Retail sales volume in Romania (excluding the trade with motor vehicles and motorcycles) increased by 4.9% in unadjusted data and by 3.4% when adjusted for seasonality and number of working days, in March 2025 versus March 2024, data from the country’s statistical office INS showed on Thursday (May 8).
Doodles NFT sales volume nearly doubles in 24 hours, climbing to over $1.1 million as traders anticipate the project’s token airdrop and memecoin launch. Doodles’ non-fungible token (NFTs) sales surged by 97% in the last 24 hours as digital collectible traders anticipate the project’s token generation event and airdrop. On May 8, data from CryptoSlam showed Doodles NFT sales topping $1.1 million, nearly doubling the previous day’s total. The spike placed Doodles in the third spot for daily NFT sales, following DMarket and Courtyard NFTs. Over the past week, Doodles recorded $2.6 million in total sales volume, up 368% from the week prior and ranking fifth among all NFT collections, according to CryptoSlam. Read more
Romania's three-month ROBOR index, the interbank interest rate used as a reference to calculate variable interests for loans in lei taken out before May 2019, as well as for companies' leu-denominated loans, soared to 7.25% on Thursday (May 8), from 6.47% on May 7, in line with central bank data.
Ambire and Trust Wallet are among the first wallets to support Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade (EIP-7702), enabling existing accounts to leverage account abstraction features. The Ethereum Pectra upgrade introduced a significant upgrade in account abstraction accessibility, with multiple wallets already implementing the change. Pectra introduced Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 7702, a change that Ivo Georgiev, founder and CEO of self-custodial smart wallet Ambire, described as “the single greatest UX upgrade to Ethereum so far.” Ambire is among the wallet providers that have already rolled out support for the new features since Pectra went live yesterday. Ambire’s announcement shared with Cointelegraph explains that EIP-7702 brings smart account functionality to existing user accounts, letting them temporarily act as smart contracts. This results in the advantages of account abstraction being accessible without creating new dedicated onchain addresses, rendering the transition of existing addresses possible. Re...