UST’s decline has prompted calls from the US government on the stablecoin regulation. Terra Network’s LUNA has dropped to under $5 following a 90% weekly plummet. The price action represents one of th...
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Do Kwon Outed as Co-Founder of Previous Failed Stablecoin Project
Key Takeaways Terra founder Do Kwon has been revealed to be the identity behind “Rick Sanchez,” one of the anonymous co-founders of Basis Cash. Basis Cash was modeled on Basis (previously ...
Quadriga co-founder Michael Patryn trades UST crash for $760,000 gain
Michael Patryn, the co-founder of now-defunct exchange Quadriga CX, took a profitable punt on the stablecoin TerraUSD (UST) as it broke its peg with the dollar yesterday. According to transaction ana...
How Yuga Labs Could Have Avoided Otherdeed Ethereum NFT Mint Chaos: Infura Co-Founder
Last week, Yuga Labs’ massive Otherdeed NFT mint, for virtual land deeds in the Bored Ape Yacht Club metaverse realm Otherside, clogged the Ethereum mainnet with transaction demand. This triggered a g...
Avalanche Co-Founder Doubts Bitcoin (BTC) Supremacy in “15-20 Years”
Vladislav Sopov So says Kevin Sekniqi, COO and co-founder of Ava Labs and Avalanche (AVAX) blockchain Contents Who will surpass Bitcoin (BTC) in 15-20 years? Scalability instead of centralization? Mr....
Avalanche (AVAX) Co-Founder Predicts Bitcoin (BTC) Loses Its Supremacy – Here’s When
Avalanche (AVAX) co-founder and CEO Kevin Sekniqi says he has a hard time imagining that Bitcoin (BTC) will be able to maintain its number one spot in the crypto markets. Sekniqi tells his Twitter aud...
“You did it” – DOGE Co-Founder Responds As Jeff Bezos Follows Him On Twitter
Members of the Dogecoin community are in a joyous mood as World’s second richest man Jeff Bezos follows DOGE Co-founder, Billy Markus, on Twitter. Many believe that Bezos’s decision to follow Market c...
Jeff Bezos Now Follows Dogecoin Co-Founder on Twitter – “It Means A Lot for DOGE”
Yuri Molchan Dogecoin army on Twitter wonders if Amazon founder is warming up to DOGE Disclaimer: The opinion expressed here is not investment advice – it is provided for informational purposes only. ...
Polygon (MATIC) Co-Founder Calls Avalanche (AVAX) “Complete Failure,” Emin Gün Sirer Responds
Vladislav Sopov Sandeep Nailwal, founder of EVM-compatible blockchain Polygon (MATIC), slams the concept of Avalanche’s subnets Contents Polygon’s Nailwal accuses Avalanche of being “...
Ripple Co-Founder Praises California Governor’s Executive Order on Crypto
Alex Dovbnya Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen has praised California’s effort to update U.S. financial regulations In a recent tweet, Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen praised California Gov. Gavin Newsom ...
Partisia Enters Partnership With Cardano Co-Founder Emurga Ventures
Cardano levels up its privacy infrastructure with a partnership deal closed by Emurga Ventures, a founding entity of the Cardano blockchain. This deal with Partisia Blockchain will bring a suite of pr...
Layer-two Fees Still Too Expensive According to Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has responded to a tweet regarding layer-two fees suggesting that many of the networks are still too expensive. On May 3, Ethereum advocate and industry analyst Rya...
NFT derivatives – the new frontier? Interview with Smart Token Labs co-founder & CEO
Talk to someone unfamiliar with NFTs, and one of the first things they will protest is that they don’t really do anything. Indeed, even amongst enthusiasts, the focus has been driven more and more tow...
Nexo Co-Founder Confident $30,000 is Bitcoin’s Floor Price
In an interview with CNBC on Monday, Antonio Trenchev, the co-founder and managing director of cryptocurrency lending platform Nexo, said he is confident that Bitcoin (BTC) will not go below the $30,0...
Crypto industry is polarized – Know what Ripple co-founder believes
Ripple co-founder, Brad Garlinghouse, the person behind major altcoin and payment system Ripple, says that “tribalism” is preventing the $2 trillion crypto area from obtaining any additional. He furth...
Bitcoin Could Reach $1 Million within 8 years: BitMEX Co-Founder- Is it possible?
One of the industry’s most well-known pundits predicts that Bitcoin (BTC) will cost $1 million by 2030 when countries throughout the world abandon the euro and the US dollar. Arthur Hayes, the former ...
After Solana’s Co-Founder Said BTC Should Change Its Consensus Algo, Solana Mainnet Loses Consensus for 7 Hours – Bitcoin News
Jamie Redman Jamie Redman is the News Lead at Bitcoin.com News and a financial tech journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a ...
Solana Co-Founder Believes Bitcoin Needs to Change to Proof-of-Stake Consensus to Remain Relevant – Coinotizia
Anatoly Yakovenko, one of the co-founders of Solana, the proof-of-stake based, smart contracts enabled blockchain, issued a series of statements criticizing bitcoin’s consensus algorithm. In an interv...
Solana Co-Founder Believes Bitcoin Needs to Change to Proof-of-Stake Consensus to Remain Relevant – News Bitcoin News
Anatoly Yakovenko, one of the co-founders of Solana, the proof-of-stake based, smart contracts enabled blockchain, issued a series of statements criticizing bitcoin’s consensus algorithm. In an interv...
Ethereum Co-founder Vitalik Buterin Not in Support of Sanctions on ‘Ordinary’ Citizens of Russia
According to Vitalik Buterin, there is no need to enforce visa bans or other actions against the average person in Russia. Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently expressed concern over the...
Zcash Co-founder “John Dobbertin” is Actually Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden has been revealed as one of the co-founders of Zcash, after he gave his fellow co-founder Zooko Wilcox permission to disclose his involvement. Until now, Snowden was known by the pseudo...
Bitcoin Will Lose Users if it Doesn’t Adopt Proof-of-Stake, Says Solana Co-Founder
The Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus mechanism, which relies on crypto mining to validate transactions, is a pioneering concept that, in fact, pre-existed Bitcoin. But it is often criticized due to its e...
Solana’s Co-Founder Believes Bitcoin Must Switch to PoS – Here’s Why
Solana’s co-founder has joined the growing list of people that want Bitcoin (BTC) to switch to a proof of stake (PoS) consensus mechanism. The environmental impacts associated with Bitcoin mining form...
Interview with Nexo co-founder Antoni Trenchev discusses credit card launch and more
Nexo, one of the leading digital lending platforms, have continued to go from strength to strength, now counting over 4 million customers. Their latest feature was announced recently – a partnership ...
Web3 has a no resiliency says Swissborg Co-Founder
Speaking to the Swissborg, “Blockchain Brothers,” Alex and Cryus Fazel, we explored what makes a Web 3 company work and how it differs from a traditional business. Cyrus claims that the most significa...
Polygon Pledges $100 Million To Bootstrap Growth, But Co-Founder Also Expresses Caution About Crypto Projects Having Too Much Money
Gold coins falling on black background 3D render getty These days many leading blockchain projects sit on giant piles of money while they search for the first true killer app. This is especially true ...
Tezos co-founder Arthur Breitman discusses the untapped potential of DeFi
Arthur Breitman, the co-founder of layer-1 protocol Tezos (XTZ), spoke with Cointelegraph’s Jackson DuMont at the Paris Blockchain Week Summit (PBWS) last week about what it would take to unlock...
India Needs a Single Crypto Regulator, Says Polygon Co-Founder
Sandeep Nailwal, who is one of the crypto industry’s most prominent Indian-born entrepreneurs and who now lives in Dubai, told CoinDesk that the creation of a collective authority composed of represen...
Play-to-Earn is a banned term. We now use Play & Earn — says Polkastarter co-founder
The world’s most popular crypto launchpad, Polkastarter, has banned the term “Play-to-Earn” within its companies. Instead, they want to focus on “Play & Earn” when talking about Polkastarter Gamin...
Blockchain.com co-founder thinks the EU and UK are ‘progressive’ crypto regulators
Cointelegraph reporter Joseph Hall sat down with Nicolas Cary, the co-founder and president of Blockchain.com at the Paris Blockchain Week Summit, or PBWS, last week. Cary’s other roles include ...
Robinhood’s CEO, Elon Musk, and DOGE Co-Founder Billy Markus Discuss Improving Dogecoin – Coinotizia
On Thursday, following Robinhood’s listing of shiba inu, the co-founder and CEO of Robinhood, Vladimir Tenev, spoke about dogecoin being the future currency of the internet on Twitter. Tenev’s Twitter...