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Four years after dropping out from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Suji Yan pinned a tweet to his profile in an unlikely moment of triumph.The tweet was for the Web3 Drop Out Scholarship, an effort Yan founded that offers $50,000 to people who leave big companies or

The crypto crash was foreseeable, Custodia Bank CEO Caitlin Long said on CoinDesk TV’s “All About Bitcoin.”The signs of leveraging bitcoin and cryptocurrencies have been around since 2018, Long said Thursday, and while she wishes the lesson of leveraging digital

Have you been thinking about NFT gaming? Maybe you've played a few games and are interested in learning more. Or perhaps you're enjoying NFT gaming and want to find a way to turn it into an additional...

When I meet Daniella Loftus at an Instagram-friendly coffee shop in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood during the middle of the massive NFT.NYC conference, she lets me know first that she’s not drinking this week. “I’m not here to party,” she says.Ins

Conflicting reports Friday suggest that crypto-lender (read: unlicensed bank) BlockFi is on the verge of a distressed sale. One report, which BlockFi leadership has denied, claimed the price could be a disastrous $25 million. That would be a drawdown of more than 99% from the $1.

In the world of NFT gaming, you can use different cryptocurrencies to get started, earn currencies and purchase or sell NFTs. Here are some of the best on Solana.

The Web3 community is, at heart, rooted in profound optimism. The increasing ubiquity of this technology makes it possible to envision a world where everyone is equipped to both survive and thrive.Essentially, Web3 has become a Schelling Point for the hopeful.

It's nice to escape in a good game once in a while. NFT gaming can satisfy that urge. Best of all, many of these games can allow you to earn NFTs or game coins.

Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto exchange FTX, which has emerged as the savior of all things battered in this crypto winter, is reportedly about to close a deal to acquire embattled BlockFi, to which it had...

As the dominoes fall (or wobble) in the wave of financial contagion sweeping the crypto industry, one of the starkest lessons is that no matter the potential of a new technology, you can’t beat the leverage cycle.It’s a lesson investors in traditional finance have rep

To buy the dip or not to buy the dip? This is the question.

The decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) is emerging as Web3’s answer to the traditional LLC or C-corp.According to one report, the number of new DAO governance proposals, which codify a company's organizational and operational structure, has risen eightfold in the p

Crypto, as big as it once was, often feels like a family affair – and sometimes that’s literally true. Natalia Ameline is the mother of Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin, but she may be better known for her personal contributions to the crypto industry.She’s the

While we have entered a crypto winter, not everyone sees this as doom and gloom for the ecosystem. Several experts and advisors offer a more nuanced vision of the industry and its prospects, with one...

Mentioning the metaverse to most people my age will often elicit a bemused expression and the statement they have no idea what the metaverse is. Mentioning that a former tax partner and current partner emeritus is now possibly the first “chief metaverse officer” in th

In what many see as a further blow to the crypto industry, and after several months of delay, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) denied Grayscale Investments' request to convert its...

While we have entered a crypto winter, not everyone sees this as doom and gloom for the ecosystem. Several experts and advisors offer a more nuanced vision of the industry and its prospects, with one...

It shouldn’t be controversial to say that bitcoin (BTC) benefited from the huge money prints the U.S. and other governments made during the coronavirus pandemic. The U.S. monetary supply ballooned in the first two years of the third decade of the 21st century – and so

State financial regulators will implement crypto regulations before the U.S. Congress does, Jarrod Loadholt, a partner at Ice Miller Public Affairs Group, told CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover."Rather than waiting on the federal government to codify rules, states could move

With the news that a spot bitcoin ETF is set to land in Europe this summer, European investors will have unprecedented access to BTC on traditional markets.