• Sep 09, 2024

Binance Now Shows When Token Unlocks Are Hitting the Market

Binance has integrated token unlocking and vesting data into its platform in a team-up with price resource CoinMarketCap, in a move that could change the way everyday crypto traders evaluate tokens on the world’s top cryptocurrency exchange by volume. Binance acquired CoinMarketCap in April 2020, although the two entities have operated independently. Token vesting is the process of gradually distributing, or unlocking, a virtual token for stakeholders such as investors and creators over a predet...

• Sep 09, 2024

Another Solo Bitcoin Miner Wins Block, Nabs $180,000 Reward

An unknown, standalone Bitcoin miner scored $180,000 on Tuesday, defeating overwhelming odds to mine one of Bitcoin’s latest blocks. According to mempool.space, block 860749 was mined by Solo CK—a unique mining pool that doesn’t split mining rewards between its participants. That means one miner won a full 3.169 BTC (worth about $181,000 as of writing) for their efforts, inclusive of Bitcoin’s full block subsidy and the block’s transaction fees. ANOTHER solo miner mining a #Bitcoin block and cl...

• Sep 09, 2024

Democrat Maxine Waters Calls Out Trump Crypto Project in House DeFi Hearing

Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) upheld World Liberty Financial, an upcoming crypto lending platform promoted by Donald Trump and his sons, as an example of heightened risks that consumers face when engaging in decentralized finance (DeFi) on Capitol Hill Tuesday. Last week, Twitter (aka X) accounts belonging to Tiffany Trump (Donald's daughter) and Republican National Committee Chairwoman Lara Trump (Donald’s daughter-in-law) were hacked. Under the control of bad actors, their acco...

• Sep 09, 2024

Ethereum Mech Shooter 'MetalCore' Launching Open Beta on Epic Games Store

Mech shooter MetalCore is set to enter open beta on the Epic Games Store on September 12 with its first in-game season of content, “MetalPunk Rhapsody.” This milestone will see the Ethereum-based game, which is built on layer-2 scaling network Immutable zkEVM, upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 with a handful of new features added. The shooter, which gave off a Titanfall-meets-Destiny vibe when we first played a preview build last year, has spent the last six months in various closed beta phases. Studi...

• Sep 09, 2024

PayPal and Venmo Users Can Now Send Crypto Payment With ENS Names

U.S. payment processors PayPal and Venmo have added support for Ethereum Name Service, meaning that people can send crypto payments to ENS usernames, according to a press release from ENS Labs. The new integration simplifies wallet address management and reduces the risk of errors, the companies said in a statement. The feature, available initially for U.S. users, will simplify how users interact with crypto on these platforms. Previously, users had to input long wallet addresses manually or sca...

• Sep 09, 2024

Dappslap Lets You Create Dapps in “Just a Click” With AI Prompts

A new token launchpad on Solana will enable users to create decentralized applications (dapps) using just an AI prompt. Launching on September 10, dappslap is a “marketplace for ideas,” founder Troy Murray told Decrypt. https://t.co/T2WrkqD46o is live. Launch a dApp with one click. Currently live on @solana. $SOL pic.twitter.com/ZYDuokwfLk — dappslap.ai (@dappslap) September 5, 2024 Users can quickly launch a dapp using an AI prompt, and if the dapp escapes a bonding curve, the prompt gets put...

• Sep 09, 2024

Monero Expert Fact Checks Chainalysis Video Claiming XMR Transactions Can Be Traced

A Monero committee member has refuted recent allegations based on a leaked Chainalysis presentation to the IRS that implies the privacy-focused cryptocurrency can be traced. Monero (XMR) is the world’s most popular privacy coin and is specifically built to hide the addresses and transactions of those on its network. Privacy coins have become popular for use cases that require a high degree of anonymity. And while there are lots of legal reasons someone may want financial anonymity, law enforceme...

• Sep 09, 2024

AI, Robotics Advances Will Bring ‘Crisis of Meaning’, Elon Musk Says

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he sees a future where humans will have to figure out new ways to give their lives purpose, thanks to advancements in artificial intelligence and robotics. During a panel discussion at the 2024 All-In Summit hosted by the All-In Podcast on Monday, Musk echoed comments he made during a fireside chat at the AI Safety Summit in Bletchley Park in England last year. He said he foresees a future where a human workforce is a thing of the past. “I think the actual issue, the mos...

• Sep 09, 2024

Elon Musk-Themed Telegram Game ‘X Empire’ Opens Pre-Market Trading Ahead of Airdrop

X Empire, a rising Telegram tap-to-earn game, is following the Notcoin playbook, launching pre-market trading Tuesday through the use of custom NFT vouchers ahead of the upcoming token launch and airdrop. While fellow Telegram games like Hamster Kombat and Catizen have rolled out pre-market trading through established exchanges, X Empire (originally Musk Empire) is instead letting players redeem an early share of their airdrop allotment by minting an NFT. Those NFTs, minted on The Open Network (...

• Sep 09, 2024

What Is Fractal? What You Need to Know About the Buzzy Bitcoin Scaler

A hot and highly anticipated Bitcoin scaling network went live this week, although its code is almost indistinguishable from Bitcoin’s own layer-1 blockchain. What gives? On Sunday, Fractal Bitcoin announced the mainnet launch of its Bitcoin sidechain network. As a tribute, Fractal included in its genesis block the same message embedded in Bitcoin’s first block concerning bank bailouts—attributed to pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto. Despite a rocky start concerning some of its block mining...