The Russian government has cited an NFT as evidence for criminal charges against Pussy Riot relating to “hurting the religious feelings” of the people of Russia, according to a press release issued by the group on Wednesday. Artist and activist Nadya Tolokonnikova, better known as the face and voice of Russian feminist protest and performance art group Pussy Riot, has…
press release PRESS RELEASE. Volt Inu, the innovative crypto project and leading decentralized exchange (DEX) platform, announced a significant partnership with OKX, one of the top exchanges in the crypto industry, on March 27, 2023. Volt Inu’s Twitter announcement revealed that the two companies would be teaming up to leverage their respective Web3 capabilities. As part of their collaboration, Volt…
Shrapnel: The game at GDC everyone’s talking about As the annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco came to a close last week, there was one game that stood out from the rest. Shrapnel, a highly anticipated first-person shooter in the Web3 space, was the talk of the conference thanks to its stunning graphics and immersive gameplay. Select invitees got…
A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill earlier this month that seeks to bolster the federal government’s powers in fighting perceived foreign technology threats. And some in the digital assets industry are warning it could possibly spell disaster for crypto. The bill entitled the RESTRICT Act—which stands for Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications…
Solana profile picture (PFP) collection y00ts is the most prominent NFT project to date to migrate from one chain to another—and early data suggests the community of holders is supporting the move, with nearly 77% of the NFTs already migrated to Polygon since the late Monday launch. DeLabs, the Web3 startup behind both y00ts and the even more valuable DeGods…
According to two sources close to FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced co-founder, gave his father, Stanford Law professor Joseph Bankman, millions of dollars. The funds are reportedly being used to pay for legal costs. The sources said that Bankman-Fried allegedly gave “at least $10 million” from the now-defunct quantitative trading firm Alameda Research to his father. Sources Claim SBF’s Legal…
The entity reportedly uses a range of 812 different IP addresses to obscure its identity while collecting data. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/public/index.php/news/mysterious-entity-may-be-collecting-btc-users-ip-addresses-bitcoin-developer
Martin Gruenberg, chair of the United States Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, has said the FDIC plans to return roughly $4 billion in deposits connected to Signature Bank’s digital asset banking business by early April. In a March 29 hearing of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee exploring federal regulators’ responses to recent bank failures, Gruenberg said the deposits that were…
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler today said that rules for the cryptocurrency market already exist—but that the industry is still “rife with noncompliance.” The SEC boss testified at the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government Wednesday and reiterated his point that the vast majority of coins and tokens in the crypto space are securities.…
The RESTRICT Act, a bipartisan bill introduced earlier this month into the United States Senate, could be applied in broad and unexpected ways, including to threaten crypto, should it become law, think tank Coin Center warned in its blog. The bill, formally known as the ‘‘Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology Act,’’ and informally…
