In a crucial move to combat criminal activities both on the darknet and associated with cryptocurrencies, several U.S. federal enforcement agencies have joined forces to establish the Darknet Marketplace and Digital Currency Crimes Task Force. The announcement was made public on June 20, indicating an intensifying focus on crimes, including drug trafficking, money laundering, child…
Things are once again heating within the Yuga Labs NFT ecosystem — and this time, it all has to do with HV-MTL. Launched in March 2023, the Bored Ape-adjacent NFT collection has already gained significant traction in Web3 and is about to undergo a major evolution. Billed as one of the “final” stops in the…
Binance, one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges, is seeking to make a major upgrade to its Bitcoin infrastructure. After developer and Taproot Wizard founder Udi Wertheimer reported finding “Binance nodes” on the Lightning Network on June 16, the exchange giant has now revealed its intention to integrate Lightning, a layer two scalability solution built…
Bitcoin Ordinal Inscriptions have significantly impacted the Web3 space since the Ordinals protocol was introduced in January 2023. Millions upon millions of Inscriptions have been minted, inspiring established projects to expand from Ethereum and Solana to Bitcoin. Ordinals also seem to have inspired Ethscriptions — a recently launched (and quickly adopted) protocol that enables the…
Renowned auction house Christie’s is dipping its toes into the weird wide world of Web3 yet again with another NFT-focused auction. Titled Cartography of the Soul, the curated selection — in partnership with collectors hub 1OF1 — aims to support the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), a non-profit organization dedicated to researching and promoting…
Companies in the Web3 space are increasingly looking to incorporate artificial intelligence with blockchain-related technologies. On June 19, Etherscan, the popular Ethereum block explorer, took a significant step in that direction when it announced the integration of OpenAI’s ChatGPT into its suite of tools. The move is aimed at enhancing the understanding and interpretation of…
The much-awaited ApeCoin election commenced its first day of voting on Thursday, June 15, at 6 p.m. EST. The election has captured heightened attention and has been amplified by the many daily Twitter spaces on the topic. This intense interest stems not just from Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) and Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC)…
Let’s face it: The NFT space moves really fast. Considering how quickly things can change in the metaverse, a week in NFTs might as well be a month IRL. Don’t get us wrong — the more people onboarded into the space, the merrier. But because of the constant influx of great art and ideas, it’s…
Today, well-known NFT trader and crypto figure Jeffrey Huang, who goes by the Web3 pseudonym Machi Big Brother, announced the filing of a lawsuit against on-chain internet sleuth ZachXBT. Huang accused the latter of “publishing and maliciously promoting an article that falsely presented [Huang] as a criminal that had embezzled millions of dollars of cryptocurrency…
