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Blizzard Games Are Disappearing From China Thanks To 'A Jerk'
17.11.2022
NetEase, the service provider Overwatch creators Blizzard have been using to bring its games to China for the last 14 years, is ending several licenses with the developer. Overwatch 2, Diablo III, World of Warcraft, StarCraft, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm will no longer receive service...
Value Locked in Defi at Its Lowest Point Since March 2021, Smart Contract Tokens Shed $22 Billion in 36 Days
16.11.2022
Smart contract platform tokens and decentralized finance (defi) protocols have taken a beating since the FTX collapse last week. The market capitalization of all the smart contract platform tokens in existence lost more than $22 billion during the last 36 days. The total value locked (TVL) in defi...
FTX Contract Deployer Unlocks 192 Million FTT, Exchange Token’s Questionable Tokenomics Highlights Red Flags
13.11.2022
Following the collapse of FTX and the exchange filing bankruptcy on Nov. 11, the trading platform’s exchange token called ftx (FTT) has shed 91.6% in value during the last seven days. While the FTT token’s utility is based entirely on the backing of the now-bankrupt FTX and Alameda...
Bank of Russia Suggests NFT, Smart Contract Regulation
8.11.2022
New Hampshire Court Sides With SEC in Lawsuit Against LBRY, Project’s Team Says Loss Sets a ‘Dangerous Precedent’
7.11.2022
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has won a court case against the blockchain-powered publishing platform LBRY. According to a New Hampshire district court ruling, Judge Paul Barbadoro agreed with SEC that the project’s native asset LBC was considered an investment contract or...
Fantom Network Launches Automated Smart Contract Audit System Watchdog to Monitor for Bugs
28.10.2022
On October 27, the Fantom Foundation announced a collaboration with the security and analysis platform Dedaub in order to bolster Fantom’s decentralized finance (defi) ecosystem. Dedaub’s monitoring system called Watchdog will monitor smart contracts on the Fantom blockchain for exploits and buggy...
Most Crypto Scams are Happening on This Blockchain – Here’s What You Need to Know
28.10.2022
Cryptocurrency risk monitoring platform Solidus Labs said that over 10% of tokens showing scam characteristics reside on Binance's native BNB Chain. Less than 10% is seen on Ethereum (ETH).
The research firm announced its real-time, on-chain Threat Intelligence tool on Thursday, saying that it...
Team Finance exploited for $14.5M during protocol migration despite contract audit
27.10.2022
Hackers appear to have spent as little as 1.76 Ether to initiate the attack vector
Hacker Siphons Close to $300K in OHM Tokens From the Olympus DAO
21.10.2022
On Friday, October 21, a malicious entity siphoned 30,437 OHM tokens from the Olympus DAO after finding a loophole in the rebase project’s smart contract. Following the exploit, the blockchain security and data analytics company, Peckshield, detailed the hackers stole close to $300K in OHM tokens....
Ethereum Alarm Clock exploit leads to $260K in stolen gas fees so far
20.10.2022
Web3 security firm Supremacy highlighted Etherscan transaction history that showed the hacker(s) were able to swipe 204 ETH in gas fees so far, worth roughly $259,800
Smart Contract Platforms: Past, Present and Future
14.10.2022
A brief overview of smart contract platform use cases and the potential for investment
Smart contract-enabled insurance holds promise, but can it be scaled?
14.10.2022
Blockchains can help to insure the world’s uninsured, but daunting challenges remain: How does one explain crop insurance to indigent farmers?
Web3 devs ‘more active than ever’ amid crypto winter: Report
14.10.2022
Consecutive all-time-high smart contract deployments and surging usage of Web3 script libraries mean that Web3 devs are still busy working despite the prolonged market downturn
Coin Center Sues US Treasury Over Tornado Cash Ban — Lawsuit Says Government’s Action ‘Was Unlawful’
12.10.2022
The non-profit that focuses on policy issues facing cryptocurrencies, Coin Center, has filed a lawsuit against the Treasury department, the secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen, and the Office of Foreign Assets Control’s (OFAC) director Andrea Gacki. Coin Center’s court filing says...
Stellar Development Foundation launches $100M fund to support native smart contract adoption
11.10.2022
The Soroban Adoption Fund incentivizes developers to begin building products and tools on the new smart contract platform
Vyper, Solidity and Scrypto: How the smart contract languages compare
11.10.2022
A look at three different programming languages for blockchain networks and how they compare
Smart-Contract Platform Soroban Receives $100M to Build on Stellar Network
11.10.2022
The Stellar Network-based platform is supported by a $100 million adoption fund from the Stellar Development Foundation
Value Held by Blockchain Oracles Slides 61% in 7 Months, Chainlink Dominates by 45%
10.10.2022
While the crypto economy has shed significant value, losing more than $2 trillion since the highs recorded at the end of 2021, a great deal of value was erased from smart contract platform tokens and decentralized finance (defi) protocols. One sector of the defi ecosystem that’s recorded...
L2 Wars: The Competition for Top Layer-Two Scaling Solutions on Ethereum
8.10.2022
Vitaly Yakovlev is CTO at DeFi platform ZKX.__________
This article will explain how ZK-Rollups technology has the potential to revolutionize decentralized finance (DeFi), address common problems in the landscape, and make a case for future derivatives trading. ...
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Latin Grammy Awards signs three-year contract for award show NFTs
4.10.2022
The Latin Grammy Awards is stepping into Web3 through its first NFT collection in collaboration with OneOf Web3 music platform