MoonPay boosts self-custodial crypto spending with new solution

Solana’s daily GitHub submission has spiked after a recent DDoS attack. 2175 Total views 36 Total shares Solana — whose native crypto, SOL, is the fifth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization — is leading on-chain development charts despite a recent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.As per Santiment data, Solana surpassed the daily GitHub submission rates of Polkadot…

Terra, the Blockchain outfit using Bitcoin (BTC) to back its new US dollar stablecoin, has bought over 5,000 BTC.Wallet data confirms that on April 6, Terra added another 5,040 BTC to its balance, which now totals 35,768 BTC.Terra buys the dip... againThe move comes after a multi-day lull in buying activity by the Blockchain protocol.This…

Japan is getting more serious about the digital yen. 1032 Total views 16 Total shares Japan needs to adapt its laws to issue a central bank digital currency, according to a local financial official.Kozo Yamamoto, head of the Liberal Democratic Party’s council on financial affairs and a former official at the Ministry of Finance, believes…

Brooklyn Nets star Spencer Dinwiddie’s offering of tokenized shares in his NBA contract concluded after only raising 10% of its target. 2281 Total views 5 Total shares Professional basketball player Spencer Dinwiddie has had a disappointing response to his offering of tokenized shares in his $34 million contract with the National Basketball Association (NBA).The token…

Matter Labs, the firm managing Polygon, announced that the beta version of its zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) would launch on March 27, 2023. It’s possible that Polygon will enjoy a first-mover advantage in this space by launching a public mainnet before zkSync and Scroll.Zk-based roll-up technology is accepted as the gold standard for scaling. The existing…

Vitalik Buterin said that the biggest criticism of X's community notes is that they do not appear fast enough. 

Blockchain cybersecurity firm Unbound Tech launched a new login solution meant to enable businesses to go passwordless. 1284 Total views 14 Total shares Blockchain cybersecurity firm Unbound Tech launched a new login solution meant to enable businesses to go passwordless.According to an announcement on June 17, Unbound Tech’s new identity solution removes the dependence on…

New wire fraud charges against St. Petersburg trolls allege that they stole the identities of U.S. citizens to open crypto accounts. The U.S. filed criminal charges against Russian national Artem Lifshits for his management of an affiliate of the infamous Internet Research Agency, which U.S. authorities accuse of interfering in the 2016 election.The new complaint alleges…