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This Week in Coins: Market Leaders Dip as Bitcoin Struggles to Maintain 40K
Potential regulatory approvals and institutional adoptions slowed, as did losses for most major coins.
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Why NFT Artist Pplpleasr Prefers Rarible and Foundation Over OpenSea
Leading NFT marketplace OpenSea has a “first-mover advantage,” she said, but there’s nothing “super appealing” about its interface.
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NBA Teases Ethereum NFTs for Playoffs After Launching Discord Server
The NBA is ramping up its NFT and Web3 efforts following the success of NBA Top Shot—and it’s heading to Ethereum.
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Ethereum Privacy Tool Tornado Cash Says It Uses Chainalysis to Block Sanctioned Wallets
"Maintaining financial privacy is essential to preserving our freedom, however, it should not come at the cost of non-compliance," says Tornado Cash.
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Is Quantum Computing a Threat to Bitcoin?
Quantum computing has long been touted as a near-existential risk to the crypto industry. Is it?
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Biden to Tap Former Ripple Advisor as Vice Chair of Fed
Law professor Michael Barr is being nominated to become the next vice chair for supervision of the Federal Reserve.
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Robinhood CEO Says Dogecoin Needs Bigger Blocks to Be Internet's Currency
Robinhood chief Vlad Tenev took to Twitter to theorize how Dogecoin could become "the future currency of the internet and the people.”
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Portugal Grants First Crypto License to Bison Bank
Regulators in Portugal have granted the first crypto license in the country to Bison Bank.
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Dogecoin Co-Founder: Elon Musk's Twitter Offer Is a 'Hostile Takeover'
The meme-coin creator took issue with Musk, who has become Dogecoin’s top evangelist.
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SEC Proposal to Redefine 'Exchange' Is 'Unconstitutional', Says Coin Center
Research director Peter Van Valkenburgh says it would require "anyone writing or distributing [decentralized exchange] software" to register.
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Luna Foundation Guard Adds to Terra Reserves With $880M LUNA 'Gift'
The 10 million LUNA transfer from Terraform Labs is mostly being burned to mint more UST stablecoins.
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US Treasury Connects North Korean Hackers to $622M Axie Infinity Exploit
The U.S. Treasury added the Ronin attackers' Ethereum wallet address to its sanctions list, tying it to the Lazarus Group.
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Help Write Archie Comic Books With Palm’s Archieverse Ethereum NFTs
The 66,666 horror-themed NFTs unlock access to a virtual writers' room, with holders’ ideas tapped to create future comics.
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Ethereum Push Notification Service Raises $10.1 Million in Series A
Jump Crypto, Polygon Studios, Tiger Global and 1inch co-founder Anton Bukov are among the investors in EPNS, now valued at $131 million.
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Ava Labs Raises $350M to Build Out Avalanche at $5.25B Valuation: Report
Ava Labs, the company behind the development of the Avalanche blockchain, is reportedly in the process of raising a new round of funding.