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An impending departure of millions of users from Twitter could threaten the platform’s diversity of viewpoints and force crypto enthusiasts to fully adopt decentralized Web3 social media.

Claims by Twitter user Hodlonaut that Craig Wright is a “fraud” and “scammer” for claiming to found bitcoin will come under a judicial gaze once more

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If we learn to read the markets, make smart use of the data at our disposal and overcome a few speed bumps along the way, options will certainly drive the next era of DeFi to higher highs than ever before.

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The global chess authority is looking to onboard the game’s 500 million players into Web3 with the new partnership.

CoinFund’s David Pakman talks FTX, DeFi and the way forward.

The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for Dec. 23, 2022. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

Law enforcement authorities in Italy and Albania have busted a cryptocurrency investment scam worth 15 million euros ($15.91 million).

Users can now view and download the old and new reserve ratios and assess the exchange’s health and the safety of their assets.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is increasing its scrutiny of audits of cryptocurrency companies and warning both investors and audit firms, WSJ reported.

Strap in folks: It’s a big week. Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and current FTX CEO John J. Ray III were supposed to speak to the House Financial Services Committee. Obviously, things didn’t quite work out that way.

Plus: Glenn Ardi of Coindesk Indonesia writes about Indonesia’s vision of government permitting and controlling Web3 and DeFi by providing a government-sanctioned payment layer.

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Victims of ransomware attacks paid hackers 4.5 times less in crypto in 2022 than in 2021, according to a new report.

Metaverse platforms present a challenge of sorting bots from real people, and then even real people can be inactive or AFK, short for “away from keyboard” for hours, days, even weeks. One way to filter out bots is to filter users by those with NFTs, which also weeds out “tourists” who pop in for a … Read more

Top crypto assets hold steady as stocks get pre-holiday bounce. Crypto Markets Today is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter diving into what happened in today’s crypto markets.

The report was written by Bitcoin-focused investment firm, New York Digital Investment Group

Far Peak Acquisition and Bullish first agreed to a merger in July 2021.

2023 is the year crypto will have to grow up and clean up its act. Here are predictions regarding the future of NFTs, the metaverse, CBDCs and institutional investments.

Six years after he first claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the Australian computer scientist tweeted, “I have been too angry for too long.”

A private financial document reviewed by CoinDesk shows that Sun, one of the richest figures in crypto, was responsible for the vast majority of a key Valkyrie division’s assets under management.

Although the decentralized lending protocol’s data is inherently on-chain, introducing Chainlink’s PoR would help mitigate the risk of attacks on the Aave protocol.

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried appeared in U.S. federal court Thursday on charges that he was the mastermind behind the fraud and illicit movement of customer funds inside his former crypto empire, and a judge agreed that he can be released on $250 million bail.

Orthogonal defaulted on $36 million of loans on decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Maple Finance earlier this month after it misrepresented its losses from the FTX implosion.

Professionals are charging upwards of $2,000 hourly wages against $12 million retainers as they attempt to restore funds to the million-odd creditors of Sam Bankman-Fried’s empire

Among Wall Street financiers, Minerd was known for his extreme predictions of the largest cryptocurrency’s price, often with mixed success.

Miners moved to northern Norway and Sweden to avoid high energy costs. Now, power prices are surging there, too.

Companies in the sector will have 180 days to adapt to the new rules.

Because current loyalty programs operate within closed systems, many of them don’t create loyalty as much as captivity. Blockchains make alternative systems possible, where both brands and consumers can share bigger pieces of a larger pie.