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‘Fear of the unknown’ holds back tradfi investors from crypto — Bloomberg analyst
Bloomberg crypto analyst Jamie Coutts believes it’s a “missed opportunity” that traditional asset managers choose not the educate themselves on crypto.
First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Flutters Around $19K; SEC Case Against Crypto Promoter Ian Balina Faces One Big Problem
Balina is charged with conducting an unregistered securities offering in 2018 for his SPRK ICO token, but proving that the Ethereum network should be subject to U.S. securities law will be difficult; cryptos largely decline.
Amazon’s latest challenger is China’s online dollar store Pinduoduo
The race to bring China-made goods to Western consumers via online stores is heating up. Pinduoduo, the Chinese e-commerce giant known for offering hard-to-believe deals, has quickly gained momentum for its first international endeavor in the U.S. The company’s overseas shopping app, called Temu, briefly claimed the top spot of Android shopping apps in the … Read more
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Decentralized Finance Protocol Coin98 Unveils Native Stablecoin CUSD
DeFi platforms race to craft their own stablecoins to attract users and boost growth, including Curve and Aave.
Twitch to ban Stake.com streams and other unlicensed gambling content
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As the conversation concerning Twitch and the platform’s allowance of gambling streams continues to swirl, the platform has struck its first blow. In a tweet on Tuesday evening, Twitch stated that it will ban “streaming of gambling sites that include slots, roulette, or dice games” in a policy … Read more
Crypto Needs ‘Global Regulatory Framework,’ IMF Says
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called on financial regulators around the world to come together to develop a “global regulatory framework” for crypto assets.
Configure a custom Amazon S3 query output location and data retention policy for Amazon Athena data sources in Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time that it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes in Amazon SageMaker Studio, the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for ML. With Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process of data preparation and feature engineering, and complete each step of … Read more
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Daily Crunch: Revolut advises users to take caution after hacker breach triggers phishing campaign
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hey there, you deep-fried morsels of delight. Deep fried, because that’s the thing that made you crunchy. No? Because this is the Daily Crunch? The TechCrunch team got so competitive in this … Read more
Hearing: Alternative payments’ threat to national security goes far beyond crypto
Crypto is just the tip of the iceberg, experts tell a U.S. House Financial Service subcommittee in testimony on payment systems and national security.
Crypto Exchanges Binance and FTX Have Both Bid Roughly $50M for Voyager’s Assets: Report
Binance’s current bid is slightly higher than FTX’s, according to sources who spoke to the Wall Street Journal.
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Crypto and stocks soften ahead of Fed rate hike, but XRP, ALGO and LDO look ‘interesting’
Crypto and stock markets continue to correct, but that doesn’t mean all the investment opportunities are gone.
PG&E says Tesla battery was source of power storage site fire
In the early hours on Monday, a Tesla Megapack battery caught fire at a key California power storage facility, the state’s largest utility said in a statement to TechCrunch. According to PG&E, the utility “became aware of a fire in one Tesla Megapack at its Elkhorn Battery Storage facility” at around 1:30 AM in Moss … Read more
OpenSea to allow creators to host token sales directly through its homepage
The marketplace intends to prioritize storytelling by allowing NFT creators to design customizable drop pages, share images, videos and more.
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What Cardano’s Highly Anticipated Vasil Hard Fork Will Bring
Vasil delivers an updated version of Cardano’s smart contract scripting language: Plutus v2.
Overwatch 2 loses lead hero designer just before sequel launches
Image: Blizzard Overwatch 2 lead hero designer Geoff Goodman has left Blizzard. First reported by PC Gamer, the long-time Blizzard employee decided to leave the company “earlier this year,” according to a statement from Blizzard to The Verge. Blizzard’s full response reads: “We thank Geoff for his many years of service at Blizzard and wish … Read more
Razer releases cheaper, more compact Leviathan V2 X PC soundbar
Razer’s Leviathan V2 X PC soundbar. | Image: Razer Razer’s new Leviathan V2 X PC soundbar is a smaller, stripped-down version of its full-featured sibling that Razer released earlier this year. The 15.7-inch soundbar comes at a cheaper $99.99 price point but still offers a decent amount of features for the cost. In terms of … Read more
SpinLaunch wraps up new round to fling payloads to space
SpinLaunch’s technique for sending payload to orbit, which uses centrifugal force to fling mass to space, has solicited its fair share of skeptics. But at least some of those skeptics are likely a little quieter today, as the company announced a notable new funding round to accelerate the commercialization of its kinetic launch system. The … Read more
What Are Solarpunk and Lunarpunk Anyway?
Two environmentally-focused fictional micro-genres have become cornerstones of the Web3 aesthetic. Here’s how that happened.
Market Wrap: Markets Wait for Fed to Officially Announce What It Has Signaled for Weeks
Absent a huge surprise, markets are expecting interest rates to increase by 75 basis points. Market Wrap is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter diving into what happened in today’s crypto markets.
Litecoin Foundation’s managing director shares his thoughts on decentralized money
The Litecoin blockchain has been up and running for over a decade with no downtime.