Monthly Archives: May 2023

Ledger, the Paris-based hardware wallet maker, has had a terrible week. And in large part, it seems they have themselves to blame.Things started out badly enough. Ledger’s May 16 introduction of the “Ledger Recover” seed phrase recovery service was greeted with skepticism from the crypto community, who worried about new security risks being introduced to…

A tweet this week from Chris Frantz, the founder of email platform Loops, irked me.Frantz said “90% of the people I know in web3 have pivoted their company to AI.”What got to me was not that founders are so obsessed with securing venture capital that they’ll glob onto the next “in” thing. (Let’s save that…

Vega Protocol’s token VEGA has gained over 20% over the last seven days, with the protocol itself ready to go live as soon as MondayVega is a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform for creating and trading derivatives. It was deployed on alpha mainnet earlier in May.The associated token, VEGA soared to a monthly high of $1.62…

This week, Axie Infinity announced the launch of its card-based strategy game Axie Infinity: Origins on the Apple App Store in some of its biggest markets across Asia and Latin America, giving its native AXS token a brief bump.Plus, Jack Butcher released a new NFT collection called Elements that are paired with physical prints, and…

DFZ Labs, the creative team behind zombie themed non-fungible token (NFT) collection Deadfellaz said Friday its rolling out a video utility extension to allow community members to bring their tokens to life and embody their avatars on screen.Called Streamingfellaz, the tool will let Deadfellaz token holders, also known as The Horde, to utlize the collection’s…

Blockchain firm Ripple appointed the CFO of market research firm Nielsen, Warren Jenson, to its board, the firm said on Friday.“For cryptocurrency to successfully deliver on its potential to revolutionize traditional financial infrastructure, companies in the space must prioritize transparency,” Jenson said in a release. “I’m excited to bring my experience to the company and…

On May 5, thousands of people packed the streets surrounding renowned architect Antoni Gaudí’s Casa Batlló in Barcelona, Spain. It wasn’t the typical horde of tourists though – viewers from near and far gathered to experience digital artist Refik Anadol’s dynamic work projected onto the facade of the UNESCO World Heritage Site.The ten-minute video mapping…

In February, the SEC proposed dramatic changes to a bedrock law governing the custody of assets. The original rule, Custody Rule 206(4)-2, was adopted by the SEC in 1962 which mainly focused on physical custody of client assets – stock and bond certificates – saying they were to be kept in a bank, segregated from…