Demystify the world of digital currencies with a detailed guide to purchasing Bitcoin with Venmo and reviewing transaction fees, limits and security precautions. Venmo, a versatile financial application, provides a range of features, including peer-to-peer (P2P) money transfers and cryptocurrency transactions. Serving as a comprehensive financial tool, Venmo enables users to seamlessly handle transactions, including...Continue Reading

The guests on Episode 31 of Hashing It Out believe traditional finance has hurt innovation in the African fintech space and that cryptocurrency can breathe some life into it. Ahead of the Africa Money and DeFi Summit, Hashing It Out host Elisha Owusu Akyaw (GhCryptoGuy) spoke with Andrew Fassnidge, founder of Africa Tech Summit, and...Continue Reading

Ethereum spot ETF request, Ripple’s potential win against the SEC, and growing decentralized app dominance retain hope for ETH investors. Ether (ETH) has seen a 36% year-to-date increase in its price in 2023 in U.S. dollar terms. This recovery, however, is modest given that ETH is currently trading 66% below its November 2021 peak of...Continue Reading

Proof of Play raised $33 million to create fully on-chain games that “quickly immerse players in fun gameplay.“ Proof of Play, a company led by Farmville co-creator Amitt Mahajan, raised $33 million to create Web3 games, according to a Sept. 21 announcement. Majahan is the CEO of Proof of Play, and Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear...Continue Reading

The Near Foundation treasury grew to $350 million under Flament’s tenure. Marieke Flament, CEO of Near Foundation, the developer of the namesake community layer-one protocol, has resigned. According to the September 21 announcement, Chris Donovan, Near Foundation’s general counsel, will replace Flament as the new CEO following the resignation. Flament gave no specific reason for...Continue Reading

What even is generative art? William Mapan, whose 250-piece Distance collection just sold out at 2ETH each, explains using a crayon and die. Generative artist William Mapans latest collection, “Distance,” sold out in less than 24 hours despite launching in the middle of a very weak NFT market. From his early long-form generative series “Dragons”...Continue Reading

As the United States House Financial Services Committee looks to further impede the introduction of a digital dollar, where does this resistance to a CBDC stem from? On Wednesday, Sept. 20, the United States House Financial Services Committee marked up two bills to curb the issuance of a central bank digital currency (CBDC). One of...Continue Reading

“What if ChatGPT could deploy its own token?” You probably guessed the answer – AstroPepeX has been minted and is being traded on a handful of DeFi and centralized exchanges. An Ethereum developer has managed to get ChatGPT to launch its own ERC-20 token, AstroPepeX, modeled off data from the top traded tokens on Uniswap....Continue Reading

Bitcoin speculators are dealing with “a degree of panic” as their BTC holdings sit in unrealized loss, says Glassnode. Bitcoin (BTC) speculators are in “panic” mode as nearly all of them are in the red, research says. In the latest edition of its weekly newsletter, “The Week On-Chain,” analytics firm Glassnode revealed 97.5% unrealized losses...Continue Reading

A Binance executive said the cryptocurrency exchange plans to delist stablecoin in the European market by June 2024 in order to comply with standards laid out by MiCA. An executive at the cryptocurrency exchange Binance said in a public hearing with the European Banking Authority (EBA) that it plans to delist stablecoins for the European...Continue Reading