Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt Bitcoin recrossed the $30,000 support threshold this week and hit a 10-month high. Meanwhile, Ethereum’s lShapella upgrade finally went live, allowing validators to unlock their staked ETH…
Community Gaming, a Web3 esports tournament platform, has laid off 17 employees, the company confirmed to Decrypt on Friday. The Esports Advocate first reported the news. The tally represented just over 17% of…
FTX’s token FTT is falling again. And while its recent slip isn’t as calamitous as last November when FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire was swiftly wiped out, the recent stumble is still…
ETH withdrawals are now live. At 6:27 pm EST, Ethereum’s Shanghai upgrade was successfully implemented, enabling the withdrawal of staked ETH and effectively finalizing the network’s years-long transition to proof of stake. Last…
After a year of quiet, the well-funded Bitcoin tech infrastructure company Lightspark, founded in 2022, has unveiled a platform for Bitcoin’s Lightning Network aimed at onboarding businesses to the network. Lightspark is led…
As potential candidates fine-tune their platforms in anticipation of 2024 presidential campaigns, Robert F. Kennedy Jr jumped on board the CBDC hate train last week to join Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Kennedy, who’s…
Conversations surrounding Bitcoin’s sustainability often touch on how much power the network consumes. But the mere fact that its power consumption is a known factor is notable, according to Canadian Bitcoin miner Hut…
Digital arts are always searching for new prompts to generate the next big thing in AI art. A new feature on the generative AI design site Midjourney—called Describe—lets creators upload a picture as…
An economist has suggested that El Salvador’s Bitcoin-loving president should use his “failed” cryptocurrency investment to help the country’s poor. Speaking to El Diario de Hoy newspaper, UCA El Salvador University professor Rafael…
DOGE goes up… DOGE goes down. Dogecoin, the eighth biggest cryptocurrency by market cap and Elon Musk’s favorite digital asset, has continued its plunge in value after its logo was dropped from the…
There’s another wave of NFTs starting to flood the Bitcoin blockchain—and they’re not in the form of Ordinals. The emergent STAMPS (Secure Tradeable Art Maintained Securely) protocol is proposing a different method of…
An NFT collection centered on former U.S. President Donald Trump is gaining traction amid his historic indictment on 34 felony counts. But it’s not the one he’s endorsed, rather an unauthorized riff that…
In brief A study found emerging countries like India, Brazil, China, and South Africa have higher trust and acceptance of A.I. technologies than developed countries like Japan and Finland. A.I. is becoming increasingly…
Arbitrum’s newly-launched ARB token sank Sunday as the network sought to clear a cloud of confusion that descended over its DAO’s first vote—which organizers say was effectively meaningless. The leadership behind the Ethereum…
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…