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The rapper’s move followed light-hearted banter on Twitter American professional boxer Ryan Garcia, who encouraged him to “bet on Sundog.”

FOMO HOUR EP213. Memecoins take off, funding stays low, China stocks keep on rising! Many altcoins & memecoins soar despite stable BTC. Funding rates continue to be low or negative. Crypto funds saw $147m of outflows last week. BTC remains best performing major assets this year. SUI breaks into the top 20 coins again. TAO … Read more

The surge in Trump’s odds has fueled speculation about potential manipulation, centering on a Polymarket user known as “Fredi9999.”

The “Uptober” narrative has helped buoy support for Bitcoin. Now, traders are looking for further signs inflation is cooling.

The Central American country has been slammed for its unorthodox ways—but foreign investors are bullish, it seems.

As Hurricane Milton hits Florida, bizarre lies and conspiracy theories are flowing freely on X.

As the price of Moo Deng on Solana fades, one anonymous trader is watching his stash of hippo tokens bleed by millions of dollars in (paper) value.

The U.S. government now appears free to sell 69,370 Bitcoin that it seized from a Silk Road-affiliated wallet.

The director behind an HBO documentary on Bitcoin said its release has been heightened by people wagering on Satoshi Nakamoto’s identity.

Collapsed crypto exchange FTX was given the green light Monday to execute its bankruptcy plan following nearly two years of recovery efforts.

Black Forest Labs launched Flux 1.1 Pro, its fastest and most advanced AI image generation model yet—beating Ideogram and MidJourney in speed and quality.

Bitget promised that it will fully compensate traders of its BGB token, shortly after the asset’s value plummeted and then quickly rebounded.

Metaplanet, a Japanese public firm that’s following MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin reserve playbook, announced that it has purchased even more BTC.

Other top picks for Trump’s SEC chair include two prominent crypto advocates: former CFTC chair Chris Giancarlo and current SEC commissioner Hester Peirce.

Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin sold 10 billion Moo Deng tokens for a charitable donation—and then the meme coin surged in price.

EigenLayer community members have expressed concerns that the tokens that were transferred were supposed to be locked.

The all-in-one dashboard will soon be available to other investment DAOs and syndicates following an update.

Ahead of a documentary that says it’ll reveal the identity of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, degens are trading meme coins based on his cat.

The changes are retroactive, impacting all virtual asset transactions since Jan. 1, 2018. 

Mysten Labs Chief Scientist George Danezis joined Decrypt to talk about its new decentralized storage protocol Walrus, which promises to unlock new applications such as AI and social media, thanks to its novel Red Stuff data encoding algorithm.

The Bitcoin price has met some resistance, but analysts flagged upcoming inflation reports as potential catalysts for a continued rally.

Layer 2 blockchain Arbitrum is doubling down on Asia with a “strategic bet” on the region’s growth.

Mikol was hospitalized with third-degree burns after setting himself on fire for his meme coin. Now, five months later, he’s done. Here’s why.

Forget atmosphere and vibes: These horrifying video games are designed to pump your heart rate and freak you out.

The United States, UK, and Australian governments all took aim at ransomware gang Evil Corp as new connections emerge with LockBit.

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

With Republican and Democrat interest in digital assets growing, more financial institutions are getting comfortable with crypto, a Coinbase executive told Decrypt.

Coinbase VP of Corporate and Business Development, Shan Aggarwal, joined Decrypt’s Sander Lutz and Liz Napolitano at Messari Mainnet 2024 to discuss the exchange’s efforts to grow mainstream crypto adoption—and how the changing political conversation around digital assets is rapidly playing a major role in that.

Binance says it recently rejected 86% of requests by Israel to freeze Palestinian users’ crypto wallets.

Cuban pointed to Japan, which mandates crypto businesses fully collateralize digital assets held on behalf of customers