About the author Mo Shaikh is the Co-Founder & CEO of Aptos Labs, based in Palo Alto, California. He is a three-time founder with over a decade of experience in multinational financial services…
Opening Day marked fresh beginnings for Major League Baseball teams and fans, but ghosts of crypto’s past are still haunting at least one ballpark. As spotted during the Washington Nationals’ first home game…
A federal judge in Pasadena, California, earlier this week denied a series of motions attempting to excuse members of the bZx DAO from liability in a novel class action lawsuit filed against the…
A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill earlier this month that seeks to bolster the federal government’s powers in fighting perceived foreign technology threats. And some in the digital assets industry are…
Could Apple’s Siri be displaced by an AI? Using Apple’s built-in Shortcuts app, artificial intelligence developer Mckay Wrigley created a simple way to replace Apple’s voice-activated assistant, Siri, with the ChatGPT chatbot. And…
As Metaverse Fashion Week gears up for its second strut down the virtual runway, things look a lot different than they did a year ago, when the annual gathering of virtual and physical…
An NFT trader was devastated Friday to discover that a CryptoPunk he purchased for 77 Ethereum went up in smoke after he accidentally sent the pricy piece of digital art to a burn…
This week in coins. Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt. Last week’s crypto mega rally slowed this week. Still, many leading coins still posted double-digit gains over the last seven days. The upward…
Justin Aversano set the standard for NFT-based photography projects with “Twin Flames,” a collection of 100 photos of twin siblings tokenized on the Ethereum blockchain. The project has captivated collectors, racked up millions…
Debtors of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX filed a motion in bankruptcy court Thursday, seeking to sell a multimillion-dollar stake in the Web3 firm Mysten Labs back to the Delaware-based startup. The Mysten Labs…
Shrapnel, one of Web3’s most-anticipated first-person shooters, is nearing launch. At the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, developers from game studio Neon wore black t-shirts and huddled around two rows of…
PleasrHouse, a recently launched streaming auction series from Web3 collective PleasrDAO, has orchestrated a pair of compelling sales so far—including a Pentagon Papers-themed NFT in collaboration with Edward Snowden, and the physical couch…
Hong Kong is accelerating toward its goal of becoming a global crypto hub, according to the region’s Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury. In a Monday speech at the Aspen Digital Web3…
Coinbase’s former CTO Balaji Srinivasan wagered on Friday that the price of Bitcoin will benefit from a rapid devaluing of the U.S. dollar in the next three months, skyrocketing to $1 million by…
Decrypting DeFi is Decrypt’s DeFi email newsletter. (art: Grant Kempster) DeFi faced its very own contagion event this past week after Euler Finance was drained of nearly $200 million via six flash loans and…
Artificial intelligence is dominating tech headlines lately thanks to OpenAI’s advancing GPT models and competitors, and such models can generate text and media with alarming speed and accuracy. They may revolutionize many industries…