The Ethereum network continues to see the largest number of monthly-active contributors at around 2,000 as of July. Despite crypto market turbulence, active contributors across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana’s top projects have increased by an average of 71.6% per year since January 2018, according to a new report. The findings come from an August 2 report...Continue Reading

A shortage of mental health services in the future could be solved with a Web3-powered mental health support network, suggests academics. Decentralized mental health services could be the answer to the looming shortage of mental health professionals, according to professors from John Hopkins University based in Baltimore. Speaking to Cointelegraph, Dr. Johannes Thrul from the...Continue Reading

The crypto contagion only hurt entities that poorly managed their treasuries, but didn’t affect the underlying blockchain technology, he said. The crypto contagion sparked by Terra’s infamous implosion this year only spread to companies and protocols with “poor balance sheet management” and not the underlying blockchain technology, says Kraken Australia’s managing director Jonathon Miller. Speaking...Continue Reading

NFT marketplace Magic Eden noted that it “seems to be a widespread SOL exploit at play” and called on users to revoke permissions for any suspicious links in their Phantom wallets. A security vulnerability impacting the Solana ecosystem has reportedly seen millions in funds drained across a number of Solana-based wallets. At the time of...Continue Reading

The academic textbook publisher hopes to capture a portion of secondary market sales on digital textbook sales by assigning an NFT to each title. Textbook publisher Pearson has revealed its plans to use non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to keep track of digital textbook sales and effectively “diminish the secondary market” for its digital textbooks.  According to...Continue Reading

The online retail broker blamed the economy for a decline in user numbers and net revenue that fell 44% year-on-year, although revenue from crypto rose moderately this quarter. Online brokerage firm Robinhood will lay off nearly a quarter of its employees, citing a continued deterioration of the macro environment and a broad crypto market crash. ...Continue Reading

Gucci has ramped up its Web3 initiatives by allowing crypto nerds to purchase its products with ApeCoin in its stores, adding to a list of 12 other digital assets it accepts for payment. Italian high-end fashion giant Gucci has become the first major brand to accept payments in the Bored Ape Yacht Club affiliated ApeCoin...Continue Reading

A sharp fall in the cryptocurrency’s price in May and June appears to have coincided with the increase in wallet addresses holding more than one Bitcoin. Smaller Bitcoin (BTC) investors have found a unique opportunity during the crypto slump to snap up their favorite cryptocurrency. The number of “wholecoiners” has surged by 40,000 since the...Continue Reading

The soon-to-be former CEO said splitting the roles of MicroStrategy’s chief executive officer and chair would help the firm pursue its strategy of “acquiring and holding Bitcoin.” Bitcoin maximalist Michael Saylor has announced that he will step down as the chief executive officer of MicroStrategy, the business intelligence firm he helped co-found in 1989. In...Continue Reading

The mining firm said it aims to have a hashing capacity of 28 MW at the Alabama facility by the fourth quarter, and 55 MW by the second quarter of 2023. Digihost, a United States-based cryptocurrency mining company, has announced plans to move part of its fleet from New York to Alabama in an effort...Continue Reading