First Abu Dhabi Bank completes cross-border payments testing on JPMorgan Onyx
JPMorgan’s Onyx Coin Systems has scored another win in the Middle East with the completion of a blockchain-based cross-border payments...
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British MPs urge action on NFT copyright infringement, crypto fan tokens
A bipartisan parliamentary committee has urged the government of the United Kingdom to protect creators from copyright infringement associated with...
Ordswap urges users to recover keys after losing control of website
Ordswap, a marketplace that allows users to inscribe, auction, and trade Bitcoin Ordinals, has devised a method for users to...
OpenSea ‘unaware’ of any involvement of former exec in $60M rug pull
Nonfungible token (NFT) platform OpenSea says it is unaware of any evidence pointing to a former employee being involved in...
Stars Arena secures funds to plug $3M exploit, set to reopen after security audit
Avalanche-based Web3 social media app Stars Arena announced that it has secured the funding to cover the $3 million hole...
September sets 2023 exploit record, and DAOs can democratize science: Finance Redefined
Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you...
SocialFi app Stars Arena dispels ‘coordinated FUD’ after patching ‘noob’ vulnerability
The team behind the new Friend.tech-inspired protocol Stars Arena has dismissed what it called “coordinated FUD” after patching an exploit...
Friend.tech clone Stars Arena drives surge of activity on Avalanche
Decentralized social media (DeSo) application Stars Arena has caused a major uptick in activity on Avalanche’s C-Chain network.As network activity...
Friend.tech users blame SIM swaps after more than 100 ETH drained in a week
Friend.tech users are warning of possible SIM-swap attacks after a recent spate of supposed hacks resulting in nearly 109 Ether...
Chainalysis axes another 15% of staff citing difficult market conditions
Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis has reduced its headcount by another 15% this week, citing the need to reduce expenses due...
Tokenization is “securitization done on steroids” — Franklin Templeton CEO
Securitization, a practice with over 50 years of history, is undergoing a dramatic transformation, believes Jenny Johnson, CEO of Franklin...
Brazil rolls out blockchain-based digital ID
Over 214 million Brazilians will soon be using blockchain technology for digital identity, the government recently announced.Rio de Janeiro, Goiás,...
Do Kwon dismisses Slack chat records as irrelevant evidence
Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon has contested the significance of exposed Slack messages presented as evidence. The chat involved discussing...
PayPal applies for NFT marketplace patent for on- or off-chain asset trading
PayPal made major progress toward creating its own blockchain ecosystem by filing a patent application for a nonfungible token (NFT)...
IBM, Microsoft, others form post-quantum cryptography coalition
IBM Quantum and Microsoft have formed a coalition to tackle post-quantum cryptography alongside not-for-profit research tank MITRE, United Kingdom-based cryptography...
Bitcoin Ordinals haven’t wrestled blockspace from money TXs: Glassnode
Despite concerns that Bitcoin Ordinals are clogging the network, there is little evidence to suggest inscriptions are taking blockspace away...
Bitcoin Ordinals creator Casey Rodarmor pitches BRC-20 alternative ‘Runes’
The inventor of Bitcoin Ordinals is proposing a new Bitcoin-based fungible token protocol as a potential alternative to the BRC-20...
Chainlink downplays worries after users notice quiet change to multisig
Decentralized oracle network Chainlink has downplayed a recent change in the number of signers required on its multisig wallet —...
DeFi activity on the decline, but investment rolls in: Finance Redefined
Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you...
Base surges past Solana as total value locked nears $400M
The total value locked (TVL) on Coinbase’s layer 2 network Base has surged to $397.32 million in roughly a month...
Uniswap launches educational platform with DoDAO
On Sept. 21, decentralized exchange (DEX) Uniswap launched an educational platform in conjunction with the blockchain education-focused DoDAO.According to the...
Bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney talks ZK-proofs in 25-year-old unearthed footage
Early Bitcoin (BTC) pioneer Hal Finney shared his vision for zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs more than 25 years ago, a full decade...
