It’s been an eventful week since Coinbase launched its new layer-2 network Base to the public, bringing with it a frenzy of activity from everyday crypto users, major brands, and more unfortunately, some bad actors as well. Coinbases’ Onchain Summer festival — a three-week-long campaign celebrating the launch of Base — has seemingly attracted a flock of new users to…
Bitcoin is now the most valuable it’s ever been in Argentina following a crypto-friendly libertarian’s unlikely win in the country’s presidential primaries on Sunday. Assets dropped in value and the Argentine peso (ARS) dipped, meanwhile, after anti-establishment candidate Javier Milei grabbed the top spot in the South American nation’s election and spooked investors. But Bitcoin has held steady and, due…
El Salvadorian school kids as young as 12 years old are being orange-pilled — taught to send their first Bitcoin (BTC) transaction by visiting members of El Salvador’s Bitcoin Beach. Bitcoin Beach community leader Roman Martínez told Cointelegraph that he believes early-age education on Bitcoin, money and the economy may lay out a framework for many of the underprivileged kids…
Apex Legends Voice Actor on AI’s Impact on Video Games Ben Prendergast is an actor who has voiced characters like Apex Legends’ Fuse, God of War Ragnarok’s Tyr, and Patroclus in Hades. But as debates swirl around the use of artificial intelligence in entertainment in light of the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, Prendergast gives Decrypt’s Kate Irwin his honest take…
The threat of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has ground much of Hollywood to a halt in recent weeks, but veteran voice actor Ben Prendergast doesn’t believe that AI has much of a future when it comes to replacing talent. “I think it’s the whole reason SAG-AFTRA and the Writer’s Guild are striking right now,” Prendergast told Decrypt in an interview. …
Ripple Labs has voiced its opposition towards the United States securities regulator’s move towards filing an interlocutory appeal relating to the summary judgment laid down by U.S. District Court Analisa Torres on Jul. 13. In an Aug. 16 letter to Torres of the Southern District of New York, Ripple’s lawyers explained that because the Securities and Exchange Commission failed to satisfy…
Fresh off of his pop culture resurgence via purple shakes that launched an inescapable TikTok trend, fast food icon Grimace will next enter the NFT world via a McDonald’s giveaway in Singapore—and the cartoonish profile pictures (PFPs) can’t be traded once minted. Beginning August 21, the regional arm of the restaurant chain will offer up 2,000 total NFT collectibles featuring…
Size and energy allowed Kraken to stay in Canada after the imposition of new registration requirements for crypto exchanges in February. But in spite of the demanding process, the regulatory clarity has benefited the company, Kraken managing director for Canada Mark Greenberg said. Speaking to Cointelegraph’s Sam Bourgi at the Blockchain Futurist Conference in Toronto, Greenberg had positive things to…
Canadian financial institutions are increasingly taking an interest in crypto as regulatory clarity emerges in the country, according to WonderFi CEO Dean Skurka, who met up with Cointelegraph at the Blockchain Futurist conference in Toronto. Skurka claimed that his exchange has seen an uptick in trading by institutions as opposed to retail investors. “What we have seen in the first…
Shiba Inu launched the Shibarium mainnet, an Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution, on Aug. 16 after months of testing that saw millions of users participate and 21 million wallets created. Shibarium is built on a new consensus mechanism called proof-of-participation (PoP), which works by selecting validators in proportion to their quantity of holdings in the associated cryptocurrency. This is done to…
