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…
Breaking crypto news from the last week (Nov. 5–11, 2022): Nov. 5: Google Cloud is adding support for the Solana blockchain in BigQuery, to make it easier to access Solana data. It is also working on bringing Solana support to its Blockchain Node Engine. Support for Solana will go live in the first quarter of…
Breaking crypto news from the last week (Oct. 29 – Nov. 4, 2022): Oct. 29: Mike Winkelmann, a digital artist, also known as Beeple, is planning to build his own museum in the US to exhibit digital art, including NFTs. Known for his record-breaking sale of NFT artwork at a Christie’s auction, the artist is…
Breaking crypto news from the last week (Oct. 22 – 28, 2022): Oct. 22: OpenSea revises its NFT rarity ranking protocol OpenRarity, launched after community controversial feedback. Some community members argued that the new rarity ranking protocol disrupts the market-driven rarity structure for some NFT collections. Meanwhile, CoinShares launch its own experimental AI bot to…
Breaking crypto news from the last week (Oct. 15 – 21, 2022): Oct. 15: TRON founder Justin Sun announced a merger between the TRON network and the Heco Chain. In his words, the TRON and BitTorrent chain network will merge with developers from Heco. Sun made this announcement a day after revealing his Huobi tokens…
Breaking crypto news from the last week (Oct. 8 – 14, 2022): Oct. 8: Leon Li Lin, the founder of crypto exchange Huobi Global, is selling his controlling stake to a Hong Kong investment firm, About Capital, according to Huobi’s website. The company said the deal has no impact on Huobi’s core business. Oct. 10:…