Blockchain

I'm excited to invite you to the first Newhouse Advanced Media Lab Series event (April 13, 6:30 p.m. EST): "Engage-to-Earn: Paradigm Shift or Parlor Trick?" Continue Reading →

U.S. government prosecutors have charged two men with fraud and money laundering over a cryptocurrency “rug pull” scheme. Continue Reading →

Solana-based NFT marketplace Neon soft-launched the first NFT vending machine (located at 29 John St in Manhattan) back in December. Now, the vending machine is open 24 hours a day and allows collectors to buy Solana NFTs with a credit card. Continue Reading →

Are you ready to learn about Web3? Shelly Palmer talks with Dan Bowens on Fox 5's Good Day New York about Metacademy.xyz, the new training academy built by The Palmer Group, Blockchain Foundry, and CATBOTICA. Continue Reading →

This past Saturday, hackers socially engineered approximately 32 OpenSea users into signing incomplete contracts and stole 254 NFTs. Although it was a phishing attack, it caused a bit of a panic.  Continue Reading →

Bank of America crypto strategists Andrew Moss and Alkesh Shah wrote in a note that central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) “are an inevitable evolution of today’s electronic currencies,” according to a Bloomberg report. Continue Reading →

Wikipedia editors recently voted against classifying NFTs as art, but they shelved the issue for another vote at a later date. The question: is an NFT "art" or a "token representing the art"? You may think this is a distinction without a difference, but I assure you it is not. Continue Reading →

A report in The Wall Street Journal suggests GameStop has a 20-person unit working on a DeFi marketplace, set to launch later this year, which will offer in-game goods as supply-limited, cryptographically-signed NFTs. Continue Reading →

A hacker exploited the Polygon-based Vulcan Forged NFT Marketplace and got hold of the private keys from 96 crypto wallets, which enabled the hacker to steal 4.5 million PYR tokens (worth about $140 million). According to crypto.com, Vulcan Forged's PYR token is down 12% this morning. Continue Reading →

ConstitutionDAO (a decentralized autonomous organization created to purchase a rare copy of the U.S. Constitution) raised $49.8 million in ETH. Its auction bid was not successful, so it began refunding the unused ETH to members of the DAO. Continue Reading →