In a strange and unexpected move, Elon Musk, the controversial owner of Twitter, updated the logo of his social network Twitter on Monday, replacing the image of the iconic blue bird with the Dogecoin logo. This and more news in this handy daily summary so that you are always informed with the most recent events that occur within the crypto world.
Dogecoin, the new face of Twitter?
📍Dogecoin (DOGE) hits $0,10 amid Elon Musk controversy. Twitter owner Elon Musk has changed his social media platform's bluebird logo to Dogecoin, a Shiba Inu dog known as the face of the popular cryptocurrency meme.
Twitter users on the desktop version can see the change in the social network's logo, which took place late on Monday.
The controversial Twitter owner has not commented on this image change, other than posting a meme with the message “it’s an old photo.” The meme shows a butterfly with the face of Dogecoin driving a car and a police officer checking his ID or driver’s license, where the “old” image of the blue bird can be seen.
Meanwhile, Dogecoin (DOGE) price It soared by almost 18% following Elon Musk's move, pushing the price of this cryptocurrency to cross the $0,10 per unit level for the first time this year.
According to data from cryptocurrency pricing platform CoinMarketCap, DOGE hit $0,1026 on Monday. However, at the time of writing, the meme cryptocurrency is trading at around $XNUMX. $ 0,098 dollars. Also, Dogecoin's daily trading volume grew by an impressive 250% on Monday, surpassing $3.320 billion in trading volume in the past few hours.
Source: CoinMarketCap
BIS launches platform to track cryptoasset and DeFi data
📍The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) launches a platform to track the cryptocurrency and decentralized finance ecosystem. The BIS announced that its new platform, called Project Atlas, will provide data and information on the market capitalization of cryptocurrencies and the DeFi ecosystem, as well as economic activities and international flows involving crypto assets.
The aim of the international organisation with the launch of this new platform is to determine the economic importance of crypto assets and DeFi within the traditional system. According to the organisation, cryptocurrencies are part of a growing digital financial ecosystem that is rapidly expanding around the world, so it is essential to know their usefulness and possible risks.
Over $100 million in ETH deposited in zkSync Era
📍zkSync Era mainnet alpha surpasses $100M in staked value one week after launch. zkSyn Era, developed by Matter Labs, is a permissionless and open blockchain solution that uses zero-knowledge proofs to scale the Ethereum network. This scalability solution was successfully launched last Friday, March 24. With the launch of zkSync Era, its developers highlighted the beginning of a new era of scaling for the largest smart contract blockchain on the market.
Currently, zkSync Era has more than $111 million in deposited value, according to data consulted on the L2Beat platform.
Source: L2Beat
zkSync is one of the ZK-based scalability solutions, which together with Polygon zkEVM, are compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).
Amazon advances in the construction of its NFT market
📍The e-commerce giant is finalizing the details of its new marketplace for NFT tokens. According to Blockworks, Amazon is close to finalizing the development of its own NFT marketplace platform, which could be available to users this year, although an exact date is unknown.
Amazon's NFT platform will be based on a private blockchain built by the e-commerce giant and will, according to sources, include some of the industry's most well-known crypto collectibles, such as Pudgy Penguins.
A year ago, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy talked about the possibility of Include non-fungible tokens on the platform e-commerce. Jassy said the NFT market was growing rapidly, so these digital assets could come to its platform in the future.
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