Games need bots? Illivium CEO admits ‘it’s tough,’ Web3 games 42X upside: Web3 Gamer
Is a game even a game without bots? Pixels CEO doesn’t think so Some think that bots in games is...
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Meta to fight AI-generated fake news with ‘invisible watermarks’
Social media giant Meta, formerly known as Facebook, will include an invisible watermark in all images it creates using artificial...
Judge accepts Binance CEO CZ’s guilty plea, with sentencing in Feb
A federal judge has accepted Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao’s guilty plea to money laundering but hasn’t decided whether he...
Terraform’s Do Kwon mounts last-ditch effort to avoid extradition: Report
Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon has launched his final attempt to appeal a Montenegrin court’s decision that could see him...
Canadian crypto exchanges reach $1B in assets under management
Bitbuy and Coinsquare, two of the largest crypto exchanges domiciled in Canada, have surpassed 1 billion Canadian dollars ($736 million) in...
Bitcoin the ‘main beneficiary’ as crypto funds notch 10-week streak
Bitcoin (BTC)-related investment products have become the “main beneficiary” of recent investor interest in crypto amid growing anticipation of a...
Artists aim to thwart AI with data-poisoning software and legal action
As the use of artificial intelligence (AI) has permeated the creative media space — especially art and design — the...
Cathie Wood’s ARK dumps 237K Coinbase shares at $140 per stock
ARK Invest, one of the firms hoping to launch a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) next year, is continuing to...
Riot Platforms buys $291M in BTC rigs as miners rake it in from Ordinals
Bitcoin (BTC) miner Riot Platforms is buying 66,560 mining rigs from manufacturer MicroBT in one of its largest expansions of...
Bitcoin futures open interest on CME nears 2021 all-time high
Bitcoin (BTC) futures open interest has reached $5.2 billion on the global derivatives giant Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), $200 million...
US crypto firms spent more on lobbying in 2023 than before FTX collapse: Report
Companies connected to the crypto and blockchain industry in the United States reportedly spent roughly $3 million more on lobbying...
Robinhood crypto trading rises 75% in Nov, CEO tips ‘9 figures’ in revenue
Crypto-friendly trading platform Robinhood has reported a 75% month-on-month increase in digital asset trading volume in November.In a Form 8-K...
Italy and South Korea central banks agree on CBDC cooperation
Banca d’Italia — Italy’s central bank — announced on Dec. 5 through its official channels that it has entered into a...
Web3 firm detects major security flaw in common smart contracts
Smart contract development firm Thirdweb reported a security vulnerability that potentially “impacts a variety of smart contracts across the Web3...
Hashdex tips spot Bitcoin ETFs to trade by Q2, followed by Ethereum
Hashdex, one of the 13 asset managers vying for spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund, expects to see the first spot...
Coinbase, Marathon stocks surge as Bitcoin lights ‘fire in the cauldron’
Publicly traded crypto firms have notched triple-digit percentage returns this year and closed up in green on Dec. 4, as...
IBM says it will have hit a quantum computing ‘inflection point’ by 2029
IBM announced the unveiling of its 1,121-qubit “Condor” quantum computing processor on Dec. 4. This is the company’s largest by...
Bybit sees BTC, ETH ‘flight’ of institutional investors to stablecoins, but not for long
The cryptocurrency exchange Bybit released its fourth quarter report on Dec. 4, highlighting and comparing trends between its institutional and...
AstraZeneca partners with AI company to find cure for cancer
The pharmaceutical company that developed one of the vaccines for COVID-19, AstraZeneca, will partner with a United States-based Artificial Intelligence...
South Korean financial authorities solicit reports on unlicensed crypto exchanges
Financial regulators in South Korea released an update on Dec. 4 asking users to report any unlicensed cryptocurrency exchanges offering...
Bitcoin is of ‘national strategic importance’ says US Space Force officer
The United States needs to formally investigate using proof-of-work networks such as Bitcoin (BTC) to protect the country from cyber-inflicted warfare,...
Arbitrum DAO passes $23M extra budget to fund all grant applicants
The Arbitrum DAO has confirmed the disbursement of millions in extra tokens to fund all projects approved on its latest...
