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The leading crypto asset manager, Grayscale, has announced its CEO, Michael Sonnenshein, is stepping down.

It appears the GameStop bull has stopped tweeting after the company filed to increase its total number of shares by 15%. Is this the end?

Blockchain RPG Chain of Alliance sees you assemble a party of Heroes to take on all comers in turn-based battles. Here’s how to play.

SOL leads majors higher again, BTC stable. ETFs see $257M inflow, volumes hit 2 month high. 414 holders of BlackRock ETF ‘blows away record’. SOL continues to be fastest blockage despite usage. Pump. fun exploited for $1.9M by ex-employee. LINK up 20% after partnership with top banks. Senate also repeals SEC crypto rule. US Senator … Read more

Bitcoin has best day in 2 months after dovish CPI. ETFs see $300M inflow, highest in weeks. ETH continues to underperform ahead of ETF ruling. Millennium buys $2B of BTC ETF. CME group to launch BTC spot trading. Fed’s Kashkari compares BTC to beanie babies. Tate says he will buy $100M BTC. El Salvador now … Read more

BTC bounces driven by spot buying. US ETF sees $100M+ inflow for first time in weeks. State of Wisconsin buys $170M of BTC ETF. Vanguard appoints Bitcoin friendly CEO. Coinbase sees billions of BTC leave exchange. BTC to consolidate between $55-75K: Novogratz. SOL beats ETH TEV for first time ever. ETH may be labelled a … Read more

Crypto falls, stays in range ahead of CPI tomorrow. US ETFs see small net inflow led by Fidelity HK ETFs wipe 2 weeks of inflows in a single day. Bracebridge bought $363m of BTC ETFs. Coinbase has system wide outage. Poloniex hacker sends funds to Tornado Cash. Brazil biggest in LATAM for crypto trading. Biden … Read more

There’s growing accumulation of Bitcoin call options for the December 2024 expiry on Deribit, indicating traders’ optimism for the year end.

Tokyo, Japan, May 20th, 2024, GamingWire In a significant development for gaming and soccer fans, the blockchain version of beloved Japanese soccer manga series Captain Tsubasa has officially launched on the gaming-centric blockchain Oasys. Developed by Mint Town, Co., Ltd. and BLOCKSMITH&Co., a subsidiary of mobile gaming giant KLab Inc., Captain Tsubasa -RIVALS- offers an … Read more

Meme coins like EPIK are looking more and more like crypto’s future. Is that good or bad?

Dominant personalities stole the narrative this week. Industry leaders also decried the conviction and sentencing of a Tornado Cash developer.

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

GameStop bull Roaring Kitty returned to the internet, prompting a huge meme stock and coin surge. And Bitcoin hit its highest price since the halving.

The Department of Justice charged Daren Li and Yicheng Zhang with orchestrating a “pig butchering” cryptocurrency scam.

“Only in crypto.” Meme coin Pacmoon rewarded one user with a hefty airdrop—which was bigger than expected thanks to a pal’s costly mistake.

Pavel Durov holds 1% of this year’s biggest gaming token, donated by players. And he’s not selling his Notcoin—not now, at least.

As other firms spend millions on pro-crypto candidates, Joe Lubin tells Decrypt that Consensys has resisted the impulse. Here’s why.

Jan Leike explains his resignation from OpenAI, citing a lack of support and concerns over the company’s focus on AGI over safety.

The price of Bitcoin just touched its highest point since last month’s halving, hitting a level not seen in more than a month.

The Bitcoin liquid restaking protocol is opening the door for Asian BTC capital to meet western projects, said founder Matt Ye.

GameStop filed to increase its total shares by 15% and the market hated it, tanking the price even further. The GME bull isn’t happy.

America’s biggest crypto exchange Coinbase is confident that the SEC will approve spot Ethereum ETFs very soon, despite broader pessimism.

Who’s next? Elon Musk announced that Neuralink is accepting applications for the second test subject for its brain chip trial.

Both GameStop shares and the unofficial GME meme coin on Solana have seen similar plunges from their high prices this week.

Video game retailer GameStop (GME) shot to prominence in early 2021 as retail investors drove a “meme stock” short squeeze.

GameStop has announced that it plans to sell 45 million shares after posting disappointing preliminary Q1 results.

One of Silicon Valley’s most well-known start-up incubators has signed a strategic collaboration with Polkadot.

In the wake of the attack, Pump.fun’s largest tokens have recovered. But some affected tokens remain in limbo.

Ubisoft’s iconic franchise is returning just a year after its last installment—and this time, we’re going to Japan in Assassin’s Creed Shadows.

DTCC announced it had just concluded a tokenization pilot with Wall Street giants like JP Morgan and BNY Mellon, leveraging Chainlink’s CCIP.