On Thursday (24 November 2022), two Cardano-powered projects — Ardana and Orbis — unexpectedly came to a halt, but this doesn’t seem to have dented the enthusiasm, passion, and optimism of the Cardano community presumably due to the rich depth of the ecosystem. The two announcements came or less at […]

Shortly after the introduction of confidentiality platform Midnight at last week’s IO ScotFest event in Edunburgh, Scotland, IOG Co-Founder and CEO Charles Hoskinson explained why Midnight handles disclosure at the DApp level not the protocol level. On Friday and Saturday of last week, the city of Edinburgh in Scotland, which […]

The term Web3 is often used as shorthand to discuss the new phase of the internet. It describes leaving the era of centralized social media and massive e-commerce platforms and arriving at a utopia of user-controlled data. Web3, in a colloquial sense, is simply an umbrella marketing term that means […]

The CEO of fintech firm Block Earner has lashed out over the “lack of clarity” in Australia’s financial licensing regime after his company was sued by the country’s financial services regulator for providing unlicensed crypto-based investment products. The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) announced on Nov. 23 local time […]

Scalable blockchain network Casper announced the launch of its new Casper Accelerate Grant Program on Nov. 23, created to support developers and innovators who are building apps to support infrastructure, end-user applications, and research innovation on its blockchain. The Casper Network is a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) enterprise-focused blockchain designed to help businesses […]

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia has seized seven domain names used in committing “pig butchering” cryptocurrency crimes. According to a Monday statement by the Department of Justice, the crimes have been running from as far back as August 2022, when scammers defrauded five victims in […]

According to a new twitter post on Nov. 23, Bo Shen, general partner of the Vitalik Buterin-advised venture capital fund Fenbushi Capital, claime that $42 million worth of funds were drained from his Trust Wallet on Nov. 10. Shen, who grew up in China but now lives in Atlanta, says […]

A research paper published at Harvard university highlighted how central banks can use Bitcoin (BTC) to hedge against financial sanctions from fiat reserve issuers.  A working paper, titled “Hedging Sanctions Risk: Cryptocurrency in Central Bank Reserves,” released by Matthew Ferranti, a Ph.D. candidate at the university’s economics department, explored the […]

New York governor Kathy Hochul signed the proof-of-work (PoW) mining moratorium into law on Nov. 22, making it the first state in America to ban any PoW crypto mining activity for two years. The PoW mining moratorium will not only prohibit new mining operations but also refuse the renewal of […]

On Tuesday (22 November 2022), Synapse COO Max Bronstein explained why be believes that this might be a great time to invest in $SOL, the native token of the Solana blockchain. Here is how Coinbase described Solana in a blog post published on 29 June 2022: “Solana is a decentralized computing platform that uses SOL […]