Metaverse NFT Domains Are Trending: Minting Goes Live on Quik․com
Everyone is now familiar with the term “NFTs,” which provide users with decentralized asset ownership and legitimate property through blockchain...
Month: August 2022
US Treasury sanctions USDC and ETH addresses connected to Tornado Cash
The protocol was at the center of some recent hacks and exploits in decentralized finance, including a $375-million attack in...
Bitcoin price targets 8-week highs as Ethereum reaches $1.8K
Optimism and expectations increase around crypto markets, but U.S. inflation data looms large this week. Bitcoin (BTC) looked to target...
Metaverse housing bubble bursting? Virtual land prices crash 85% amid waning interest
The virtual real estate market is crashing despite a McKinsey report predicting a $5 trillion market by 2030. The metaverse...
US ethics advisory on federal employee’s crypto has basis in legislation
The Office of Government Ethics reminded federal agency ethics officers of current law and extended its interpretation of the law...
A slice of the punk: Cryptopunk NFT to be split into 56,000 pieces
A valuable Cryptopunk nonfungible token is set to be fractionalized as more than 56,000 addresses sign up for a share...
Ethereum Name Service founder reflects as 2 million registration mark nears
As the Ethereum Name Service edges closer to 2 million domain registrations, its founder reflects on the parallels with the...
Crypto lending platform Hodlnaut suspends services due to liquidity crisis
Hodlnaut avoided 3AC exposure and earlier denied ever buying UST, but several reports and on-chain data have shown that the...
FTX, Bybit rise in web traffic despite overall traffic drop on CEXs
Web traffic on FTX surged 123% YoY, while major exchanges like Coinbase and Binance were down 46% and 40% traffic-wise,...
Ethereum Merge may lessen usage for other chains, says Nansen CEO: KBW 2022
Nansen CEO Alex Svanevik said that while many chains will become ghost towns after the Merge, some will be able...
Nigeria becomes the most crypto-obsessed nation after April crash: Report
The Google trends data for the popular search terms in 15 countries showed that “Ethereum” searches outscored "Bitcoin" in 14...
Buterin: Layer-2 scaling will make crypto payments ‘make sense’ again
“It’s a vision that has been, I think, forgotten a little bit and I think one of the reasons why...
Chainlink ditches Ethereum PoW forks for PoS after The Merge
The Chainlink protocol will continue operations on Ethereum after the upcoming Merge to the proof-of-stake consensus layer. Chainlink is aligning...
Cross chains, beware! deBridge flags attempted phishing attack, suspects Lazarus Group
deBridge Finance survives an attempted phishing attack, points a finger at the North Korean Lazarus Group, and warns the wider...
Brazilian Congress Fails to Vote on Cryptocurrency Bill, Next Discussion Scheduled for September
The Brazilian Congress failed to address a proposed cryptocurrency bill this week. While the proposed public policy was indeed on...
