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What Is Tether? The Company Behind USDT

A deep dive into Tether, the company that issues leading stablecoin USDT, and recently announced it will be buying Bitcoin every month.

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Crypto Trading Fees Decoded: How To Navigate Cost and Optimize Trading Strategies

CoinMarketCap Alexandria dives into different types of fees you can encounter when trading crypto, including maker and taker fees, funding fees, network and gas fees, and withdrawal fees.

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Bali Issues Warning Against Tourists Using Crypto

Tourists visiting Bali have been warned against using cryptocurrencies as a form of payment.

Gemini and Genesis Seek Dismissal of SEC Lawsuit

Crypto lender Genesis Global Capital and crypto exchange Gemini have filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Russia Scraps Plan for National Crypto Exchange

Russia has scrapped its plans to launch a national cryptocurrency exchange and instead aims to regulate multiple crypto trading platforms.

Beijing Government Releases Web3 White Paper

Beijing’s municipal government has released a white paper regarding the development of the local Web3 industry.

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Taking its cue from Ethereum's ERC-20, the Bitcoin blockchain's BRC-20 is an experimental token standard. O...

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Diversified Proof of Stake

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The Library of Alexandria was the world’s first known attempt to create a universal library, one place to store all of the knowledge that existed and could be collected at the time. In fact, the creators of the library once wrote that they wanted to “collect, if possible, all the books in the world.” With that in mind, CoinMarketCap has founded CoinMarketCap Alexandria. Unlike the Library of Alexandria, which reportedly searched all incoming ships for books to take for its physical collection, Alexandria will house online both content about crypto written by our own researchers.

While CoinMarketCap Alexandria cannot claim to cover all of the existing knowledge of the cryptocurrency space, we are starting our online library with the same lofty goal of those original Library of Alexandria founders back in the second century BCE: "to collect, if possible, all of the information about cryptocurrency in the world."

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