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 […]
Sam Bankman-Fried gets 25 years in prison for fraud and money-laundering at FTX
Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder and former CEO of crypto exchange FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, was sentenced to 25 years in prison by Southern District of New […]
Crypto exchange OKX ceases services in India
Crypto exchange OKX is ceasing services for users in India, it said in an email to customers Thursday, advising them to withdraw their funds by April-end. The move […]
TipTop, the new app from Postmates’ founder and CEO, now lets you buy devices with trade-ins and cash
TipTop, the startup that offers instant cash for electronics, is launching TipTop Shop, a way for users to purchase and trade in devices. TipTop Shop builds on the […]
Former web3 gaming founders raise $2.5M for their NFT marketplace to retain users even when there ‘isn’t money to be made’
Even though NFT sales volume is still down 88% from 2022 all time-highs (and down 38% year-to-date), Pallet Exchange is building a new type of NFT marketplace focused […]
Solana’s price rises to $160, highest level since January 2022 as memecoin mania rises
Dogwifhat and politically-inspired tokens of President Biden and Trump also see price spikes Jacquelyn Melinek 7 hours The token behind Solana, a layer-1 blockchain that’s competitive with the […]
Binance launches a crypto perfume and Coachella partners with OpenSea
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Ema, a ‘Universal AI employee’, emerges from stealth with $25M
Generative AI well and truly has a grip on public technology discourse these days. A new startup called Ema out of San Francisco thinks it’s a lot more […]
Bitcoin jumped and Coinbase’s app crashed, while Aptos eyes Hong Kong and Telegram rolls out rewards with TON
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Silence Laboratories, a cryptographic security startup, secures funding
Silence Laboratories, a startup that builds infrastructure using multiparty computation (MPC) to help enterprises keep data private and safe, said it has raised a $4.1 million funding round. Pi Ventures […]