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Technology Trends in 2023
Technology Trends in 2023 As we move into the future, it’s important to stay up-to-date on the latest…
Crypto trading platform Mango Markets drained of more than $100 million in flash loan attack
Mango Market Loan Attack Mango Markets — a cryptocurrency trading platform — was robbed of more than $100…
US senators aim to amend cybersecurity bill to include crypto
senators amend cybersecurity bill As regulators around the world try to provide frameworks for the digital asset industry,…
Play now, pay later: Halliday bags $6M seed round led by a16z
Play now pay later Blockchain-based games have seen a surge in popularity, but playing them is getting expensive.…
Tesla has sold most of its Bitcoin holdings
Tesla bitcoin holdings In the face of the ongoing crypto winter, Elon Musk’s electric car company, Tesla, has…
Gary Vaynerchuk’s NFT project “VeeFriends” completes a $50 million seed round led by a16z
NFT Project VeeFriends Gary Vaynerchuk’s NFT universe is set to take flight after raising $50 million in a seed round…
NFT collector loses $150k in a joke gone wrong
NFT collector joke An Ethereum NFT whale who placed a joke bid of 100 ETH on an ENS…
Online donation platform Change helps charities fundraise in crypto
Online donation platform Crypto owners tend to be more generous than other investors when donating to charity, research shows.…
Crypto gaming firm Cauldron raises $6.6M to build ‘Pixar of web3’
Crypto gaming firm Cauldron A number of crypto gaming firms have ramped up production in the past year…
Hacker exploits Harmony blockchain bridge, loots $100M in crypto
harmony blockchain hack A hacker has exploited a vulnerability to steal $100 million from Harmony’s Horizon Bridge, which…
Dogecoin investor sues Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX for $258 billion
Dogecoin investor Elon Musk The crypto sell-off of the past several weeks has erased hundreds of billions of…
CyberConnect raises $15M Series A to put data back in the hands of users
cyberconnect data One of the promises made by web3 entrepreneurs is putting data back in the hands of…
Yuga Labs’ Otherdeed NFT sells for a record $1.5 million
Yuga Labs Otherdeed NFT In the buildup following Yuga Labs’ recently concluded Otherside metaverse mint, one of the…
John Legend’s NFT platform raises $7.5 million to fuel music collectibles
nft music collectibles Back in February Grammy Award-winning musician John Legend, alongside other notable names, co-founded Our Happy…
Revise raises $3.5 million to build rails for programming NFTs
programming nfts A popular criticism of NFTs is that they are just static JPEG files. Technically, they are…
Bored Ape Yacht Club Instagram hacked, attackers steal $2.8M worth of NFTs
bored ape yacht club Instagram hack On Monday, the official Instagram account of the popular Bored Ape Yacht…
North Korean hackers are targeting blockchain companies with malicious crypto-stealing apps
North Korean hackers targeting blockchain companies The U.S. government has warned that North Korean state-backed hackers known as…
Jack Dorsey’s $2.9M NFT tweet flops at auction
Jack Dorsey NFT Buying an NFT linked to a top entrepreneur or celebrity does not guarantee a massive return on…
US officials link North Korean Lazarus hackers to $625M Axie Infinity crypto theft
Lazarus hacks Axie Infinity U.S. officials have linked North Korean state-backed hacking group Lazarus to the recent theft of $625…
Coinbase announces film trilogy featuring Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs
Coinbase Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs Crypto and NFT trading platform Coinbase is developing a three-part animated short…
Axie Infinity creator raises $150M round to compensate victims of ~$625M Ronin hack
Axie Infinity Ronin hack Vietnamese gaming studio Sky Mavis announced that it has raised $150 million in funding led by…
Germany Shuts Down Russian Hydra Darknet Market; Seizes $25 Million in Bitcoin
Russian Hydra Darknet Market Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office, the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), on Tuesday announced the official takedown…
$350,000 Bored Ape NFT sells for just $115
$115 Bored Ape NFT The owner of Bored Ape #835 is probably beating himself up after mistakenly accepting…
Axie Infinity halts NFT game upgrade following $622M hack
Axie Infinity NFT hack Earlier this week, news broke that the Ronin Network sidechain, the blockchain behind the popular…
Gumi Cryptos Capital closes $110M second fund to back blockchain startups
San Francisco- and Tokyo-headquartered gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC), a venture capital firm that focuses on blockchain startups, said…
Malaysian minister advises government to legalize cryptos and NFTs
Malaysian government to legalize cryptos While Malaysia’s finance minister has labeled crypto payments as illegal, the region’s Ministry of…
Bored Apes creator Yuga Labs raises $450 million, valued at $4 billion
Bored Apes Yuga Labs Earlier this week, the creators of the now-popular Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection,…
Rare Bears NFT loses $790,000 worth of NFTs in a phishing attack
Rare Bears NFT phishing attack Last month, some users of the leading NFT marketplace OpenSea fell victim to…
Ukraine’s president signs law to legalize crypto as digital donations roll in
Ukraine’s president legalize crypto A month ago, Ukraine’s parliament passed a bill to legalize cryptocurrency, preparing a framework…
Bored Apes NFT project gets official ‘ApeCoin’ token
Bored Apes ApeCoin token Even among the fastest-growing crypto startups, Yuga Labs has had a particularly explosive year. The startup…