Pudgy Penguins is one of the rare NFT collections that has actually grown in value and notoriety during the prolonged bear market, and it recently launched toys targeted at mainstream audiences. The brand…
Illuvium is a sci-fi fantasy NFT gaming IP with four games in development: Illuvium Arena, Overworld, Zero, and Beyond. While each of these titles are separate games, they do offer some interoperability and…
Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt. Crypto markets had a sleepy week—until Friday. Bitcoin had barely budged on Thanksgiving but the next day it hit an 18-month high, touching $38,000 per coin. The…
European Central Bank President and noted crypto critic Christine Lagarde is doing her best to keep the Eurozone insulated from the volatility of crypto assets. But on Friday, Lagarde admitted that she couldn’t…
Artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT have “unequivocally gone mainstream” in 2023, according to a new survey of over 1,500 professionals working in technology and related fields. Yet, despite rapid adoption, most respondents still…
Securities and Exchange Commissioner Hester Peirce added another jolt of liveliness to the ever-frenzied discourse surrounding the potential of a spot Bitcoin ETF, expressing in a recent interview her belief that the SEC…
Binance will exit the U.S. market and pay $4.3 billion—one of the largest corporate penalties in U.S. history—to settle anti-money laundering and sanctions violations, the Department of Justice today said. The exit and…
Though freshly elected Argentinian president Javier Milei only declared victory yesterday, he’s already done much with his recent time in the global spotlight. On the campaign trail this year, Milei proposed legalizing the…
It’s no secret that Ubisoft has been experimenting with NFTs and blockchain tech. From its early Ghost Recon NFTs to releasing NFTs based on its quirky Rabbids IP and Assassin’s Creed “smart collectibles,”…
Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt. Major coins and tokens took an early swing upwards this week before a couple of days in the red emerged. Right now, Bitcoin (BTC) is trading for…
Following the announcement of Sam Altman’s departure from OpenAI, the WLD token associated with the iris-scanning biometric project Worldcoin, also founded by Altman, dropped 14%, according to CoinGecko. Altman was ousted from his…
Gas fees for transactions on Polygon’s proof-of-stake chain skyrocketed to more than $0.10 or 5,000 gwei on Thursday—rising sharply as the Ethereum scaling solution weathered an apparent influx of inscriptions-related, PRC-20 activity. As…
Major soccer club Paris Saint-Germain F.C. and avant-garde fashion brand Blvck Paris are teaming up for an exclusive new collaboration fusing sports, fashion, and digital artistry, the companies announced in a joint press…
The GROK meme coin—which shares a name but isn’t affiliated with Elon Musk’s AI chatbot—shot to zero after blockchain sleuth ZachXBT said it was linked to a known scammer. Usually stories about meme…
For a brief moment today, XRP holders were in disbelief. And for good reason. The “BlackRock iShares XRP Trust” filing in Delaware that sent the crypto asset flying 12% in just half an…
Nobody in the WNBA can put the ball in the basket quite like Jewell Loyd, whose 939 points scored for the Seattle Storm this past year set the league’s single-season scoring record. That…