Crypto traceability and market rules agreed by EU lawmakers
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China’s tech giants promise speculation-free NFTs
The future of non-fungible tokens is getting more clarity in China as the country’s tech giants come together to formulate standards for the nascent industry.
The China Cultural Industry Association, along with Tencent, Ant Group, Baidu and others, jointly issued a “self-disciplined dev
North Korean Lazarus hackers linked to $100M Harmony bridge theft
Researchers have linked Lazarus Group, a notorious North Korean state-backed hacking group, to the theft of $100 million in crypto assets from Harmony's Horizon Bridge.
Last week, U.S. crypto startup Harmony warned of a “malicious attack” on its Horizon Bridge, a cross-chain bridge that all
NFT giant OpenSea reports major email data breach
Update (July 8, 12:15 PM IST): Opensea vendor consumer.io revealed today that customer data of five other companies were also compromised. While the firm didn’t name these clients, it said it has informed them about the data leak.
“After further investigating the compromised OpenSea ema
FTX says no active talks to buy Robinhood
Crypto exchange FTX is open to partnering with Robinhood Markets, its CEO Sam Bankman-Fried said in a statement shared with technewss.
Bloomberg News reported earlier that people familiar with the matter said FTX was exploring opportunities to acquire Robinhood, but Bankman-Fried
This crypto winter may be long, but builders remain bullish
Many of the top digital assets in the cryptocurrency market are down significantly, but some market participants are shrugging it off and focusing on the long game.
The top five cryptocurrencies by market capitalization have fallen 55% or more year to date, according to CoinMarketCap data. The top
Cryptoys banks a16z funding to build NFTs for kids
The past several months haven’t been entirely kind to the NFT market — while transaction volume hasn’t stuttered too significantly, the dollar amount invested in the space has been in free fall as cryptocurrency prices have taken a historic dive. With that as background, it might
Blockchain gaming unfazed by crypto volatility as gamers 'seek out entertainment'
The web3 gaming industry is one of the few sectors seemingly unaffected by current crypto market conditions, with capital continuing to pool into the space — and some industry players say it's for good reason.
“The current market environment is funny,” Robby Yung, CEO of Animoca Brands, s
Uniswap acquires NFT marketplace aggregator Genie
The past few weeks have been a dark time for NFT lovers and players in the cryptocurrency industry, but for startups and executives that are dug into the vision of a crypto future, it’s also been an opportunity to double down.
This week, Uniswap announced that it has made a new acquisition, b
This Ukrainian deep tech startup has trained an AI to paint war art
A Ukrainian deep tech startup is launching a charity NFT project to sell AI-generated artworks with the twin goal of raising money to support people affected by Russia’s war of aggression and also — it hopes — keep attention locked on the conflict as it approaches its fourth month
Magic Eden raises $130M, hitting unicorn status at $1.6B valuation
NFT marketplace Magic Eden, launched just nine months ago, has raised $130 million in a Series B round co-led by Electric Capital and Greylock Partners, bringing its valuation to $1.6 billion.
Lightspeed Venture Partners also participated alongside previous investors Paradigm and S
Cloudflare outage hit crypto exchanges FTX, Bitfinex and more
A Cloudflare outage on Tuesday knocked out numerous popular web services, including major crypto exchanges FTX, Bitfinex and OKX, raising questions about the security of centralized crypto platforms.
The CEO of OKX, which saw $1.47 billion in trading volume in the past 24 hours, tweeted asking for
Bybit crypto exchange joins the the list of companies cutting staff
Singapore-based crypto exchange Bybit has joined a long list of companies that have laid off some of their employees. As the cryptocurrency market is facing tremulous times, firms are finding new ways to cut costs and stay afloat.
Crypto journalist James Wu first noted the news about Bybit’s
Iran to cut electricity to authorized crypto miners
Iran’s relationship with the crypto mining sector is a love-hate one. The government is again restricting crypto mining activity as it tries to ease the strain on the country’s power supply, despite knowing the promise of crypto as a way to evade international sanctions.
Electricity to