As issues with cyber safety and data leaks spread, a much-hyped new crypto project from Y Combinator founder Sam Altman aims to mitigate scams and breaches caused by bots and bad actors by scanning your eyeballs and awarding you crypto. Worldcoin, which already touts a $1 billion valuation, aims to onboard more people into crypto …
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Popular online discussion community Reddit is planning to build its own platform for users to buy and sell NFTs, according to a job listing posted by the company. Reddit is looking to hire a “Senior Backend Engineer, NFT Platform,” and the job listing isn’t ambiguous about the firm’s plans. According to the posting, the ideal …
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Fractional shares in a Doge meme are now collectively worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The original image of Doge, the Shiba Inu dog turned Dogecoin mascot, was turned into an NFT (a type of token that functions like a digital deed of ownership) and sold for $4 million in June. Earlier this week, it’s …
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You might know Stephen Curry from his three NBA championship wins with the Golden State Warriors, or maybe you’ve seen him on ABC’s Holey Moley or in Subway commercials. But if you follow him on Twitter right now, you won’t see his face next to his handle: you’ll see an image from the Bored Ape …
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Robinhood cited a large growth in the popularity of cryptocurrency on its platform, reporting today that more new users bought crypto with their first trade rather than stocks in the three months ending June 30. The company also disclosed that more than 60% of its funded accounts engaged in crypto trading during this time. The …
A newly-discovered tool on the dark web lets criminals check how clean their Bitcoin is. The tool, called Antinalysis, was likely built by an administrator of a darknet market to help their merchants launder Bitcoin, according to an analysis by Tom Robinson, co-founder of London-based blockchain investigation firm Elliptic. After a wallet is linked to …
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Anchorage Digital announced today that it would be able to take custody of the dYdX governance token on customers’ behalf as soon as the token launches. Anchorage already supports 57 digital assets, including stablecoins such as USDC, market cap leaders such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, and decentralized finance (DeFi) governance tokens such as Compound. dYdX …
Ethereum-based NFT game Axie Infinity has crossed $1 billion in sales, data from CryptoSlam! shows. As of this writing, $1,055,735 worth of tokens from the Pokémon-inspired NFT game have traded hands through 2.4 million transactions. There are 324,850 buyers, 936,065 owners, and more than a million daily active users. The milestone is the latest piece …
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OpenSea, a popular marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), generated roughly $95 million in trading volume over the past weekend—nearly five times more than during the whole year of 2020. “In 2020, OpenSea did about $21M in total transaction volume. In the last two days, we did $95M. The growth curve for NFTs is insane,” tweeted …
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Dogecoin has had a wild 2021 to date, climbing more than 13,000% from a price point under a penny at the start of the year to a peak above $0.73 per DOGE in May—and a steady decline amidst wider market struggles to a recent low of about $0.17. Today, however, Dogecoin is the biggest winner …
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