Category : Rumours

“Only Chainlink,” Loopring clears recent Band Protocol integration rumors

Payments protocol and zkRollup exchange Loopring said this week that rumors of its partnership with oracle provider Band Protocol were greatly exaggerated and a mistake. Earlier this week, Loopring said it was onboarding Band Protocol oracles for the...

Crypto fund behind Chainlink FUD is offering 5 Bitcoin to post bearish positions

A dubious crypto fund, Zeus Capital, is reportedly offering prominent Twitter members up to 5 Bitcoin to post a short-biased price analysis for Chainlink (LINK). Rewards for spreading “FUD” Screenshots and tweets on Thursday showed the fund — whose i...

Report: China’s national blockchain project could adopt Ethereum after Chainlink onboarding

China’s surging ahead with its blockchain aspirations even as the world grapples with the basic regulation around distributed systems and digital currencies. Moving into public blockchains A fund manager revealed Sunday the country will soon onboard...

China: Banks and Alipay won’t shut Bitcoin accounts, 70 percent of firms see blockchain as an economic boost

Reports on China shutting down bank accounts for individual Bitcoin traders and OTC firms are unfounded and untrue, a local investigation found this week. Dispelling FUD China Times said Wednesday the country’s national and central banks were not clo...

Ethereum devs confirm ETH 2.0 will NOT go live in July, despite widespread rumors

Ethereum’s much-awaited move to a PoS consensus algorithm, the so-called 2.0 or “Serenity” update, just got longer. Project developers confirmed late on May 12 any purported shipping dates were a clear case of miscommunication. It’s not coming...

Top-40 altcoin Digibyte rumored to be close to a 51 percent attack [UPDATED]

UPDATE (27 Apr. @18:42 UTC): After publishing, Digibyte founder Jared Tate informed via a series of tweets rectifying the various points reported in this article. We certainly aim to present all the publicly available sides of any story without direc...

[Update] Top-40 altcoin Digibyte rumored to be close to a 51 percent attack

[Update] After publishing, Digibyte founder Jared Tate informed via a series of tweets rectifying the various points reported in this article. Needless to say, CryptoSlate’s authors report exclusively based on facts, social posts, and community...

[UPDATED with comments from Digibyte founder Jared Tate] Top-40 altcoin Digibyte rumored to be close to a 51 percent attack

Binance CEO dismisses Shanghai police raid news as “pure FUD,” says rival crypto exchanges are paying for disinformation

The chief executive of Binance, one of the world’s top crypto exchanges, has vociferously denied reports that the firm’s Shanghai office has been raided by Chinese authorities. Incredibly, CEO Changpeng Zhao claims Malta-based Binance, in fact, has n...

VeChain (VET) surges after rumors about a vaccine tracking system in China

VeChain has been on a rampage surging nearly 185 percent in the last 22 days. The spike appears to be correlated with rumors that link the company with China’s launch of a nationwide vaccine tracking system. Despite the bullish impulse seen lately, s...