Arbitrum’s Chronos reaches $217M TVL with staking, becomes 8th largest DEX
Decentralized exchange (DEX) Chronos set a new milestone on May 4, reaching $217 million in total value locked (TVL) at...
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Sotheby’s Auction House Launches Marketplace for Secondary NFT Sales
On May 1, the company announced an addition to Sotheby’s Metaverse in the form of a “dynamic destination to collect,...
Vanguard of Financial Revolution, Assessing Opportunities, Bottlenecks, Compliance
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) players have been left unscathed as the unmonitored control of off-chain capital of centralized crypto entities led...
Is Hollywood over? ETH founder on AI, Wes Anderson Star Wars, robot dogs with ChatGPT brains – Cointelegraph Magazine
Your biweekly roundup of cool AI stuff and its impact on society and the future. The past two months have...
Capitulation? NFT Trading Volumes and Prices Plummet in the Last 30 Days
The past 30 days have seen a decline in trading volumes and prices of most non-fungible token (NFT) projects, likely...
Solana Sees Significant Growth Across DeFi, NFTs: Messari
After a turbulent 2022 owing to macroeconomic headwinds, Solana’s performance improved substantially in the first quarter of the year. Data...
UK Treasury seeks input on taxing DeFi staking and lending
The tax treatment of lending and borrowing on decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols could soon be changed in the United Kingdom,...
CertiK and zk-Sync DEX Merlin Explore $2M Reimbursement Plan for Rugpull Victims
Blockchain security firm CertiK and zk-Sync decentralized exchange (DEX) Merlin are working towards a plan to reimburse users affected by...
Phantom Launches Multichain App, Will Support Ethereum and Polygon
The leading retail-facing self-custody cryptocurrency wallet on Solana, Phantom Wallet, revealed that it will now support Ethereum and Polygon for...
Animoca Brand’s Subsidiary TinyTap Closes $8.5 Million Funding Round
TinyTap – a technological startup that empowers users to create different educational game-based activities – secured an $8.5 million fundraiser....
DeFi options protocol raises $17M for buy-side marketplace
Thetanuts Finance, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol offering crypto options contracts, has raised $17 million to offer a buy-side marketplace...
How to play and earn in CryptoKitties
Reminiscent of Tamagotchi and Pokémon, the wildly popular digital pets and creatures of the 1990s, CryptoKitties is a blockchain-based game...
OpenSea Pro Retaliates Blur’s Dominance in NFT Market: Data
Blur appears to have lost its title as the world’s most popular NFT marketplace. OpenSea Pro was rebranded and unveiled...
TransUnion to begin providing identity-protected credit scoring for DeFi lending
TransUnion, one of the three major United States credit reporting agencies, announced on April 20 that it would begin supplying credit...
DeFi driving zkSync growth as 1inch deploys on Ethereum layer-2 scaling platform
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol 1inch has deployed its aggregation and limit order protocols on Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution zkSync Era...
Coinbase’s Base network gets OpenZeppelin security integration
The OpenZeppelin Defender smart contract security platform has now integrated with Coinbase’s Base network, allowing Web3 app developers on Base...
Rep. Davidson Declares War on SEC Boss Gary Gensler Over ‘Long Series of Abuses’
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler’s crusade against the crypto-asset industry has prompted political pushback. United States Representative...
DeFi Protocol Hundred Finance Loses $7M in Latest Exploit
Multi-chain lending protocol Hundred Finance has suffered a security breach on the Optimism layer-2 scaling network, which resulted in the...
Hong Kong Confirms Crypto Commitment at Web3 Conference: Report
Government officials have confirmed the city’s crypto commitments at the Hong Kong Web3 Festival this week as it aims to become...
SEC Seeks to Regulate DEXs Under Existing Exchange Laws, Crypto Mom Responds
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is furthering its plans to bring crypto exchanges under its regulatory purview – including...
Stablecoins Worth $600k From 2021 DAO Maker Hack Sent Via Tornado Cash
Tornado Cash has, once again, found itself as the nexus of pilfered funds from a DeFi protocol. An Ethereum wallet...
Aave, Yearn Finance Exploiter Steals Over $10M in Stablecoins: Report
As DeFi hacks continue, the latest protocols to be targeted by exploiters are Aave and Yearn Finance, according to blockchain...
