Celo president Rene Reinsberg explains why the protocol is optimizing for mobile
On Episode 10 of Cointelegraph’s Hashing It Out podcast, Celo president Rene Reinsberg joins Elisha Owusu Akyaw (GhCryptoGuy) to discuss...
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DeFi to be examined at inaugural CFTC tech advisory meeting: Finance Redefined
Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you...
$3M OKX airdrop, 1-hour due diligence on 3AC, Binance AI — Asia Express – Cointelegraph Magazine
Our weekly roundup of news from East Asia curates the industry’s most important developments. OKX airdrop after token trading fiasco...
Solana Labs’ Chief Exec Unveils Plan to Improve Network Upgrades After 20-Hour Outage
Solana attracted severe backlash from the community after it went down for almost 20 hours following a network upgrade. The...
Platypus Finance creates compensation portal for users following $9.1M exploit
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Platypus Finance has created a portal that enables users to view how much the platform owes...
‘They don’t know how an exchange works’
In the aftermath of the FTX collapse, Forbes published an article that focused on the recent “shuffling” of funds by the...
$140M Worth Stolen Assets Recovered
The Solana-based Wormhole Bridge was hacked for $325 million after the attacker managed to exploit a security flaw, making it...
Trip Hawkins, Founder of Electronic Arts, Enters The NFT Gaming Industry
Despite the ups and downs of the crypto market, the Web3 and the NFT gaming industries continue to attract the...
Solana Spaces Close Less Than a Year After Opening
Solana Spaces, two retail stores that opened up this summer in New York and Miami, will be closing down by...
Spotify Runs Pilot for Token-Enabled Playlists with NFT Partners
Spotify is testing a new service – “token-enabled playlists” – with one of its partners to enable non-fungible token (NFT)...
OFR-Led Crypto Veterans Group Acquires the 0N1 Force NFT Collection
A group of cryptocurrency veterans acquired the comic-focused, blue-chip NFT collection – 0N1 Force. 0N1 Force is among the first...
Hope Finance Drained for $2M
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Hope Finance suffered a $2 million exploit on February 20th. The hacker purportedly stole everything from...
BingChatGPT ‘pump and dump’ tokens emerging by the dozen: PeckShield
Blockchain security firm PeckShield has raised the alarm after finding dozens of tokens purporting to be related to artificial intelligence...
Yield platform Stablegains sued for promoting UST as a ‘safe’ investment
Decentralized finance yield platform Stablegains has been sued in a Californian court for allegedly misleading investors and failing to comply...
How trustless bridges can help protect users
Blockchain bridges allow decentralized finance (DeFi) users to use the same tokens across multiple blockchains. For example, a trader can...
Binance Starts Minting True USD (TUSD) as TRU Price Explodes
Binance has started minting True USD (TUSD) in response to a U.S. regulatory crackdown on its own stablecoin BUSD. On...
Crypto investors spent $4.6B buying ‘pump and dump’ tokens last year
Cryptocurrency investors funneled as much as $4.6 billion into crypto tokens suspected to be part of “pump and dump” schemes...
Bitcoin Miners Generated $600K From Ordinals Transactions in 2 Months: Dune
Since the launch of the new controversial Bitcoin-based non-fungible token (NFT) protocol Ordinals in mid-December, miners on the largest blockchain...
LACMA Museum Receives Donation Of 22 Top-Tier NFTs Including CryptoPunks, ArtBlocks
On February 14, 2023, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announced that it received the first and largest...
DeFi Could Face Challenges Due to SEC’s Crackdown on Crypto Staking: Lido DAO Exec
Jacob Blish, the head of business development at Lido DAO, the decentralized autonomous organization behind the largest liquid staking protocol,...
SEC’s crypto staking crackdown has uncertain consequences for DeFi: Lido Finance
A crackdown by the United States securities regulator on crypto staking could have unintended consequences for decentralized finance, according to...
DeFi Platform CoW Protocol Loses Over 550 BNB in Contract Exploit
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol CoW Swap has suffered a smart contract exploit, leading to the loss of approximately 551 BNB...
