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California DMV also plans on building consumer-facing applications, including digital wallets that hold car title NFTs.
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The collapse of FTX cut SOL's value in half. But the Solana ecosystem has soldiered on, and, according to cofounder Raj Gokal, it’s not looking back.
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@smsunarto
is only 22 years old and is the founder and CEO of Argus Labs. But unlike most in their early twenties, he now has access to a pot of $10 million.
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The California DMV is experimenting with blockchain.
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POV: You're on the
@Nasdaq
MarketSite in Times Square.
Learn more about our iconic magazine cover NFT by trailblazing generative artist and creative coder
@ix_shells
on
@foundation
.
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📢Introducing: Fortune Crypto Crash Course
Learn all of the most important blockchain and cryptocurrency terms and jargon here 👇🏼
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“Backpack is a lot of things,”
@armaniferrante
, founder of Coral, tells Fortune. “But, fundamentally, I view it as a portal into Web3.”
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Grayscale just won the Bitcoin ETF case against the SEC.
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.
@Brett_FTX
is raising:
➡️ one child
➡️ six cats
➡️ five dogs
In between that the president of is doing everything he can to make crypto trading faster and easier.
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🗣️ “This collaboration just really helps ensure that we’re making things just really really accessible to people who want to use this technology but can’t just figure out how,” Mrinal Manohar, cofounder and CEO of
@Casper_Labs
, told
@FortuneMagazine
.
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.
@pplpleasr1
is building a Web3 service that will let filmmakers finance and distribute movies by relying on fans rather than the Hollywood studio system.
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Swan deployed more than $200 million in 2023 building out institutional offerings such as Bitcoin-backed lending.
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.
@rhett
, a digital artist, created a new meme cryptocurrency with only $69. Within a few weeks, its market cap rose to $77 million.
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Mezo, a Bitcoin L2 that lets HODLers earn yield, debuts after a $21 million Series A led by
@PanteraCapital
.
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.
@Hyperlane_xyz
intends to build a platform that provides secure infrastructure that developers can use to create safer interchain applications.
That’s easier said than done, Hyperlane co-founder Jon Kol (
@thePalenimbus
) tells Fortune.
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Stablecoins present a "critical business model opportunity," Circle CEO
@jerallaire
predicted back in 2019.
Fast forward to 2022: Here's how
@circlepay
could win the stablecoin game
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Before joining
@StellarOrg
as CEO,
@DenelleDixon
spent more than a decade at Mozilla and says that she “totally” still uses Firefox—and so do her kids.
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The great crypto crash of 2022 saw $2 trillion in losses.
In this episode of
#LeadershipNext
, Circle CEO and co-founder
@jerallaire
talks about how
@circle
, and the entire crypto industry, is pulling itself out of last year's wreckage.
🎧Listen to the full episode here:…
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Coinbase founder and CEO Brian Armstrong appeared to be throwing shade at Binance and its CEO at a conference on Thursday.
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In Q1 2024, Web3 startups raised just short of $1.9 billion across 346 deals.
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Universal Studios' new NFT experience isn’t just for park visitors.
@moonpay
CEO
@isotowright
says it provides the company with actionable customer data.
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“[Cryptocurrencies] are decentralized Ponzi schemes, and the notion that’s good for anybody is unbelievable."
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon told lawmakers Wednesday that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are “dangerous.”
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“If you [base] your decision-making solely on A.I., it’s very dangerous at this moment."
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Even after Sam Bankman-Fried’s arrest, the crypto industry remains full of men acting like boys.
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Introducing:
@FortuneCrypto
💰
Your go-to place to get the latest on Bitcoin, Ethereum, and all manner of cryptocurrency from Fortune.
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“Web3 tooling has been a collection of silos to date,”
@alexisohanian
told Fortune.
“What
@QuickNode
is doing with [the marketplace] is enabling the entire ecosystem to work in a collective manner.”
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“We’re trying to show how, if you do it right, cryptocurrency lending is not like the Wild West of broken promises,”
@dhruvbansal
, cofounder and chief strategy officer at
@unchainedcom
, told Fortune in an interview.
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A federal judge scolded the SEC for its apparent deception in a crypto case and threatened to sanction the agency.
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.
@QuickNode
is launching a marketplace for blockchain development solutions.
With the new marketplace, developers using QuickNode for blockchain development will no longer have to write their own custom integrations:
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The world’s economy is so bad this week that Bitcoin is outperforming major currencies.
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Over $2 billion in cryptocurrency was stolen from DeFi projects this year.
Countless DeFi platforms have collapsed and other DeFi-focused companies continue to emerge.
Among them is Exponential, which raised $14M to build a new DeFi investment platform:
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The alleged bribe occurred “in or about 2021,” according to the indictment.
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“We don’t need more digital currency…We already have digital currency—it’s called the U.S. dollar.”
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📢Introducing: Fortune Crypto 40
A first-of-its-kind list that draws upon extensive research to recognize the best crypto companies from 8⃣ categories.
Here are the top companies dominating each category. 🧵👇
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“This is one of the biggest financial frauds in American history,” said Damian Williams, U.S. attorney from SDNY.
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How did
@Reddit
defy Crypto Winter and create a $10 million market for customizable avatars?
Hint: Just don’t call them NFTs
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After a month-long trial, the jury reached a verdict after just over four hours of deliberation, finding that Sam Bankman-Fried was guilty on all charges.
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Warren Buffett might not be a fan of crypto—but his granddaughter,
@BuffettNicole
, sure is.
She’s well known in the crypto space as a working artist who makes and sells NFTs of her work and was even on Fortune’s NFTy 50 list:
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Shocking” is a word that aptly describes the rapid fall of Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency empire.
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Meet the Fortune Crypto team:
➡️
@jeffjohnroberts
➡️
@itstaylorlocke
➡️
@marcoquiroz10
➡️
@justindoom
➡️
@leomschwartz
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“Crypto has become the preferred tool for terrorists, for ransomware gangs, for drug dealers, or rogue states that want to launder money.”
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A spokesperson for SBF's parents said that “[t]he majority of this money went to support vaccine research” and “none of the funds benefited Joe and Barbara.”
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📢Introducing: the Fortune Crypto newsletter by
@jeffjohnroberts
Reporting on crypto for a decade, Jeff is also the author of "Kings of Crypto," a ground-breaking book that has been favorably cited by
@nytimes
and
@TheEconomist
.
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In 2018, Buffett said Bitcoin is “probably rat poison squared.”
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Mathew McDermott, head of digital assets for Goldman Sachs, tells Fortune how blockchain tech will produce "a profoundly different financial system."
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Similar to PayPal’s checkout feature at online stores like Etsy and eBay, the integration with MetaMask will let users buy and transfer Ether by logging in into MetaMask, tapping the “buy” button, and logging into PayPal before making a purchase.
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After FTX filed for bankruptcy and left many users without access to their life savings, sales of noncustodial wallets skyrocketed.
That's why Bitcoin storage company
@CasaHODL
is planning to introduce Ethereum “self-custody” options for users in 2023.
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These sort of accounting shenanigans combined with knowing deception translates into federal wire fraud, which can carry a term of 20 years.
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It’s hard to feel bad for the Bored Ape Yacht Club.
💰 For the latest on Bitcoin, Ethereum, and all manner of cryptocurrency, subscribe to our daily
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"I think there’s a very open and shut case for fraud,” Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said at the a16z crypto Founder Summit.
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Apple is getting all the upside of being a bank without all the regulatory misery.
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"For starters, Pepe coin doesn’t do anything."
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Lyft veteran Dor Levi’s smlXL wants to make blockchains more accessible—and a $13.4 million funding round led by a16z should help.
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Just as Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy in 2008 led to the collapse of other big finance players like Washington Mutual, the end of FTX is likely to have a domino effect. But who could get toppled?
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On Thursday, a class action lawsuit was filed accusing a string of celebrities of peddling Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs without making it clear that they had investments in Yuga Labs, the company behind the digital assets.
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HSBC Hong Kong, the biggest bank in the special administrative region of China, is now permitting trades of Bitcoin and Ether ETFs.
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🧵👇5 billionaires who publicly hated crypto then changed their minds:
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After a false start on Tuesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday finally approved spot Bitcoin ETFs.
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Online investment platform
@eToro
announced on Thursday that it’s partnering with Twitter to expand the price data users will see when they search for stocks, financial assets, and crypto on the social media platform.
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The charges could collectively carry a prison sentence of more than a lifetime.
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.
@ProtonMail
, the leading privacy-focused email service, is making its first foray into blockchain technology with Key Transparency, which will allow users to verify email addresses.
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Changpeng Zhao, founder and CEO of Binance predicted the future of the crypto industry back in October 2020 saying that the "majority of crypto projects will not succeed."
Earlier this month, Binance got hacked for more than half a billion dollars.
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YouTube may be coming out with new crypto features on the platform.
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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried agreed to testify in front of the House Financial Services Committee, although there is still uncertainty about whether he will appear before the Senate Banking Committee the following day—under threat of subpoena.
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“The judgment has to adequately reflect the seriousness of the crime, and this was a very serious crime."
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SBF "was not a misguided young man, but a manipulative liar and narcissist who did not give a damn whom he hurt."
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It's "Proof of Steak."
@leomschwartz
set out to find out if there’s a such thing as a 99.95%-free lunch at Chipotle.
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“Dubai will become the crypto capital of the world," predicts Race Capital General Partner
@edithyeung
.
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What’s new in the metaverse?
👉🏼
@MLB
plans to launch a virtual stadium for fans this weekend
👉🏼
@TomBrady
-cofounded Web3 company
@Autograph
is pivoting away from selling NFTs
👉🏼
@Bitcoin
Ordinals surpassed $210 million in trading volume
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“Not everyone is going to have a Stanford Law team behind them.”
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Some crypto bigwigs said the Ethereum merge is a step toward mainstream adoption, but Mark Cuban called it ‘a non-event’.
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In the
#FortuneCrypto
newsletter: The drama over what Elon Musk will or won’t do with Twitter remains at fever pitch—but one voice remains oddly silent: Jack Dorsey, the company’s co-founder and longtime CEO.
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These are the top 10 highest valued crypto startups as of 9/21/2022.
💰Check out all our crypto stories here:
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Anatoly Yakovenko, the founder of
@solana
, sees a long road ahead when it comes to potential mainstream adoption of crypto:
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“Celebrity endorsements don’t mean that an investment product is right for you, or even frankly that it’s legitimate,” said SEC Chair Gary Gensler:
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Crypto platform Anchorage launches Porto, a self-custody wallet for institutions.
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Even in his final hour, Sam Bankman-Fried insisted FTX was a crisis of liquidity—not outright fraud.
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An anonymous sleuth with the name of FatManTerra took to Twitter and helped expose what transpired with Terra and the token's founder, Do Kwon:
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🧵Remember when SBF's penthouse went up for sale?
It is not for sale. The listing was a fake—likely a marketing stunt by a real estate firm.
Scoop by
@FortuneMagazine
reporter
@leomschwartz
on the ground in the Bahamas.
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The world's top crypto exchange just got sued and now Coinbase, Bitcoin, and Ether are all in trouble. Here's what you need to know. 🧵👇
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It took a decade for spot Bitcoin ETFs to be approved. How much longer for options?
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“Accounting is the language of business,” said Warren Buffett. “You have to be as comfortable with that as you are with your own native language to really evaluate businesses.”
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"The media echoing his “run on the bank” explanation is clearly what Bankman-Fried is hoping for as he tries to persuade prosecutors and politicians that he was incompetent and not evil."
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A Donald Trump–themed, MAGA memecoin (TRUMP) has surged more than 700% over the last month, according to CoinGecko data, reaching a market cap of almost $500 million.
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Crypto casino MyPrize is valued at $140 million after its latest raise.
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📢Announcing the Fortune Crypto 40: A ranking to recognize the best companies in crypto
Here's what you need to know🧵👇
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Year-over-year spending on compliance jumped from $158 million to $213 million, the company says.
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“I’m pretty sure I downloaded a version of MetaMask with some sh*t in it,” said Mark Cuban.
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While crypto transactions increased by more than 20% around the world, the Middle East and Northern African region (MENA) saw a gain of more than 45%, led by Turkey.
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Bitcoin just broke $25,000. Is crypto winter over?
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“We allege that Zhao and Binance entities engaged in an extensive web of deception, conflicts of interest, lack of disclosure, and calculated evasion of the law,” said SEC Chair Gary Gensler.
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