Category: ETH

CryptoPunks Creators Just Launched Meebits, NFT Resales Already Top  Million

CryptoPunks Creators Just Launched Meebits, NFT Resales Already Top $3 Million

Larva Labs, the two-man development team behind the wildly popular CryptoPunks NFT series, has announced a new set of NFTs called Meebits. Where CryptoPunks were pixelated 2D icons, Meebits are 3D avatars rendered in voxels (pixels with volume—hence, “voxels”). They’re algorithmically generated, and attached to NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain, which means the standard ethical […]

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Ethereum Moves Toward ETH 2.0 With ‘Super Experimental’ Testnet

Ethereum Moves Toward ETH 2.0 With ‘Super Experimental’ Testnet

Ethereum 2.0—the forthcoming proof-of-stake blockchain that promises to be faster and cheaper than the current network—is getting ready to deploy. Developers at several Ethereum software labs, as part of the ETH Global Scaling Hackathon project called Rayonism, today launched what one researcher termed “a super experimental Eth1-Eth2 post-merge testnetwork.” About 30 min from now we’re […]

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DeFi, NFT Booms Send MetaMask Past 5 Million Active Users

DeFi, NFT Booms Send MetaMask Past 5 Million Active Users

MetaMask, an Ethereum-based cryptocurrency wallet, has registered five million active users, according to its creator, blockchain software firm ConsenSys (which also funds an editorially independent Decrypt.) MetaMask is a browser extension and mobile app that allows people to interact with decentralized applications (dapps) on the Ethereum blockchain via a wallet where they can store the […]

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