A16z Leads $40M Round for CCP Games

Non-custodial multi-chain liquid staking platform Stader Labs has expanded to Ethereum this week with a product that it says gives the highest yield on ether (ETH) staking compared to other protocols.Unlike native Ethereum staking, which requires holders to lock up a minimum of 32 ETH, Stader said it would let node operators maintain the network…

Oct 28, 2020 at 09:00 UTCUpdated Oct 28, 2020 at 09:18 UTCU.S. President Donald Trump participates in the first presidential debate against Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign website was briefly compromised on Tuesday, as hackers looked to fleece cryptocurrency from unsuspecting supporters in the final days before the…

It seems iPhone users won't have access to the crypto collectible craze anytime soon. The news comes after forthcoming video game War Riders was featured on the Coinbase Wallet iOS app and then quickly withdrawn. In War Riders, players drive around an apocalyptic wasteland, building up armies of vehicles – vehicles represented by non-fungible tokens,…

The SEC was rebuked by a court in August for how it rejected Grayscale’s application to turn its bitcoin (BTC) trust into an ETF.The regulator won’t appeal that loss, a person familiar with the matter said Friday, boosting the odds the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) can be turned into a more-appealing ETF.BTC's price jumped on

Bitcoin (BTC) fell to $30,600 soon before press time, with part of the pullback from the 13-month high of $31,500 happening after a blowout U.S. ADP private employment report hit the wires at 12:15 UTC, according to CoinDesk data.The ADP report surprised markets in a big way to the upside, showing 497,000 private-sector jobs added…

Yuga Labs confirmed that UV-A emitting lights installed in one corner of the event was "likely the cause" of a series of eye-related medical emergencies that took place at the company's Ape Fest event in Hong Kong over the weekend.Attendees of ApeFest reported blurred vision and burning eyes after attending the event last weekend. One

feature “Maybe we don’t have to store everything ourselves.” That’s Tadge Dryja, cryptocurrency research scientist at the MIT Digital Currency Initiative, explaining the concept behind his bitcoin scaling solution, “utrexxo.” Based on an idea that has been pursued by developers for many years, utrexxo seeks to streamline an aspect of bitcoin’s code that leads to…

Jun 23, 2020 at 05:00 UTCCoins image via ShutterstockDecentralized lending platform Cred has welcomed former National Security Agency computer scientist Bethany De Lude and Western Union executive Daniel Goldstein as chief information security officer (CISO) and chief technology officer (CTO) respectively, the firm announced Monday. Dan Schatt, Cred’s chief executive, told CoinDesk the crypto community…

Cryptocurrency exchange OKEx has pushed back against allegations made by Hong-Kong based trading firm Amber AI over its early settlement of bitcoin cash (BCH) futures contracts last week. Calling a Monday blog post from the firm “defamatory,” OKEx said in a statement on Tuesday that the allegations are “completely false” and have caused “serious damages” to its…