Animoca Brands Co-Founder: Royalties Make It Possible for NFT Projects to Flourish

On Tuesday, March 26, Ethereum-based NFT-based “GameFi” project Munchables reported a hack that drained over 17,400 ETH (roughly $63 million) from its coffers. Within five hours of investigation, it became clear that the attack came from inside the house: a hired developer going by the alias “Werewolves0943” had drained the funds. Insiders stealing project funds

news A dark web drug dealer must forfeit $4 million in funds including bitcoin after pleading guilty to charges of money laundering and conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. According to a press release from the Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York on July 25, Richard Castro – who went by the pseudonyms “Chemsusa,” “Chems_usa,” “Chemical_usa”…

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Binance CEO Richard Teng called on the Nigerian government to release Tigran Gambaryan, head of the crypto exchange's Financial Crime Compliance team, who flew to the country in February for talks on regulatory supervision."As you may be aware, one of our beloved colleagues, Tigran Gambaryan, continues to be held by the government in Nigeria for

news Cryptocurrency data and indices provider CryptoCompare is working to make it easier to spot good, and bad, crypto exchanges. Announced Wednesday, the company has launched a benchmark ranking of over 100 active spot exchanges from across the globe, offering users a “comprehensive, granular and reliable source of information on the best trading venues.” CryptoCompare’s…

Bitcoin slipped 5% below $65,000 Thursday, with the U.S. dollar resurging amid the Swiss central bank's interest rate cut.XRP, FIL and ICP defied the slump, while SOL and AVAX declined.Bitcoin completed its correction by rebounding from $60,000 Wednesday and targeting "much higher levels" in the next phase of the uptrend, Swissblock analyst said.Bitcoin (BTC) slid

feature The bitcoin lightning network could be vulnerable to a simple and disruptive attack, according to a recent research paper. Written by Saar Tochner, Aviv Zohar, and Stefan Schmid, the paper describes a denial-of-service (DoS) attack that could be used to slow down or even stop a huge percentage of payments on the network and, although the…

news Canaan Creative, the Avalon bitcoin miner maker and one of the world’s largest mining equipment manufacturers, has just formally filed another attempt to go public – this time in the U.S. Canaan’s initial public offering prospectus filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Oct. 28 indicates it intends to list on…

The payments giant plans to support digital currency transactions directly on network.Feb 10, 2021 at 8:36 p.m. UTCMastercard Will Let Merchants Accept Payments in Crypto This YearMastercard is planning to give merchants the option to receive payments in cryptocurrency later this year.According to a source familiar with the matter, the functionality will see Mastercard customers’…