Protocol Village: Sony-Backed Soneium Blockchain Launches Testnet, Peaq Powers Drone Network
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Aug. 22-28.
TuSimple plans to settle federal fraud lawsuit for $189M
While the company continues to deny any wrongdoing, TuSimple has filed to settle its federal fraud case. The post TuSimple plans to settle federal fraud lawsuit for $189M appeared first on FreightWaves.
Crypto Is Now a Non-negotiable for Traditional Banks
Simple “engagement” isn’t enough. Banks need to start experimenting with tokenization and blockchain-powered settlement, or risk getting left behind, says Sygnum Bank’s Lucas...
Advocates at Stand With Crypto Seek to Turn Crypto Enthusiasts Into Swing-State Voters
The group is opening a battleground-states tour with Sen. Sinema in Arizona, then it moves on to Nevada, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania to get out the crypto vote.
American kids are losing fundamental skills—states should address this now before they lose billions in federal funding
Officials have the opportunity to use ESSER funding creatively to support students and families—but only if the states act before the Sept. 30 deadline.
Narrow Boom: The Mismatch of Token Supply and Demand in the Current Cycle
While BTC and Ethereum have made strong comebacks in the last year, much of the rest of the market is still catching up, say Kevin Kelly and Jason Pagoulatos, of Delphi Digita...
Keyboard Cat Meme Coins Go Legit With Official License
Keyboard Cat creator Charlie Schmidt recently united two meme coins under the same banner: a licensing agreement for leveraging the likeness of his famous musical cat. The artist posted a 54-second clip of his cat Fatso playing the piano online 17 years ago. Since then, the video has become enshrined in internet culture, netting 77 million YouTube views and inspiring meme coins on Solana and Coinbase's Ethereum layer-2 network Base. There used to be a sense of confrontation between the two commu...
El Salvador President Admits Bitcoin Adoption Has Fallen Short
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has been an outspoken and strenuous advocate for Bitcoin. While he has long battled with critics, he has now admitted that his Bitcoin experiment has not gone exactly as planned. In an interview with TIME magazine published Thursday, the “world’s coolest dictator”—as Bukele once described himself—conceded that more people in the tiny Central American country could be using the cryptocurrency. “Bitcoin hasn't had the widespread adoption we hoped for,” he said,...
From DeFi Land to the OpenSea: SEC Threatens the Entire Crypto World
As the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) presses forward with efforts to regulate crypto, the agency’s enforcement threats have left a sprawling paper trail across the industry. Whether it’s entities issuing coins or exchanges enabling them to trade, more market participants are waking up to a so-called Wells notice. On Wednesday, that kind of letter boiled to the surface of the NFT space, as the prominent marketplace OpenSea said it had received one too. Before the SEC takes formal...