CoinDesk hosted its annual Consensus conference in Toronto this week. It was busy, to put it mildly. You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter looking at the intersection of cryptocurrency and government. Click here to sign up for future editions. Read more The narrative It’s been a hectic week, watching the Senate’s ongoing negotiations … Read more
Crypto Fight Night isn’t made for fight fanatics—it’s an event for crypto bros to break bread after months of battling in the trenches.
Let’s get one thing out of the way immediately: you shouldn’t buy Huawei’s trifold phone, the Mate XT. And that’s alright, because you probably couldn’t if you wanted to – while it’s no longer exclusive to China, it’s only on sale in a handful of countries, and not in the US or Europe. Besides, I … Read more
Last fall, Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber was roundly ridiculed after suggesting the company would like to produce a “Forever Mouse” – a mouse with a monthly subscription fee for software updates. It seemed to betray a lack of understanding: many people who buy mice don’t want software at all, much less software they have to … Read more
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It’s more likely that Bitcoin’s dominance will plateau as opposed to moving sharply lower, according to Grayscale’s Zach Pandl.
Bitcoin’s next explosive move could send the asset to $250,000 by the end of 2025, according to Scott Melker, a crypto analyst and host of The Wolf of All Streets podcast. Speaking in a recent interview, Melker cited growing institutional interest and diminishing volatility as key factors that could drive the next leg up. “250K … Read more
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What the Mobius Meltdown Reveals About Smart Contract Complacency One line of bad math. 9 quadrillion tokens. $2 million gone – in under 72 hours. Mobius didn’t get rugged. It got wrecked by a copy-paste error in an unaudited smart contract — and Web3 barely blinked. But this wasn’t just a bug. It was a … Read more
If you like games with parrying, there are two great new ways to get your fix: Doom: The Dark Ages and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. These very different games – one is a fast-paced first-person shooter, the other a turn-based fantasy RPG – approach the mechanic in very different ways. Let’s start with Doom. One … Read more
Android is getting its biggest visual update in years, and rather than unveiling it for the first time at its big annual developer conference, Google announced Material Three Expressive at a pre-show event broadcast on YouTube the week before. If a major design language shift for the world’s most popular mobile OS doesn’t qualify as … Read more
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has held discussions with Everstake, one of the largest non-custodial staking providers globally, to explore clearer regulatory definitions around staking in blockchain networks. The meeting, which also involved the SEC’s Crypto Task Force, comes at a time when over $193 billion in digital assets are staked across major … Read more