Monthly Archives: May 2023

In what seems like a parody but isn't, Economist, gold proponent and avid crypto skeptic Peter Schiff has unveiled a collaborative nonfungible token (NFT) art collection on Bitcoin that will soon go up for auction. The reaction from the crypto community has been mixed, with people generally baffled, amused, welcoming — especially Ordinals proponents —…

Blockchain startup accelerator Cronos Labs has announced the launch of its second cohort for the Cronos Accelerator Program. The program, backed by a substantial $100 million investment, aims to support early-stage crypto projects by providing mentorship and funding opportunities. According to an announcement sent to Cointelegraph, Cronos Labs handpicked eight projects to participate in their accelerator…

The executive appears to have now recovered his account. 389 Total views 2 Total shares Arthur Madrid, co-founder and CEO of metaverse project The Sandbox, was the victim of a Twitter account hack on May 26, according to a post from Madrid that was apparently made after he recovered the account. The attacker allegedly used…

The European Central Bank exercise looked at a variety of use cases, most of which were quite satisfactory, as well as the use of self-custodied wallets. The European Central Bank (ECB) has published a summary of the results of its digital euro central bank digital currency (CBDC) prototyping exercise. The exercise investigated offline use of…

Chinese Bitcoin mining company Canaan reported slight improvements in some of its financial metrics in the first quarter of 2023. The progress, however, is still far behind where it was last year in this period.According to an unaudited report posted on its investor relations page, Canaan’s net loss was $84.4 million in Q1, lower than…

Venture capital fund Andreessen Horowitz, also known as “a16z,” has released a Solidity library that can be used for anonymous voting on Ethereum. Called “Cicada,” the library prevents an individual voter’s choice from being known before polling ends. When combined with zero-knowledge (ZK) group membership systems like Semaphore, it can also make the identity of…