AI Arena is like Super Smash Bros, only you’re training the fighters. And its recent airdrop campaign took another unique approach….Read full story at Decrypt >
The increasingly prevalent practice, fueled by meme coin FOMO, is incredibly risky and already drawing red flags due to legal and ethical questions….Read full story at Decrypt >
After days of gains, buzzy Solana meme coins like BOME and SLERF shed substantial value following a Bitcoin flash crash….Read full story at Decrypt >
The crash lasted a few minutes, but was followed by a short panic episode that cause BTC to drop near 7% on the global markets after the news spread….Read full story at Decrypt >
In the past day, more than $500 million worth of long and $100 million worth of short positions have been liquidated….Read full story at Decrypt >
The Final Fantasy maker has made a strategic investment in HyperPlay and is extending its Symbiogenesis game to the launcher….Read full story at Decrypt >
Even as he awaits sentencing in federal court, CZ announces “the most impactful thing I could do for the next chapter of my life.”…Read full story at Decrypt >
CEO Jensen Huang showed off the “very, very big” Blackwell AI GPU and real-world AI use cases from Mercedes and Siemens….Read full story at Decrypt >
Binance offered a multi-million dollar bounty for information on corruption within the exchange after an insider trading accusations went viral….Read full story at Decrypt >
An anonymous Solana developer accidentally burned $10 million worth of tokens after raising that amount in a presale. Degens bought in anyway….Read full story at Decrypt >
An advisor lying about using AI is like ”recommending investments they hallucinated while on mushrooms,” says SEC head Gary Gensler….Read full story at Decrypt >
Continued success of the new Bitcoin exchange-traded funds will push the price of the cryptocurrency higher, the bank said….Read full story at Decrypt >
The South Korean parents of the pup featured in the Dogwifhat meme, Achi, will take home some $4.1 million from the NFT sale….Read full story at Decrypt >
Bitcoin’s weekend pullback was remarkably predictable and completely healthy for an ongoing bull market, on-chain analysis suggests….Read full story at Decrypt >
Avalanche (AVAX) and DogWifHat (WIF) don’t like the slow pace of today’s market and have spiked more than 10% in the last 24 hours….Read full story at Decrypt >
Bitcoin soared above $73,600 per coin before dropping below $69,000. But Solana made gains, with its market cap hitting an all-time high….Read full story at Decrypt >
The makers of hot Ethereum NFT game Parallel are shifting to Solana for their next game, an AI-driven “survival sim” called Colony….Read full story at Decrypt >
The owners of the actual “Dogwifhat” meme canine are trying to get a piece of the $3 billion phenomenon that they started. So why are people upset?…Read full story at Decrypt >
Nyan Heroes developer 9 Lives Interactive revealed the early access timeline this week alongside word of a new funding round….Read full story at Decrypt >
The creator of Bitcoin’s Ordinals protocol is debuting a new fungible token standard to rival BRC-20. Here’s everything we know about Runes….Read full story at Decrypt >
The U.S. Department of Justice set out its sentencing recommendations Friday after FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty last year….Read full story at Decrypt >
Starbucks Odyssey is shutting down this month, and it’s unclear whether the Polygon-based NFT rewards program will be revived….Read full story at Decrypt >
Solana’s market cap is surging and hit a new all-time high late Friday as SOL hits its highest price since December 2021….Read full story at Decrypt >
It’s another bloodbath for traders betting on crypto prices, with Bitcoin and Ethereum positions leading the latest round of liquidations….Read full story at Decrypt >
The ATVI coin really is live on Solana, but it is not an official token of Call of Duty publisher Activision Blizzard—despite the tweets….Read full story at Decrypt >
JP Morgan warned that introducing more leverage into Bitcoin markets could make a potential correction all the more painful….Read full story at Decrypt >
Developers can now utilize Aptos Labs’ blockchain gaming suite, which includes a collaboration with Google Cloud for live service games….Read full story at Decrypt >
Crypto game Upland is gearing up to debut its Sparklet token, and will reward users via in-game missions and social media engagement….Read full story at Decrypt >
“You can call it our first Bitcoin piggy bank,” Bukele quipped yesterday on X. “It’s not much, but it’s honest work.”…Read full story at Decrypt >
Early Bitcoin Ordinals faithful will be rewarded with 112,383 Runestones airdropped to Bitcoin wallets over the next 48 hours….Read full story at Decrypt >
ETFs match last week’s inflows in just 3 days. ETH Dencun upgrade goes, ETH coins broadly fall. ETH L2 costs for trading decrease dramatically. SOL nears $100bn FDV as activity soars. SOL DEX volume now 3x ETH mainnet. MicroStrategy plans $500m raise to buy more BTC. Franklin Templeton releases memecoin paper. AEVO faces FUD about tokenomics….Read full story at Decrypt >
PREVIEW: CCP Games CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson tells GG all about Project Awakening, the on-chain evolution of Eve Online….Read full story at Decrypt >
Carbonated Inc. reveals backing by Andreessen Horowitz and Com2uS as its iOS and Android game MadWorld begins testing….Read full story at Decrypt >
After closing in on $74,000 early Thursday, the price of Bitcoin has fallen alongside prominent stocks following hot U.S. inflation data….Read full story at Decrypt >
By expanding from the first to the second largest crypto ecosystem, Sovryn wants to bring its lending, borrowing, and trading services to more people….Read full story at Decrypt >
A UK judge said Dr. Wright is not the author of the Bitcoin White Paper and was not the person behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto….Read full story at Decrypt >
Ahead of the mainnet rollout at the halving, Bitcoin wallet Xverse has added testnet support for the Runes fungible token standard….Read full story at Decrypt >
Ethereum Layer-2 networks Base and Optimism have been marveling at the impact of Dencun, including less-than-a-penny transaction fees….Read full story at Decrypt >
Figure introduced a humanoid robot that one engineer said exhibits “common sense,” answering questions and performing tasks simultaneously….Read full story at Decrypt >
Software company MicroStrategy says it plans to offer up $500 million in convertible senior notes due in 2031 to buy up Bitcoin….Read full story at Decrypt >
A handful of major gaming projects will collectively unlock nearly a quarter-billion dollars in tokens by the end of March….Read full story at Decrypt >
On news of the Dogwifhat fundraiser’s success, WIF jumped 36% to set an all-time high and become the fourth-biggest meme coin in the world….Read full story at Decrypt >
These mobile games pay you real crypto. Here’s how to enable Bitcoin and Ethereum earnings and cash out after playing….Read full story at Decrypt >
Ronin’s RON token set a new record price following Pixels hype, plus there’s a free NFT mint for another Ronin game on Wednesday….Read full story at Decrypt >
Crypto exchange Coinbase has announced the private sale of $1 billion in convertible senior notes for institutional investors….Read full story at Decrypt >
Buzzy Ethereum layer-2 network Blast stopped producing blocks Wednesday after the launch of Ethereum’s Dencun upgrade. Here’s the latest….Read full story at Decrypt >
Developers say the upgrade will make transaction costs so low on layer-2 networks that gas fees might become a thing of the past….Read full story at Decrypt >
Bitcoin (BTC) at $72k and Ethereum (ETH) at $4035, both up 1%. Solana (SOL) rises 3% to $152. Leading gains: TON, XRP, IOTA, FLOW. Bitcoin nears record high with significant ETF investments. Solana sees spike in new users. TON surges 30% with Telegram IPO rumors. Ark Invest offloads $69m in Coinbase stock. Predictions: Bitcoin could outdo gold, potentially reaching $150k. Blast platform’s value hits $3bn with higher yields. Biden proposes crypto miner tax.
In its closing statement in the UK high court, COPA accuses Wright of forging documents to try and prove he created Bitcoin….Read full story at Decrypt >
With $5 million in newly-raised funds, Studio369 shares plans to open up MetalCore on Immutable zkEVM and drop a token….Read full story at Decrypt >
The Open Network’s TON jumped 38% in just over a day after the CEO of messaging app Telegram revealed a potential IPO ahead….Read full story at Decrypt >
Even amid the returning bull market, the Bored Ape Yacht Club and other Yuga Labs NFT projects on Ethereum are losing steam….Read full story at Decrypt >
AllianceBernstein says these are “still early days” and that the already massive inflows point to a coming surge in price….Read full story at Decrypt >
The Monday spike has settled to a more modest 4% daily gain, but if you bought MSTR back in 2020, you’d still be up nearly 1,000%….Read full story at Decrypt >
The Readyverse, based on the “Ready Player One” book and film, offers a first tease of a battle royale game called Open….Read full story at Decrypt >
Protodanksharding will usher in much lower fees for Ethereum L2s and may allow ETH to outshine its competitors this year….Read full story at Decrypt >
A word of caution for Ethereum upgrade first-timers: There’s nothing that users need to do. Be wary of blogs, emails, or X posts that say otherwise….Read full story at Decrypt >
Former U.S. President Trump also warned that countries adopting crypto over a dollar standard could spell doom for the United States….Read full story at Decrypt >
“We’re buying it to hold it 100 years. That $66K to $16K crash—that shook out the tourists,” said MicroStrategy founder and chairman Michael Saylor….Read full story at Decrypt >
It has to do with the Bitcoin network’s finite block space and the fact that the halving is scheduled to occur at an exact block height—not a date….Read full story at Decrypt >
Pixels, Parallel, and Beam all set new peak prices this weekend as Gala, Ronin, and others outpace Bitcoin’s own gains….Read full story at Decrypt >