ALEX, a decentralized finance (DeFi) services startup founded by former Wall Street veterans, has today announced it raised $5.8M in a round led by White Star Capital [...]
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15 November 2021 14:01
From the art world to gaming to sports, the hype around non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has exploded in 2021. But as the technology matures, NFT developers are exploring [...]
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15 November 2021 13:04
Sian Berry, a Green Party London Assembly member, has called for a ban on cryptocurrency ads following a three-week-long Floki Inu campaign on the London Underground. For [...]
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15 November 2021 12:49
It pays to be early in crypto. And today is no different. As part of its first-ever token launch, decentralized finance (DeFi) project ParaSwap announced today that [...]
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15 November 2021 12:00
ConstitutionDAO, a new decentralized autonomous organization dedicated to preserving the U.S. Constitution, is planning to pool capital using an Ethereum smart contract to purchase a first-edition printed [...]
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15 November 2021 00:30
Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt This week on crypto Twitter: Jimmy Fallon joined the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT craze, Discord CEO Jason Citron hinted that [...]
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14 November 2021 18:26
Yesterday, the amount of Ethereum traded daily on NFT marketplace OpenSea jumped from around $48 million to $105 million, according to Dune Analytics. The last time that [...]
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14 November 2021 14:52
A long-awaited upgrade to the Bitcoin network is finally here. The new protocol, Taproot, preserves privacy on the Bitcoin blockchain by obscuring complicated transactions. It also makes [...]
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14 November 2021 09:11
This week in coins. Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt. Bitcoin and Ethereum got off to a flying start on Monday when they both set all-time highs. [...]
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13 November 2021 16:32
The chat app Discord has quickly become the de facto home for DAOs, the hottest new thing in crypto. DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations) are working groups that [...]
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13 November 2021 15:04
On Thursday, the website for leading Tezos NFT marketplace Hic et Nunc suddenly disappeared with no explanation. The only breadcrumb was an update to Hic et Nunc’s [...]
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13 November 2021 14:05
DeFi Friday is Decrypt’s DeFi email newsletter. (art: Grant Kempster) Last week we dug into some interesting updates around O.G. DeFi protocol Maker. There were many notable [...]
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13 November 2021 12:24