Brazil rolls out blockchain-based digital ID
Over 214 million Brazilians will soon be using blockchain technology for digital identity, the government recently announced.Rio de Janeiro, Goiás,...
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Do Kwon dismisses Slack chat records as irrelevant evidence
Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon has contested the significance of exposed Slack messages presented as evidence. The chat involved a...
PayPal applies for NFT marketplace patent for on- or off-chain asset trading
PayPal made major progress toward creating its own blockchain ecosystem by filing a patent application for a nonfungible token (NFT)...
Uniswap Foundation targets $62M in additional funding
Decentralized exchange (DEX) Uniswap is seeking an on-chain vote to approve the second tranche of the $74 million funding for...
Circle launches native euro stablecoin on Stellar
Stablecoin issuer Circle has launched a Stellar-based version of its euro-backed stablecoin, EURC, according to a Sept. 26 announcement. EURC...
Bitcoin Ordinals creator Casey Rodarmor pitches BRC-20 alternative ‘Runes’
The inventor of Bitcoin Ordinals is proposing a new Bitcoin-based fungible token protocol as a potential alternative to the BRC-20...
Pay-to-use blockchains will never achieve mass adoption
Pay-to-use blockchains are done.Not for us, of course — the nerdy crypto crowd. We’re perfectly happy to open wallets, engrave...
Binance.US scores against SEC, Mt. Gox delay repayments, and…
Top Stories This Week SEC sees temporary setback in request to access Binance.US software The United States Securities and Exchange...
Base surges past Solana as total value locked nears $400M
The total value locked (TVL) on Coinbase’s layer 2 network Base has surged to $397.32 million in roughly a month...
‘End of an era’ — Consensys sunsets Truffle, Ganache amid shift to Metamask Snaps
Ethereum developers are gathering to salute the teams behind Ganache and Truffle, two toolkits that were once vital in the...
Bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney talks zk proofs in 25-year-old unearthed footage
Early Bitcoin (BTC) pioneer Hal Finney shared his vision for zero-knowledge proofs more than 25 years ago, a full decade before...
Coinbase crypto lobbying campaign to focus on four swing states
Crypto exchange Coinbase says it will focus its "Stand with Crypto" campaign on nine states in the U.S., including four...
Citi Token Services will provide payments, liquidity to institutional customers
Citigroup has introduced Citi Token Services, a private, permissioned blockchain that offers cross-border payments, liquidity and automated trade finance solutions...
Web3 is about solving business problems, not token prices: Google Cloud exec
The crypto industry is far too focused on token prices, rather than figuring out how smart contracts can be used...
Paxos’ $500K Bitcoin fee, FTX tokens sales set to begin, and more
Top Stories This Week Paxos confirms it’s responsible for paying a $500K Bitcoin transaction fee The Bitcoin miner who received...
Mark Cuban’s loses $870K in hot wallet hack
Nearly $900,000 worth of crypto was reportedly drained from one of the hot wallets belonging to billionaire investor and Dallas...
Ethereum Merge anniversary — 99% energy drop but centralization fears linger
One year after its historic transition to proof of stake, Ethereum has seen a massive reduction in energy use and...
Web3 game Gods Unchained releases ‘Sealed Mode’ to mimic paper card games
Web3 game Gods Unchained released a new gameplay format that allows players to compete with semi-random cards they receive at...
NYU law professors argue ‘personal growth bets’ using smart contracts should be legal
New York University School of Law professors Max Raskin and Jack Millman recently published a paper in the Journal on...
Debate reignites over years-old Bitcoin Drivechain proposal
A debate has reignited among Bitcoiners over a six-year-old Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) to add “sidechains” on top of the...
Avalanche’s HyperSDK blockchain upgrade hits 143K TPS on testnet
Smart contract layer-1 blockchain network Avalanche's testnet has reportedly hit over 140,000 transactions per second during testing of its HyperSDK...
G20 moves forward with international crypto framework
Leaders of the 20 biggest economies in the world — collectively known as G20 — are pushing for a speedy...
