Bitcoin plunged on Tuesday shortly after the number one cryptocurrency by market capitalization hit a new all-time high of $69,170 earlier that morning. The weeks-long climb in Bitcoin’s price, sparked largely by the…
Demand for NFTs has been growing in recent weeks amid rising cryptocurrency prices, and Monday’s $16 million sale of a CryptoPunk—the fifth-most expensive NFT sale to date—put an exclamation point on that trend….
The crypto and NFT gaming space is busier than ever lately, what with prominent games starting to release, token airdrops piling up, and a seemingly constant array of other things happening at all…
Just two days after the launch of Blast, an Ethereum layer-2 network from the founder of dominant NFT marketplace Blur, hundreds of millions of dollars have flowed into newly created protocols living on…
The Bitcoin ETF launch in January has sent the price of BTC flying over the past 50 days, but companies that mine the top cryptocurrency have not been nearly as jubilant as the…
MixMob, a Solana-based gaming brand, announced Thursday that it will add the Stormtrooper character from “Star Wars: A New Hope” as an NFT collectible and playable character for its Racer 1 game that…
Bitcoin surges, exchanges run hot, and Coinbase glitches—lather, rinse, repeat. Following widespread reports that Coinbase users were logging in to see zero balances in their wallets, CEO Brian Armstrong said Wednesday afternoon that…
JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon said he is concerned over current fiscal policies and skeptical about the market’s optimism for a “soft landing.” And while he never mentioned Bitcoin—he promised he wouldn’t—American financier…
Paris-based startup Mistral AI is stepping up into the big leagues, launching Mistral Large to compete with other top-tier large-language models and unveiling a beta version of “Le Chat,” its consumer-facing chatbot intended…
Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt Just when you thought the world was ready to forget the catastrophic collapse of FTX and the conviction of its once-untouchable founder Sam Bankman-Fried, a photo of…
Thanks to the Ordinals protocol, crypto users have inscribed more than 50 million bits of media on the Bitcoin blockchain over the last year, from artwork to profile pictures to, yes, even playable…
The Bitcoin halving is fast approaching—and market analysts tell Decrypt that there are unique circumstances this time around that will play important roles for traders and investors. The lingering doubt for most is…
Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency initiative led by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, has soared to unprecedented heights—joined in flight by a dozen other AI-related tokens and stocks. Worldcoin’s WLD digital currency registered a remarkable 21%…
Having weathered “at least three bull-to-bear-market cycles,” Web3 venture capital firm Hack VC is committed to staying the course, the company said yesterday announcing its first venture fund. The company says it raised…
The CME Group will be launching euro-denominated micro Bitcoin and Ethereum futures next month, answering surging demand in the derivatives market. The Chicago-based trading firm announced on Tuesday that it would launch the…