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NEAR developers to get seamless Web3 app deployment with Pocket Network
Pocket Network (POKT), a relay infrastructure middleware protocol, announced a service integration to improve the network bandwidth of NEAR blockchain while enabling faster deployment times for Web3 developers.According to Pocket Network,…
First Mover Asia: BitMEX Saga Leaves Lingering Regulatory Questions, Bitcoin Falls
Arthur Hayes and his BitMEX co-founders must each pay a $10 million fine, but contesting the case against them might have clarified which financial regulatory agency should have primary oversight of cryptocurrencies; a tough weekend for…
Hawaii Senate committees favor task force to regulate crypto, blockchain
Two committees of the Hawaii State Legislature — Commerce and Consumer Protection (CPN) and Ways and Means (WAM) — unanimously approved the launch of a specialized task force to explore the use and regulation of the crypto ecosystem.In a…
Football League Releases New Collection on Polygon
A representative of the league told CoinDesk it has given out more than 500,000 NFTs tied to ticket purchases since the marketplace’s release. Of those 500,000, around 210,000 were directly interacted with by their owner, a 42% figure the…
Ethereum price ‘bear flag’ could sink ETH to $2K after 20% decline in three weeks
Ethereum's native token Ether (ETH) has dropped by nearly 20% in the last three weeks, hitting monthly lows near $2,900 on April 19. But despite rebounding above $3,000 since, technicals suggest more downside is possible in the near term,…
NFT Marketplace Gem.xyz Ousts Developer Over ‘Pattern of Sexual Misconduct’
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Bitcoin retail FOMO spikes most since 2017 but BTC price may still be ‘doomed’ — analyst
Bitcoin (BTC) is seeing what looks like panic buying by retail investors, fresh data shows — but all might not be as it seems.In a tweet on April 4, William Clemente, lead insights analyst at Blockware, revealed a large spike in the BTC…
Ex-Exec Says Liquid Global Scapegoated Her in $90M Crypto Hack
Marisa McKnight, Liquid Global’s former head of product and marketing in Japan, where the company is based, claims that she “was simply being used as a scapegoat for the hack” of the exchange disclosed on Aug. 19, 2021. The company claimed…
How to avoid development hell
Cointelegraph is following the development of an entirely new blockchain from inception to mainnet and beyond through its series, Inside the Blockchain Developer’s Mind, written by Andrew Levine of Koinos Group.We recently released the…
A Taipei Executive Believes GameFi Can Fix Gaming’s Creative Drought; Bitcoin, Ether Are Flat in…
At one point bitcoin was trading at about $39,000, slightly up over the previous 24 hours. Ether was selling at just over $2,550, off slightly over the same period. Other major cryptos in the CoinDesk top 20 by market capitalization also…