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Animoca Brands' Gamee Token Plunges 60% After Exploit

Social gaming platform Gamee’s token suffered an exploit late Monday evening, with the alleged perpetrator taking 600 million GMEE tokens that were subsequently liquidated for Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies, the token’s reps shared. The GMEE token’s contracts—not user wallets or accounts—were exploited but have since been “secured,” according to the team, which stated that a […]

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Ethereum, Solana Losses Pile Up as Bitcoin Sell-Off Sinks Crypto Market

Bitcoin (BTC) and the wider crypto market are down bad this week. But some of the biggest losers near the top of the market were once recently stars of the show, including Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), and Avalanche (AVAX). In recent weeks, all three of those top 20 cryptocurrencies were making big gains as they

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'Snaky Cat' Game Launches With TOWER Token Rewards on Coinbase's Base

Mobile game developer iCandy Interactive announced Tuesday it has partnered with blockchain gaming company Animoca Brands to launch a new game called Snaky Cat on Base, the layer-2 Ethereum scaling network built by U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase. Inspired by classic Snake games, Snaky Cat is a multiplayer game where players control snake-like cats that grow

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Meet the 2024 United States Artists Writing Fellows.

January 23, 2024, 11:01am Today, Chicago-based arts organization United States Artists announced their 50 2024 USA Fellows, a group that includes six Writing Fellows, each of whom will receive an unrestricted cash award of $50,000, intended to allow each writer “to deepen their respective practices and devote themselves rigorously to the art of writing.” Here are

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'Treeverse' Studio Endless Clouds Picks Immutable zkEVM for Its NFT Games

Game studio Endless Clouds is working with Immutable to launch two of its upcoming games, Treeverse and Capsule Heroes, on Immutable’s anticipated zkEVM blockchain, the firms announced Tuesday. The two titles will offer alpha and beta early access launches and will support the Immutable Passport, Immutable’s single sign-on crypto wallet. Immutable zkEVM is an upcoming

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Trump Vows to Block CBDCs, Says They Allow Governments to 'Take Your Money'

Just in case anyone forgot, former President Donald Trump reiterated that CBDCs (central bank digital currencies) pose a “dangerous threat to freedom,” during a campaign event in New Hampshire. During the speech, he pledged never to allow their creation in the United States if elected. Trump’s remarks echo a growing chorus of concern among some

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Polymer Aims to Unify Ethereum Ecosystem With 'Interoperability Hub'

There’s a new entrant in the already very crowded field of Ethereum layer-2 solutions—and this one wants to be the chain that rules them all. Polymer today announced it has completed a $23 million Series A with investments from top-tier VCs in the crypto space, including Coinbase, Placeholder, and Digital Currency Group. The company plans

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Black Book, Recurrent Enhance EV Values with Deeper Battery Insights

EV batteries are holding up much better than many people expected, but the industry is realizing that the battery condition and resulting expected range are critical variables, said Scott Case, CEO at Recurrent. Photo: Bobit file photo Black Book introduced Jan. 23 the industry’s first electric vehicle (EV) valuations, dubbed Battery Adjusted Values, which incorporate

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Agoria's 'Le Code d’Orsay': Inside the Musée d’Orsay’s First NFT Exhibition

Next month, for the first time in its history, the storied Musée d’Orsay in Paris will showcase original artworks featuring blockchain technology.  Come February, however, the museum—a majestic 19th century railway station on the Seine’s Left Bank, lined with the masterworks of Monet, Manet, and van Gogh—will feature nary a stray CryptoPunk nor animated penguin.

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