Disney’s $1.5B stake in Epic smells a lot like another metaverse playDisney cut its metaverse division less than a year ago, but now it looks like it’s teaming up with Epic Games to build one.Feb 8, 2024Jesse Coghlan
Maxine Waters: Lawmakers ‘very close’ to a stablecoin deal: Report"We worked something out with the feds, and I think it's OK,” Waters said of the stablecoin bill.Feb 8, 2024Brayden Lindrea
Ethereum upgrade aimed at lowering L2 TX costs eyes mainnet deploymentEthereum's Dencun upgrade, which introduces “proto-danksharding,” was successfully deployed on the Holesky testnet on Feb. 7.Feb 7, 2024Brayden Lindrea
Ethereum Name Service open to building own layer 2 — ENS directorENS executive director Khori Whittaker says ENS is going “heavy” on research and development for layer 2s, adding that much of the conversation between developers is focused on Optimism.Feb 7, 2024Tom Mitchelhill
Hacken links Ripple chairman’s hack to XRP official wallet Blockchain auditing firm Hacken claims to have found an XRP-affiliated wallet predating the recent $112.5 million exploit on Ripple co-founder and chairman Chris Larsen’s personal wallets.Feb 7, 2024Allen Scott
TradeStation Crypto settles charges by SEC, 26 states over asset lendingThe subsidiary of Japanese Monex Group had already said it would cease providing services in the United States.Feb 7, 2024Derek Andersen
XRP price is down for the month — So why are whales opening bullish leveraged positions?XRP traders are piling into leverage longs positions despite the recent negative news about XRP and Ripple.Feb 7, 2024Marcel Pechman
Huawei researchers say giving AI a ‘body’ is the next step toward human-level agentsHaving a body, the researchers argue, will allow AI to understand action, memory, and experience better.Feb 7, 2024Tristan Greene
Bitcoin Ordinals sales dip, Roblox adds AI translation to metaverse: Nifty NewsletterBitcoin Ordinals 30-day sales volume dropped from $868 million in December 2023 to $335 million in January.Feb 7, 2024Ezra Reguerra
Regulate metaverse to prevent corporate takeover, fragmentation — BISThe metaverse craze has passed, but use cases in healthcare, commerce and education should not be dominated by powerful private interests, a new BIS study argues.Feb 7, 2024Derek Andersen
South Korean authorities probe OKX over alleged unregistered services: ReportThe exchange reportedly used Telegram influencers to promote its crypto services to South Korean users.Feb 7, 2024Turner Wright
Price analysis 2/7: BTC, ETH, BNB, SOL, XRP, ADA, AVAX, DOGE, DOT, LINK Bitcoin’s price-bound price action could reach a breaking point if the sharp drop in U.S. regional bank stocks intensifies. How might altcoins react?Feb 7, 2024Rakesh Upadhyay
Former Google news boss predicts chatty AI models like ‘ChatGPT’ will replace journalistsAccording to Jim Albrecht, large language models pose an existential threat to journalists and the global news industry.Feb 7, 2024Tristan Greene
UBS Hong Kong tokenizes warrants on Ethereum with OSLThe underlying tokenized asset is a call warrant option on shares of Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi.Feb 7, 2024Zhiyuan Sun
ETH could reach $27K this bull cycle, expert predicts The lack of selling pressure from miners will be one of the main catalysts boosting ETH’s price to unprecedented highs in the current bull cycle.Feb 7, 2024Giovanni Pigni
Prosecutors call for hearing over lawyers representing Sam Bankman-Fried and Alex MashinskyThe U.S. government pointed to potential conflicts of interest between the two crypto CEOs’ cases but added that the judges could approve waiving them after a hearing.Feb 7, 2024Turner Wright
Stephen Chow NFTs eclipse 10K ETH in trading volume as community expands“Nobody” NFTs are currently the top trending collection on OpenSea on the day of publication.Feb 7, 2024Zhiyuan Sun
Bitcoin has ‘10 days max’ until BTC price metric hits squeeze zoneBitcoin volatility monitoring is calling for a dramatic upending of flat BTC price action within the coming days.Feb 7, 2024William Suberg
Bitcoin is likely to be flat until summer — so trade bravelyThe crypto market hasn’t moved much since the launch of Bitcoin ETFs, and data indicates it may stay that way for the first half of 2024.Feb 7, 2024Lucas Kiely
Real-life Doge at 18: Meme that’s going to the moonAs SpaceX’s Doge-1 space probe prepares to launch to the moon, Magazine looks back on the colorful history of Dogecoin and the life of its namesake, Kabosu.Feb 7, 2024Elias Ahonen
US crypto miners challenge EIA’s energy usage surveyCryptocurrency mining operators in the United States question the legality and motives behind a mandatory survey of energy usage, sources and locations.Feb 7, 2024Gareth Jenkinson
Ransomware returns: Chainalysis flags record $1B payments in 2023 Ransomware attacks resulted in over $1 billion in cryptocurrency payments in 2023 as criminals targeted high-profile institutions and infrastructure.Feb 7, 2024Gareth Jenkinson
Regulated OTC desks could spur crypto adoption Cointelegraph reached out to OTC service providers from two different areas of the world to learn more about the role of OTC crypto trading hubs in the crypto ecosystem.Feb 7, 2024Ezra Reguerra
Crypto industry tops all Canadian fintech investments 2 years in a rowThe blockchain and crypto space had 31 deals, more than other fintech industries in Canada for the second year in a row.Feb 7, 2024Ezra Reguerra
Texas firm faces criminal probe for misleading US voters with Joe Biden AIThe Attorney General’s Office Election Law Unit identified the people and entities responsible for misleading voters using AI-generated robocalls that sounded like President Joe Biden.Feb 7, 2024Amaka Nwaokocha
SEC’s new dealer rules focused on LPs will be challenged in court, say expertsSEC Commissioner Hester Pierce said the new rules harm not only the market participants who find themselves transformed into dealers but also the broader market.Feb 7, 2024Prashant Jha
US Virginia bill seeks working group to study crypto, blockchainThe current draft of Senate Bill No. 339 is a substitute amendment to the bill’s initial version introduced in January.Feb 7, 2024David Attlee
European Commission proposes criminalizing AI-powered child abuseThe widespread growth of generative AI has provided lawmakers with a clear motivation to review the regulations to facilitate crime reporting for child sexual abuse victims and provide relevant support.Feb 7, 2024Amaka Nwaokocha
South Korean crypto criminals face life imprisonmentCriminals that make more than 5 billion won ($3.8 million) in illegal crypto profits are facing life sentences in South Korea.Feb 7, 2024Helen Partz
Crypto exchange Bitsonic executives jailed for $7.5M theft: ReportA Seoul court sentenced the pair to a combined eight years in jail and said a “significant amount” of Bitsonic user funds is still missing.Feb 7, 2024Jesse Coghlan