Decentralized Finance Protocol Coin98 Unveils Native Stablecoin CUSD
DeFi platforms race to craft their own stablecoins to attract users and boost growth, including Curve and Aave.
Month: September 2022
Twitch to ban Stake.com streams and other unlicensed gambling content
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As the conversation concerning Twitch and the platform’s allowance of gambling streams continues to swirl, the platform has struck its first blow. In a tweet on Tuesday evening, Twitch stated that it will ban “streaming of gambling sites that include slots, roulette, or dice games” in a policy … Read more
Crypto Needs ‘Global Regulatory Framework,’ IMF Says
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called on financial regulators around the world to come together to develop a “global regulatory framework” for crypto assets.
Configure a custom Amazon S3 query output location and data retention policy for Amazon Athena data sources in Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time that it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes in Amazon SageMaker Studio, the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for ML. With Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process of data preparation and feature engineering, and complete each step of … Read more
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Daily Crunch: Revolut advises users to take caution after hacker breach triggers phishing campaign
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hey there, you deep-fried morsels of delight. Deep fried, because that’s the thing that made you crunchy. No? Because this is the Daily Crunch? The TechCrunch team got so competitive in this … Read more
Hearing: Alternative payments’ threat to national security goes far beyond crypto
Crypto is just the tip of the iceberg, experts tell a U.S. House Financial Service subcommittee in testimony on payment systems and national security.
Crypto Exchanges Binance and FTX Have Both Bid Roughly $50M for Voyager’s Assets: Report
Binance’s current bid is slightly higher than FTX’s, according to sources who spoke to the Wall Street Journal.
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Crypto and stocks soften ahead of Fed rate hike, but XRP, ALGO and LDO look ‘interesting’
Crypto and stock markets continue to correct, but that doesn’t mean all the investment opportunities are gone.
PG&E says Tesla battery was source of power storage site fire
In the early hours on Monday, a Tesla Megapack battery caught fire at a key California power storage facility, the state’s largest utility said in a statement to TechCrunch. According to PG&E, the utility “became aware of a fire in one Tesla Megapack at its Elkhorn Battery Storage facility” at around 1:30 AM in Moss … Read more
OpenSea to allow creators to host token sales directly through its homepage
The marketplace intends to prioritize storytelling by allowing NFT creators to design customizable drop pages, share images, videos and more.
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What Cardano’s Highly Anticipated Vasil Hard Fork Will Bring
Vasil delivers an updated version of Cardano’s smart contract scripting language: Plutus v2.
Overwatch 2 loses lead hero designer just before sequel launches
Image: Blizzard Overwatch 2 lead hero designer Geoff Goodman has left Blizzard. First reported by PC Gamer, the long-time Blizzard employee decided to leave the company “earlier this year,” according to a statement from Blizzard to The Verge. Blizzard’s full response reads: “We thank Geoff for his many years of service at Blizzard and wish … Read more
Razer releases cheaper, more compact Leviathan V2 X PC soundbar
Razer’s Leviathan V2 X PC soundbar. | Image: Razer Razer’s new Leviathan V2 X PC soundbar is a smaller, stripped-down version of its full-featured sibling that Razer released earlier this year. The 15.7-inch soundbar comes at a cheaper $99.99 price point but still offers a decent amount of features for the cost. In terms of … Read more
SpinLaunch wraps up new round to fling payloads to space
SpinLaunch’s technique for sending payload to orbit, which uses centrifugal force to fling mass to space, has solicited its fair share of skeptics. But at least some of those skeptics are likely a little quieter today, as the company announced a notable new funding round to accelerate the commercialization of its kinetic launch system. The … Read more
What Are Solarpunk and Lunarpunk Anyway?
Two environmentally-focused fictional micro-genres have become cornerstones of the Web3 aesthetic. Here’s how that happened.
Market Wrap: Markets Wait for Fed to Officially Announce What It Has Signaled for Weeks
Absent a huge surprise, markets are expecting interest rates to increase by 75 basis points. Market Wrap is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter diving into what happened in today’s crypto markets.
Litecoin Foundation’s managing director shares his thoughts on decentralized money
The Litecoin blockchain has been up and running for over a decade with no downtime.
The new Quest update will stabilize your shaky VR recordings
Share your sick gameplay footage without actually making people ill. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Meta is rolling out the v44 software update for Quest headsets, and its big new feature is good news for anyone who likes sharing videos of themselves in virtual reality. There are new advanced camera settings … Read more
Leoparda Electric is bringing battery swapping for two-wheelers to LatAm
Leoparda Electric, a São Paolo–based startup, wants to be the Gogoro of Latin America. In other words, it’s looking to build out a network of battery swapping stations that should help spread adoption of electric two-wheelers in the region. While LatAm is the second largest two-wheeler market after Southeast Asia, electrification in the region has … Read more
Hacked Crypto Market Maker Wintermute Has $200M in Outstanding DeFi Debt
Cryptocurrency market maker Wintermute has $200 million in outstanding DeFi debt to several counterparties, according to data provided by Nansen.
Streamer involved in Twitch gambling saga now embroiled in sexual assault allegations
Mizkif / YouTube The fallout regarding a Twitch streamer’s gambling scam has taken a dramatic and disturbing turn as one streamer involved has been accused of “covering up” a sexual assault. Yesterday, news broke that ItsSliker scammed fellow streamers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in order to support a sports gambling addiction. That … Read more
Staking providers could expand institutional presence in the crypto space: Report
The recent Ethereum upgrade highlights staking opportunities for institutional holders. In the short term, however, liquidity is still an issue, .