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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Turkey Forces Crypto Exchanges to Report More Customer Information

Turkey Forces Crypto Exchanges to Report More Customer Information

The Turkish government has added cryptocurrency exchanges to the list of firms subject to the country’s anti-money laundering and terrorism financing (AML-TF) regulations. The regulatory change took immediate effect after the presidential decree—similar to an executive order in the US—was published in the Official Gazette today. By applying those rules to crypto, the government now […]

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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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Crypto’s Cold War: US and China’s Battle for Blockchain Supremacy

Crypto’s Cold War: US and China’s Battle for Blockchain Supremacy

America’s relationship with China could be best described as “frosty”. The first and second-largest economies in the world have increasingly found themselves at loggerheads; from trade to finance, artificial intelligence to telecoms. China and the US have also clashed diplomatically over China’s handling of its neighbors, in particular, Taiwan. China sees the island nation as […]

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