MoonPay Expands Its Web3 Offerings With Nightshift Acquisition

The Alpha: Crypto payments turned Web3 infrastructure company MoonPay has just acquired Web3 creative agency Nightshift, rounding out its suite of services for brands building into Web3, according to a press release shared with nft now.With this latest acquisition, MoonPay believes it will be able to provide a complete set of services to its current…

A Complete Guide to Proof Collective’s Web3 World

We can’t deny it: the concept of identity ⁠— and questioning it ⁠— is and will remain among the most intriguing capabilities as blockchain technology continues its evolution through modern society’s financial and cultural landscapes. Keeping in line with the decentralized and open nature of the Web3, anonymity (or pseudonymity) in the crypto and NFT…

DOJ Accuses Bitzlato Crypto Exchange of Money Laundering, Arrests Founder

The Alpha: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) just announced an “international cryptocurrency enforcement action,” according to a live broadcast on the DOJ’s website. Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco announced that the DOJ arrested Hong Kong-registered crypto exchange Bitzlato founder and majority stakeholder Anatoly Legkodymov in Miami last night, according to a press release.Legkodymov, a…

Masa Finance Brings Soulbound Tokens to Ethereum. Here’s What to Know

To Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin and his cult-like following, Soulbound Tokens (SBTs) are the future. Proposed by Buterin and his fellow authors via a white paper entitled “Decentralized Society: Finding Web3’s Soul,” the vision of SBTs is for a fully decentralized society (DeSoc) to make use of non-transferable identity and reputation tokens. Yet, for most, a…