From bitcoin volatility to multimillion-dollar hacks: 7 crypto updates you should know
The overall cryptocurrency market took a hit over the weekend. Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market value, plunged to a low near $43,000 on Saturday night. Its price has since bounced back and is currently trading at around $49,149, according to Coin Metrics. On Saturday, ether, the second-largest cryptocurrency, also fell to around $3,500. Ether is currently trading at around $4,179. Along with the volatility this weekend, here are seven things that happened in crypto this past week.1. Metaverse land sales top $100 million in a week Virtual real estate has increasingly become a hot commodity. Sales of NFTs, or nonfungible tokens, representing metaverse land surpassed $100 million in the last week alone, crypto analytics firm DappRadar reported on Tuesday. The Sandbox, an Ethereum-based metaverse and game where users can buy land and in-game assets as NFTs, had more than $86 million in trading volume. Decentraland, an Ethereum-powered virtual reality platform, had more than $15 million traded for land NFTs. “Outputting record sales numbers and constantly increasing NFT prices, virtual worlds are the new top commodity in the crypto space,” DappRadar wrote in a blog post.2. Jack Dorsey‘s Square changes corporate name to Block On Wednesday, Jack Dorsey’s payments company Square announced it is renaming itself Block, effective