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AI-Focused Cryptogpt Raises $10 Million in Series A Funding to Expand Into Asian Markets
11.4.2023
A Layer two (L2) project, called Cryptogpt, which leverages ZK-rollup technology and artificial intelligence (AI), has announced that its team has raised $10 million in capital from a Series A funding round. The crypto and AI firm disclosed that the new funds would be used to expand into...
BNB Greenfield hits testnet, decentralized storage coming to BNB Chain
11.4.2023
BNB Chain is calling for developers, validators and storage providers to begin testing its BNB Greenfield decentralized storage solution
DeFi Could Be Forced to Incorporate and Certify, French Central Bank Says
11.4.2023
Regulators are seeking to extend EU laws to cover more diffuse and decentralized structures
Boson Protocol: A decentralized fair exchange protocol
11.4.2023
Boson Protocol is now live, and users can access the fair-exchange protocol to tokenize their physical assets. The protocol is designed for trust-minimized, automatic exchange of off-chain assets. At the same time, Boson Protocol tokenizes commitments to facilitate redeemable NFT trades. With...
MetaMask launches new fiat purchase function for cryptocurrency
10.4.2023
The new feature will allow users to purchase cryptocurrencies using various payment methods, such as debit or credit cards, PayPal, bank transfers, and instant ACH
SushiSwap Exchange Suffers Major $3.3 Million Smart Contract Hack – Here's What Happened
10.4.2023
Popular decentralized exchange (DEX) platform SushiSwap has suffered more than $3.3 million in losses after a hacker exploited a bug in a smart contract.
More specifically, the DEX saw its RouteProcess02 contract, a smart contract that aggregates trade liquidity from multiple sources...
Sushiswap Smart Contract Bug Results in Over $3M in Losses; Head Chef Says Hundreds of ETH Recovered
10.4.2023
According to several reports, a bug introduced to the decentralized exchange (dex) protocol Sushiswap’s smart contract has resulted in more than $3 million in losses. The blockchain and smart contract security firm Peckshield explained the exploited contract was “deployed in multiple...
GensoKishi Online Has Announced BNB Chain Bridge and Listing on a Japanese Crypto Exchange
8.4.2023
PRESS RELEASE. The Build N Build (BNB) Chain is a decentralized blockchain network that allows developers and innovators to build decentralized applications (DApps) as part of the transition to Web3. The BNB Chain is capable of high-speed transaction processing and lower cost transactions than...
Decentralized exchange dYdX announces 'winding down' of services for Canadian users
7.4.2023
“We hope that the regulatory climate in Canada will change over time to allow us to resume services in the country," said the exchange
NFT marketplace LooksRare launches V2, reducing fees from 2% to 0.5%
7.4.2023
The previous version of the nonfungible token marketplace will be sunsetted by April 13, 2023
Bitcoin Difficulty Reaches New All-Time High After Fourth Consecutive Increase
7.4.2023
On April 6, 2023, Bitcoin’s difficulty rose 2.23% higher at block height 784,224, touching another all-time high. It’s the fourth consecutive difficulty increase on the Bitcoin network since Feb. 24, and the protocol’s current difficulty is 47.89 trillion, which is only 2.11...
GMX and dYdX go head-to-head for the top decentralized derivatives position
6.4.2023
Decentralized derivatives platforms GMX and dYdX battle for the top DEXspot with each planning significant improvements for this year
US Treasury Report Warns of Defi’s Threat to National Security, Authors Conclude Fiat Is Used in Illicit Finance More Than Crypto
6.4.2023
The U.S. Treasury has released a 42-page report assessing the risks of decentralized finance (defi). The report states that specific nation-state adversaries, cybercriminals, ransomware attackers, thieves, and scammers are using defi to “transfer and launder their illicit proceeds.”...
What will be the outcome of the Ethereum Shanghai upgrade?
6.4.2023
Join us as we discuss the potential outcomes of the upcoming Ethereum Shanghai upgrade and other important developments in DeFi
Uniswap Topped Coinbase’s Trading Volume in March During USDC Depeg, U.S. Crackdown
6.4.2023
The DEX, however, has been unable to maintain elevated periods of trading volumes in the past, CCData noted
Arbitrum Registers Record Activity Over the Last 2 Weeks as Transactions per Day Count Surges
6.4.2023
In the past 20 days, the Arbitrum blockchain has recorded a significant number of transactions coinciding with the recent ARB airdrop that occurred on March 23. About two weeks ago, on that day, the Arbitrum network recorded an all-time high of 2.72 million transactions settled in 24 hours....
Hidden Treasure: Every Modern Copy of macOS Contains a Copy of Bitcoin’s White Paper
6.4.2023
On April 5, 2023, the independent blogger Andy Baio published a post on his Waxy Blog that explained every version of macOS from Mojave 10.14.0 to the current version hosts a copy of Satoshi Nakamoto’s seminal Bitcoin white paper. Mac users can type a simple command in the terminal, and...
Microstrategy’s Bitcoin Holdings Reach 140,000 BTC After Acquiring 1,045 More Bitcoins
5.4.2023
Nine days after publicly listed company Microstrategy purchased 6,455 bitcoins, the firm’s CEO, Michael Saylor, announced the purchase of an additional 1,045 bitcoins. The business intelligence (BI) company now holds a total of 140,000 bitcoins, worth $3.97 billion. Microstrategy Buys...
Bitcoin Stamps Emerge as New Image-Storage Trend on the Bitcoin Blockchain, Over 8,000 Stamps Minted So Far
5.4.2023
After the Ordinal inscription process gained significant traction on the Bitcoin blockchain with more than 800,000 inscriptions to date, a new trend of non-fungible token (NFT) technology has emerged called Bitcoin Stamps. The image-storing technique is a new way of storing images on Bitcoin,...
Pantera Capital leads $22.5M investment in M^ZERO Labs for decentralized infrastructure
5.4.2023
The funds will be used to develop decentralized infrastructure that enables institutional investors to allocate assets on-chain