A United States District Court judge has called Ether (ETH) a commodity in her dismissal of a class action lawsuit against the decentralized exchange Uniswap. In an Aug. 30 dismissal order of the case brought […]
ARK Invest and 21Shares have been the latest prominent players to apply for an Ethereum futures exchange-traded fund (ETF). The application was co-filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on August 24, 2023. Will […]
Crypto’s newest decentralized social media (DeSo) app friend.tech has been met with intense criticism over a decision to punish users who opt in to forks or copycat versions of its tokenized social media platform. “To […]
The parent company of subscription platform OnlyFans has become the latest firm to reveal its cryptocurrency holdings, showing it invested nearly $20 million into Ether (ETH) in 2022. According to an Aug. 24 financial filing […]
Ethereum automated market maker and decentralized finance protocol Balancer warned that $2.8 million, or 0.42% of its total value locked (TVL), remains at risk following the discovery of a vulnerability on Aug. 22. According to […]
Developers behind the Base and Optimism networks have jointly announced a revenue-sharing and governance-sharing agreement. Coinbase, the parent company of Base, has also published a list of “principles of neutrality” it will follow to prevent […]
Ethereum is launching an Ethereum OS smartphone. Ethereum fans can preorder the smartphone by minting certain NFTs. The smartphone will make Ethereum, the largest smart contracts platform, even more decentralized, transparent and censorship-resistant. Customers in […]
Unstoppable Domains (UD) has launched an instant messaging system for owners of Web3 usernames, according to an Aug. 23 announcement from principal engineer Aaron Quirk. Owners of .crypto, .wallet, .polygon or other UD-registered usernames can […]
The Stellar Development Foundation has joined the Bytecode Alliance, an industry group promoting the development of WebAssembly (Wasm), according to an Aug. 21 announcement from the foundation’s product lead, Tomer Weller. Wasm is a competitor […]
Although a clear regulatory framework for digital assets has yet to be established in the United States, PayPal — one of America’s largest financial technology companies — announced on Aug. 7 its U.S. dollar-pegged payment […]