTV
$0.000402100.00%
Arbitrum
$1.20-22.44%
Tether
$1.00+0.00%
USD Coin
$1.00+0.01%
Dai
$1.00+0.04%
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Sin Week
Dark web
Criminal Crypto Use Is Growing, but That’s Just Half the Story
Data suggests that while authorities are getting better at sniffing out dark web markets, dark web markets are getting better at not getting sniffed out.
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By George Kaloudis
Aug 30, 2022 at 2:21 p.m. UTC
Aug 30, 2022
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Money reimagined
The Coming Privacy Wars
Whether governments like it or not, demand for privacy is growing – and will perhaps even accelerate the more they try to suppress it.
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By Michael J. Casey
Aug 19, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. UTC
Aug 19, 2022
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Monero
Monero’s Privacy-Focused Crypto Protocol Upgrade Is Now Live
The change to the protocol, a collaborative effort involving 71 developers, has been successfully implemented.
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By Frederick Munawa
Aug 13, 2022 at 7:06 p.m. UTC
Aug 13, 2022
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Monero
Crypto Privacy Protocol Monero Is Getting a Major Upgrade
The privacy-focused network is gearing up for a hard fork that has been in the works for months.
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By Frederick Munawa
Aug 12, 2022 at 9:46 p.m. UTC
Aug 12, 2022
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Interview
What the Tornado Cash Sanction Means for Privacy Coins
The U.S. government’s sanction of a key Ethereum application shows the need for anonymizing tools in crypto, an advocate says.
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By Xinyi Luo
Aug 9, 2022 at 9:58 p.m. UTC
Aug 9, 2022
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Tornado cash
As Government Takes on the Tornado Mixer, It May Reap a Whirlwind
Tornado Cash isn’t a company, a service or a person – it’s a series of words, and likely protected by the U.S. First Amendment.
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By David Z. Morris
Aug 9, 2022 at 6:23 p.m. UTC
Aug 9, 2022
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Tech
Zcash
Zcash’s NU5 Upgrade Goes Live, Boosting Privacy and Removing ‘Trusted Setups’
The privacy coin now allows transactions that are shielded by default, so users no longer have to opt in to hide payment details on the blockchain.
Zcash creator Zooko Wilcox in 2019
By Christie Harkin
May 31, 2022 at 5:56 p.m. UTC
May 31, 2022
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Payments Week
Payments-week-22
Can Crypto Deliver on Private Transactions in Cashless World?
From personal autonomy to zk-Snarks – the tools and actions that might ensure privacy in this increasingly digital age.
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By Daniel Kuhn
Apr 27, 2022 at 8:20 p.m. UTC
Apr 27, 2022
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Privacy
Spread of Sanctions Makes Privacy Tokens the Hot Bet in Crypto Markets
Analysts point to the Ukraine war and related financial sanctions as the reason MASK and Monero's XMR, among others, are trading higher.
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By Lyllah Ledesma
Apr 13, 2022 at 4:41 p.m. UTC
Apr 13, 2022
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Privacy
‘People Will Get Burned’: Matt Odell on the Long Road to Bitcoin Privacy
Privacy advocate and hardcore bitcoiner Matt Odell discusses CoinJoins, privacy coins and “canaries.”
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By Daniel Kuhn
Mar 9, 2022 at 7:45 p.m. UTC
Mar 9, 2022
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