UK advertiser ASA continues crypto ad banning spree

The United Kingdom’s Advertising Standards Authority, or ASA, has approved an official ban on two mobile application advertisements from popular trading platform Crypto.com that promoted the ease of purchasing cryptocurrencies, such as... Read more »

Cosmos-based DEX Osmosis breaks above $1 billion in locked value

The total value locked (TVL) on decentralized exchange (DEX) Osmosis, which is part of the Cosmos (ATOM) ecosystem, surpassed $1 billion today, according to decentralized finance metrics platform DeFi Llama. This comes... Read more »

Billionaire Ray Dalio Insists Governments Could Outlaw Bitcoin

Billionaire Ray Dalio, the founder of the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, has reiterated his warning that governments could outlaw bitcoin. “In history, they’ve outlawed gold and they’ve outlawed silver and... Read more »

DeFi Blue Chips Tanked Against Ethereum in 2021

Key Takeaways Despite ever-stronger fundamentals, DeFi blue chips underperformed Ethereum by over 110%. The DeFi Pulse Index, a benchmark tracking the performance of 18 DeFi blue chips, has retraced over 55% from... Read more »

More billionaires turning to crypto on fiat inflation fears

Previously anti-crypto investors are increasingly turning to Bitcoin and its brethren as a hedge against fiat currency inflation concerns. One example is Hungarian-born billionaire Thomas Peterffy who, in a Jan. 1 Bloomberg... Read more »

ASMR crypto art will stir up the NFT market–while calming you down, xtingles founder explains

While “utility” became one of the most common topics in the NFT space, chased by artists and entrepreneurs as the magic ingredient for success, Andrew Fai started a platform that is bringing... Read more »

Kazakhstan Mulls Nuclear Power to Deal With Electricity Shortages Blamed on Crypto Miners

The government in Kazakhstan is considering building a nuclear power plant to overcome an electricity deficit allegedly caused by the booming crypto mining industry. Problems with power supply are driving away miners... Read more »

Algorand, NEAR Rally as DeFi Activity Increases

Key Takeaways Algorand and NEAR are soaring while Bitcoin and Ethereum lag. A liquidity mining program on Algorand’s Algofi is bringing in new users. The strong price action on these networks appears... Read more »

The year for Bitcoin — A 2021 roundup of the flagship crypto

While 2021 did provide some sort of respite for investors operating across the global crypto landscape, it was still largely been driven by fears that first reared their ugly heads back in... Read more »

I tried becoming a pop star’s neighbor in Decentraland. Here’s what I learned.

On Nov. 23, one of the most popular singers in Asia, JJ Lin, announced on Twitter he bought three virtual plots of land on Decentraland. Almost immediately, promotions claiming to sell plots... Read more »