Key Takeaways ConsenSys and StarkWare have entered a partnership. Infura and MetaMask are integrating StarkNet, allowing developers and users to build and explore the Layer 2 solution. StarkNet is exp...
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House Dems skip closed-door briefing on Bitcoin to attend Roe protests after Supreme Court ruling
On Friday, Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee held a closed briefing on Bitcoin’s environmental impact today, The Block has learned. Three sources confirmed the noon briefing t...
House Dems skip closed-door briefing on Bitcoin
House Democrats facilitated an instructions today targeting crypto’s ecological effect Staff for Waters had not responded to requests for comment To a great extent an incrimination of crypto mining a...
Actor Matthew McConaughey calls for gun reform in White House briefing
In an emotional speech at the White House on Tuesday, actor Matthew McConaughey called for new gun regulations in the wake of last month’s mass shooting in his hometown of Uvalde, Texas, and urg...
Mirror Protocol Exploited Again – Crypto Briefing
Key Takeaways Mirror Protocol is currently suffering its second exploit. An error in price oracle implementation has allegedly allowed up to $2 million to be siphoned from the protocol. The situation ...
Celestia Launches Mamaki Testnet – Crypto Briefing
Key Takeaways Celestia has launched its first testnet, Mamaki. Another incentivized testnet is planned before mainnet. Celestia uses a “modular blockchain” architecture that allows it to decouple cons...
Kraken Announces NFT Marketplace – Crypto Briefing
Key Takeaways Kraken announced today that it is opening the waitlist for its NFT store and revealed the platform’s various features. In December, CEO Jesse Powell suggested Kraken would open an ...
IOHK Shares Technical Briefing on Cardano’s Vasil Hard Fork: Details
Cardano and its smart contracts platform, Plutus, are set to undergo significant enhancements in June’s hard fork. In light of this, Cardano’s parent company, IOHK, shares a technical brie...
ApeCoin Drops Tomorrow – Crypto Briefing
Key Takeaways ApeCoin has been formally announced, and is scheduled to drop tomorrow. 15% of the total token supply will go out to holders of Bored Ape Yacht Club and Mutant Ape Yacht Club NFTs starti...
Polygon Experiences Hours-Long Outage – Crypto Briefing
Key Takeaways Polygon, a Layer 2 network for Ethereum, is experiencing an outage that has lasted for more than four hours so far. The outage arose from a bug in Polygon’s Heimdall node, which in...
Bitcoin Reclaims $40,000 – Crypto Briefing
Key Takeaways Bitcoin is trading above $40,000 today. The flagship cryptocurrency has traded in the $30,000 range for almost two weeks. Other cryptos, stocks, and commodities are also having a strong ...
Grayscale Launches Crypto-Focused ETF – Crypto Briefing
Key Takeaways Grayscale Investments has announced its first ETF, the Grayscale Future of Finance ETF. The exchange traded fund tracks the Bloomberg Grayscale Future of Finance Index, which is a basket...
Who Is Daniele Sestagalli? – Crypto Briefing
Key Takeaways Last week, 0xSifu, the pseudonymous treasury manager of Wonderland, was outed as a former convict and co-founder of the collapsed QuadrigaCX exchange. Instead of immediately distancing h...
Google Tiptoes Into Crypto – Crypto Briefing
Key Takeaways Google may be preparing for a foray into the world of cryptocurrency. The company has hired a former PayPal executive and partnered with Coinbase and Bitpay. The specifics of Google’s cr...
OpenSea Acquires Dharma Labs – Crypto Briefing
Key Takeaways OpenSea has acquired Dharma, an Ethereum wallet project, to help build its team and scale over the next year. Dharma will sunset its wallet product over the next month, and its co-founde...
Polygon Activates EIP-1559 Hardfork – Crypto Briefing
Share this article Polygon has launched EIP-1559 to initiate the real-time burning of MATIC tokens. EIP-1559 Goes Live on Polygon Ethereum sidechain network, Polygon has initiated EIP-1559, also calle...
THORChain Introduces Dogecoin Support – Crypto Briefing
Key Takeaways Contributors to THORChain have announced full Dogecoin support and integration. DOGE holders will now be able to earn yield on their DOGE as well as swap it for other native coins, like ...
CFTC Shuts Down Polymarket – Crypto Briefing
Key Takeaways Polymarket has been fined $1.4 million by the CFTC and will also be forced to shut down all of its markets. The prediction market service offered events contracts, something that only re...