Author: Oluwapelumi Adejumo

The Nigerian Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) plans to introduce legislation to tax the growing crypto sector, according to local media outlet Business Day. FIRS Executive Chairman Zacch Adedeji announced this during a session with the National Assembly’s Finance Committees, highlighting that the new regulation would drive economic growth while encouraging innovation…

LI.FI, a cross-chain liquidity provider, has announced its support for native Bitcoin swaps through ThorChain, according to an Aug. 14 statement shared with CryptoSlate. This integration, facilitated by SwapKit, enhances Bitcoin transfers between Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) chains and simplifies the exchange of the flagship asset for other cryptocurrencies within these networks…

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced that Turkish company Yilport Holdings will invest $1.6 billion—the largest private investment in the nation’s history—to upgrade two ports, including one in the home of the proposed Bitcoin City, according to an Aug. 12 video statement. Bukele’s video revealed that Yilport would be upgrading the ports at Acajutla and

Ethena Labs has expanded its “synthetic dollar” USDe to the Solana blockchain and revealed intentions to add the SOL token as a backing asset for the stablecoin, according to an Aug. 7 statement. USDe’s integration with Solana was achieved through LayerZero’s omnichannel fungible token (OFT). Ethena Labs noted that over 90% of Solana’s $3.5 billion

Yona Network, a Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) Bitcoin Layer 2 network, has adopted Neon Stacks to introduce Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatibility to the Bitcoin network. According to a July 25 statement shared with CryptoSlate, this collaboration aims to drive innovation in the Bitcoin DeFi ecosystem while enhancing accessibility and scalability for decentralized applications (dApps)