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Australia’s pilot for its eAUD is due to be completed by next mid-2023, the country’s central bank said today.

With Apple introducing a hefty tax on NFT sales on its in-app store, Tim Sweeney said the move would crush another new technology.

Hackers likely employed a “brute force” attack using a previously exploited weakness related to the vanity address generator Profanity.

Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) is now trading at a record discount of more than 35% compared to the value of the underlying asset.

A new proposal could see victims of crypto theft get their funds back. Still, the industry has doubts about a “reversible” Ethereum token.

The world’s largest crypto exchange Binance will apply for a license this time, as Japan looks set to adopt Web3-friendly policies.

South Korean authorities said the international police organization had issued a red notice for Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon.

Ryan Selkis says regulators should be a part of the crypto conversation.

Brian Armstrong, head of the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, says he feels called to defend the industry.

Jeremy Kauffman expressed contempt for the SEC as its lawsuit with the regulator reaches a critical point.

As ETH dropped and the SEC loomed, the NFT community celebrated the first International NFT Day on Tuesday.

It’s the investment bank’s second $100 million investment in a Bitcoin mining company this summer, despite the crypto bear market.

Uniswap wants to “bring your digital asset experience into one place.” Uniswap Diamond, and the acquisition of NFT aggregator Genie, will help.

ETH is down 19% since the merge. XRP ballooned this week when news broke that the SEC’s lawsuit against Ripple may soon come to a conclusion.

The merge has inflicted chaos upon Ethereum—was it all worth it? Some Ethereum loyalists aren’t so sure

Dapper’s official NFL platform has topped the NFT charts lately, thanks to rising activity on days when real-world games are played.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said that all blockchains, including Dogecoin and Zcash, looking to scale should move to proof of stake.

Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko believes a juggernaut IP could emerge from the current crop of NFT projects.

Legal experts say the CFTC’s action against the founders of bZx and Ooki DAO could have far-reaching implications for the DeFi industry.

Both the SEC and Ripple have filed motions for summary judgment, each asking the judge to rule in their favor without a trial.

Inca Digital just landed a contract with government defense agency DARPA to “visualize how digital assets implicate national security.”

Steven Goldfeder, co-founder and CEO of Arbitrum developer Offchain Labs, tells Decrypt’s Liam Kelly in our Decrypting Mainnet series at Mainnet 2022 how Arbitrum is handling its recent bug, how he thinks about competitors to Arbitrum, and how to convince DeFi users that bridging funds is safe even when there are so many hacks and … Read more

Paul Brody tells Decrypt’s Dan Roberts and Stacy Elliott in our Decrypting Mainnet series at Mainnet 2022 why EY is “all in on public blockchains” and why any big companies that are still building private, closed blockchains don’t get it.

Alex Tapscott, co-author of the 2018 crypto book “Blockchain Revolution,” talks to Decrypt’s Dan Roberts and Stacy Elliott in our Decrypting Mainnet series at Mainnet 2022 about how big companies that in the past thought crypto wasn’t “ready for primetime” are now more willing to invest in public blockchains. At the same time, he warns, … Read more

Hart Lambur, founder of DeFi project UMA Protocol, talks to Decrypt’s Liam Kelly in our Decrypting Mainnet series at Mainnet 2022 all about what UMA does and what they have in store for the next iteration of their oracle, and how to write decentralized financial contracts.

Compute North provides data centers for crypto mining giants such as Compass Mining and Marathon Digital, and owes some $500 million to 200 creditors.

The proposed plan involves deploying Harmony’s treasury towards both recovery of the assets and development of the protocol.

Despite market-wide bearish sentiment, gaming and metaverse-related tokens including GODS and APE have posted significant weekly gains.

The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency bill modernizes existing legislation to counter new forms of money laundering and cyber crime.

A New York court has granted the IRS permission to serve a ‘John Doe’ summons on a bank that provided services for SFOX customers.