This Week in Coins: Ethereum and Avalanche Rally, Crypto Winter Still Not Over
This week in coins. Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt. Despite the ongoing cypto bear market, many top cryptocurrencies posted...
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Tornado Cash Ethereum Token Down Over 50% After Sanctions
In the week following the sanctioning of the Tornado Cash website by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets...
Ethereum Classic Hits 4-Month High as Merge Approaches
With anticipation building for the Ethereum merge next month, the price of Ethereum Classic (ETC) hit a four-month high of...
Ethereum Up 14% as Goerli Testnet Merge Goes Live
Ethereum is entering the final stages of preparations for the much-anticipated Merge event after Goerli, the network’s third and final...
Coinbase Betting Big On Staking Ahead of Ethereum Merge
Facing a slump in cryptocurrency prices on one hand, and less revenue from user transactions on the other, Coinbase CEO...
Bad Bitcoin Bettor Dave Portnoy Rages Over SafeMoon Lawsuit
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy claims he is being sued by SafeMoon investors. In a bizarre video posted on Twitter...
CryptoDickbutts Ethereum NFTs Surge 690% in Daily Sales Volume
CryptoDickbutts surged on Sunday, leapfrogging a handful of other notable NFT collections on elevated volume. Daily trading volume for the...
Beanstalk Celebrates Anniversary With ‘Safe Replant and Unpause’ Months After $182M Exploit
Beanstalk, a credit-based stablecoin, has rebooted on the one-year anniversary of its launch—and not quite four months since it was...
North Korean Hackers Behind DeBridge Finance Attack: Co-Founder
Alex Smirnov, co-founder and project lead at DeBridge Finance, took to Twitter on Friday to report that his company was...
Halliday Raises $6 Million for ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Ethereum NFTs
As more game studios look to incorporate digital assets and collectibles into their properties, Web3 startup Halliday has raised $6...
Starbucks Teases Web3 Updates to Its Popular Rewards Program
Web3 will play a part in the future of Starbucks' popular rewards program, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said. "We have...
Ethereum Name Service Domain Registrations Hit All-Time High as Merge Approaches
Ethereum Name Service domain ownership surpassed 1.8 million names, with 378,000 new .eth registrations in July alone, according to ENS...
Woman Behind Bitcoin Murder for Hire Plot Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison
The U.S. Department of Justice announced the sentencing of Jessica Leeann Sledge of Pelahatchie, Mississippi, to ten years in prison...
Tiffany’s Reveals First NFTs—at $51,000 Each
Tiffany & Co., one of the most prominent names in luxury goods for over a century, is launching a series...
Civic Adds Verification Platform to Battle Bots and Scams
The Web3 identity and reputation company Civic is continuing its fight against bots, scams, and rug pulls with the launch...
ApeCoin DAO to Fund Bored Ape News Site for $150,000
While the NFT market at large may be slowing down, a Bored Ape-focused news outlet is getting a big boost...
Fed, FDIC Order Voyager to Stop ‘False and Misleading’ Insurance Claims
U.S. banking regulators from the Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation issued a cease and desist order to embattled...
UK Commission Aims to Clarify Crypto Property Law
As global authorities continue to wrestle with how to regulate cryptocurrencies, the U.K. Law Commission on Thursday proposed changes to...
NFT Projects Lost $22M to Largely the Same Hackers on Discord: Reports
Two Web3 security firms have issued reports focused on the recent scourge of hacks targeting NFT projects, likely by a...
Binance CEO CZ Sues Bloomberg Businessweek for Defamation in Hong Kong
The CEO of Binance is not happy with Bloomberg. Changpeng "CZ" Zhao is suing Bloomberg Businessweek for three allegedly defamatory...
Yuga Labs Threatened With Possible Class-Action Lawsuit
Last month, Yuga Labs, the $4 billion company behind popular NFT collection Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), generated headlines by...
This Week in Coins: Ethereum Outpaces Bitcoin as Markets Thaw
This week in coins. Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt Companies are doing whatever possible to stay solvent during crypto...
