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Kraken said it remains committed to maintaining a foothold in the Australian market while catering to institutional demand.

Catch up on this week’s biggest crypto and NFT gaming news and find some weekend reads in our latest roundup.

Avalanche battle royale shooter Off the Grid has seen sizable mainstream success. Here’s why experts say it may have changed things forever.

Layer-2 networks use a variety of technologies to address the scalability bottlenecks on layer-1 blockchains such as Ethereum.

Polymarket and Kalshi users are hedging their bets on Donald Trump, with Bitcoin falling below $68,000 and liquidations piling up.

TON Society’s Jack Booth explains that tap-to-earn is a “viral mechanic” that can help Telegram projects build an invested user base.

How job recruiters are turning to AI to screen candidates—much to the chagrin of job seekers.

With the right free-to-play games, you can still get countless hours of fun out of your Nintendo Switch. These are some of the best.

Election Day is nearly here, and the result could impact the future of crypto in the U.S. Here’s where Trump and Harris stand.

Tomarket’s anticipated token launch has given way to confusion, with the Telegram game launching another farming phase.

Season 2 of Hamster Kombat didn’t arrive in late October, as expected, and the token is falling as players wait for the next phase.

Oasis lets players build, destroy, and reshape its Minecraft-inspired virtual environment—without a game engine—in real-time via AI.

Some of America’s top crypto companies announced huge layoffs this week, a signal that there may be trouble ahead for the industry beyond the looming presidential election.

Financial services firm Strive, which was co-founded by Donald Trump advisor Vivek Ramaswamy, will begin offering Bitcoin under a new wealth management business.

With the U.S. election just days away, Avalanche-based game Off the Grid is drawing fresh buzz with Donald Trump and Kamala Harris skins.

Swiss ETF issuer 21Shares has filed an S-1 form with the SEC to launch a spot fund that tracks the price of XRP.

Mystery AI image generator Recraft V3 tops rankings, beating Flux, MidJourney and SD 3.5.

Web3 film funding platform Decentralized Pictures will host a community vote to pick two winners, using the project’s FILMCredits token.

With another year to complete repayments from a decade-old attack, Mt. Gox moved 500 Bitcoin ($35 million) to cold storage late Thursday.

BTC drops below $70k, $500m OI wiped out. BTC ETFs top 1m BTC held. Coinbase falls the most in 2 years. Tether reports $7.7bn profit, holds $100bn treasuries. Franklin Templeton tokenises fund on Base. Trump’s WLFI cuts fundraising target by 90%. Stablecoins should be replaced by CBDC: Treasury. Prison guards asked CZ for token tips. … Read more

Kalshi says that it has seen surging USDC adoption since opening deposits this week—and as prediction markets heat up, more crypto additions could come.

Immutable’s IMX token is down by 14% on the day, and has cooled by 68% since hitting its 2024 peak in March.

Inflows to Bitcoin ETFs have cooled off, after the investment products pulled in almost $3 billion over the past six trading days.

Roland Emmerich and Marco Weber join Decrypt to discuss their in development TV show based on crypto game ‘Space Nation Online.’ Emmerich, who will executive produce the upcoming series, is known as the director of Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, Stargate, and 2012. As such, many have nicknamed him the ‘master of disaster.’ Joining … Read more

If convicted of wire fraud, Aleksei Andriunin, founder of crypto ‘market maker’ Gotbit, faces up to 20 years in jail.

Following a $400,000 ‘rug pull’ of three Solana NFT projects in 2022, two men face up to five years in U.S. prison.

In just 10 months, spot Bitcoin ETFs have amassed over 50% of the assets held by gold ETFs, which have been around for two decades.

Hughes’ appointment comes amid growing industry debate over AI’s role in Hollywood, which some fear could replace writers in the future.

Apple stock fell 1.8% by the closing bell after financial results showed modest increases in company sales for the year.

The assets dropped with U.S. equities on Thursday.