Blockchain

Venture capital (VC) firm Andreessen Horowitz led a $40 million funding round on March 21 for CCP Games, a developer of blockchain-based, massively multiplayer (MM) online games. CCP will use the funding to produce a high-budget and thrilling game title with blockchain technology. The company will...

Billionaire entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban shared his thoughts on technology that will have a “bigger impact on the world,” and it includes artificial intelligence, or AI, blockchain and the internet.  What Happened: Cuban, the Dallas Mavericks owner, was replying on a...

By Jessica Billingsley In a now infamous study, 543 college students unknowingly agreed to give away their firstborn children in exchange for access to a new app, highlighting that truly, no one reads the terms of service without clicking.  It’s clear we need an alternative, but this has...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a lawsuit Wednesday against Tron founder Justin Sun on fraud charges. Additionally, the SEC brought forth civil charges against eight celebrities who helped Sun promote the coin, including YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul, actress...

Ethereum's largest ecosystem update since The Merge occurred. Crypto players showcased new products at ETHDenver 2023. Among the highlights: implementing EIP-4337, an Ethereum Improvement Proposal that improves the ecosystem without changing its consensus-layer code. The proposal is known as...

The native token of the GMX (CRYPTO: GMX) exchange is currently trading at $83.12 and has increased by about 89% since the start of the year, according to CoinGecko. The decentralized derivatives exchange is receiving support from its community for the deployment of its protocol on Base,...

Exciting new meme coin project Love Hate Inu (LHINU)  has developed a never-before-seen Web3 concept to revolutionize the $3 billion online survey industry. Introducing vote-to-earn, Love Hate Inu will allow its users to earn rewards simply for participating in online polls and surveys - with...

The Arbitrum Foundation, which is the major player in Ethereum's (CRYPTO: ETH) Layer 2 scaling landscape, announced the launch of a new token called ARB (CRYPTO: ARB). This token will be distributed to community members via an airdrop on March 23, marking the official transition of...

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) surged to $26,000 on Tuesday, reaching its highest value since June 2022, amid a growing sense of optimism that the digital asset sector will weather the recent turmoil in the U.S. financial system.  The largest cryptocurrency has gained for the fourth consecutive day,...

By harnessing Web3 tech and supplemental marketing channels, Alcacor Networks offers unprecedented transparency, security, and monetization opportunities Although at the heart of numerous billion-dollar companies and set to become a $200+ billion industry by 2028 – the traditional network...

The U.S. Department of Justice is reportedly investigating the collapse of TerraUSD (CRYPTO: LUNC), a stablecoin created by South Korean crypto entrepreneur Do Kwon. This could potentially result in criminal charges against Kwon. Citing sources familiar with the matter, a Wall Street Journal report...

Circle (CRYPTO: USDC) deposited an unknown sum of cash in the now-defunct Silicon Valley Bank (NASDAQ: SIVB), which was one of the U.S.-regulated financial institutions responsible for holding the platform's reserves, as per a USDC Reserve Report. The report stated Circle had listed SVB, along...

DeFi protocols lost $386.2 million in 41 separate oracle manipulation attacks in 2022, according to a recent research report. These attacks occur when bad actors manipulate the price oracles that DeFi protocols use to ensure assets on their platforms are priced in accordance with the wider...

Alpha Sigma Capital has announced that it has partnered with Transform Ventures and its founder, Michael Terpin, to launch a new holding company called Alpha Transform Holdings.  The holding company has been formed by merging select assets from Transform Ventures and Alpha Sigma Capital's...

The Monetary and Banking Research Institute of Iran has completed preliminary research for the launch of a potential digital rial, as part of its central bank digital currency (CBDC) plans, according to an official statement from the Central Bank of Iran's (CBI) research arm. What Happened: The...