Jack Dorsey unveils decentralized social with algo choice and portable accounts

Jack Dorsey’s decentralized Twitter initiative has launched a beta of its new Bluesky Social app, along with its social media protocol, dubbed the AT Protocol. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 1 year ago

a16Z leads $40M raise for decentralized knowledge protocol

Golden's board now includes Andreessen Horowitz's Ali Yahya and Marc Andreessen. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 1 year ago

Israel, Norway and Sweden central banks partner with BIS to explore CBDC payment

The BIS' Innovation Hub Nordic Centre and three central banks will jointly test key functions and connect their domestic CBDC systems. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 1 year ago

Virtual land prices crash 85% amid waning interest

A McKinsey report sees the Metaverse becoming a $5 trillion market by 2030. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 1 year ago

Anony user sends ETH from Tornado Cash to prominent figures following sanctions

It is unlikely that receiving digital tokens in this manner will constitute willful violation of sanctions. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 1 year ago

Tornado Cash co-founder reports being kicked off GitHub

Roman Semenov asked if "writing an open source code" was illegal, implying the suspension of his GitHub account was linked to sanctions. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 1 year ago

Nomad token bridge drained of $190M in funds in security exploit

Another token bridge appears to have been exploited for nearly $200 million. The Nomad team says it is aware and is currently investigating the incident. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 1 year ago

Circle discloses full breakdown of $55.7B USDC reserves

Three-quarters of Circle's USDC reserves are backed by U.S. Treasuries and the remaining is backstopped by cash held in U.S. accounts. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 1 year ago

Does the Metaverse need blockchain to ensure widespread adoption?

Many are thrilled at the prospect of the Metaverse with its virtual worlds that can be used to play online games, but also to train surgeons on 3D organ models and enable students to visit recreated villages in ancient Greece brought to life. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 1 year ago

Solend invalidates Solana whale wallet takeover plan with second governance vote

The community condemned the initial proposal, calling it illegal and the exact opposite of what DeFi should be. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 1 year ago

US lawmakers urge EPA to consider the potential benefits of crypto mining

Fourteen U.S. lawmakers penned a letter to Environmental Protection Agency administrator Michael Regan, requesting the government agency analyze the potential impact of crypto mining in an effort to balance innovation with environmental concerns. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 1 year ago

Fully decentralized stablecoin pegged to electricity

Scientists working for the U.S. government have completed the proof of concept for a cryptocurrency that could transmit electricity. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 1 year ago

NY proposed regulations requiring crypto mining be powered by 100% renewables

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has stated that her team hasn’t had the time to fully review the PoW mining ban bill yet but she does support the idea of reducing the impact of fossil fuel-based crypto mining. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 1 year ago

DeFi and DAO projects targeted for regulation under leaked US draft bill

While the policies are indeed strict, many experts were quick to point out that it is only a draft bill at this point. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 1 year ago

Dfinity Foundation files lawsuit against Meta over infinity logo

Dfinity Foundation’s legal team claimed Meta Platforms was registering use of its logo, which also uses the mathematical symbol for the concept of infinity, “in some of the same or similar areas in which Dfinity has already obtained registration for its mark.” | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 1 year ago

The FBI’s takedown of Virgil Griffith for breaking N. Korea sanctionss

The incredible true story of the utopian Ethereum developer who had so much faith in the system that he provided FBI agents with most of the evidence used in the case against him for violating sanctions against North Korea. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

Kraken shuts down global headquarters because ‘San Francisco is not safe’

Frequent employee harassment in the city has led to the closure of Kraken's San Francisco-based global office. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

Bitcoiner sends message to crypto scammer after requiring they use Lighting

Not all heroes wear capes –John Crisan disarms scammers with a lesson in the Bitcoin Lightning network. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

Ukraine's president signs law establishing regulatory framework for crypto

The Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine said President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a bill named “On Virtual Assets", first adopted by the country’s legislature in February. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

Bitcoin network’s carbon emission jumped 17% after China ban: Report

Crypto pundits predicted that the migration of miners out of China would make BTC mining more decentralized as well as greener, but the new Joule report shows otherwise. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

An overview of the blockchain development lifecycle

This guide on blockchain application development presents eight steps for developing apps that are to live on the blockchain. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

$1T opportunity: JPMorgan becomes first major bank in the metaverse

JPMorgan has entered the Metaverse, after opening a lounge in the popular blockchain-based world Decentraland and releasing a new report outlining the Metaverse as a $1 trillion market opportunity. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

Protesters migrate to crypto fundraising platform following GoFundMe ban

The drama surrounding the Canadian trucker’s “Freedom Convoy Campaign” has left GoFundMe, Tallycoin, politicians, and campaign organizers deadlocked in a grapple between freedom of speech and the freedom to be protected from violence. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

All the world’s Bitcoin can only pay 2.43% of $30T US national debt

Bitcoin pales in comparison to U.S. national debt this year, with all available BTC worth less than 3% of the debt total. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

Are NFTs Here to Stay?

Art is inevitably digitizing, and nonfungible tokens open up a lot of new opportunities for artists, museums, investors and even the environment. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

Metaverse – Community-Owned Economies

Individuals, rather than companies, become the agents of innovation in a distributed model of collaboration via blockchain and NFTs. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

Metaverse real estate and land boom

According to data from DappRadar, Decentraland and The Sandbox generated $102 million worth of virtual land NFT sales between them last week. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

Simplifying crypto payroll for a metaverse giant: The Sandbox

Request Finance is pleased to announce that the Metaverse gaming leader, The Sandbox, is the latest addition to the ranks of high-profile blockchain companies using Request Finance. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

Facebook’s centralized metaverse a threat to the decentralized ecosystem?

Facebook’s metaverse plans have caused discomfort in the crypto community, but there’s every reason to believe in a decentralized future for metaverses. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

EToro to delist Cardano by 2022 for US users due to regulatory concerns

Centralized exchanges often face intense pressure from regulators to delist certain coins and discontinue certain crypto-related financial services. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

ConstitutionDAO fails to win Sotheby's auction

A DAO fell short of snapping up one of just thirteen copies of the official edition of the constitution in an auction at Sotheby's. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

Huobi to halt services in Singapore after China exit

One of the world’s largest crypto exchanges, Huobi is preparing to shut down operations in Singapore by March 2022. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

Reddit to reportedly tokenize karma points and onboard 500M new users

The community points of roughly 80,000 users from two subreddits have been moved to the Rinkeby Testnet on the Arbitrum network | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

YouTube channels hacked and rebranded for live-streaming crypto scams

The attacker uses hacked YouTube channels to live-stream and promises cryptocurrency giveaways in exchange for an initial contribution. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

DAOs will be the future of online communities in five years

Not only do DAOs help to incentivize users, but they also enable members to belong and share a commitment to building future communities by users, for users. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

CoinMarketCap hack reportedly leaks 3.1M user email addresses

CoinMarketCap confirmed to find correlation in the leaked emails with their userbase but is yet to find the source of the hack. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

Bootstrapped crypto onramp and payment company valued at $3.4B

A $400 million investment may soon result in a $3.4 billion valuation for the crypto-focused fintech startup Moonpay. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

Tether scores win in class action case as court dismisses RICO claims

District Judge Katherine Polk Failla has granted more than five out of 12 of Tether’s and Bitfinex’s motions to dismiss key claims in the case that the two firms manipulated the crypto market. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

Bitcoin billionaires back ‘moonshot’ scheme to resurrect woolly mammoths

Speaking on his investment into Colossal, Cameron Winklevoss stated that the firm’s work to bring back extinct animals could be a game-changer that “futureproofs” the environment. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

Cryptosat: Launching Crypto into Space

The founder of the first private moon mission, a Google X engineer, and a security specialist, intend to launch a network of crypto satellites they believe could one day replace blockchain entirely. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

Swedish gov’t pays out $1.5M in Bitcoin to convicted drug dealer

The court had judged that the drug dealer should be stripped of his illicitly earned Bitcoin at its then-value of $100,000, leaving it liable to pay back the remaining BTC, now worth $1.5 million. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

55% of the world’s top banks reportedly have crypto and blockchain exposure

About half of these major banks are interested in crypto custody and are either building custodial services or investing in startups offering secure institutional-grade storage of digital assets. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

New funding round sees Reddit gain $4B in valuation since February

Reddit is valued at $10 billion in its latest Series F funding round, which marks a $4 billion gain in value since its last funding round in February. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

Crypto leaders are obsessed with life extension

The crypto community is obsessed with life extension and funding longevity research — and Bitcoin icon Hal Finney's body is preserved in liquid nitrogen. We trace the link back to the Cypherpunks and their interest in Extropianism. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

Ethereum network burns $395K ETH per hour after London upgrade

Ethereum’s London upgrade has already burned more than 3,300 ETH worth around $9.5 million. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

Millennials 3 Times More Likely to Invest in Crypto Than Gen X: Survey

Cryptocurrencies are three times more popular among American millennials as a long-term investment as they are for Generation X | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

Crypto Could Save Millennials from the Economy That Failed Them

The Millennial generation will lead humanity to an era of new financial technology as they drive Bitcoin adoption through the next decade | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago

'Nakamoto's innovation is real,' says SEC Chair Gary Gensler

SEC Chair Gary Gensler believes that the original Bitcoin white paper was a significant achievement. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 2 years ago