[photo1]Joel KhaliliAs cryptocurrencies rise and fall, there's one number that just keeps going up. Whenever somebody loses money to a crypto scam or hack, the Grift Counter on Molly White's blog, Web...
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Volvo is back with new details on its forthcoming EX30 electric SUV. This time, the Swedish automaker is talking up the vehicle's carbon footprint, claiming it is smaller "than any Volvo car ever befo...
Joel Khalili"I think it's funny--that's it!" says Ace, an investor in meme-based cryptocurrencies from Toronto, Canada. The point of meme coins, he explains, is that there is no point. It's all one bi...
[photo1]By Mike OrcuttThe pitch sounds like an echo from the distant crypto past, when the blockchain was not only going to fight climate change but also cure cancer. Log on to Minecraft clone OPCraft...
As the crypto market works its way through a downturn, more incoming money and users could help it weather the storm.But right now, it's sometimes challenging for the layperson to get into crypto. Und...
Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence division of Alibaba Group, has partnered with layer-1 blockchain Avalanche, the companies exclusively told TechCrunch ahead of an announcement at...
[photo1]Joel KhaliliSomething needs to be done about crypto. In 2022, billions of dollars were lost to crypto bankruptcies and hundreds of millions more to hacks. The mess has spilled over into tradit...
[photo1]Yaling JiangBefore Covid-19 shut down Guangzhou, authorities in the province in China's subtropical south were preoccupied with another virus: dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease that cause...
Welcome back to Chain Reaction, a podcast that interviews newsmakers in crypto to better understand the tech behind the hype and the people working to build a decentralized future.For this week's epis...
With $830 million in assets under management, Bitkraft Ventures has built a name for backing early- to mid-stage web3 games and other immersive technologies. After eight years of investing mostly in t...
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[photo1]Joel KhaliliOn March 22, Coinbase, one of the world's largest crypto exchanges, was sent a notice by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) warning that the regulator planned to sue, ...
LayerZero Labs, a web3 messaging protocol, has closed a $120 million Series B round, raising its valuation to $3 billion from $1 billion, the company said on Tuesday.Unlike Web 2.0 messaging platforms...
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Ordinals, a Bitcoin-based NFT-like project, has expanded significantly over the past two weeks, but its creator, Casey Rodarmor, said he had no idea it would explode."I thought I was building somethin...
Caldera, a no-code web3 infrastructure platform, raised $9 million across two rounds, its co-founder, Matt Katz, exclusively told TechCrunch.The startup was founded in March 2022 by Katz and Parker Jo...
The NFT market is showing signs of recovery. Trading volumes rose for two months straight, with January scoring the highest volumes since June last year, according to the Dapp Industry Report: Jan...
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For this week's episode, I sat down with Mo Shaikh, co-...
For years, the cryptocurrency economy has been rife with black market sales, theft, ransomware, and money laundering--despite the strange fact that in that economy, practically every trans...