World Chain, Sam Altman’s Layer-2 Project, Opens to Developers This means that select developers can apply to build, test, and give feedback to Tools For Humanity, the developer firm behind Worldcoin, according to a press release shared with CoinDesk.

Why Crypto Donations Are Surging in 2024 After a decade of tax incentives and transparency attracting philanthropists to crypto, Web3 innovation is adding fuel to the fire.

Ex-Valkyrie CEO Leah Wald to Take Reins of Crypto Investment Firm Cypherpunk The co-founder and former Valkyrie CEO will the digital asset management firm to “push boundaries” of crypto investing.

Bitcoin Cash’s Mt. Gox-Led Sell-Off Is Amplified by Poor Liquidity Slippage, or price changes during execution of a trade, in the BCH market surged last week, signaling weak liquidity .

Decentralized Crypto Exchange WOOFi Uses Gaming Style NFTs to Boost DeFi So-called “Boosters” enhance the yield from WOO tokens, which are staked to earn a share of the DEX’s fees.

Blockchain Startup Rome Raises $9M to Serve Ethereum Layer-2s Through Solana Shared sequencers and data availability (DA) are services that Rome could provide, as blockchain builders increasingly rely on “modular” networks to handle Ethereum’s myriad components and functions.

Crypto Wallet Provider Exodus Aims to Solve Web3’s User-Friendly Issue With ‘Passkeys Wallet’ The new wallet is able to bypass need for seed phrases, browser extensions or email verifications to use decentralized apps.

Standard Chartered-Backed Zodia Custody Partners with Crypto Lending Firm Maple Finance

Drop in Bitcoin Mining Difficulty ‘Comparable to FTX Collapse,’ CryptoQuant Says Miners’ profitability has been hit as the daily revenues fell from $78 million pre-halving to $26 million currently, one market analyst noted.

Bullish Drivers Remain In Play Despite Germany’s Bitcoin Sales and Mt. Gox Reimbursements Macro factors and persistent “risk-on” in traditional markets suggest a promising outlook after BTC-specific supply overhangs run dry.

Bitcoin ETF Traders Buy The Dip With Nearly $300M Inflows Such inflows are the highest since early June, data shows, with Blackrock’s BTC ETF taking on almost $190 million.

MetaMask Developer Consensys Releases New Toolkit for ‘Seamless Onboarding’ The Delegation Toolkit will allow for instant user onboarding without needing to interact with a traditional wallet, in addition to eliminating “user friction completely,” meaning no pop-ups or confirmations when switching between a decentralized application and wallet.

Bitcoin, Ether Reverse Losses as Germany Gets Back $200M BTC From Exchanges Earlier Monday, BTC dropped to as low as $55,000 shortly after an address belonging to the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) sent over $900 million to various addresses.

Australian Securities Exchange Gives Green Light to DigitalX’s Bitcoin ETF DigitalX Bitcoin ETF will trade on the ASX as BTXX.

VanEck, 21Shares Solana ETF Plan Confirmed in Cboe Filing The Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe) has officially asked the SEC to let asset managers VanEck and 21Shares bring a Solana-based exchange-traded fund (ETF) to the market.

Trump’s Official Republican Platform Pledges to Halt Crypto ‘Crackdown’ Former President Donald Trump’s Republican Party has officially adopted a platform that would seek to support cryptocurrency innovation, according to the document released Monday by the Republican National Committee.

BlackRock’s BUIDL Fund Tops $500M as Tokenized Treasury Market Soars The overall market of tokenized U.S. Treasury products has reached $1.8 billion, up from $780 million in January, rwa.xyz data shows.

Crypto-Friendly Sen. JD Vance’s Odds as Trump VP Pick Double on Polymarket Traders on the crypto-based prediction market now see a 29% chance that the Ohio Republican will be former President Trump’s running mate, up from 14% a week ago.

Play-to-Earn Is Dead. Why Tap-to-Earn Marks a Big Shift Clicker giants like Notcoin, TapSwap, Yescoin and Hamster Kombat have shown how blockchain games can reach millions of users, says Alena Shmalko, Ecosystem Lead at TON Foundation.

Catizen’s Tim Wong: ‘We Are Here to Build a Business Ecosystem’ The Chairman of the Catizen Foundation explains how the team behind the Web3 game attracted 23 million players, and how it hopes to build a lasting franchise.