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 performance in the month of April. Similarly, the Nasdaq Composite...Continue Reading

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...Continue Reading

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...Continue Reading

A deep dive into the worlds of nonfungible tokens and decentralized autonomous organizations, and how they can benefit from each other. this JPEG can have sex with this JPEG and make a new baby JPEG? Say what?” When CryptoPunks started out in 2017, they seemed silly to many. They were just 128 X 128 pixels....Continue Reading

While the Otherdeed NFTs could be minted only in APE, it also required ETH for gas fees. While the community was witness to the largest NFT mint yet, Ethereum (ETH) gas prices rose to unprecedented levels, in addition to users experiencing failed transactions due to blockchain bottlenecks. Bored Ape Yacht Club creator Yuga Labs launched...Continue Reading

On-chain liquidity was the catalyst of DeFi Summer 2020, but what will lead the DeFi markets to hit a trillion dollars within another year or two? In mid-February 2020, the total value locked within decentralized finance (DeFi) applications first exceeded $1 billion. Fueled by the DeFi summer of 2020, it wouldn’t even take a year...Continue Reading

APE price could see more downside in the coming days as the Otherside hype cools down. ApeCoin (APE) caught its bulls off-guard with APE price losing nearly 40% in just three days. No dutch auction APE’s price reached its second-highest level, hitting $27.57 on April 28, up more than 2,650% from its mid-March debut. Nonetheless,...Continue Reading

Redditor Andre highlighted the ease with which hackers can use the text prediction feature to drain a user’s funds just by being able to first word out of the BIP 39 list. Seed phrases, a random combination of words from the BIP 39 list of 2048 words, act as one of the primary layers of...Continue Reading

DeFi investigator BlockSec’s monitoring system detected a loss of more than $80 million — citing the root cause as a typical reentrancy vulnerability. Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Fei Protocol offered a $10 million bounty to hackers in an attempt to negotiate and retrieve a major chunk of the stolen funds from various Rari Fuse pools...Continue Reading

The EU proposal requiring one to link a self-custodial wallet to their identity fundamentally misunderstands the concept of self-custody. The recent European Union proposal requiring centralized crypto exchanges and custodial wallet providers to collect and verify personal information about self-custodial wallet holders shows the dangers of recycling traditional finance (TradFi) rules and applying them to...Continue Reading