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Starbucks is shutting Odyssey, which launched in December 2022 in closed beta offering NFT-based rewards minted on the Polygon blockchain, on March 31, 2024 (decrypt.co)
2024-3-16 Blockchain Starbucks

Yuga Labs co-founder Greg “Garga” Solano announces he's returning as CEO of the company, replacing Daniel Alegre, who spent less than a year in the role (decrypt.co)
2024-2-22

The US plans to sell about $117M worth of Bitcoin seized from Ryan Farace, a convicted drug trafficker who operated on the Silk Road dark web marketplace (decrypt.co)
2024-1-26 Bitcoin Darknet

The Treasury and IRS say they aren't enforcing a rule requiring businesses to report the receipt of digital assets worth $10K+ within 15 days of receiving them (decrypt.co)
2024-1-17 Asset

GameStop plans to shut down its NFT marketplace on February 2, 2024, due to “continuing regulatory uncertainty”, after launching the platform in October 2022 (decrypt.co)
2024-1-13

Crypto wallet maker Ledger updates Connect Kit, saying a former employee “fell victim to a phishing attack” that let a hacker insert malicious code (decrypt.co)
2023-12-15 Hacker

Amazon Prime Is Giving Out Free Card Packs for NFT Game 'Gods Unchained' - Decrypt (decrypt.co)
2023-12-7 Amazon

Coinbase reports receiving 13,079 law enforcement requests between October 1, 2022 and September 30, 2023, up 6% YoY and 3x since 2020; ~50% were from the US (decrypt.co)
2023-12-1 Coinbase

A Bitcoin user seems to have accidentally paid a record $3M fee for a $5M transaction and sent $2M; in September, Paxos paid $500K, now returned, to send $2,000 (decrypt.co)
2023-11-26 Bitcoin

Esports leaders discuss ongoing industry challenges, including VC bubbles, layoffs, and ageism, and call for wealthy game studios to take on more responsibility (decrypt.co)
2023-11-13 Layoffs

Justin Sun's crypto exchange Poloniex says hackers stole more than $126M worth of crypto assets and it's working with other exchanges to recover funds (decrypt.co)
2023-11-11 Asset

Game developers, voice actors, writers, and others criticize Inworld AI and Xbox partnering to create AI game development tools, after layoffs in the industry (decrypt.co)
2023-11-9 AI Layoffs Xbox

NFT marketplace Magic Eden and Yuga Labs plan to launch an Ethereum platform, which will be “contractually obligated” to pay royalties on NFT sales (decrypt.co)
2023-11-5 Ethereum

OpenSea lays off 50% of staff and says it is moving to “OpenSea 2.0”; the NFT marketplace said it had 230 staff after laying off 20% of workforce in July 2022 (decrypt.co)
2023-11-4

BlockFi says it has emerged from bankruptcy and has begun the process of repaying its creditors according to the terms of its bankruptcy plan (decrypt.co)
2023-10-25

DappRadar: blockchain gaming projects raised $600M in Q3 2023, down 38% YoY, and $2.3B so far in 2023, which is only 30% of what was raised for all of 2022 (decrypt.co)
2023-10-15 Blockchain

Yuga Labs, the creator of Bored Ape Yacht Club and other prominent NFTs, restructures, lays off some US staff, and is still evaluating its international teams (decrypt.co)
2023-10-9

Story Protocol, a blockchain-based IP ownership network that aims to address creatives' concerns over AI, raised over $54M led by Andreessen Horowitz (decrypt.co)
2023-9-6 Blockchain AI

Crypto exchange Bitstamp says it is ending its Ethereum staking service for US customers from September 25, citing “current regulatory dynamics in the US” (decrypt.co)
2023-8-24 Ethereum

El Salvador grants Binance licenses to offer custodial services, process crypto payments, provide digital wallets, and operate a digital asset exchange (decrypt.co)
2023-8-9 Asset

SEC charges Hex crypto project founder Richard Heart with conducting unregistered securities offerings, including Hex, PulseChain, and PulseX, that raised $1B+ (decrypt.co)
2023-8-1

After a digital artist opted out of the Stable Diffusion training set, the community made a model copying his style, raising questions around open-source models (decrypt.co)
2023-7-31

The British Museum partners with Ethereum-based metaverse game The Sandbox to create NFTs showing the museum's collections and offer “new immersive experiences” (decrypt.co)
2023-7-29 U.K. Ethereum

OpenAI shuts down its AI classifier for indicating AI-written text, citing “its low rate of accuracy”, and will research “more effective provenance techniques” (decrypt.co)
2023-7-26 AI

Developer finds back door for government to freeze and withdraw funds from Brazil's new CBDC (decrypt.co)
2023-7-22 Brazil

Stability AI CEO: There Will Be No (Human) Programmers in Five Years (decrypt.co)
2023-7-5 Programmer AI

Twitter suspends Explain This Bob, a GPT-4 bot tied to the BOB Token, after Elon Musk called the account a “scam”; Musk replied “I love Bob” in April 2023 (decrypt.co)
2023-6-19 Twitter Elon Musk

Block announces an open beta program for Bitkey, its self-custodial Bitcoin wallet, with Coinbase and CashApp integrations (decrypt.co)
2023-6-18 Bitcoin Coinbase

Telecom Carriers Tackle Challenges in Emerging Markets: Remittance Delays, Forex Crunches, and High Costs Amid High Transaction Volume (decrypt.co)
2023-5-9

Bluesky is seeing an influx of users, who are “skeeting” on the Jack Dorsey-backed social network, including high-profile Twitter users like @dril and AOC (decrypt.co)
2023-4-28 Twitter

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