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Mobile tower defense game Ragnarok: Monster World is now available to play in beta on iOS and Android—but only for one week.

The asset manager behind two successful U.S. crypto ETFs just landed in London.

Ahead of the Democratic National Convention, the party backing Kamala Harris for president completely skipped crypto in its policy plan.

“Even though we’re cautious about Bitcoin’s upside potential in the short term, this hedging strategy remains promising,” the firm wrote.

Investors pulled $39 million from Solana-based funds last week, said CoinShares, setting a record while Bitcoin ETFs rebounded slightly.

Bernstein Research still believes a Donald Trump win would benefit Bitcoin, even as crypto bettors shift their election predictions.

TON is up following the announcement, which follows the HashKey Group’s investment in developing the TON ecosystem earlier this year.

The slow growth in media literacy is a growing concern, given the ability of generative AI tools to produce deepfakes and disinformation.

Despite the indecision in crypto, some analysts and investment trading desks remain optimistic for the remainder of the year.

An average of 20 websites are said to be taken down daily, with scammers continuing to adapt and find new ways to lure victims, ASIC said.

The Canadian investor and “Shark Tank” star says government intervention is inevitable for a maturing crypto industry.

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

Monitoring and audits aren’t enough to avoid hacks: Spherex Technologies CEO Eyal Meron explains why crypto protocols need to rethink security.

Crypto users bet millions on Polymarket to guess what the former president would say. Most were left disappointed.

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Tari Universe promises easy, at-home mining, aiming to bring onboard the next generation of crypto users.

What is crypto education startup PiP World doing in the Roblox sandbox? Company execs explain their plans for stock trading game StockRise.

Most coins and tokens are down over the week. But the crypto world wasn’t short of news, or drama.

The Wall Street giant is pushing even further into digital assets with a fund holding the two top cryptocurrencies.

Google’s Imagen 3 is available for testing on ImageFX, and is set to compete against MidJourney, Flux, and Dall-E 3.

Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 network Base has a new destination to plunk your digital coins via the B3.fun gaming chain and BSMNT platform.

Global commerce will soon live on-chain, an exec tells Decrypt, and traditional banks could be the center of that new system.

Privacy-focused Bitcoin advocates are raising alarms that governments could use the top blockchain to surveil citizens. Are they right?

The Bitcoin fan will play an important role in Trump’s leadership team if the ex-president gets another shot at running America come November.

Between $1.7 billion and $5.1 billion in illicit crypto transactions are linked to the UK every year, according to the NCA’s annual report.

The fund’s investments in crypto firms mean that every Norwegian effectively has exposure to $27 worth of Bitcoin.

The National Pension Service’s crypto-related stock purchases also include $45 million worth of shares in crypto exchange Coinbase.

Former president Donald Trump owners up to $5 million worth of cryptocurrencies, according to a new financial disclosure.

The investment firm issued an outperform rating on mining stocks Riot Platforms, CleanSpark, Iris Energy and Core Scientific.