From Bitcoin Ordinals to Recursive Inscriptions and now Bitmaps, if it seems like the Bitcoin news is coming at you too fast, we got you covered. A new theory, called Bitmap, has introduced an innovative approach that could link Bitcoin with the metaverse. Announced on June 13, the concept was created by Bitoshi Blockamoto, a play…
On June 21, the NFT marketplace Zora announced the launch of Zora Network, a new layer 2 blockchain solution meant to provide improved digital infrastructure to the artists and brands that have used their platform in the past. The network, which is supported by over 35 Web3 entities — including Sound.XYZ, Rainbow Wallet, and PleasrDAO —…
As part of a truly unusual recruitment drive, the German Intelligence Agency, Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), has launched an NFT collection called Dogs of BND. The initiative aims to attract tech-savvy individuals adept in blockchain technology and NFTs to aid in combating cybercrime. Inspired by the agency’s Pullach branch service dogs, Inka and Alex, the collection comprises…
Artists who use AI tools like Stable Diffusion and Midjourney often catch flack for producing work that is somehow cold, unfeeling, or lacking a distinctly “human” touch. The great irony buried just beneath the surface of this critique is twofold; first in that it glosses over the necessarily collaborative nature of such tools. But the…
Nouns DAO has funded its first feature-length animated film, The Rise of Blus: A Nouns Movie, which features popular NFT characters from the Nouns community. This marks the first-ever animated movie to be funded by a DAO. The film is produced by Atrium, an animation studio and network of independent artists and creators who have…
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…
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…
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…
