What the Ethereum Merge Means for Ordinary Users—And What It Doesn’t
In brief Ethereum's long-awaited move to proof of stake—dubbed "the merge"—is finally happening. A lot is going to change. But...
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How the Ethereum Merge Ends the Environmental Debate About NFTs
In brief NFTs have been widely criticized for their environmental impact, given the energy requirements of top NFT network Ethereum....
Terra Falls Back Down to Earth: LUNA Sinks 38% From Recent High
In brief The price of Terra’s LUNA has fallen 38% since last Friday’s sudden surge. LUNA Classic (LUNC) has also...
The Ethereum Merge Matters for Everyone in Crypto
After years and years of delays, the Ethereum merge is upon us. The event formerly known as Ethereum 2.0, when...
Why DeFi Speculators Are Borrowing Ethereum as Merge Looms
Decrypting DeFi is Decrypt's DeFi email newsletter. (art: Grant Kempster) With Ethereum’s merge event just days away, the entire industry...
Warren, Sanders and Other Senators Demand Meta Do More to Combat Crypto Scams
As Facebook parent company Meta continues to build out its new metaverse venture, several U.S. Senators have asked CEO Mark...
Queen Elizabeth II Ethereum NFT Tribute Project Holds Final Auction
In brief QueenE, an Ethereum-based NFT project, is holding its final Gen1 artwork auction following the death of England’s Queen...
Tether’s Lead Over USDC Hits $16B as Binance Moves to Limit Stablecoin Competitors
For a while there, it looked like Circle’s USDC stablecoin was within range to overtake Tether, its biggest competitor. Starting...
Ethereum Devs Dismiss Early Hiccups as Bellatrix Kicks Off the Merge
Ethereum core developers kicked off the network’s long-awaited merge early Tuesday morning by initiating one last major upgrade before the...
Trezor and Wasabi Join Forces To Make Bitcoin More Private
Trezor, the company behind one of the most popular crypto wallets, has teamed up with privacy project Wasabi to bring...
KlimaDAO Engages Tusk Strategies to Push Congress to Write DAOs Into Law
The KlimaDAO announced Friday that it is collaborating with politicians to provide a legal framework for DAOs in the Lummis-Gillibrand...
Forget About DeFi Summer: NFT Autumn is Arriving
While we’ve all heard the well-trod mantra that “bear markets are for builders,” until very recently, it felt like hardly...
Cardano Vasil Hard Fork Gets a Hard Date
Developers at Input Output and the Cardano Foundation today announced that Cardano’s Vasil hard fork will occur on September 22,...
The Ethereum Merge Is Almost Here. What Could Go Wrong?
It’s been awaited for half a decade, delayed for years, praised, condemned, tweaked, and so its developers say, perfected. Ready...
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Spikes as Profitability Drops for Mining Companies
Bitcoin is becoming harder to mine. The mining difficulty for the world’s biggest cryptocurrency’s jumped by 9.26% over the last...
Billions are spent marketing crypto to sports fans — Is it worth it? – Cointelegraph Magazine
Crypto advertising has been plastered across every available sporting surface since the bull run of 2021, from stadium naming deals...
CME Adds Euro-Denominated Ethereum Futures as Merge Approaches
CME Group today launched euro-dominated Bitcoin and Ethereum futures on its derivatives marketplace. The new product will complement the dollar-denominated...
This Week on Crypto Twitter: Did Israeli Regulators Know How Insolvent Celsius Was? And Did Bitboy Really Let Atozy Off the Hook?
Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt It was an underwhelming week; the prices of all leading cryptocurrencies went down over...
From Silk Road to Buying ETH: How Musician Tycho Went Crypto
From Silk Road to Buying ETH: How Musician Tycho Went CryptoScott Hansen aka Tycho, the musician, producer, and songwriter, tells...
Loot, One Year Later: The NFT Hype Is Dead—But ‘Lootverse’ Hope Lives On
It started with a tweet. Dom Hofmann, well known in tech circles as the creator of video app Vine, had...
FTX CEO Calls Alameda VC Merger Report a ‘Big Misrepresentation’
Crypto billionaire Sam Bankman Fried is disputing reports that two of his companies — FTX and Alameda Research — are...
Professor Republishes Tornado Cash Code Following GitHub Takedown
A cryptography professor at John Hopkins University has posted an “archival fork” of Tornado Cash’s source code to GitHub. The...
