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  • Experience-to-earn is the gateway for NFT mainstream adoption

    Nonfungible tokens can power another paradigm shift via the experience-to-earn model, which welcomes anyone into the NFTs space. An experience-to-earn (E2E) nonfungible token (NFT) ecosystem rewards people on-chain for doing everyday activities, bringing new forms of value creation to everyone. This was previously reserved for invested gamers in play-to-earn (P2E) worlds.While P2E has experienced a […]
  • Go green or go home? What the NY State mining moratorium could mean for crypto industry

    The “anti-technology” bill could accelerate mining operators’ switch to renewable energy, experts say. On April 26, the State of New York put itself at the forefront of the regulatory struggle with crypto, as its Assembly voted for a two-year moratorium on crypto mining operations that use energy generated by fossil-fuel power plants. Depending on how […]
  • 6 Questions for Dawn Newton of Netki

    We ask the buidlers in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sector for their thoughts on the industry… and throw in a few random zingers to keep them on their toes! This week, our 6 Questions go to Dawn Newton, co-founder and chief operating officer of Netki a remote digital identity verification technology provider intended to facilitate compliance […]
  • Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, LUNA, NEAR, VET, GMT

    A few days of consolidation from BTC price could lead to a healthy bounce from LUNA, NEAR, VET and STEPN. The month of April has been a forgettable one for equities and cryptocurrency investors. Bitcoin (BTC) plummeted 17% in April to record its worst-ever April performance. Similarly, the Nasdaq Composite plunged 13.3% in April, its […]
  • Lack of transparency among project auditors a big problem: Hacken CEO

    Dyma Budorin thinks the crypto industry would be much safer if smart contract auditors took responsibility for the code they audited. Smart contract auditing firm Hacken CEO Dyma Budorin thinks Web3 cybersecurity providers are failing the crypto industry and that “huge blind spots” in market practices are impacting investor behavior.Budorin believes a lack of accountability […]
  • Wikimedia Foundation shutters BitPay account halting crypto donations

    The Wikimedia Foundation decided it has had enough of crypto as 71% decided to ban all digital asset donations and to close its BitPay account. The Wikimedia Foundation, which backs Wikipedia, will shut down its BitPay account and has announced it will stop accepting cryptocurrency donations based on community feedback.The decision to end crypto donations […]
  • Buffett back bashing Bitcoin, claims it ‘doesn’t produce anything’

    “If you told me you own all of the Bitcoin in the world and you offered it to me for $25 I wouldn’t take it because what would I do with it?” Warren Buffett said. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has once again slammed Bitcoin (BTC), asserting he “wouldn’t take” all of the BTC in the […]
  • Solana suffers 7th outage in 2022 as bots invade the network

    NFT minting bots on Solana contributed over 4 million transactions per second, knocking validators out of consensus and crashing the network for around seven hours. The Solana network suffered a seven-hour outage overnight between Saturday and Sunday due to a large number of transactions from the nonfungible token (NFT) minting bots.A record-breaking four million transactions, […]
  • Ethereum burning spikes to new high on Yuga Labs’ NFT hype

    Otherdeed NFTs top the “burn leaderboard” over the past seven days at roughly 55,816 ETH, or 56% of all burns during that period. The burning rate of Ethereum has spiked to new all-time high (ATH) levels following the heavily anticipated sale of tokenized land plots in Yuga Labs’ upcoming Metaverse project the “Otherside.”Yuga Labs, the […]
  • Bitcoin ATM installation slowdown continues for 4th month in 2022

    The evident reduction in the installations of crypto ATMs could result from the regulators’ hesitance to adopt the Bitcoin ecosystem. April 2022 marked the fourth consecutive month of a slowdown in the installation of Bitcoin (BTC) ATMs, ever since the slowdown began at the start of the year.BTC ATMs serve a crucial purpose for the […]