DegenZoo used AI to create Logan Paul’s NFT game without him

It started with an angry tweet. “It takes 30 days to build CryptoZoo. To prove that I will build: CryptoPoo $POO in less,” tweeted Chris Zaknun, the CEO of crypto fundraising platform DAO Maker,...

BTC reaches lowest point in 7 weeks, crypto market slides after Silvergate announcement

Cryptocurrency prices fell sharply throughout the afternoon, as investor sentiment was shaken following crypto-friendly bank Silvergate announcing it is liquidating.  Bitcoin was trading around ...

Markets trade down after Fed chair’s comments, Grayscale recovers amid hearing

Crypto markets whipsawed throughout the day after U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s delivered testimony to Congress. Bitcoin was trading around $22,070 by 4:55 p.m. EST, down abou...

Tensor — the ‘Blur of Solana’ — raises $3 million in seed funding

Tensor, which brands itself as “the Blur of Solana,” raised $3 million in a seed funding round. Placeholder VC led the round, with Solana Ventures, Alliance DAO, Big Brain Holdings, ...

Crypto prices flat, Silvergate declines ahead of Powell testimony

Crypto markets traded relatively flat as the market prepares for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s Congressional testimony on Tuesday and the release of U.S. jobs data on Friday. Bitco...

FTX sues Grayscale and DCG, citing ‘exorbitant’ fees

Collapsed crypto exchange FTX filed a lawsuit against Grayscale Investment, citing mismanagement of the firm as evidence that it was in violation of Trust agreements. The FTX debtors also filed ...

Trader makes error in XMON unlock strategy — loses 100% of trade in slippage

A crypto user was sandwich attacked for effectively the entire amount of their token swap after failing to implement slippage protection into their custom contract. They ended up swapping $10,000 for ...

Mt. Gox creditors may finally start seeing their bitcoins this month

Mt. Gox creditors may start seeing their first bitcoin payments this month as the window for repayments is set to open. Creditors are expected to receive early repayments from March 10 onward, w...

Conflux raises $10 million from DWF Labs in token round

Conflux, a Layer 1 blockchain developer, raised $10 million from DWF Labs. The investment will help Conflux expand its technology and grow its user base, DWF Labs said Wednesday. Conflux co-foun...

Inside the Sui ecosystem with Mysten Labs CEO Evan Cheng

Episode 15 of Season 5 of The Scoop was recorded remotely with The Block’s Frank Chaparro and Mysten Labs Co-Founder and CEO Evan Cheng. Listen below, and subscribe to The Scoop on Apple, ...

Speculators push price of testnet ether on Goerli network to $1.60

The price of testnet ether on the Goerli testnet spiked to $1.60 on Feb. 25 as traders speculated on a token that’s supposed to be worthless. Last week, cross-chain platform LayerZero crea...

Blur, ETHDenver and Sam Bankman-Fried

One of the biggest crypto stories this past week was the explosion of trading volumes on NFT marketplace Blur, which far outpaced rival OpenSea. The big question is whether this activity will find a s...

Solana network back online following second restart

The Solana blockchain is back online after two attempts to restart the network. The fix occurred at 01:28 UTC, after which engineers were said to continue monitoring the performance of the netwo...

Lido Finance reports largest ever daily stake inflow with more than 150,000 ETH staked

Lido Finance said Saturday that it saw the largest daily stake inflow ever on the protocol, with over 150,000 ether worth almost $240 million staked. “Upon reaching this number, a curious ...

Central African Republic’s Sango coin experiences deposit downtime

Sango, the coin by the Central African Republic launched in 2022, may be experiencing issues with deposits, representatives for the project said on Telegram. “We have some fantastic news!&...

Collectors spend $280,000 in Ethereum fees to mint 28,000 Coinbase NFTs

Crypto fans have cumulatively spent $280,000 in transaction fees to mint more than 28,000 Coinbase NFTs on Ethereum. The NFTs were available to be minted for free for those who wanted to mark the test...

Coinbase unveils its Ethereum Layer 2 network that won’t have a token

Coinbase is officially jumping into the Layer 2 game. The crypto exchange giant unveiled Base, a testnet version of its new Ethereum Layer 2 network, at ETHDenver. Modeled on Ethereum’s Go...

Solana Spaces gives fans final week to snag free merch ahead of shut down in Miami, NYC

Solana Spaces is giving fans a final week to snag free merchandise before it shuts down stores after hosting more than 75,000 people and nearly 50 events. “We’ve made the difficult decisio...

Obol to bring distributed validators to Ethereum this year

Obol Technologies has brought its distributed validator technology to the Ethereum mainnet for the first time in an internal alpha testing phase. If successful, the project aims to make Ethereum more ...

Latest round of Ethereum Shapella testnet development reveals a few bugs

Testing on Ethereum’s Zhejiang testnet ahead of the Shanghai-Capella update revealed some bugs, but nothing that will affect the timeline for the introduction of staking to the network.  D...

Bitcoin reaches $25,000, its highest price since June

DeFi • February 16, 2023, 11:21AM EST Bitcoin was trading at $25,108 by 11 a.m. EST, up 3.1% over the past day, according to TradingView data. That’s its highest price since June 2022. ...

Crypto markets rebound as Silvergate soars 16% on Citadel Securities, Susquehanna stakes

Cryptocurrency prices rebounded after yesterday’s decline, when the New York Department of Financial Services announced it will pursue regulatory action against stablecoin provider Paxos. ...

Why Morgan Stanley says you should be paying attention to stablecoins

With U.S. regulators moving to limit stablecoin products, strategists at Morgan Stanley think the broader crypto economy should be paying attention. “Falling stablecoin market capitalizati...

Former Jump Trading developers raise $19 million to build Monad blockchain

Monad Labs, a Layer 1 blockchain project co-founded by former Jump Trading developers, raised $19 million in funding led by Dragonfly Capital. Other investors included Placeholder Capital, Lemni...

Binance says it’s adjusting Tron network withdrawal fees to previous levels

Binance, the leading crypto exchange by trading volume, said Saturday that it had reverted withdrawal levels on the Tron network to previous levels after feedback from the community. “Bina...

More than 100,000 ETH has gone through MEV-Boost since The Merge

The amount of ETH distributed via the maximal extracted value (MEV) tool from Flashbots, MEV-Boost, recently surpassed 100,000 ETH ($162 million) since the Ethereum Merge last September, according to ...

Bitcoin drops, crypto stocks down across the board as Coinbase slides 14%

Cryptocurrency prices dropped across the board as the market adjusts to speculation that the U.S. may restrict crypto staking.  Bitcoin was trading at $21,890 by 5:10 p.m. EST, down almost 5% ov...

Discounts, premiums narrow for Ethereum liquid staking derivatives ahead of Shanghai

Discounts and premiums on Ethereum liquid staking derivative (LSD) tokens have fallen ahead of the upcoming Shanghai-Capella upgrades. The top five biggest LSDs have narrowed toward their notion...

VRRB Labs raises pre-seed round at $20 million valuation as it builds its own Layer 1

VRRB (pronounced “verb”) Labs, a Miami-based crypto startup that is developing a Layer 1 blockchain network, raised $1.4 million in a pre-seed funding round. Investors in the round i...

Argo Blockchain mined 14% more bitcoin in January than December

Argo Blockchain’s bitcoin mining production increased 14% in January, producing 168 BTC, compared to 147 BTC in December 2022. “The increase in BTC mined was primarily due to fewer c...

Chorus One brings MEV protocol to Solana

The Solana blockchain may see a new open-source approach to maximal extracted value (MEV), according to a white paper produced by blockchain protocol architect, Chorus One. The version of MEV fo...

Bitcoin, ether retrench after rising with traditional markets on Fed Chair comments

Cryptocurrencies rose alongside traditional markets in response to comments delivered by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at The Economic Club in Washington before turning lower. Bitcoin rose...