Coinbase Must Face Shareholder Lawsuit Over Regulator Risk Concerns, Judge Rules
A United States district judge granted in part and denied in part Coinbase's motion to dismiss the class action complaint.
Sam Altman-Backed Exowatt Bets Big on Data Center Batteries
Exowatt, a Sam Altman-backed startup, has announced plans to help the data center industry deal with its enormous energy usage using a new approach to solar power. The news comes after the Miami-based start-up raised a $20 million seed round led by venture capital firms a16 and Atomic, as well as Open AI CEO Altman, in April. The Miami-based company uses what is called a “modular system” to generate, store, and dispatch clean energy. The announcement comes as data center electricity usage is on...
Here’s Who Is Eligible for the ‘Catizen’ Telegram Game Airdrop on TON
Popular Telegram game Catizen is set to launch its CATI token on The Open Network next week, on September 20, and the airdrop should take place at or around the same time. On Tuesday, developer Pluto Studio shared which players will be eligible for a share of tokens. And out of the approximately 35.8 million players who have tried Catizen, based on in-game data, it appears that less than half are currently making the cutoff. That’s because only players who have earned enough in-game vKitty coins...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...