Month: June 2022

Summary: Ethereum core developers have confirmed that only Goerli and Sepolia Testnets will be maintained after the Merge. The Kiln, Rinkeby, and Ropsten testnets will slowly be retired. Ethereum developers are urged to shift to Goerli and Sepolia. The Goerli testnet’s state is the closest to the Ethereum mainnet. Sepolia is relatively new with a
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On Thursday, crypto derivatives platform dYdX, which is currently built on Ethereum layer 2, announced that it would be moving to a standalone blockchain based on the Cosmos SDK and Tendermint proof-of-stake consensus for its v4 update. The firm cites the Cosmos blockchain’s decentralization and performance as reasons for being a “best fit” for building
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Instagram’s parent company Meta announced Wednesday that it will begin testing NFTs on Instagram Stories using its augmented reality platform SparkAR. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said of the announcement, “We’re expanding our test so more creators around the world can display their NFTs on Instagram.” The company also mentioned in a recent article,  ”Creators and collectors will be able
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The Ontario Securities Commission, or OSC, issued financial penalties against Bybit and Kucoin, claiming violations of securities laws and operating unregistered crypto asset trading platforms. In a Wednesday announcement, the Ontario regulator said it had obtained orders fining Kucoin more than $1.6 million and banning the exchange from participating in the province’s capital markets. In
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Summary: Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin has criticized Bitcoin’s stock-to-flow model by PlanB. Vitalik explains that the stock-to-flow model is not looking good, and financial models that give people false hope deserve all the mockery they get. Mr. Buterin also asked the crypto community to remember all who supported the Bitcoins stock-to-flow model and those who mocked
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Trust Wallet, a major self-custodial cryptocurrency wallet owned by the Binance crypto exchange, has completed a significant integration to enable easier crypto purchases. The Trust Wallet platform has integrated Binance’s official fiat-to-crypto provider Binance Connect, allowing users to purchase more than 200 crypto assets directly from credit or debit cards, the firm announced to Cointelegraph
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What is a play-to-earn crypto game? Distributed technologies including blockchain and nonfungible tokens (NFTs) enable game developers and gamers a more interactive, immersive and incentivized experience than ever before through the new game model advertised by tech enthusiasts and named the play-to-earn (P2E) crypto games model. P2E games, also known as blockchain-based or cryptocurrency games,
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