Argentina’s shocking loss to Saudi Arabia in the opening match of the FIFA World Cup in Qatar has plummeted the price of the Argentine Football Association Fan Token (ARG). It seems that the price of fan tokens, designed for the engagement of football fans, is sensitive to the on-field performance of teams. With the ARG…

Core Scientific, the largest US mining company in terms of computing power, revealed its loss for the first nine months of the year reached over $1.7 billion. The firm posts a $435 million loss in Q3 amid bankruptcy looms.   The Texas-based Bitcoin mining company is one of the hardest hit miners, with low Bitcoin…

Troubled crypto lender Genesis Global Capital has hired specialists from Moelis & Company to consider restructuring options, including a potential bankruptcy, The New York Times reported, citing sources familiar with the matter. The crypto broker hasn’t made any decisions yet as there was still a possibility for the company to avert a bankruptcy filing, the…

Decentralization was and still is the answer, the co-founder of Near Protocol Illia Polosukhin told CoinDesk. The spectacular $32 billion collapse of the FTX exchange and its sister trading firm Alameda Research recently once again has crypto’s detractors gloating in the headlines. In fact, FTX bears no resemblance to most of what the longtime believers…

A Coinbase survey revealed that crypto winter affected investors’ sentiment not as bad as expected. Thus, 58% of investors in the survey expect to increase allocations over the next three years. The 2022 Digital Assets Outlook Survey found that 62% of investors who are currently invested in crypto increased their allocations in the past 12…

The real reason why the FTX failure hits so hard is not that the crypto industry was duped but because it proved that the industry was vulnerable to being duped – Sam Kessler explains on CoinDesk. Depending upon whom you ask, last week’s FTX blowup feels bigger than when Mt. Gox, the original Bitcoin exchange,…

Breaking crypto news from the last week (Nov. 12–18, 2022): Nov. 12: Over $400 million outflow crypto exchange FTX and Alameda wallets. FTX confirmed that there was “unauthorized access” to crypto it is holding following a reported hack. However, Reuters reported that FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried built a “backdoor” to his exchange in an effort…

Grayscale Investments won’t show proof of reserves, citing “security concerns” after Bitcoin and Ether products fall to new all-time lows. Meanwhile, Coinbase testified to the security of Grayscale’s digital assets products held in Coinbase Custody, the WSJ reported. Crypto firms are under pressure now to share information about the health of their reserves after FTX…

Top investment deals across the crypto sector over the last week (Nov. 12–18, 2022): Bankrupt crypto lender Voyager reopens bidding process after FTX’s collapse Bankrupt crypto lender Voyager Digital is ending the deal to sell itself to FTX US after the latter also declared bankruptcy on Friday. Voyager also acknowledged Friday it has a $3…

Twitter’s crypto division head Tess Rinearson has exited her position amid a massive number of both layoffs and employees quitting in the wake of billionaire Elon Musk’s acquisition of the company, Bloomberg reported. It’s unclear how Elon Musk’s takeover and Rinearson’s departure will impact Twitter’s embrace of NFTs. Internal strife and staff reduction have been…