Based on the precedent set by many crypto projects, including this week’s example with Arbitrum’s airdrop of its ARB token, the speculation over a possible zkSync airdrop isn’t totally unfounded.Source
The biggest threat from the banking crisis triggered by this month’s collapse of Silicon Valley Bank might not lie in the potential for depositors to lose their savings but in the censorship power that massive banks are now accumulating as customers move their money.Source
Ashley Rindsberg – a speaker at CoinDesk’s Consensus festival – argues that the New York Times has a track-record of dangerous misreporting. Is “DeMe” the answer to what skews to the media?Source
U.S. accounting standards may be overhauled to specifically factor in crypto accounting, establishing a fair-value approach that would demand certain digital assets be measured at what they’d go for in the markets, according to a change proposed this week by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB).Source
NFTs continued to grow beyond their humble Ethereum roots this week, with Magic Eden becoming the first major NFT marketplace to offer Bitcoin-based collectibles on its platform. Web3 gaming was also in the spotlight, as Sony filed a patent that could make NFTs transferable between different games and consoles. Meanwhile, blockchains Immutable and Polygon announced […]
Less than a year after Three Arrows Capital imploded along with $2.5 billion of its clients’ money, the hedge fund’s founders Su Zhu and Kyle Davies are back on the scene with what appears, to their credit, to be an impressive bankruptcy exchange, but is it too soon?Source
DeFi protocols have been hackers’ favorite targets since 2021. Now they’re preying on NFT projects too, a blockchain intelligence firm says.Source
Terraform Labs founder Kwon was arrested in Montenegro on Thursday for document forgery.Source
Treasury curve suggests the widely-anticipated U.S. economic recession is near. Historically, the signal has brought pain to risk assets.Source