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There are many NFT crypto scams and many ways hackers seek to profit off the NFT trend. Understanding the most common NFT scams can help you keep your investment safe.

Most Crypto Twitter fights are bouts of sound and fury, signifying nothing but the allure of tribalism and the varieties of mental illness in the human animal. But sometimes a Twitter fight is the tip of a much deeper and more substantive iceberg.We witnessed one of the substanti

Good news for stablecoin users: Stablecoin transparency standards are set to improve.This comes courtesy of the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), which last month issued formal guidance for NYDFS-approved stablecoin issuers, including upgrades to the amount and q

We speak with Simeon Hyman, Global Investment Strategist at ProShares, on how investors can better position their portfolio in the current environment, and which economic indicator may be able to show whether there’s a good chance the economy can make a soft landing.

Crypto exchanges are facing a big change in 2023 — one they can only ignore at their own peril.

With a few rare exceptions, investing in cryptocurrency in 2022 has been a disaster. Even market leaders like Bitcoin and Ethereum have lost more than half of their value, and some smaller cryptos are...

Post-Merge Ethereum will trigger a paradigm shift that’s much more far-reaching than a mere switch from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake. Adopting a modular approach at the infrastructure level may usher in a new breed of stakeholder: the block builder.This article originall

Cryptocurrency might have started out as a Wild West of investing dominated by mavericks, but it's now firmly in the financial mainstream. Institutional investors and big banks treat it as a serious...

There are plenty of alternatives to bitcoin and other big-name cryptocurrencies. If you’re ready to invest in some crypto, consider these affordable options.

Blockchain gaming as a movement has been gaining traction over the past few years. The rising popularity of play-to-earn (P2E) games hasn’t just disrupted the traditional gaming industry but also unlocked a wide range of opportunities for the gaming community.

Decentralized finance (DeFi) has been one of the areas of crypto most affected during the recent market downturn. From the collapse of Anchor and other DeFi protocols in the Terra network to the constant pressure in LIDO and stEth as well as the insolvency of large asset managers

One of the newest areas of technology that has taken the world of cryptocurrency by storm is the metaverse.

Just like the stock market, cryptocurrency has had a wild run in 2022. While much of the news has focused on the devastation in crypto pricing, some cryptos have been trying to reverse the trend -- at...

Bitcoin mining games are primarily for educational and entertainment purposes, though you can earn a little bitcoin, too.

Happy Fourth of July to all who celebrate! Hope you’re lucky enough to have time off. Spend some of it doing something you love.This is the last of a three-part newsletter series about the risks facing crypto right now.

This crypto winter will last up to 18 months and then Bitcoin will take off again, according to a projection by Ric Edelman, founder of Digital Assets Council of Financial Professionals. By the first...

Enough talk about decentralized finance – the decentralization we’re all experiencing is the changing nature of work!Remember when we used to wake up at an ungodly time, shower, get dressed and sit in traffic for two hours so we could perch at a desk and work among ou

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...