Cryptocurrency

Hackers have grown more sophisticated and continue to rake in billions of dollars from crypto exploits. The good news? There isn’t any—2024 has officially surpassed last year’s totals for stolen funds, with months of hacks piling on to an already record-breaking year.  By Q3 2024, blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs reported that over $2.2 billion […]

Crypto was dumb in 2024—like, really dumb. This year’s meme coin supercycle spawned the most bizarre characters the industry has ever seen, which is saying a lot, and conferences had us cringing weekly, all while politicians begged on their knees for the crypto vote (or at least its money). And with this, we’ve enjoyed some

While the crypto market’s latest bull run has put extra cash in industry players’ pockets, Ol’ Saint Nick is preparing to put coal in some of their stockings.   From controversial founders to outright scammers, several key figures in crypto landed themselves on Santa’s “Naughty List” in 2024.  Here are Decrypt’s picks for the seven naughtiest

Santa made his list and he checked it twice, and Decrypt has all the tea on who’s been naughty or nice in the crypto industry over the past year. From crypto CEOs who advocate for the industry to NFT project founders who use their good fortune to help others, several Web3 workhorses made their way

Yann LeCun, Meta’s Chief AI Scientist and a Turing Award laureate, has long been a pivotal figure in artificial intelligence. During the past year, however, his work has not only continued to push the boundaries of AI research but also sparked critical discussions about how society should approach the opportunities and risks posed by this

Matador Technologies, a Canadian crypto firm, said Monday that it would begin leveraging Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset, starting with a $4.5 million purchase later this month. The little-known company has been developing a platform on top of Bitcoin’s network, which will enable users to one day purchase and trade digital representations of gold,

Crypto.com rolled out a sports prediction market in the U.S. Monday amid a surge in gambling on real-world events among digital asset holders.  The offering will serve a growing crop of crypto traders who want to wager on real-world events outcomes, leveraging Crypto.com’s popularity with sports fans in the U.S., Matt David, a company spokesperson,

As blockchain networks grow and serve more users, their scale—measured by the volume of transactions and participants—can both solve and create challenges. Blockchains running programs that automate agreements, like smart contracts, often face significant challenges, especially those with large, active user bases. Too many users are trying to do things simultaneously, and the Ethereum Virtual

The price of Bitcoin fell below $93,000 Monday, hitting its lowest price in nearly a month—since November 26—as a so-called Santa Claus rally failed to materialize and the crypto charts looked as red as the holiday icon’s suit. Less than a week ago, the leading cryptocurrency traded hands above $108,000, rising to a record price

OpenAI’s latest AI model family has achieved what many thought impossible, scoring an unprecedented 87.5% on the challenging, so-called Autonomous Research Collaborative Artificial General Intelligence benchmark—basically near the minimum threshold for what could theoretically be considered “human.” The ARC-AGI benchmark tests how close a model is to achieving artificial general intelligence, meaning whether it can