Ethereum Classic Jumps Nearly 12% as Hash Rate Hits All-Time High
Ethereum Classic (ETC), a hard fork of Ethereum executed following the 2016 DAO hack, hit an all-time high record hash...
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Forget About DeFi Summer: NFT Autumn is Arriving
While we’ve all heard the well-trod mantra that “bear markets are for builders,” until very recently, it felt like hardly...
One Does Not Simply Destroy DAI: Maker Founder’s ‘Endgame’ Proposal
Decrypting DeFi is Decrypt's DeFi email newsletter. (art: Grant Kempster) Last Friday, Rune Christensen, the mastermind behind crypto’s unofficial central...
Polygon Jumps 10% Over The Week Amid Robinhood, Meta Integrations
Polygon (MATIC) is leading gains among the top 20 largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization over the past week. MATIC, the...
Bitcoin Mining Firm Compass Mining Has Georgia Sites Shuttered, Citing High Energy Costs
Compass Mining, a Bitcoin (BTC) mining rig service, was notified that the owner of lucrative mining hubs 2 and 3...
Ticketmaster Chooses Dapper Labs’ Flow Blockchain for NFT Tickets
Event ticketing behemoth Ticketmaster announced today that it will adopt the Flow blockchain from Dapper Labs for minting tickets as...
Reddit Co-Founder Ohanian’s Firm Launches $177M Crypto Fund
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian’s venture capital firm Seven Seven Six is planning to raise $177.60 million for a new crypto-focused...
GammaX Raises $4M to Launch Crypto Derivatives Exchange on Ethereum Layer-2 Solution
GammaX, a Singapore-based company building a new high-performance hybrid crypto derivatives exchange, announced the closure of a $4 million seed...
From Silk Road to Buying ETH: How Musician Tycho Went Crypto
From Silk Road to Buying ETH: How Musician Tycho Went CryptoScott Hansen aka Tycho, the musician, producer, and songwriter, tells...
India’s Financial Watchdog Investigates CoinSwitch Offices: Report
India’s financial crimes unit has taken aim at yet another crypto firm in the country. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has...
Token Powering Ethereum Staking Platform Lido Finance Tumbles
Lido Finance’s native token, LDO, has fallen almost 10% earlier this morning—representing the largest financial drop within the top 100...
BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, ADA, SOL, DOGE, DOT, SHIB, MATIC
Bitcoin (BTC) and several major cryptocurrencies have been trading sideways as traders avoid taking large bets before the United States...
Republican Representative Boebert Failed to Disclose Eight Crypto Trades in 2021
Colorado Republican Representative Lauren Boebert failed to file her “periodic transactions report” on time for investments made in 2021, as...
Cryptocurrencies react to Jackson Hole, Fed rate hike plans and a weakening bear market rally
The European stock markets and the United States equities markets are both deep in the red on Aug. 22 as...
Australia Unveils Plans for Crypto Regulations Unlike ‘Anywhere Else in the World’
Australia’s crypto regulators are attempting to go where no government has ever gone before. That’s according to them, at least. ...
This Week in Coins: Bitcoin and Ethereum Drop By Double Digits
This week in coins. Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt. It was a very red week for crypto, with most...
What Are PFP NFT Collections? The 2D Avatars Taking Over Twitter
From Bored Ape portraits to pixelated CryptoPunks, 2D avatar NFTs—commonly referred to as PFP or profile picture NFTs—have come to...
Tether Reveals 58% Decrease in Commercial Paper Holdings in Latest Attestation
Tether, the issuer of the industry’s largest stablecoin USDT, today published its latest quarterly attestation report for the token’ reserves....
Dapper Labs Opens NFL Version of NBA Top Shot to the Public
In brief NFT collectibles platform NFL All Day is now open to the public after launching in closed beta in...
Genesis Cuts 20% of Staff, CEO Michael Moro Out
Crypto broker Genesis Trading announced that the firm’s CEO Michael Moro will be immediately stepping down from his role. Derar...
Jump Crypto Plans New Solana Validator Client to Boost Performance, Decentralization
In brief Jump Crypto and the Solana Foundation will create a second validator client for the Solana blockchain network. It’s...
Galaxy Digital Pulls Plug on $1.2 Billion BitGo Acquisition
Galaxy Digital, the crypto investment firm run by billionaire Mike Novogratz, today announced it would terminate its proposed deal with...
