Editor’s note: This article has been updated to include an announcement from Hong Kong’s financial regulator. After financial regulators scrutinized Binance’s stock tokens, the world’s largest crypto [...]
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16 July 2021 09:41
Since its inception in 2015, Ethereum has been the dominant platform for crypto companies to build projects on. Its combination of smart contracts and ERC-20 tokens allows [...]
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16 July 2021 09:06
The price of RUNE, the native token of decentralized finance (DeFi) liquidity protocol Thorchain, dropped by about 15% today following yesterday’s attack which saw hackers drain 2,500 [...]
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16 July 2021 08:27
A 22-year-old German man caused a minor stir on Twitter this week when he tweeted a video pitching a “Freedom Phone” he claims will let people use [...]
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16 July 2021 03:01
Axie Infinity, an Ethereum-based monster-battling game inspired by Nintendo’s Pokémon, has revealed plans to support esports competitions via funding for community-run events and a dedicated server. The [...]
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16 July 2021 01:01
PleasrDAO, an investment collective that’s spent the past few months snapping up multimillion-dollar NFTs, is putting its crypto assets to work as collateral for a $3.5 million [...]
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16 July 2021 00:10
Ripple won a significant procedural victory in its fight with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which has accused the crypto payment firm and two of its [...]
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15 July 2021 23:40
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to note the shifting estimates of the attack’s cost. Thorchain has been struck by an attack that has drained millions [...]
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15 July 2021 22:31
Last September, Minnesota Congressman Tom Emmer, a Republican, introduced the Securities Clarity Act, which was aimed at providing some guardrails for cryptocurrency projects looking to stay on [...]
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15 July 2021 21:31
Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey has announced plans for a “new business” charged with building a crypto development platform. In a tweet, Dorsey wrote that the [...]
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15 July 2021 20:42
Online payments firm PayPal today announced it has increased the amount of cryptocurrency U.S. customers can buy via its platform to $100,000 per week. Purchases were previously [...]
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15 July 2021 19:45
Worried by the growing enthusiasm for high-risk investments—including crypto—among young Britons, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has allocated £11 million ($15.2 million) for a digital marketing [...]
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15 July 2021 17:11
