The European Union has laid out the first significant powers under its forthcoming Markets in Crypto Assets Law (MiCA), a set of stringent guidelines poised to reshape the cryptocurrency landscape within the 27-nation bloc. The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued a detailed proposal outlining how EU crypto companies should be authorized under…
OnChain Studios, the company behind Cryptoys kid-friendly NFTs, is taking a step forward to ensure safe interactions with its digital products. The firm is set to integrate a child-safe AI chatbot, known as ChatGuardian, into its network to help kids have safe, engaging, and entertaining conversations with their NFT characters. The studio has been developing…
Over the past few years, the music streaming landscape has continued to shift drastically. With the proliferation of Web3 music bringing new interest to the potential of blockchain technology, Web3 services and platforms have found it necessary to evolve — and fast. Still, none seem to have gone as above and beyond to communicate the…
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Cool Cats Group, the Web3 firm behind NFT collection Cool Cats, is joining forces with three gaming publishers: nWay, iCandy—entities within the Animoca Brands ecosystem—and Sync Studios. These collaborations aim to create fresh games featuring the Cool Cats brand and characters. The triad of games is currently under production and set to launch between late…
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York has indicted Shakeeb Ahmed, a computer security engineer based in New York, for defrauding a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange of $9 million. The DEX, operating on the Solana blockchain, remains unnamed in the indictment, but the details mirror the July 2022 Crema Finance hack. Stealing…
Soufiane Oulahyane, a Moroccan national, has been indicted by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York for allegedly creating an OpenSea lookalike to obtain unauthorized access to cryptocurrency and NFTs. The charges revolve around a scheme known as “spoofing,” a form of fraud where the perpetrator creates a lookalike of a…
After two years of development, the Ether project finally launched its much-anticipated mint on June 30 to allowlist members. However, after the project launched its public sale a week later on July 9, the team paused the public mint due to a lack of activity. At the time of writing, less than half of the…
