With token prices plummeting, customers unable to transfer money to their accounts and a dreaded transaction tax on cryptocurrencies just around the corner, exchanges like Binance-backed WazirX have put expansion plans on the back burner
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The officers committee on GST has suggested the GST Council to defer a decision on taxability of cryptocurrency and other virtual digital assets.
Bitcoin, which reached a record high of $69,000 in November, has lost more than half its value this year.
Worries about global recessionary risks have wiped out billions in Bitcoin’s market value, with the token crashing about 70% from its peak to trade near $20,000.
The record-setting rout in cryptocurrencies has put a slew of decentralized-finance applications and their communities in a race to protect themselves against a cascade of liquidations -- sometimes by employing unprecedented measures.
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The largest digital token by market value tumbled as much as 15% to $17,599 on Saturday, marking a record-breaking 12th consecutive daily decline
The biggest cryptocurrency was down 7.1% to $18,993 at 0906 GMT, having earlier touched $18,732, its lowest since December 2020.
Bitcoin fell as much as 6 percent to $19,377.08 at 2:54 pm Hong Kong on Saturday. The largest token by market value has fallen for 12 straight days. Ether breached the $1,000 mark briefly and dropped to $999.86, the lowest since January 2021, before paring losses
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Major cryptocurrencies traded in the red early on June 17 as the global crypto market cap increased 6.88 per cent to $893.36 billion over the last day.
Major cryptocurrencies traded in the green early on June 16 as the global crypto market cap increased 2.23 per cent to $966.22 billion over the last day.
Cryptocurrencies have tumbled this year, with prices of some digital assets falling as much as 90% as the Federal Reserve raises interest rates to combat rampant inflation.
Celsius Network, the retail crypto lending platform whose liquidity problems have sent cryptocurrencies plunging, stumbled on complex investments in the wholesale digital asset market in what analysts say was akin to a traditional bank run.
Cryptocurrency prices have been falling in tandem with a broader market downturn, leaving crypto businesses, lenders, and traders reeling.
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global Inc said on Tuesday it would slash 18% of its workforce, or about 1,100 jobs, as part of efforts to rein in costs amid volatile market conditions.
Given the inherent category challenges, crypto brands need to advertise with caution.
According to data portal CoinMarketCap, the value of the cryptocurrency market went below $1 trillion for the first time since January 2021.
This comes after a blockbuster year for crypto trading as Indian exchanges onboarded millions of users by end of 2021.
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have suffered in recent months as the Federal Reserve hikes rates and global policy makers step up efforts to combat price increases, and as risk assets like tech stocks retreat.
The Blockchain gaming category is resisting the crypto crash and adding investors. In May, Dapper Labs announced a $725 million fund to accelerate growth in the Flow ecosystem along with Andreessen Horowitz committing $4.5 billion to its Crypto Fund 4.
The website earlier mentioned that the TDS rate for virtual digital assets has been dropped to 0.1% from 1% as announced earlier in the budget, according to the website Income Tax Department.
The total crypto market volume rose 3.49 percent to $84.24 billion over the last 24 hours.
Crypto promoters could also run afoul of the Federal Trade Commission’s rules, which require marketers of all kinds to disclose when they have a financial stake in the projects they endorse.