Binance will delist privacy coin Monero (XMR) along with a handful of other assets on February 20, the company said in a blog post Tuesday morning. The XMR price dropped 17% on the news and is currently trading for $138.00, according to CoinGecko data. With a market capitalization of $2.6 billion, it’s easily the largest asset among the others being…
Mainstream media reports might tell you that NFTs are dead, but the holder of a CryptoPunks NFT said he wanted to prove them wrong—by taking out a seven-figure loan on one of the rarest assets in the prominent profile picture (PFP) collection. “Here we are, four or five months removed from an article in Rolling Stone saying that NFTs are…
The tech world—and a smattering of the mainstream—is smitten with the Apple Vision Pro. The pricey device is pitched as “spatial computing,” creating a whole new paradigm of interacting with information and media. Just not porn. Which, arguably, is one of the first things any new technology is inevitably pointed at. Given Apple’s established prudishness, it’s unlikely there’ll be an…
Despite weathering an historic storm of collapses and scandals, the gaming and Web3 industries didn’t stop building. To continue that trajectory, attendees at the SEG3 conference in Los Angeles agreed that ownership rights and the resulting revenue are important. Less clear, however, was whether blockchain technology has a role to play. SEG3, coming to California after two years in Europe,…
Why Gmoney Took Out a $1 Million Loan on a CryptoPunks NFT Pseudonymous NFT collector and entrepreneur Gmoney joined Rug Radio’s live “FOMO Hour” show to discuss why he took out a $1 million loan on one of the most recognizable CryptoPunks NFTs around. Source: https://decrypt.co/videos/interviews/mIE20tcG/why-gmoney-took-out-a-1-million-loan-on-a-cryptopunks-nft
Ethereum Name Service (ENS) domains are different from traditional Domain Name System (DNS) website domains. ENS domains can be assigned to an Ethereum wallet to ease the hassle of sending funds and assets, as they’re much easlier to remember than a typical alphanumeric wallet address. But typical web browsers can’t do much with them. The two are getting closer together,…
A U.S. judge has demanded Ripple Labs hand over historical financial statements, fulfilling a request that the Securities and Exchange Commission made many years ago, court documents show. In a Monday filing, Judge Sarah Netburn sided with the SEC and ordered Ripple to produce its records from 2022-2023. Ripple will also have to answer questions about the amount of XRP…
For an overpriced, niche device, the amount of attention the Apple Vision Pro is getting is objectively remarkable. As loudly as critics claim there are no real-world use cases for the VR headset that’s not a VR headset, announced last June and delivered to customers beginning Friday, dozens of committed early adopters are coming up with new use cases every…
Decentralized social media protocol Farcaster is crypto’s latest obsession—and unlike other blockchain-backed social networks that have come and gone, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin seems to think this one can go the distance. In response to a Twitter post early Monday about the failures of Friend.tech, another decentralized social app that quickly lost steam after a rapid rise in attention, Buterin…
Solana Labs publicly launched its GameShift tool suite today, making it easier for game developers to integrate functionality from the Solana blockchain. And the public version of the tools, following a beta rollout last October, includes a Tensor integration for in-game NFT marketplaces. Tensor and Solana Labs launched the full version of GameShift with the news that the full public version…
