Hacker Steals $320M from Solana, Ethereum Bridge Wormhole

Wormhole helps people move digital assets between Solana, Ethereum, and other blockchains. A hacker found a weak spot. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Second largest NFT marketplace apparently 87% wash trading

CryptoSlam says most of the sales on NFT marketplace LooksRare are illegitimate trades made to manipulate the token rewards model. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Justin Sun Steps Down from Tron to Join Grenada Government

Justin Sun will step down from his role at Tron. He will join the government of Grenada as its new full-time ambassador to the WTO. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

AccuWeather Connects to Chainlink to Broadcast Weather Data

Weather data provider AccuWeather announced it now runs a node on decentralized oracle network Chainlink. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Ubisoft Becomes First Major Gaming Company to Launch In-Game NFTs

After years of dabbling in the crypto and the NFT space, game publisher Ubisoft will implement them within a major release. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

One of the Most Transformative Moments in Our Lives: Why Time Is Betting on NFTs

Between launching NFTs, holding crypto, and educating readers, the century-old media brand is looking forward. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Would You Trust a Cartoon Cat with Your Money?

Crypto investment firm eGirl Capital is staffed almost entirely by anonymous cartoon characters. You got a problem with that? | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Budweiser Launching NFTs as ‘Key to the Budverse’

Storied beer brand Budweiser is debuting 1,936 NFTs ranging from $499 to $999, each unlocking future benefits and perks. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Hackers Are Breaking into Cloud Accounts to Mine Crypto

Google has published a report warning against hacked cloud accounts being used to mine cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Confusion Sets in After ConstitutionDAO Fails to Win Sotheby's Auction

ConstitutionDAO raised over $45 million in Ethereum to buy an original first printing of the U.S. Constitution at auction. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Ethereum Wallet MetaMask Reports 21M Users, Up 420% Since April

ConsenSys, the Ethereum software company behind MetaMask, announced a $200 million funding round as its wallet hit 21 million monthly users. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

New DAO Forms to Buy Copy of US Constitution at Sotheby's Auction

ConstitutionDAO aims to purchase a private first-print copy of the "Goldman Constitution" to put on public display. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Miami Will Start Giving Some of Its Residents Free Bitcoin: Mayor Suarez

The Mayor of Miami said that they will be staking the city’s MiamiCoin to earn Bitcoin and then distribute those earnings to Miamians. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

NFT Artist Beeple Sells Latest Work for $29M at Auction

Christie's describes HUMAN ONE as a "kinetic video sculpture" that comes with an NFT. The Beeple piece just sold for $29 million. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Ethereum Game Axie Infinity Launches Ronin DEX, SLP Token Spikes 74%

The Ethereum-based game Axie Infinity just added utility to its sidechain with the Katana DEX—and now its tokens are pumping. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles Are the New Crypto Job Centers

Crypto firms have yet to settle on a single hub, with jobs spread between a number of U.S. cities, according to a LinkedIn study. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Binance Says It’s Trying to Find the Scammers Behind Squid Game Token

Crypto exchange Binance has said it is trying to hunt down the scammers behind the infamous Squid Game cryptocurrency. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Facebook has renamed its parent company Meta

It’s official: Facebook goes Meta as it showcases its vision for the future of social media, work, NFTs, and play online. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Edward Snowden Slams Sam Altman's Worldcoin: 'Don't Catalogue Eyeballs'

Privacy advocate Edward Snowden took to Twitter to criticize Worldcoin's retinal scan global crypto plans. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Polygon Dodges $850M Hack, Pays Record $2M Bounty

The team behind the Polygon protocol has paid out a record $2 million bounty to a white hat hacker who discovered a critical vulnerability. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Edward Snowden Talks Privacy Coins

Edward Snowden speaks with Marta Belcher from the Electronic Frontier Foundation at the 2021 Ethereal Virtual Summit about privacy coins, crypto, NFTs, decentralization, and freedom of the press. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

The Promise and Pitfalls of DAOs

Decrypt EIC Dan Roberts chats with Decrypt Senior Writer Adriana Hamacher about the rise of DAOs, their promise and potential for crypto working groups, and their pitfalls and the parts that need to evolve and change for DAOs to have long-term sustainability. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

NFT Giant OpenSea’s $3B Month Compares to Amazon, eBay and Etsy

OpenSea is leading the charge on Ethereum NFT collectibles, but how does it stack up against leading physical goods marketplaces? | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Dapper Labs Took NFTs Mainstream, Now It Wants to Do the Same for DAOs

Dapper Labs sees a future for DAOs on Flow, and has acquired Brud—including DAO maestro Trevor McFedries—to lead the charge. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Colombia Could Use Waterfalls to Produce Bitcoin, Not Cocaine

Senator Gustavo Petro has suggested that Colombia look to El Salvador for inspiration and mine Bitcoin—instead of producing cocaine.  | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Ethereum Transition to ETH2 Gets a Formal Improvement Proposal

Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 3675 is part of the network's transition to proof of stake under Ethereum 2.0. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Snoop Dogg aparently holds 17M $ worth of NFTs

Snoop Dogg says that he is Cozomo de’ Medici, a pseudonymous crypto Twitter personality with a highly valuable Ethereum NFT collection. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

There Is Now over $1B Locked Up in Ethereum Layer 2 Scaling Solutions

Second-layer scaling solutions are designed to combat network congestion on Ethereum—and they're proving increasingly popular. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

IRS Poses as Bitcoin Trader ‘Mr Coins’ in $180k Sting

The IRS brought down a dark web drug dealer after setting up an undercover account on a peer-to-peer exchange to trade Bitcoin for cash. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Substack Now Accepts Bitcoin Payments via Lightning Network

Substack today announced it will accept Bitcoin payments using the Lightning Network in partnership with OpenNode for some publishers. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

More Ethereum Has Been Burned Than Minted in the Past 24 Hours

EIP-1559, which allows transaction fees to be burned, was supposed to bring deflationary pressure to the Ethereum network. It's working. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Uniswap Labs Under Investigation by SEC

The SEC has reportedly launched a probe into the developer team behind Uniswap, the largest decentralized crypto exchange in the industry. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Protests Against law making Bitcoin legal tender in El Salvador

El Salvador will soon accept Bitcoin as legal tender, but not everybody shares the President’s enthusiasm as citizens took to the streets this week. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Fidenza algorithm generates art piece sold for $3.3M

Art Blocks, a collection of artwork generated on Ethereum, sets a new top sale mark amidst a monster $294M month of trading volume. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

El Salvador’s President Insists Bitcoin Use Will Not Be Mandatory

El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, has insisted that Bitcoin acceptance won’t be compulsory in the country. The law says otherwise. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Facebook’s Crypto Wallet Is Ready for Market, but Is the Market Ready for Novi?

Facebook has been working on crypto for years. Now, it's getting ready to release its stablecoin wallet, Novi. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Former Zcash developer Jay Graber will lead Bluesky, a Twitter initiative to "develop an open and decentralized standard for social media." | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Senate Rejects Revised Crypto Tax Provisions in Infrastructure Bill

U.S. Senators have been negotiating amendments to a cryptocurrency provision within an infrastructure bill. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

U.S. Senate Vote in Favor of Amendment That Threatens Crypto Industry

The US Senate has adopted an amendment to President Biden’s infrastructure bill that spells bad news for the crypto industry. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Congress Likely to Pass $550B Infrastructure Bill That Threatens to Kill Crypto

A $550 billion infrastructure bill making its way through Congress has major consequences for the crypto industry. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Goldman Sachs: 18% of World's Super Rich See Crypto as Inflation Hedge

Goldman Sachs's family office clients are interested in blockchain. Nearly half of them see crypto as a possible hedge against inflation. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Gallup Poll: 6% of American Investors Own Bitcoin

Since the last Investor Optimism poll in 2018, there's been a surge of interest in crypto, particularly among young men. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Ethereum Celebrates Sixth Anniversary

The Ethereum blockchain has become a hub for DeFi, NFTs, DAOs and crypto innovation since its birth on July 30, 2015. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Norwegian Police Trying to Crack Monero and Dash in Missing Person Case

In the midst of a missing person case, Norwegian law enforcement is trying to break open anonymous cryptocurrencies Monero and Dash.  | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

US Lawmakers Want to Avoid Chinese-Like Surveillance with Digital Dollar

Republicans today said they wouldn’t want a digital dollar to be used as a surveillance tool—like the digital yuan in China. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

What Is Axie Infinity?

Buy, battle, breed adorable monsters… and profit? That’s the hook behind Axie Infinity, the hottest crypto game on the market right now. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

How a 12-Year-Old Made over $160k in Ethereum on NFTs in One Day

Tweens love the blockchain: 12-year-old Benyamin Ahmed made $160,000 on an NFT collection called Weird Whales. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago

Elon Musk Says SpaceX Has Bought Bitcoin, Personally Owns Ethereum, Dogecoin

At an online gathering of pro-Bitcoin executives, Elon Musk said his space exploration company SpaceX owns Bitcoin, not just Tesla. | Continue reading


@decrypt.co | 2 years ago