Why We’re (Still) Investing in Web3 Gaming For innovation, adoption and impact, gaming stands out as a leading use case for blockchain technology, say Leah Callon-Butler and Nathan Smale, directors of Web3 advisory firm, Emfarsis.

Lionel Messi Promotes Obscure Meme Coin on Instagram, Leading to 350% Surge

Top Crypto VC Says Ex-General Partner Made Undisclosed Side Deal With Portfolio Company Polychain says Niraj Pant broke the fund’s policies by secretly accepting “adviser” tokens from Eclipse.

What Still Needs to Happen Before Spot Ether ETFs Can Trade There’s a lot of excitement over the possibility that a spot ether exchange-traded fund (ETF) may be around the corner. Here’s what still needs to happen before one may launch.

Former FTX Execs Nishad Singh, Gary Wang to Be Sentenced Later This Year Former FTX Director of Engineering Nishad Singh and former Chief Technology Officer Gary Wang are set to be sentenced this fall in the ongoing criminal case against what was once a global crypto exchange before it collapsed in historic fashion near the end of 2022.

Ether ETF Fee Race Begins as Invesco Reveals 0.25% Charge, Slightly Higher Than VanEck

TON Blockchain Will Release New Layer-2 Based On Polygon’s Technology The new protocol, called the TON Applications Chain (TAC), will make use of Polygon’s Chain Development Kit (CDK), as well as their AggLayer.

Move Over Hollywood: Why Gaming Is the New King of Entertainment To stay relevant in this dynamic environment, the entertainment industry must integrate emerging technologies like blockchain, or be satisfied with increasingly reduced engagement, says Yemel Jardi, co-founder of Decentraland.

Bitcoin Little-Changed Above $57K as Fed Chair Powell Testifies to Congress Jerome Powell made clear that central bank policymakers are focused on downside risks to the economy as much as they are inflation.

DePIN 2.0: What the Next Generation of DePINs Is Doing Differently The “second-mover advantage” phenomenon is playing out in real-time in the DePIN sector.

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: ICP and ETH Lead Gains as Index Climbs 1.9% All 20 assets within the CoinDesk 20 are trading higher today.

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Regains $57K Following $300M of ETF Inflows The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for July 9, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

Storj Acquires Cloud Computing Firm Valdi; Terms Undisclosed Valdi allows customers to use available GPU compute cycles in data centers across the world.

Bitcoin Steady Above $57K as Germany Moves 6.3K BTC to Exchanges The German government entity has moved hundreds of millions worth of BTC to exchanges in the past few weeks, contributing to selling pressure and bearish sentiment.

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.