Coinbase says it plans to shut down its standalone, trader-focused Pro service by the end of 2022 and replace it with Advanced Trade in the main app and site Techmeme · 1 week ago
Celsius's token CEL fell 70% in one hour after the DeFi lending giant suspended withdrawals, now at about 20 cents amid a broader crypto market slump Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
South Korean crypto exchanges Bithumb and Upbit plan to delist Litecoin, saying the token's new privacy features violate the country's anti-money laundering law Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Ethereum's proof-of-stake Merge upgrade goes live on Ropsten, Ethereum's oldest testnet for blockchain development testing before deployment on the mainnet Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
The Solana blockchain was down for about four hours on Wednesday after a bug blocked consensus; network validators disabled the feature to restart the network Techmeme · 1 month ago
As Terra blockchain reboots, freshly minted new LUNA tokens started trading on a number of exchanges and swiftly plummeted about 70% from the opening price Techmeme · 1 month ago
Binance, FTX, Crypto.com, Bitfinex, and other exchanges have pledged support for Do Kwon's Terra 2.0, set to launch on Friday by airdropping tokens Techmeme · 1 month ago
DeFi-focused startup Common raises $20M from Spark Capital, Polychain, Jump, Wintermute, and others for Commonwealth, its community management platform for DAOs Techmeme · 1 month ago
Zora, which offers an open-source NFT marketplace protocol, raises a $50M seed at a $600M valuation led by Katie Haun's new fund Techmeme · 2 months ago
Dune: OpenSea set a daily trading record of $476M+ in Ethereum after Yuga Labs' Otherside metaverse launch; the previous record was nearly $323M in August 2021 Techmeme · 2 months ago
An anonymous crypto trader seems to have bought $400K of tokens that were later listed on Coinbase, before the list was public; the tokens are now worth $572K+ Techmeme · 3 months ago
OpenSea adds Solana NFT trading support in beta; a marketplace search shows 865K NFTs minted on Solana Techmeme · 3 months ago
Hivemapper, which wants to build a decentralized digital mapping network on Solana, raises an $18M Series A led by Multicoin Capital Techmeme · 3 months ago
Third-party vendor HubSpot says it was hacked, leading to customer data breach notifications at Circle, BlockFi, Pantera Capital, NYDIG, and other crypto firms Techmeme · 3 months ago
Bored Ape Yacht Club's $APE token hit a peak of $39.40 per token during its airdrop, but later sank as low as $7.50 Techmeme · 4 months ago
The SEC charges two siblings with defrauding investors out of $124M through their Ormeus Coin offering, alleging they acted as "modern-day snake-oil salesmen" Techmeme · 4 months ago
Coinbase says it has blocked 25K+ addresses related to Russian entities believed to be engaged in illicit activity and shares them with the US government Techmeme · 4 months ago
FTX announces Future Fund, planning to invest between $100M and $1B in 2022 in projects that "improve humanity's long-term prospects", like safer AI development Techmeme · 4 months ago
DOJ indicts BitConnect founder Satish Kumbhani, who remains at large, alleging he and his co-conspirators obtained ~$2.4B from investors in a Ponzi scheme Techmeme · 4 months ago
Coinbase partners with Remitly on a pilot to let people in Mexico receive and convert crypto transfers into pesos at 37K+ stores, for free until April Techmeme · 5 months ago
Crypto infrastructure company Alchemy raises a $200M Series C extension from Lightspeed and Silver Lake at a $10.2B valuation, up from $3.5B in October 2021 Techmeme · 5 months ago
Coinbase adds Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke to its board, citing Lütke's early support for crypto Techmeme · 5 months ago
NFT marketplace LooksRare, which launched on Jan. 10, had $9.5B+ in trading volume, $8.3B+ of which seems to be users "wash trading" between their own wallets Techmeme · 5 months ago
Crypto.com says its breach affected 483 users, resulting in unauthorized withdrawals of ~$33.84M in cryptocurrencies and cash but says users were reimbursed Techmeme · 5 months ago
The Metaplex Foundation, developer of an NFT protocol behind 5.7M+ minted Solana NFTs, raises $46M with Michael Jordan and Allen Iverson among 90+ investors Techmeme · 6 months ago
Coinbase partners with Mastercard to let users pay with a credit card in its upcoming NFT marketplace, solve "pain points", and classify NFTs as "digital goods" Techmeme · 6 months ago
Overview of El Salvador's official yet controversial adoption of bitcoin in 2021, as many citizens have reportedly seen bitcoin vanish from their Chivo wallets Techmeme · 6 months ago
OpenDAO airdrops SOS token for users of OpenSea's NFT marketplace; the token, unaffiliated with OpenSea, is up ~10x in two days as watchers debate its prospects Techmeme · 6 months ago
As Bakkt stock drops from $50 to ~$9 three months after its SPAC merger, president and founding executive Adam White says he is leaving the company next week Techmeme · 6 months ago
Render Network, a P2P network that offers remote rendering power for 3D visuals, raises $30M led by Multicoin Capital, bringing its total raised to $50M Techmeme · 6 months ago
Ubisoft will add NFT items into its games, starting with Ghost Recon Breakpoint on the Tezos blockchain, becoming the first major gaming company to do so Techmeme · 7 months ago
Profile of eGirl Capital, a VC firm run by 12 anonymous cartoon characters and two "doxxed" individuals, that has so far invested up to $10M in crypto projects Techmeme · 7 months ago
Royal, which wants to help musicians create and sell NFTs, share royalties with fans, and more, raises $55M, following a $16M seed in August Techmeme · 7 months ago
Singapore-based crypto trading platform AscendEX raises a $50M Series B co-led by Polychain Capital and Hack VC, at a $455M valuation Techmeme · 8 months ago
The Associated Press partners with crypto company Chainlink to authenticate data about elections, sports, and more via its blockchain Techmeme · 8 months ago
Solana has been suffering a network outage for around 4 hours, which its engineers say is caused by "network exhaustion"; validators can "restart if necessary" Techmeme · 10 months ago
UK's Post Office signs a deal with decentralized exchange Swarm Markets to let users of its app buy vouchers that can be redeemed for cryptocurrencies Techmeme · 10 months ago
Mastercard acquires CipherTrace, which offers a crypto-focused analytics service that specializes in anti-money laundering and forensics Techmeme · 10 months ago
El Salvador's plan to make Bitcoin legal tender has been unpopular, with protests over concerns of money laundering, forcing trade in BTC, unconstitutionality Techmeme · 10 months ago
Jack Dorsey and Mike Brock say Square's TBD is building a Bitcoin-centric decentralized exchange for digital assets Techmeme · 10 months ago
Latest compromise amendment to the infrastructure bill's cryptocurrency clause fails to reach a vote after Sen. Shelby files an objection over military spending Techmeme · 11 months ago
US Marshals Service has given a $6.6M+ contract to crypto startup Anchorage to manage seized crypto assets; BitGo had won a similar $4.5M contract in April Techmeme · 11 months ago
Binance is halting operations for its stock tokens offering, which launched in April and let users buy and sell tokenized stocks of popular stocks like Tesla Techmeme · 12 months ago
A US District Court judge ruled in favor of Ripple to allow deposition of former SEC official William Hinman, who in 2018 said Ethereum is not a security Techmeme · 12 months ago
E-sports collective FaZe Clan denies that it participated in the alleged pump-and-dump of Save the Kids coin, drops and suspends players who promoted the coin Techmeme · 12 months ago
Investigation: Strike, El Salvador's digital crypto wallet partner, is only licensed in one US state, potentially making transfers to El Salvador illegal Techmeme · 1 year ago
Two major Chinese banks now allow customers to exchange digital yuan for fiat at 3,000+ ATMs in Beijing, in an expansion of China's digital currency experiment Techmeme · 1 year ago
Thai SEC orders exchanges to delist NFTs and meme coins, defined as those with "no objective or underlying value" whose price relies on social media trends Techmeme · 1 year ago
PayPal to add third-party wallet transfer support, allowing users to send Bitcoin to PayPal and Venmo users as well as to Coinbase and outside crypto wallets Techmeme · 1 year ago