Crypto game publisher and metaverse investor Animoca Brands announced Tuesday that it has agreed to a collaboration with Ethereum scaling protocol LightLink to integrate gasless transactions into Animoca’s games. LightLink is a layer-2 scaling network built on Ethereum that allows creators of decentralized applications (dapps)
German authorities, bolstered by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations, have recovered 50,000 BTC, worth around $2.1 billion, in a sweep of piracy websites, the lead agency said on Tuesday. Described as the largest seizure of its kind in Germany, the Bitcoin was confiscated from
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) giving investors exposure to Ethereum (ETH) will be approved in May, British multinational bank Standard Chartered has projected. In a Tuesday report, the bank said that it was likely that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission would give spot ETH ETFs the
El Salvador ‘s government loves Bitcoin, but Salvadorans? Not so much. The openly Bitcoin-friendly nation saw a sharp decline in cryptocurrency payments in 2023, despite Bitcoin’s price surge and significant governmental promotion efforts. According to the Central Bank of El Salvador, the amount of money
Months in the making, Solana decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator Jupiter is set to launch its JUP token airdrop on Wednesday, January 31. Nearly a million Solana wallets are eligible, and the token launch will likely be the largest in 2024. Are you ready? The long
SkyArk Chronicles, an anime-style fantasy game, just held a huge NFT mint with eager collectors pledging $115 million worth of Ethereum for a chance to claim one of its character assets. But now Binance Labs says that its investment in the studio behind the game
An Australian and two Americans have been charged with orchestrating a $1.9 billion cryptocurrency scam based around a purported DeFi platform, HyperFund, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Monday. The DOJ accused Australian citizen Sam Lee of co-founding HyperFund and Rodney Burton and Brenda
A computer chip developed by Neuralink has been implanted in its first human test subject, according to company co-founder and owner Elon Musk, marking a milestone in the cutting-edge field of Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) research. “The first human received an implant from Neuralink yesterday and
Bitcoin gained 3% overnight as markets look ahead to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s interest rate announcement on Wednesday. The hope is that the U.S. Federal Reserve will leave interest rates unchanged, but that comments from Fed Chairman Jerome Powell will hint at lowering interest rates
Meme coin Floki Inu has blocked users in Hong Kong from accessing its Floki and TokenFi staking programs, after the local regulator flagged them as “suspicious investment products.” In a blog post, the Floki Inu team announced that it had taken “practical measures” to block