Vitalik Buterin, a co-founder of the world’s largest smart contract platform Ethereum, has criticized “existing corporate attempts to intentionally create the metaverse,” in a series of Sunday tweets primarily aimed at Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms. Facebook’s pivot towards the technology under the Meta Platforms rebranding is destined to “misfire” said Buterin, due to a lack…

Dynamic NFTs, also known as Living NFTs, use smart contracts to change based on external data sources. Here’s how they work – writes Robert Stevens on Decrypt. Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, are unique digital assets that exist as a permanent record on blockchain. But if you thought that meant they were static and unchanging, think…

Breaking crypto news from the last week (July 23 – 29, 2022): July 23: Moonbeam, a smart contract parachain on Polkadot, announced a partnership with Cosmos-based decentralized exchange Osmosis to enable cross-chain token swaps between the Polkadot and Cosmos ecosystems. July 25: Digital asset exchange Bitfinex and Tether, the project behind the troubled USDT stablecoin,…

A panel of crypto industry experts expects Dogecoin (DOGE) to completely lose its value. Dogecoin “was a meme coin that shouldn’t have really gotten to this point,” experts said, blaming Tesla CEO Elon Musk for the popularity of the meme cryptocurrency. On July 27, price comparison portal Finder updated its Dogecoin (DOGE) price predictions. The…