The U.S. Department of Treasury issued a stark warning, stating that the rise of decentralized cryptocurrency markets poses a significant threat to national security, with concerns ranging from illici...
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India Eyes One Million CBDC Users Over Next Three Months
Sources familiar with the matter said that the architects of the retail CBDC are working to incorporate offline transactions and eyeing half a million users by July. India is one of those top global e...
AI Fears Grow as Germany, France, Sweden, and Canada Voice Concerns
Several world governments are growing increasingly jittery about the Pandora’s box of advanced artificial intelligence that was cracked wide open with the public release of ChatGPT by OpenAI. Even as ...
Treasury Department Deems Decentralized Finance a National Security Threat
Poor cybersecurity practices within the decentralized finance (DeFi) industry present a threat to crypto, consumers, and national security, according to a new report from the United States Treasury De...
Is Texas Still ‘Very Open for Business’ for Bitcoin Mining?
Up until quite recently, Texas was “very open for business, as it were, for Bitcoin mining.” That’s how Jaime Leverton, CEO of Canadian Bitcoin miner Hut 8, put it on the latest episode of Decrypt’s g...
Future of Paxful Bitcoin Exchange in Flux As Co-Founders Fight
Tensions between Paxful co-founders Ray Youssef and Artur Schaback spilled into public yesterday, as the peer-to-peer Bitcoin exchange abruptly announced it had suspended operations. While Schaback ho...
MobileCoin Exec Bob Lee Fatally Stabbed in San Francisco
Bob Lee, the creator of Cash App and chief product officer of MobileCoin, was killed early Tuesday morning in a stabbing in San Francisco, law enforcement officials confirmed. He was 43 years old. The...
Meta Reveals AI Tool to Help Brands Target Facebook, Instagram Users
Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta intends to use its proprietary generative AI to create ads for companies by the end of this year. Advertising is already a major revenue stream for Meta, but...
North Korea Steals $1 Billion in Cryptocurrency Assets
4 seconds ago | 2 mins read Market News North Korea has been using cyberattacks to bypass economic sanctions. The country allegedly stole $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency assets in 2022. The amount ...
MicroStrategy Buys More Bitcoin as Asset Nears Company’s Break Even Price
Bitcoin had a terrific quarter—up over 68% since the start of the year—and that’s led software giant MicroStrategy to double down on its crypto bet just as the company’s initial investment closes in o...
You May Wear Your Next Screen
Assisted Reality headsets are basically Android smartphones with a wearable micro display, allowing a workers’ hands to remain free, and eyes on the task. They’re not the sort of thing you’d wear in p...
Uwerx (WERX) 2023 Presale Stirring Up Attention; DOGE, SHIB Holders’ Bags Get Heavy
Advertisement     2021 was the height of the meme coin frenzy – with Dogecoin (DOGE) and Shiba Inu (SHIB) figuring among the most prominent meme coins that anybody and...
Arbitrum Foundation presents new governance proposals following backlash
Arbitrum Foundation, the Ethereum layer 2 network, has introduced two new proposals with significant changes after its initial governance proposal faced backlash from the community. The Foundation pla...
Jimin’s ‘Face’ EP Lands The Second-Largest Debut Of 2023 In The U.S. Behind Morgan Wallen
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – NOVEMBER 20: Jimin of BTS during BTS’s New Album ‘BE (Deluxe Edition)’ Release … [+] Press Conference at Dongdaemun Design Plaza on November 20, 2020...
‘Lollipop’ NFT Racing Game From Filmmaker David Ayer Coming to Polygon
Los Angeles-based entertainment studio Feature.io announced today that it is developing Lollipop, an interactive, Web3 multimedia car racing experience with “The Fast and Furious” co-writer and “Suici...
Singapore banks form new alliances for vetting crypto clients
Singapore banks are working with the country’s Central Bank and police to develop a vetting process for crypto clients. The collaboration comes amid severe volatility in the crypto market following se...
‘District 9’ Director Is Launching a Web3 Game—With a Dedicated Avalanche Subnet
Video game developer Gunzilla Games, which includes noted filmmaker Neill Blomkamp among its leadership, announced today that it will launch a dedicated Avalanche subnet called GUNZ for its upcoming g...
Batteries or Bitcoin: Is Mining the Best Use for ‘Excess’ Green Energy?
For Bitcoin miners the motive to power their operations with renewables is clear–it’s economical. Per data from MacroMicro, it costs $26,979 to mine a Bitcoin on average. With the price of the l...
What Will Make a Rust Developer Appealing to Future Employers? – Cryptopolitan
Rust is a modern, high-performance programming language that prioritizes safety, speed, and concurrency. It has gained considerable popularity in various industries, including blockchain, web developm...
CoinFLEX Founder Offers Bitcoin Evangelist Roger Ver ‘Olive Branch’ to Settle Alleged $84M Debt
Co-founder of the troubled crypto exchange CoinFLEX Mark Lamb issued an open letter to Bitcoin evangelist and Bitcoin Cash promoter Roger Ver offering him an “olive branch” of “two years of free tradi...
Swiss Bank PostFinance to Roll Out Bitcoin, Ethereum Services for Clients
PostFinance, the financial services firm fully owned by the Swiss government, will offer its customers a range of regulated crypto services delivered through Sygnum’s B2B banking platform. Thank...
Ethereum, LSD Tokens on the Rise Ahead of Next Week’s Shanghai Upgrade
The price of Ethereum jumped 4.7% overnight, per CoinGecko data, as the second-largest cryptocurrency approaches its much-anticipated Shapella upgrade on April 12. Shapella is the joined term for two ...
Way To Go For Filecoin, The Decentralized Storage Network!
Filecoin is a decentralized, blockchain-based storage network that allows users to rent out their unused hard drive space to others in exchange for the Filecoin cryptocurrency. The Filecoin network op...
MKR rallies amid new proposals on the network
MKR is on for a bull run as the asset looks to cross the $730 mark. Trading at $722, the crypto had recorded an increase in price valuation of 7% within 24 hours of press time. MKR 24-hour charts | S...
Tron Launches Dominica Metaverse Bound Token With Huobi
Smart contract blockchain Tron has expanded its mission to bring Dominica into the metaverse, with the launch of a digital identity token. The Dominica Metaverse Bound Token (DMBT) has been launched a...
What Is Ethereum’s Shanghai Upgrade?
In brief Ethereum’s Shanghai upgrade is a hard fork slated for March 2023. The Shanghai fork will implement EIP-4895, which allows validators to withdraw ETH that have been staked since as long ago as...
Stormy Daniels Calls Trump’s Indictment ‘Shocking’ In New Interview—But Doesn’t Think He Deserves Prison Time
Topline In her first televised interview since former President Donald Trump’s historic indictment Tuesday, Stormy Daniels—the adult film star at the center of the charges—told Piers Morgan she never ...
Ultra’s New Web3 Gaming Marketplace Lets Users Resell Digital Games
Long-running Web3 gaming startup Ultra is set to launch its Ultra Games marketplace later this month, and the store will arrive with a rare twist: the ability for users to resell digital games that th...
On NASCAR’s Hot Seat Once Again Hendrick Motorsports Now Out Nearly Half A Million Dollars
AVONDALE, ARIZONA – MARCH 12: William Byron, driver of the #24 Valvoline Chevrolet, and Kyle Larson, … [+] driver of the #5 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet, race during the NASCAR Cup Series Un...
Ethereum’s ERC-4337 Standard: A Game-Changing, User-Friendly Innovation
Ethereum is one of the most popular and widely-used blockchain protocols. While its native coin ether (ETH) can be used to make payments like cryptocurrencies such as litecoin (LTC) or bitcoin cash (B...
White House Backs New Rule Blocking Trans Athlete Bans—With A Major Exception
Topline The Biden Administration proposed new regulations Thursday aimed at curbing blanket bans keeping transgender athletes from participating in school sports, but it included a significant loophol...
Free POAP? Not for Commercial Users of the Ethereum Attendance NFTs
Leading NFT attendance badge service POAP announced Tuesday that it will soon begin charging commercial clients for access to its services, ending the company’s years-long policy of offering all users...