Vitalik Says X Account Hacked Via SIM-Swap
- Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has regained his T-Mobile account, which on Saturday was compromised by hackers and used to take over his X account.
- On 9 September, hackers used a SIM-swap attack to take over Buterin’s X account, and siphon close to $700,000 in crypto by promoting a fake NFT giveaway.
September 12, 2023, 1:33 PM
Ethereum co-founder and Vitalik Buterin speaks during TechCrunch Disrupt. 18 September, 2017, San Francisco, California.Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch
Coinbase Opens Base Blockchain to the Public
- Coinbase’s Base blockchain was made available to the public on Wednesday, featuring over 100 dApps and services as part of its ecosystem.
- In order to show its capabilities and promote its mainnet partners, Base has also launched an event called “Onchain Summer” that will allow users to mint exclusive NFTs on the network.
August 10, 2023, 1:17 PM
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Google Play Store to Allow NFTs in Apps and Games
- The Google Play store has changed its policy on digital assets, and will now allow developers to incorporate NFTs into their apps and games on the platform.
- Publishers will have to follow certain rules, however, such as maintaining transparency regarding the use of NFTs and not allowing gambling in their apps and games.
July 13, 2023, 1:23 PM
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ZachXBT Receives Over $1M in Crypto Donations to Fight Defamation Lawsuit
- Popular blockchain sleuth ZachXBT received over $1 million in token donations from the crypto community a little over a day after his donation wallet address was set up.
- The blockchain investigator became a target of a defamation lawsuit last Friday, when Jeffrey Huang accused ZachXBT of damaging his reputation in a June 2022 article.
June 19, 2023, 8:43 AM
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May 25, 2023
Binance Introduces NFT Loan Tool
- Users of Binance NFT can now use select blue-chip NFT collections as collateral to take out cryptocurrency loans.
- The platform will initially support only loans in ETH, and NFT collections Bored Ape Yacht Club, Mutant Ape Yacht Club, Azuki, and Doodles.
May 9, 2023
Binance’s NFT Marketplace to Add Support for Bitcoin Ordinals
- The Binance NFT marketplace said it will soon expand its multichain ecosystem, and add support for Bitcoin Ordinals, which are also known as Bitcoin NFTs.
- The platform said it will allow users to purchase and trade Ordinals directly from their Binance accounts, bypassing the need to create a separate inscription wallet.
Apr 18, 2023
Nike to Airdrop Early Access “Posters” for OF1 NFT Collection
- Nike will begin airdropping 106,453 “posters” for its “Our Force 1” NFT collection on Tuesday, giving .Swoosh users early access to the virtual sneakers.
- The sale of the NFT collection will begin on 10 May, or 8 May for poster holders, and each digital box will be prices at $19.82, a tribute to the year the Air Force 1 sneaker was first released.
Mar 22, 2023
Magic Eden Launches Bitcoin NFT Marketplace
- Magic Eden’s “fully audited” Bitcoin Ordinal marketplace will only support secondary sales of Bitcoin NFTs, though it is looking into tools to allow for easy mint of such collectibles.
- Royalties will also be unavailable from the start due to the lack of tooling on the Bitcoin network, but the marketplace is “actively looking” into the development of a new royalty standard.
Mar 7, 2023
Yuga Labs’ First Bitcoin NFT Collection Auctioned for $16.5M
- 288 “TwelveFold” NFTs, which are inscribed onto satoshis on the Bitcoin blockchain, were auctioned by Yuga Labs for a total of 735.7 BTC.
- Yuga Labs specified that these NFTs will not have any future utility, or interact with the company’s other Ethereum-based projects.
Feb 23, 2023
Spotify is Testing New “Token-Enabled Playlist” Feature
- Music streaming giant Spotify has launched a new “token-enabled playlist” pilot, which gives holders of specific NFTs access to exclusive content on its platform.
- Participating in the pilot are NFT platforms Overlord, Fluf, Moonbirds, and Kingship, though only Android users in the U.S., U.K., Germany, Australia, and New Zealand will have access to it.