Changpeng Zhao advocates for ‘real’ blockchain apps over memecoins

Stolen funds represent only 8.1% of all funds sent to cryptocurrency mixers, according to New York-based blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis.Primary use for privacy reasonsAccording to a recent Chainalysis webinar, the majority of funds sent to cryptocurrency mixing services or tumblers comes from exchanges, which indicates that such funds are primarily used for privacy purposes rather…

Fed Governor Lael Brainard shares updates about the U.S. digital currency initiative and why it is crucial to understand CBDCs. The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston has entered into a partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to better understand the concept of digital currencies.The bank will work with MIT researchers on a multiyear project…

Crypto markets move at the speed of light, but many financial institutions today are still using cumbersome cold storage and hardware wallets — the most well-known digital asset security methods — to secure their coins.However, institutions are realizing that these methods are simply too slow to be practical for day-to-day use, and that using them…

BTC withdrawals from miner-affiliated wallets have gone from above 50,000 per day to under 10,000 since the halving, data shows.

The developer behind popular NFT projects PUNKS Comic and MetaHero Universe, alongside investors Velvet Sea Ventures and 01A, plan to pioneer Web3 storytelling via new company. 307 Total views 5 Total shares Operator-led venture capital firms Velvet Sea Ventures and 01 Advisors invested $100 million into Pixel Vault, a large nonfungible token collection of superheroes,…

The roadmap comes amid fierce competition in data availability among rivals such as EigenDA and Avail.

Bitcoin for the survival win? Celebrity and podcaster Adam Curry described the importance of Bitcoin (BTC) to podcaster and comedian Joe Rogan. He posited the asset's importance amid an internet-based world which thrives on personal data sales, banking activities, and centralized control. "The apocalypse is coming, and you're gonna need a Bitcoin — at least one,"…

In this week’s newsletter, read about how nonfungible token (NFT) sales reached 101 million in 2022. Learn how NFTs can be used to summon defendants who cannot be reached using traditional methods, and see how toys play a role in the NFT and Web3 ecosystem. Check out how Binance is tightening its rules on NFT…

Ethereum (ETH) core developers have agreed to launch the long-awaited Constantinople  hard fork at block 7,080,000, as decided in a bi-weekly developers meeting on Friday, Dec. 7.The new agreement follows the previous decision to delay Constantinople fork for late January 2019 due to a “consensus issue” that occurred during the upgrade trial on Ropsten testnet…