- The two partners say using zero-knowledge proofs will allow Bitcoin nodes to sync quickly from anywhere on earth, “even without Internet.”
- Thousands of NFT holders joined the gamified experience last weekend, showing glimpses of what’s to come from the virtual world launching later this year.
- Hugh Gallagher intends to retire effective May 12.
- Mask Network’s MASK token surged over 68%, becoming the top-performing token for the month. XRP rose 41%.
- The surge follows Binance’s decision a week ago to eliminate the zero-fee trading discount on the platform except for the BTC-TUSD pair.
- Trader Joe will launch a tech upgrade and new liquidity features next week.
- A proposed governance shakeup would greatly reduce the amount of voting power accumulated by core contributors, investors and other insiders.
- Cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex will shut down its U.S. platform on April 30 after nine years of operation, the company announced on Friday.
- Tax experts weigh in on how the IRS will decide if NFTs are collectibles.
- The European arm had only been in operation for about 8 months prior to the collapse of parent FTX.
- Synthetix generated more than $730K in fees on March 30 ahead of the start of its allocation of 200,000 OP tokens to traders.
- In the absence of formal crypto rules from U.S. government agencies, the National Futures Association (NFA) is setting up standards for its members that deal in digital assets commodities.
- Expecting centralized money services to halt crime only helps politicize money and disempower users.
- Assets under management for digital-asset products climbed to $13.4 billion in March, up 60% from their 2022 low in November, according to CryptoCompare.
- Disney reportedly lays off its metaverse team, and the U.K. Treasury cancels its NFT plans, but on the bright side, NFTs for tickets are having a moment.
- The conference has been running since 2018 but topics and speakers for this year's TABConf event will be chosen partly based on proposals from the general public via GitHub.
- With crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN) last week receiving a Wells Notice signaling impending action from the SEC, and with the CFTC this week suing Binance, another crypto exchange, it feels like the crypto industry is at war with the U.S. government. This could get bad.
- The U.S. sold 9,861.17 bitcoin ($216 million) on March 14, according to a court filing.
- In an interview ahead of Consensus the mononymed podcaster discusses how he built the foundation to collaboratively build a Web3 media empire.
- The NFT artist spoke to CoinDesk about his "disruptive" creative agency Gasoline and how he is using NFTs to push the boundaries of art and culture.