Former President of FTX US Brett Harrison shared details of his tenure under Sam Bankman-Fried on Saturday, distancing himself from the disgraced crypto mogul who’s been charged with a series of financial crimes….
Of all the crypto bankruptcies over the past year, the FTX Chapter 11 proceeding is the only one that’s had a Department of Justice attorney assigned to represent the Internal Revenue Service. Deputy…
Ethereum core developers say they are chugging steadily towards their goal of launching Shanghai and enabling staked ETH withdrawals on the network by March. This week, the group launched “devnet 2,” a developer…
Alejandra Guajardo, El Salvador’s representative at Miss Universe 71, wore a Bitcoin-themed outfit during the pageant’s National Costume Show on Wednesday night. The currency ensemble was designed by plastic artist Francisco Guerrero but…
Web3 entertainment startup Gala Games is facing scrutiny this week after tweeting about upcoming film projects with actors Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Mark Wahlberg, which coincided with a massive surge in value…
Next-level VR, and NFTs on your TV will all be part of the future, according to exhibitors at the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The tentpole event, held in Las Vegas, has long…
Crypto fund investors are still feeling pretty pessimistic about the crypto industry, research shows—but not when it comes to XRP. A Monday report by CoinShares said that despite $9.7 million in cash flowing…
Ryan Selkis, co-founder of the crypto market intelligence firm Messari, was suspended from Twitter on Saturday for pretending to be Ryan Selkis. “I was suspended for allegedly impersonating myself, so I imagine that…
This week in coins. Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt. In the first week of the new year, the leading cryptocurrencies are all in the green after a brutal 2022. None of the…
Aurelien Michel, the founder of NFT collection Mutant Ape Planet, was arrested this week by federal authorities for allegedly orchestrating an “NFT rug pull” scam. But that may have been just one of…
Meme coins and tokens are famously volatile, surging and falling based on things like social media sentiment—as seen in many past occasions with Elon Musk and Dogecoin. Now BONK, a Solana-based, dog-themed token,…
The price of Bitcoin dipped following the release of the Federal Reserve’s December meeting minutes, which showed the central bank’s plans to continue raising interest rates. The biggest cryptocurrency was down nearly 1%,…
The Federal Reserve and two other U.S. regulators today issued a warning to banks about cryptocurrencies. In a joint statement, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation…
Crypto had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year in 2022. Coins began tanking at the start of Q2 and never rallied; Terra collapsed in May, leading to the bankruptcies of Celsius,…
Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt Markets were mostly frozen this week, with most of the leading cryptocurrencies seeing very little price movement to end the year, except for the unlucky few—in particular…
This week in coins. Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt. The top two cryptocurrencies remain practically unchanged since last weekend to close out 2022, a brutal year overall for coin prices. Bitcoin (BTC)…