This week in coins. Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt. It was the second consecutive week of straight losses for leading cryptocurrencies. The start of the third month of the year comes off…
Tether’s troubles continue. According to a Friday WSJ report, companies backing the world’s biggest stablecoin used fake documents and shell companies to help its parent company get into the banking system. The Journal…
Companies throughout the digital assets industry distanced themselves from Silvergate Thursday after the crypto-friendly bank delayed the filing of its annual 10-K report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) In its notice…
SuperRare Co-Founder: We Remain Committed to NFT Artist Royalties SuperRare co-founder Jon Perkins sat down with Decrypt’s Dan Roberts at NFT Paris to talk about the debate over artist royalties, SuperRare’s roots in…
Upstart marketplace Blur has risen to the top of the NFT world in recent weeks, vaulting ahead of longtime leader OpenSea through tokenized trading rewards. The cause of the surging trading volume has…
Many crypto builders see video games as the killer app for Web3, citing perceived benefits like ownership of in-game items as NFTs, possible interoperability between games, and the potential to profit from rising…
The goal of mass adoption is a common refrain for the blockchain industry, but there’s a steep learning curve in onboarding the masses to Web3. Alchemy hopes its new Create Web3 Dapp or…
When it comes to the world of crypto, renowned artist Tom Sachs doesn’t care for the over-arching label that is Web3, including certain terms like crypto or NFT. “I’m not so interested in…
A group of NFT enthusiasts are trying to buy the winning key from Yuga Labs’ endless runner game Dookey Dash and have placed an eye-watering $1.1 million bid on the asset. Yuga Labs…
Continuing its increased scrutiny of the cryptocurrency industry, the U.S. Federal Reserve released a new statement on Thursday reminding banks of the risks inherent in dealing in cryptocurrency and related assets. “Certain sources…
One of Blur’s founders has “doxxed” himself, publicly revealing his identity, after users on Crypto Twitter began piecing it together earlier this week. Tieshun Roquerre—who prefers to go by “Pacman” online—is the cofounder…
Bitcoin is largely not moving again, with the amount of dormant coins nearly at a new all-time high. According to blockchain analysis firm Glassnode, the number of Bitcoins that have not moved for…
Following two straight months of sales growth, NFT trading rapidly accelerated over the past week as Ethereum NFT volume more than doubled during that span. It’s due to an evolving market in which…
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is looking for software developers to help research and design a central bank digital currency (CBDC). One job listing posted to LinkedIn is for a “Senior…
Times, they are a-changin’. The recent hype around Bitcoin NTFs, also called Ordinals, has driven a key thorn in the side of the maximalist community. Instead of laying down the rails for “thermodynamically…
In the face of rising competition from upstart rival Blur, leading NFT marketplace OpenSea announced today that it will temporarily eliminate its 2.5% fee on sales, as well as cut down creator royalty…