Popular battle royale shooter Apex Legends has partnered with Grammy-winning musician Post Malone for an in-game event starting November 10, publisher Electronic Arts announced Thursday. The event will span “two weeks of beautiful mayhem,” according to the blog post, including a new limited-time mode called Three Strikes created specifically for the collaboration. Players will have three chances to be the…
Bitcoin last night was closing in on $36,000 per coin—the first time it’s been that high in nearly 18 months. The biggest cryptocurrency by market cap has since dipped to $34,949 after briefly touching $35,878 at around 10 p.m. ET last night, according to CoinGecko. And it’s continuing to climb fast: the asset is up over 2% in the past…
Rules for crypto asset promotion that came into force in the United Kingdom on Oct. 8 have led to some confusion, judging from the low level of compliance. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) responded with additional guidance for crypto firms to help them fall into line. The FCA released “finalized non-handbook guidance” to compliance with the rules for crypto firms…
The government presented its rebuttal against Sam Bankman-Fried on Nov. 2 in response to statements made by his defense during the closing arguments a day earlier. A jury of 12 will receive final instructions in the Southern District Court of Manhattan on Nov. 2, with a verdict expected by 8:00 pm local time. The jury will receive pizza and transportation…
A trio of upcoming blockchain games—GensoKishi Online, Cursed Stone, and Sailwars—will be deployed on the Immutable zkEVM network, Immutable announced Thursday. Immutable zkEVM is a gaming-centric Ethereum scaling network built using Polygon’s zkEVM technology, and is fully compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine. Scaling networks let games and other apps handle larger volumes of transactions with lower costs than Ethereum’s…
The makers of the privacy-focused internet browser Brave are joining a litany of crypto-friendly companies jumping aboard the AI movement with the launch of Leo, a generative AI tool utilizing Anthropic’s AI model. Leo is available in the Brave Browser for desktop today, with a mobile version coming soon. According to Brave, Leo can translate, analyze, and rewrite pages, bringing…
ProShares, a U.S.-based issuer of exchange-traded funds, today announced the launch of ProShares Short Ether Strategy ETF (SETH), letting investors profit from declines in the price of Ethereum (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. SETH, which is set to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange’s (NYSE) Arca, seeks to deliver the inverse of the daily performance of…
Solana (SOL) might be this week’s biggest gainer, but gaming and metaverse tokens have also seen a steady ascent—with Decentraland’s MANA leading the charge. MANA has posted a nearly 12% gain over the past 24 hours, according to data from CoinGecko, jumping to a current price of $0.40 per token. Overall, MANA is up 16% over the last week and…
We’re thrilled to announce that Kraken now supports deposits and withdrawals of Ethereum (ETH) on zkSync Era! What is zkSync Era? zkSync Era is an Ethereum virtual machine-compatible Layer-2 rollup protocol by Matter Labs. Formerly known as zkSync 2.0, the project rebranded to zkSync Era in February, 2023. ZkSync Era employs zero knowledge (ZK) rollups to significantly improve Ethereum’s transaction…
Bitcoin (BTC) broke below $35,000 after the Nov. 2 Wall Street open as analysis warned of “overheated” derivatives. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: TradingView Bitcoin undoes post-Fed gains Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView tracked a retreating BTC price as it erased ground it reclaimed overnight. The largest cryptocurrency had hit new 18-month highs of $35,968 on Bitstamp before consolidating…
