A new one-minute spot from Coinbase features an animated former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on a penny pleading to be converted into digital form. Moving the United States dollar to a “well-designed blockchain” could make billions of “clunky” pennies in the country useful again, according to a new ad campaign from crypto exchange Coinbase. The...Continue Reading

DN404, another experimental hybrid token and NFT standard was launched by a group of developers that claim they’ve fixed the inefficiencies of ERC-404. Only a week after the launch of ERC-404 — an unofficial Ethereum standard created to blend the functions of fungible and nonfungible tokens (NFTs) — another team of developers claims to have...Continue Reading

Bitcoin last traded above $50,000 in December 2021 — more than two years ago. The crypto market looks very different this time around. Bitcoin (BTC)’s surge to $50,000 on Monday comes at a time of souped-up institutional demand, a possible pivot in interest rates, and incoming scarcity from the Bitcoin halving — a stark contrast...Continue Reading

Binance’s former CEO, who faces up to 18 months in prison over money laundering charges, was originally due to be sentenced on Feb. 23. The criminal sentencing for the founder and former CEO of Binance, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao has been pushed back to April 30.  According to a Feb. 12 notice filed in a Seattle...Continue Reading