On Thursday, a federal judge sentenced former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison after he was found guilty on seven charges of wire fraud and […]
SBF sentenced, Worldcoin hit with another ban order and big web3 pre-seed rounds are back
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If you watched certain YouTube videos, investigators demanded your data from Google
In a now unsealed case, federal investigators and a Kentucky court ordered Google to hand over identifying viewer information for a criminal investigation.
Solana blockchain overrun with racist memecoins in latest cryptocurrency trend
The latest trending in cryptocurrency? Racist and antisemitic memecoins on the Solana blockchain.
Solana memecoin hype continues, Backpack’s beta phase was a success and Starbucks axes its NFT program
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Former Grindr exec and a married couple launch Rails with $6.2M round, for its decentralized FTX alternative
Rails, a decentralized crypto exchange, has raised $6.2 million in attempts to fill the void FTX left behind after crashing in 2022, the startup’s co-founder and CEO Satraj […]
TechCrunch Minute: Solana is ushering in a new round of memecoin mania
Blockchain is back and Bitcoin is hot, the Ethereum blockchain seeing price gains, lots of folks are stoked about ETFs. But one less-mainstream blockchain is perhaps making the […]
Ethos Fund closes first fund to invest in founders bridging U.S. and Vietnamese tech ecosystems
Cross-border trading usually occurs in fintech, where companies send money to another country. However, David Yi and Simon Shin are out to apply that concept to the world […]
Starbucks is shutting down its NFT rewards program
Starbucks is leaving the NFT business with the shut down of its beta rewards program.
Bitcoin hits new high, Solana price jumps as memecoins mania rises and Worldcoin faces heat in Spain
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