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A16z Launches First Gaming Fund With $600M Commitment
Among notable gaming industry investors in the fund are David Baszucki, founder of Roblox; Jason Citron, founder of Discord; Marc Merrill, co-founder of Riot Games; Mike Morhaime, co-founder of Blizza...
Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin Reminds Adam Back That Bitcoin Was Designed by Human
Alex Dovbnya Vitalik Buterin has pointed to contradictions in the arguments of one of the most vocal Bitcoin maximalists Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has hit back at Blockstream CEO Adam Back, ...
Martin Shkreli released from federal prison into halfway house
Former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli departs the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, August 3, 2017 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Getty Images Notorious ...
A Race Between The Best Tokens: Can Mountanaz (MNAZ) Outpace Avalanche (AVAX)
– Advertisement – People are becoming increasingly aware of the positive sides of decentralised finance (DeFi). In this article, we will be examining two tokens, Avalanche (AVAX) and Mount...
Russian Soldier Pleads Guilty To Killing Unarmed Civilian In Ukraine’s First War Crimes Trial
Topline A Russian soldier pleaded guilty Wednesday to killing an unarmed civilian during Ukraine’s first war crimes trial since Russia invaded the country in February, in what could be the first of ma...
Kyber Network Crystal Strides In Green With A 30% Surge
KNC hit its all-time high at $5.72 USD on 28 April 2022. 74.8 million KNC were given to early investors in the 2017 private sale. The global crypto market is still on code red and all the cryptos are...
Are We In A Bear Market? Here’s How To Tell
getty Key takeaways Bear markets occur when prices drop more than 20% from recent highs Bear markets can last a few weeks, months or even years, depending on the cause and underlying economic conditio...
Axie Infinity targeted in another hack, this time via discord bot
Axie Infinity has announced on its Twitter page that there was a compromise of the MEE6 bot on its Discord server. The MEE6 team has denied that there was an attack on its bot. The MEE6 bot is quite p...
BinaryX Unveils CyberArena – A New P2E Experience
Singapore, Singapore, 18th May, 2022, Chainwire BinaryX developed and released CyberArena, a free-to-play, play-to-earn strategic card game. Gamers may compete to earn rewards while enjoying and exper...
Is Tether’s USDT Going to Pull a UST? Probably Not
Key Takeaways Following Terra’s UST collapse, Tether’s USDT market cap has dropped by over $9 billion. The recent redemptions of USDT for dollars have led some to once again question the c...
This is how much money Americans think they need to be considered wealthy
Can you put a dollar amount on what it means to be wealthy in the U.S.? An annual survey asks Americans to do just that, and this year, $2.2 million is the magic number. That’s according to the ...
Kadena Posts Double-Digit Losses as More Layer-1 Cryptocurrencies Tank
Kadena (KDA), the native cryptocurrency of the eponymous proof-of-work (PoW) blockchain network, is down more than 10% over the last day, trading at $2.89 by press time, per CoinMarketCap. Kadena was ...
AVAX declines below $30 as the market bearish momentum continues
Avalanche price analysis reveals a prevailing downtrend as AVAX prices set to lows of $26.85 in the early hours of the day. The market has seen a general sell-off, with AVAX price declining by a signi...
Luna Foundation Guard Reveals It Sold More Than $2,400,000,000 in Bitcoin (BTC) at Height of TerraUSD Collapse
The Luna Foundation Guard (LFG) is reporting dumping more than $2.4 billion worth of Bitcoin (BTC) last week as the stablecoin TerraUSD (UST) collapsed. The LFG, a non-profit organization built to sup...
U.S. Agencies Warn of Hiring North Korean IT Workers Online
U.S. government agencies have issued a warning about hiring North Korean IT workers and published a fact sheet on how to identify them. The United States Treasury and other agencies posted the fact sh...
Spotify: new tests allowing artists to promote NFTs
Spotify, the music streaming giant, has started a trial to allow selected artists on the Android app in the US to promote their NFTs directly from their profile on the platform. Spotify experiments w...
What Walmart, Target, Home Depot and Lowe’s tell us about the economy
Compilation of Target, Walmart, Lowe’s and Home Depot stores. Reuters How well is the American consumer holding up against sky-high inflation? It depends on whom you ask. Four major retailers — ...
Russia Expels French, Italian And Spanish Diplomats In ‘Hostile Act’
Topline Russia expelled dozens of European diplomats from its country Wednesday, the latest retaliatory move by the Kremlin after Western countries expelled hundreds of Russian diplomats in response t...
Shiba Inu Going to $0, Death of SHIB by 2030! Says, Finder’s Survey Report
Along with many other cryptocurrencies, the Dogecoin killer Shiba Inu has also had its path of struggle in the crypto market crash. Though the Shiba Inu price was nothing in interest, the currency is ...
Dow Falls 900 Points, Stock Market Selloff Continues As Major Retailers Warn Of Rising Cost Pressures
Topline The stock market selloff resumed on Wednesday amid reinvigorated fears about surging inflation weighing on economic growth, as several major retailers have now reported that quarterly profits ...
El Salvador Plays Host to Developing Economies to Delve Deeper into Bitcoin Adoption
The ongoing Bitcoin conference in El Salvador could not have come at an interesting time when the leading cryptocurrency has shown its resilience amid the current LUNA crash, according to Mikkel Morch...
21Shares launches two crypto ETPs for accredited US investors
Leading cryptocurrency exchange-traded products (ETP) firm 21Shares has expanded into the United States, launching two new index funds via an affiliate platform. Through 21Shares US Advisers LLC, the ...
Is the Housing Market Slowing Down? Takeaways From Real Estate Earnings.
Several housing metrics due this week are expected to show signs of a slowdown. That sentiment has also been echoed in recent comments from real estate technology companies on earnings calls. Affordab...
Coinshift Closes $15 Million Series A Led by Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital India, Alameda
[PRESS RELEASE – Sheridan, United States, 17th May, 2022] Cash management company announces roadmap to build cutting-edge multichain treasury infrastructure for Web3 Coinshift, leading treasury manage...
Japan’s banking giant Nomura set to launch crypto division
Financial Times, in their latest announcement, said that Japanese investment bank Nomura will start a new firm focusing on cryptocurrencies, decentralized financing (Defi), and non-fungible tokens (NF...