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Bitcoin Cash emerged as an offshoot of Bitcoin, but there are key differences. Learn how they compare when it comes to fees, transaction speeds and more.

NFTs are quickly gaining popularity – especially in the online gaming space. Learn how NFTs work in online games and how to cash in on their value. 

Attendees at this week’s Oslo Freedom Forum, a 13-year-old annual gathering for human rights and pro-democracy activists, might have wondered at times if they’d mistakenly wandered into a cryptocurrency conference.Bitcoin developer Jimmy Song’s signature cowboy

Soon enough we'll all be interacting with the metaverse and Web 3 as often as we do with the current iteration of the internet. Yet, unlike Web 2, this next-gen web will feel a little more lifelike.Web 3 has an opportunity to include a “self-sovereign identity layer”

A range of industries have struggled to forge deeper, longer-lasting relationships with audiences in the metaverse. However, with its passionate fan bases and iconic teams and events, the sports sector may have the most success in creating this type of engagement. Metaverse initi

For many observers, the collapse of LUNA and UST was an black eye for cryptocurrency. To Charles Hoskinson, it was a validation of his go-slow approach to developing a blockchain.“If you move too quickly, as we’ve seen with Luna, and we’ve seen with $10.5 billio

​​Friday morning, on-chain analytics firm Nansen released its in-depth report on the trading activity that led to the depegging of the stablecoin terraUSD (UST). There is an immense amount of detail to be unpacked, but Nansen’s most important conclusion is this:

Does your avatar in the metaverse have the same rights and legal protections as you do?Virtual worlds are being built to mirror the physical world. You can attend concerts, visit casinos, meet a friend for coffee and even hang out in a lounge sponsored by your bank. When it comes

A recent study highlighted what many have known to be true since "swipes," "likes" and "reels" began to dominate our attention: Social media and the web can aggravate mental health problems, especially in young people.The latest research echoes the findings of a 2020 National Lib

Satoshi Nakamoto imagined a trustless, transparent financial system without the need for intermediaries like banks mediating everyday transactions. Nakamoto’s philosophy reached its zenith with the emergence of smart contracts and decentralized finance (DeFi). 

Happy Friday readers, David Z. Morris is filling in for Michael Casey today.CoinDesk Editor-in-Chief Kevin Reynolds alerted me this week to a striking Linkedin post by a Coinbase (COIN) staffer. In the post, apparently now deleted, the Coinbaser wrote in part that it’s &ldq

Buying cryptocurrencies like Ether (ETH), the native asset on the Ethereum blockchain, is just about as easy as buying a share of a stock, but buying ETH is just the first step in the process of truly owning and unlocking the potential of the asset.

In 2014, after seeing Satoshi Nakamoto make bitcoin (BTC) a uniquely digital currency, Brooklyn, N.Y.-based artist Kevin McCoy became “obsessive” looking for a way to do the same with artwork.This piece is part of CoinDesk's Metaverse Week

Editor's note: As part of CoinDesk’s “Metaverse Week,” we asked a number of engineers, executives and experts to weigh in on the substantial issues raised by the crypto industry. This roundtable covers how to prevent the metaverse from becoming a nightmare, and

Amid rising interest rates in the U.S. market, asset classes across the board are seeing selling pressure, and cryptocurrencies are no exception.What’s more, events like the collapse of terraUSD’s (UST) stablecoin could be adding to crypto’s recent pullback. How

Amid rising interest rates in the U.S. market, asset classes across the board are seeing selling pressure, and cryptocurrencies are no exception.What’s more, events like the collapse of terraUSD’s (UST) stablecoin could be adding to crypto’s recent pullback, but

Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, the most used blockchain, thinks he found the next big opportunity in crypto. He wants distributed ledgers to help create and manage our identities – both on and offline – using “soulbound tokens” (SBT).In a rec

Want to ensure the metaverse lives up to its promise? That requires listening to and learning from your community, unleashing your imagination, and letting what’s worked, and hasn’t worked, guide us as we create new, immersive experiences.While the metaverse is a term

Wondering about the opportunities and challenges around digital asset adoption for investment advisory firms? Get our insights here.

The Proust Questionnaire – an old-style magazine format popular in the French novelist's day – asks a series of personal, philosophical and prosaic questions that, in theory, present a side of a person not often seen. Here, Alex Masmej, founder of social media platfor