Congress has passed a $1.2 trillion bill to improve America’s infrastructure through a variety of measures, including taxing crypto brokers. The bill, which passed Congress with a final vote of 228–206, signals a historic moment for crypto in the United States. In drafting the legislation, senators inserted a provision that changes the Internal Revenue Service’s …
Traditional video game publishers are starting to embrace NFTs and crypto gaming, with third-party giants like Electronic Arts and Ubisoft expressing interest or declaring their intentions in recent days. Now Japanese publisher Square Enix of «Final Fantasy» fame has joined the pack. Today, during a financial briefing covering the six-month period ending on September 30, …
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This story comes out of PubDAO, a decentralized news wire. In a move that could make blockchain-based voting more transparent and democratic, decentralized voting platform Snapshot—one of the primary tools Web 3 groups use to poll community sentiment—has partnered with blockchain protocol Colony to integrate its DAO reputation system. Governance tokens are the crypto assets …
DeFi Tool Snapshot Now Using Colony to Rebalance Power in DAO Voting Leer más »
Andbox is a major player in the growing esports industry as the company behind the Call of Duty League’s New York Subliners and the Overwatch League’s New York Excelsior—both teams in prominent franchised leagues. Now the company is set to enter the NFT space. Today, Andbox announced a partnership with Moonwalk, a blockchain startup that …
Call of Duty Esports Team Owner Andbox to Launch NFTs That Unlock Perks for Fans Leer más »
Investors claim that the creators of a newly-launched dog coin project defrauded them out of a combined total of $60 million in ETH after the funds vanished from the project’s liquidity pool. AnubisDAO, which launched on Thursday, touted itself as a fork of OlympusDAO–a decentralized reserve currency backed by bonds sales and liquidity provider fees. …
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On Thursday, Oculus’s Chief Technology Officer John Carmack said during a live keynote speech about Facebook’s new metaverse that “it’s unlikely we’re going to be in the completely open crypto world of things.” Earlier that day, Facebook rebranded itself as ‘Meta’, signaling its intention to go all in on the metaverse. Under the new ‘Meta’ …
Oculus CTO: ‘Unlikely’ that Meta Will Totally Embrace Crypto Leer más »
Today, Decrypt did something we’ve never done before: published an original news story that will also run on multiple other sites. The story, which hits on multiple hot-button issues in the crypto world—NFTs, DAOs, and crypto lobbying efforts in D.C.—marks the launch of PubDAO, a new media DAO we’ve been building out behind the scenes …
Introducing PubDAO, a Decentralized Crypto News Wire Leer más »
The Wharton business school at the University of Pennsylvania is launching an executive education program in blockchain and, fittingly enough, will let students pay for it in crypto—making it just the second American college to accept Bitcoin. Starting today, students will be able to choose crypto from a tuition payment menu that also includes PayPal …
Wharton Business School to Accept Tuition Payment in Bitcoin, Ethereum Leer más »
Steam is the largest digital marketplace for PC games, but it won’t be where you find blockchain-based games with NFT assets or cryptocurrency integration right now. Recently, the marketplace banned any games with NFT or crypto elements—but a number of crypto game developers and Web3 advocates are now pushing back against the decision. Today, digital …
Crypto Advocates Protest ‘Gatekeeper’ Valve’s NFT Game Ban on Steam Leer más »
Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady threw his 600th touchdown pass on Sunday, but his tight end unwittingly tossed the historical game ball to a fan in the stands—meaning team officials had to go retrieve it. The ball recipient, a Bucs fan named Byron Kennedy, promptly gave the ball back. But Brady nonetheless offered him …
Tom Brady Gives Bitcoin to Fan for Return of TD Ball, Fan Asks for Round of Golf Leer más »