Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin is poised to chart new territory following the success of recently approved exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and the price of BTC could eclipse $80,000 this year, says Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan. The early success of the Bitcoin ETFs has shattered records among similar products, sparking a continuous flow of funds into Bitcoin since […]

The PIXEL token for the blockchain farming game Pixels will debut on Monday via Binance following the latest play-to-airdrop campaign that helped drive surging adoption for both the game and the network it runs on, Ethereum sidechain Ronin. It’s the culmination of a long journey for Pixels that started in 2021, and founder Luke Barwikowski

‘Pixels’ Founder Luke Barwikowski on the Game’s Wild Rise and Ronin Move Ahead of the PIXEL token launch, Pixels game founder Luke Barwikowski joins Decrypt’s Andrew Hayward to discuss the hectic last few months—and why the game migrated between Ethereum scaling networks, from Polygon to Ronin. Source link

Arcade, the Ethereum-based DeFi protocol for NFT lending, will launch the next airdrop of its native ARCD token next week, the company has announced.  On February 21, bundles of 750 ARCD tokens will be airdropped to 4,000 lucky holders of select NFT and Bitcoin Ordinals collections frequently used as loan collateral on Arcade. Some 2,000

Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt. Bitcoin is still trading comfortably above the $50,000 mark, which it soared past at the start of the week. The biggest digital coin by market cap is now priced at $51,959, having risen by more than 10% over seven days. The asset started off strong when it hit $50K

If Joe Biden wants a smart and folksy AI chatbot to answer questions for him, his campaign team won’t be able to use Claude, the ChatGPT competitor from Anthropic, the company announced today. “We don’t allow candidates to use Claude to build chatbots that can pretend to be them, and we don’t allow anyone to

Prices and trading volume for Ethereum NFT collection Moonbirds rose sharply Friday afternoon, following the announcement that Bored Ape Yacht Club maker Yuga Labs had acquired the IP for the collection alongside creator Proof. But sizable spikes in the last couple days have fueled speculation of insider trading ahead of the reveal. According to data

The price of Bitcoin surged this week, touching highs not seen since the 2021 bull run. But will it last? News has dropped that a U.S. bankruptcy judge granted bankrupt crypto lender Genesis permission to sell $1.6 billion in Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) shares. The idea is to pay back creditors waiting on their cash

Nearly two years after Bored Ape Yacht Club creator Yuga Labs made the very public suggestion that the ApeCoin DAO—the community of holders that governs the token—should consider launching its own chain to avoid Ethereum mainnet fees and hiccups, the so-called “ApeChain” is finally coming. And it’ll run on Arbitrum tech. On Wednesday, ApeCoin DAO

How Arbitrum Won the ‘ApeChain’ Vote for an ApeCoin Ethereum Scaler Offchain Labs co-founder and CEO Steven Goldfeder joined Rug Radio’s “FOMO Hour” to discuss the ApeCoin DAO’s vote to create an Ethereum layer-2 gaming network on Arbitrum for the Bored Ape Yacht Club ecosystem. Source link