A group of FTX customers located outside of the United States has asked the court overseeing the cryptocurrency exchange’s bankruptcy case to have their names withheld, court documents show. The 15 creditors—who say…
Wallets linked to Alameda Research, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s collapsed trading firm, continue to shuffle around crypto funds and are using coin mixers to obscure transactions, blockchain analysts said Thursday. On Wednesday, the…
After the market skyrocketed in 2021, NFTs became even more ubiquitous in 2022 as creators, brands, and celebrities embraced Web3. But amid the sometimes overwhelming glut of projects, only a handful stood out…
Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) has announced a draft system and guidelines for the circulation of stablecoins whose value is tied to legal currencies such as the U.S. dollar, according to a Nikkei…
Former U.S. president Donald Trump said that he decided to launch his NFT collection because he liked the art and thought the images of him were “sort of cute.” In a recent interview…
This week in coins. Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt. The crypto market is limping into the new year, but the week heading into Christmas brought very modest gains for the two leading…
Citing U.S. sanctions on Cuba, OpenSea, the world’s largest marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFT), said today that it’s banning digital artists from all countries sanctioned by the United States. The ban came to…
Ex-FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried will get to spend Christmas with his family, after a federal judge approved a historic $250 million bond at his first U.S. court appearance, according to a reporter live…
When creating a self-custody crypto wallet, users are asked to write down and store a seed phrase that can be used to recover the wallet. But if this phrase is misplaced, users risk…
Amid a contagion-fueled crypto winter that has sent a chill through VC firms, coin holders, and NFT collectors alike, one project above all has made undeniable strides towards onboarding the masses and having…
How Tezos Was Ahead of the Proof-of-Stake Merge: Web Summit 2022 Tezos co-founder Kathleen Breitman talks about how the Tezos blockchain has used a proof-of-stake mechanism since its inception, her admiration for Tendermint,…
Nigeria’s push to adopt digital currency and move towards a cashless society shifted into high gear on December 6, when the country’s central bank announced a cap on cash withdrawals, either over the…
This week in coins. Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt. With Sam Bankman-Fried charged and behind bars and FTX’s implosion beginning to fade (ever so slightly) into the rearview mirror, this week saw…
On Thursday, former U.S. President Donald Trump released a 45,000-piece series of $99-apiece NFTs following long-awaited hints that a “major announcement” would be forthcoming. Many people had assumed the announcement would relate to…
In brief The Flow blockchain’s cryptocurrency hit a new low under $0.90 on Thursday. NFT trading on Flow has fallen sharply in recent months, and Dapper Labs held layoffs in November. Flow surged…
The price of Bitcoin nosedived today—along with U.S. stocks—on news that the Federal Reserve approved a smaller interest-rate hike than previous ones this year, but signaled plans to keep raising rates next year…