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Cointelegraph.com - 14:16 May 01, 2025
Bitcoin is becoming a yield-generating asset class for institutions using DeFi strategies like staking, lending and Sharia-compliant tools. The demand for yield-generating strategies around Bitcoin (BTC) is surging, especially from firms seeking liquidity without liquidating their BTC, according to Ryan Chow, co-founder and CEO of Solv Protocol. During a fireside chat at the Token2049 conference in Dubai on May 1, Chow said institutional interest in Bitcoin yield products has grown exponentially over the past few years. Initially, generating Bitcoin yield was nearly impossible. However, recent innovations like staking via proof-of-stake (PoS) protocols and delta-neutral trading strategies have made this possible. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:30 Apr 30, 2025
BitcoinOS and Starknet are on the verge of adding smart contract functionality to Bitcoin — with, or without, the controversial OP_CAT fork. BitcoinOS and Starknet arent waiting around for the controversial OP_CAT hard fork to add new functionality to Bitcoin, with both projects devising innovative ways to scale Bitcoin using zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs right now. The projects have both demonstrated it’s possible to verify ZK-proofs on Bitcoins existing mainnet even if Bitcoins ultra-simple scripting language makes it difficult and expensive. This could create genuine Bitcoin L2s that inherit much of its security, and unlock the intriguing possibility of creating programmable tokens on Bitcoin itself. Best known as an Ethereum L2, Starknet wants to use the tech to scale Bitcoin to thousands of transactions per second, up from just 7 TPS today. “The ecosystem in Starknet is very, very enthusiastic about also expanding to Bitcoin,” co-founder Eli Ben-Sasson tells Magazine. BitcoinOS, meanwhile, claims it will s... -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:30 Apr 29, 2025
Global TV hit Peaky Blinders will launch a crypto spin-off in 2026. The makers say it “could be THE game to take Web3 Gaming mainstream.” If youve played the FIFA soccer/football video game anytime in the past few decades, youll have that classic E…A…Sports tagline burned into your brain. But for the first time ever, a new FIFA game is dropping without itand it’s on the blockchain. Built on Polkadot, the new mobile game FIFA Rivals will launch its pre-release in May, before its global launch in June, just in time for the FIFA Club World Cup. It comes from Web3 gaming studio Mythical Games theyre the developers behind the National Football Leagues official blockchain game, NFL Rivals. Much like NFL Rivals, soccer/football fans can build their own teams, play real matches, and trade NFTs of their favorite players. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 23:18 Apr 26, 2025
Crypto analysts are casting doubt over Bitcoin’s return to $100,000, Sam Bankman-Fried moves prison: Hodler’s Digest Michael Saylor, the CEO of top corporate Bitcoin holder Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), expressed support for new US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Paul Atkins. In an April 23 X post, Saylor wrote that SEC Chairman Paul Atkins will be good for Bitcoin. The statement follows Atkins swearing-in as the 34th chairman of the SEC on April 21. Blue Macellari, head of digital assets at investment firm T. Rowe Price, also commented on Atkins in a recent Bloomberg interview. She seemed hopeful and recognized a change in how the SEC has acted under the new administration, particularly with crypto-related information, including close to six or seven roundtables with industry professionals. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 22:47 Apr 24, 2025
Clues suggest that Pokémon is headed to Sui, a Filipino Cardinal is a leading Pope candidate on Polymarket, and more. Asia Express Pokmon and crypto fans are speculating that the beloved monster-collecting universe could be taking its first steps into Web3 via the Sui blockchain. On April 23, The Pokmon Company released an update for its Pokmon HOME mobile app, a cloud-based hub for managing and trading Pokmon characters across various games and devices. The update dropped a new medal collection feature, but what really caught the crypto communitys attention was a quiet change in the apps privacy policy. In certain regions, the policy now adds Parasol Technologies as one of the developers that The Pokmon Company may share user data with. Parasol is a blockchain gaming studio recently acquired by Mysten Labs, the core team behind the Sui blockchain. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:30 Apr 24, 2025
Crypto AI tokens are now more popular than memecoins, robot butlers arrive, plus why does ChatGPT constantly kiss your ass? AI Eye. The crypto AI sector is showing signs of life, with the combined market cap increasing by more than one-third in the past two weeks. The sector soared to a combined market cap of $70.42 billion back in mid-January and just as quickly plummeted back to earth, bottoming out at $21.46 billion on April 9, according to CoinMarketCap. Its now back at $28.8 billion, with much of the growth in the past week. Near gained 26% in the past seven days, Render is up 23%, the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance gained 36%, and Bittensor surged 47%. (That said, even Ether gained 14% this week, so everything has been going up.) The AI crypto sectors outperformance came hot on the heels of a CoinGecko report on April 17 that found that five of the top 20 crypto narratives are AI-related, capturing 35.7% of global investor interest ahead of six memecoin narratives, which had a 27.1% share. The mo... -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:30 Apr 23, 2025
Ethereum’s lead in the $16.1T tokenization race could slip away if maxis don’t insist it’s the only acceptable source for truth for RWAs. For years, the default assumption in the Ethereum community has been that it will inevitably become the global settlement layer for finance. It didnt matter that retail was jumping ship for faster and cheaper chains like Solana and Aptos TradFi would recognize that Ethereum is the most battle-tested, credibly neutral and decentralized network, making it the only viable option for what Boston Consulting Group predicts will be a $16.1-trillion market by 2030. There are signs the prophecy is coming true. BlackRock, Fidelity, Wisdom Tree, Sony, Deutsche Bank, UBS and Coinbase are all making Ethereum the core of their onchain strategies. Last week, Ethereum-based platform Blocksquare announced a $1-billion deal with Vera Capital to tokenize US real estate, and Securitize and Ethena teamed up to launch the Converge L2 to tokenize billions more real-world assets (RWAs). Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:30 Apr 22, 2025
Former Love Island Australia star turned crypto influencer, Vanessa Sierra, shares her secrets for going viral in crypto. Vanessa Sierra went on Australian national television to find love but that didnt work out. A few years later, she accidentally got big on Crypto Twitter, which is almost as good. She says anyone can learn to go viral in crypto if they follow the right steps. Sierra thinks Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin would do well on Love Island as he is quite a funny person. I think hed be entertaining, Sierra tells Hall of Flame, but adds theres little chance hed ever join the show. After making a name for herself on Love Island Australia in 2019 and spending 14 days in the villa, Sierra says she had no intention of blowing up on Crypto Twitter. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 23:36 Apr 19, 2025
Swiss bank Sygnum says altcoins may see a resurgence in Q2 2025, Mantra CEO plans team token burn: Hodler’s Digest Mantra CEO John Mullin said he is planning to burn all of his teams tokens in order to win back the trust of the networks community following the sudden collapse of the Mantra (OM) token on April 13. Im planning to burn all of my team tokens and when we turn it around the community and investors can decide if I have earned it back, Mullin posted to X on April 16. Mantra set aside 300 million OM, 16.88% of the tokens nearly 1.78 billion total supply, for its team and core contributors. They are currently locked and were scheduled to be released in stages between April 2027 and October 2029, according to an April 8 blog post. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 22:34 Apr 17, 2025
Korea’s “cage pumping” crypto market manipulation, Chinese exchange grooming scandal, 67K scammed in Indian pig butchering con. Asia Express. Major cryptocurrency exchanges are under fire over allegations that they gave leveraged platform-locked funds to university students in China to encourage speculative trading. The controversy has drawn comparisons to the countrys campus lending scandal nearly a decade ago, when students burdened with debt were offered exploitative naked loans in exchange for nude pictures as collateral. Bruce Xu, co-founder of ETHPanda, claimed that centralized exchanges were giving students non-withdrawable trial funds for futures trading. Profits could be kept, and students who posted high-return screenshots on WeChat were reportedly offered additional rewards. Xu called the model a way of grooming the next generation of gambling degens. Crypto media outlet BlockBeats called on all exchanges to halt any trial fund promotions targeting students, describing the campaigns as exploitative... -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:30 Apr 17, 2025
Former X Factor star Violetta Zironi, sold a song for 1 BTC and generated 340 ETH in sales but says OnlyFans performers get more respect. Violetta Zironi, a 30-year-old Italian singer-songwriter, might just be the poster child for Web3 music. Her path as a musician shot out of the gates at the age of 18, when she finished third on the popular reality TV show, X-Factor Italy in 2013. Since her TV stardom, Zironi ditched a music label deal with Sony Records that she felt took advantage of her and now mints her songs on the blockchain. In a little over three years, Zironi has built and cultivated a community of fans who see value in owning her music as NFTs. Now based in Nashville, Tennessee, she recently sold a 1 of 1 song titled “n0 0rdinary kind” for 1 Bitcoin ($60,000 at the time) as an Ordinal, and has amassed over $2.5 million in revenue through her music NFTs, including her debut collection “Moonshot” on Ethereum where the artwork was done by her father, a renowned Disney visual artist. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:30 Apr 16, 2025
AI replicas trained on your digital footprint can take meetings, answer questions from clients and comfort loved ones after you die. If artificial intelligence could stand in for you, take your meetings, answer your emails, and even comfort your loved ones long after youre gone, would you let it? Thats no longer a hypothetical question. Around the world, a new class of startups is building digital twins AI replicas of real people that act, speak and remember just like their human counterparts. These arent just souped-up chatbots or gimmicky holograms; theyre serious attempts to capture human essence in machine form, with real-world use cases and profound cultural implications. The idea might sound like science fiction. In some cases, it already looks like an episode of Black Mirror. The Re;Memory project in South Korea helped pioneer the concept by allowing bereaved families speak to a hyper-realistic AI version of their deceased loved ones, complete with recorded memories and facial expressions. DeepBrain AI... -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:30 Apr 15, 2025
Risk-to-earn game Cambria is so good pro-gamer Inhuman forgot to shower for two days. Plus, Pixels token goes “multi-game”: Web3 Gamer. Season 2 of Cambria the risk-to-earn game thats like if Hunger Games and crypto had a baby just launched and is capturing the attention of the crypto gaming community like no other game has in 2025. Inspired by classics like Runescape and Ultima, the game is based on Ronin and Abstract. Its set in a brutal medieval fantasy world and players stake crypto, NFTs and other in-game assets but if they lose a battle, they can lose everything theyve put on the line. This ones not for the faint-hearted. Popular gaming streamer Yellow Panther admitted he is addicted to the game. Gaming commentator Karina said the game has her hooked. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 23:31 Apr 12, 2025
Shaquille O’Neal cleared to settle Astrals NFT lawsuit, Bitcoin $100K target still in play, and more: Hodler’s Digest Former NBA star Shaquille ONeal has been granted final court approval to settle a class-action lawsuit for $11 million with Astrals non-fungible token (NFT) buyers. Florida federal court judge Federico Moreno granted approval of the settlement between ONeal and the class group led by Daniel Harper in an April 1 order made available on April 8. The deal created a fund of up to $11 million for eligible class members and awarded $2.9 million in attorney fees and costs. All those who purchased Astrals NFTs from May 2022 to Jan. 15 and those who purchased the projects native GLXY tokens up until mid-January are eligible. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 22:36 Apr 10, 2025
South Korean police bust illegal gaming arcade LARPing as a legit Bitcoin mine, fake soldiers rob women of crypto in China. Asia Express. In a scam that combined a fake relationship, fake crypto and real doorbells, a woman in Xuzhou, a city in eastern Chinas Jiangsu Province, lost over $55,000 to a man who pitched USDT investments and sent a cash collector to her home. Five suspects have been arrested and the investigation is ongoing. According to a notice published via the official WeChat account of the local police, the victim was first contacted by a man claiming to be an active-duty soldier. He gained her trust by invoking military rules that supposedly prohibited the use of WeChat, and directed her to download a separate app for private communication. As their conversations grew more frequent and familiar, the man shared a fabricated story about a friend who had joined the state-run Tobacco bureau after retiring from the military and had access to internal data. He claimed they had already earned substan... -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:30 Apr 10, 2025
Secret UK government “Murder Prediction’ AI system revealed, deepfake lawyer struck off, Kawasaki’s bizarre rideable robot horse: AI Eye. Pressure group Statewatch has revealed the UKs Ministry of Justice has been working on a dystopian AI Murder Prediction program that uses algorithms to analyze large data sets and predict who is most likely to become a killer. Thats basically the plot of Minority Report. Documents outlining the scheme were uncovered in Freedom of Information requests. In them, the MoJ says the program aims to review offender characteristics that increase the risk of committing homicide and explore alternative and innovative data science techniques to risk assessment of homicide. Statewatch says data from ordinary citizens is being used as part of the project, although officials claim the data is only those with a criminal record. Researcher Sofia Lyall called the project chilling and dystopian and said it would likely end up targeting minority communities. Building an automated tool to prof... -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:30 Apr 09, 2025
What if you could harness the power of memecoin degeneracy to solve the biggest problems humanity has ever faced: aging and death? Memecoins generate a lot of financial activity without creating much real-world impact. But what if you could harness the power of memecoin degeneracy to solve the biggest problems humanity has ever faced: aging and death? Thats the essential idea behind a raft of anti-aging crypto projects, including VitaDAO, CryoDAO, BiohackerDAO and others. But its Pump.science that takes the idea to its logical extreme. The fledgling platform has just started taking orders for its first-ever anti-aging or longevity supplement called Urolithin A. The compound is believed to increase mitophagy, which is the bodys clean-up and replacement system for the mitochondria that power your cells. Whats unusual is that research into its effects on longevity was funded by crypto degens buying up a related token. The platforms community decides what compounds to research and funds the experiments by buying ... -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:30 Apr 08, 2025
Former ETH maxi, Infinex’s Kain Warwick, revealed he has sold 90% of his Ethereum — but he’s not giving up on it just yet. X Hall of Flame Infinex founder Kain Warwick has a few ideas on how hype could return to the fading asset that is Ethereum but says theres no one easy narrative to breathe life back into it. Theres no fucking certainty in ETH land right now, Warwick tells Hall of Flame, but that doesnt mean a comeback is off the table. If theres demand for ETH the asset, demand for block space on the L1, that will drive things, he says. Warwick, who admits he sold off 90% of his ETH bag since late 2020, thinks Ethereum could regain momentum if layer-2 networks finally start paying their fair share for using the base layers security. Charging L2s more, capturing more of the value that L2s are generating and increasing that kind of margin on blockspace would be really bullish for the L1, Warwick says. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 23:23 Apr 05, 2025
Bitcoin heading to $70K soon? Crypto baller funds SpaceX flight: Hodler’s Digest, March 30 – April 5
A crypto analyst eyes Bitcoin’s potential retrace to $70K, a crypto investor funds a SpaceX flight, and more: Hodler’s Digest BitMEX co-founder and former CEO Arthur Hayes says US President Donald Trump’s tariffs may rattle the global economy in some ways, but that same disruption could be exactly what Bitcoin needs to rally. Global imbalances will be corrected, and the pain papered over with printed money, which is good for BTC, Hayes said in an April 3 X post. His comments come just a day after it was announced that the Trump administration will hit all countries with a 10% tariff starting April 5, with some countries facing even larger rates, such as China facing a 34% tariff, the European Union 20%, and Japan 24%. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:47 Apr 03, 2025
9GAG founder’s new “MemeStrategy” firm will buy Bitcoin for reserves, jailed Bithumb CEO paid $3.5M in salary and bonuses. Asia Express The creator of meme culture pioneer 9GAG is diving headfirst into Bitcoin and blockchain, acquiring a publicly listed Hong Kong company with plans to turn it into a crypto and AI venture. Ray Chan, co-founder of 9GAG, has acquired a controlling stake in Howkingtech International Holdings Limited and plans to convert the company into a Web3 outfit. Chan has proposed renaming the firm to MemeStrategy, a nod to MicroStrategy (now Strategy), which popularized the corporate Bitcoin accumulation playbook. He will serve as chairman and CEO, pending shareholder approval, and several members of the 9GAG team have joined the board. Read more
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