NFTs continued to grow beyond their humble Ethereum roots this week, with Magic Eden becoming the first major NFT marketplace to offer Bitcoin-based collectibles on its platform. Web3 gaming was also in the spotlight, as Sony filed a patent that could make NFTs transferable between different games and consoles. Meanwhile, blockchains Immutable and Polygon announced a major partnership aimed at making it easier for developers and game studios to jump into Web3.
Less than a year after Three Arrows Capital imploded along with $2.5 billion of its clients’ money, the hedge fund’s founders Su Zhu and Kyle Davies are back on the scene with what appears, to their credit, to be an impressive bankruptcy exchange, but is it too soon?
DeFi protocols have been hackers’ favorite targets since 2021. Now they’re preying on NFT projects too, a blockchain intelligence firm says.
Terraform Labs founder Kwon was arrested in Montenegro on Thursday for document forgery.
After launching ZkSync Era for developers-only last month, the project took the additional step Friday of opening it to general users. The latest push comes just days ahead of Polygon’s planned rollout on Monday of its own “zero knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine.”
The use of Sign In with Ethereum or EIP-4361 or is expected to provide MetaMask users with a self-custodial alternative to centralized identity providers on web services.
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Treasury curve suggests the widely-anticipated U.S. economic recession is near. Historically, the signal has brought pain to risk assets.
Particle Network has raised $7 million to build a middleware platform to support web3 developers.
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Matter Labs opened its Ethereum Layer 2 network zkSync Era in alpha form to the wider public, becoming the first zkEVM to go live.
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Universal Pictures is marking the release of the new Dracula movie “Renfield” that stars Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage with a web3 game on Aptos blockchain.
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