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Coinbase, the second largest crypto exchange by trading volume, has launched a new product to help onboard developers into web3, the company shared with technewss on Wednesday. It should be easier to go to a website or engage with a brand without having to leave their platform, Wi

Tensor, a Solana-centric NFT trading platform, has raised $3 million in a seed round led by Placeholder, the team exclusively shared with technewss. The startup was co-founded by Ilja Moisejevs and Richard Wu, bringing a collective 10 years of experience in working on trading infr

As we segue into March, the Ethereum layer-2 space is continuing to see strong demand: One of its largest scaling solutions, Arbitrum, is seeing renewed exponential growth through subsectors in the ecosystem. While base blockchains (layer ones, or L1s in crypto-speak) remain the be

Robinhood announced Wednesday that its self-custodial crypto wallet app is now available for all users on iOS. The wallet debuted last September in beta with 10,000 users and no network charges for swapping Polygon’s MATIC tokens. In January, the company rolled it out to more than 1 million u

Chainlink, a web3 services platform, is launching a self-service, serverless platform to help developers connect their decentralized applications (dApps) or smart contracts to any Web 2.0 API, the company exclusively told technewss. The new platform, Chainlink Functions, also lets

The NFT market may be finding its footing again as the market for non-fungible tokens on the Ethereum blockchain surpassed $1 billion for the first time since May 2022. Amid the recent rebound, NFT marketplace Blur has also bested the once-largest NFT marketplace OpenSea in monthly volume for the t

Alchemy, a web3 development platform, is releasing a new tool to help developers create web3 applications faster, the company exclusively told technewss. The tool, “create-web3-dapp,” will help builders start their application within four minutes, Elan Halpern and Vitto Rivabella, product lead

Coinbase, the second-largest crypto exchange by trading volume, is diving into the blockchain world in a move that some market players are excited about. On Thursday, the exchange launched Base, an Ethereum-focused layer-2 (L2) blockchain, in an effort to enter the decentralized ecosystem through i

Customizable rollup provider Eclipse is launching a Solana-focused scaling solution, which allows applications to be compatible with Polygon, the companies exclusively told technewss. Rollups, a part of the layer-2 blockchain ecosystem, are a scaling solution to help make blockchains faster and c

According to a new filing from the Southern District of New York attorney’s office, former FTX co-founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) now faces four additional counts of fraud, bringing his total to 12 charges. With these new charges, the former crypto wunderkind has been accused of defra

Coinbase, the second largest crypto exchange by trading volume, has launched Base, an Ethereum-focused layer-2 (L2) blockchain, Jesse Pollak, lead for Base and head of protocols at Coinbase, told technewss. In the past, Coinbase has homed in on the trading and exchange side of its

After launching a pair of well-loved but ultimately star-crossed social apps, Ben Rubin is going all-in on decentralization. Rubin previously founded Meerkat and Houseparty — apps that pioneered mobile livestreaming and group video chat, respectively — shaping massive social trends in their ear

Dapper Labs, the company behind many popular NFT collectible projects, will face a lawsuit accusing it of selling unregistered securities. In particular, the company has developed the popular NFT game NBA Top Shot and one of the original NFT collectible games, CryptoKitties. A class-action lawsuit

The Linux Foundation‘s European off-shoot has formally launched the OpenWallet Foundation (OWF), a new collaborative effort designed to support interoperability between digital wallets through open source software. The launch comes some five months after the Linux Foundation first revealed pl