This Week in Coins: Weak Week for Bitcoin and Ethereum—and Worldcoin

It was another slow week for crypto prices as another hike by the Federal Reserve took interest rates to a 22-year-high.

• 2023-07-30
• Sam Altman Mexico City WLD market leaders Vitalik Buterin biometric data Ethereum Maxine Waters

Animoca Brands Invests $30 Million in Crypto Payments Application Hi

In order to perform KYC on its users, hi will soon utilize a Proof of Human Identity solution that helps prevent bots from transacting on its layer 2 network.

• 2023-07-27
• Animoca Brands Sean Rach portfolio companies CoinDesk expansive network Ethereum

Bitcoin Holds Steady After Federal Reserve Raises Rates to 22-Year High

The Federal Reserve today said it would continue to hike interest rates—but Bitcoin and Ethereum did not immediately move.

• 2023-07-27
• United States Federal Reserve Jerome Powell interest rates basis points Ethereum

Week in DeFi: UniswapX Unveiled, Chainlink CCIP and Mantle Mainnet

Uniswap releases DEX aggregator UniswapX offering gas-free swaps, while Chainlink launches the Cross-chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) across multiple chains. Read on to find out more!

• 2023-07-25
• CCIP StarkNet Chainlink Interoperability Protocol DEX Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol Ethereum

Bitcoin Miner Hive Is Using Old Ethereum Rigs and AI to Make Ordinals Art

“We will create generative AI art with our own GPUs, on our own fine-tuned model of Stable Diffusion," the CEO told Decrypt.

• 2023-07-21
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Vitalik Buterin Explains How Ethereum Plans to Make Crypto Wallets as Simple as Email

Account abstraction, which would make it possible to store seed phrases in smart contracts, is "a pretty big deal," he said.

• 2023-07-19
• Ethereum Community Conference Vitalik Buterin email account Ethereum Externally Owned Wallets Ethereum Improvement

Layer-2 DeFi Project Rodeo Finance Hacked for 472 Ethereum

An exploiter was able to run away with roughly $888,000 in Ethereum from Rodeo’s interest-bearing USDC pool.

• 2023-07-11
• Tornado Cash Ethereum

A Fraction of its Former Highs, What's Next for DeFi?

DeFi's salad days are far behind it, and in the wake of Terra's collapse, many are wondering what's next for the future of finance.

• 2023-07-08
• DeFi Ethereum

This Week In Coins: Bitcoin Unmoved, But PoW Classics Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin Moon

Also, this week’s news surfaced doubts about BlackRock’s Bitcoin spot ETF application.

• 2023-07-02
• Bitcoin Cash central bank digital currency Swiss National Bank cryptocurrency Ethereum Bitcoin

FXHASH NFT upgrade to allow users to mint on both Tezos and Eth

FXHASH, the largest non-fungible token (NFT) platform by sales volume on the Tezos blockchain, has announced an upgrade that allows users to choose between Tezos and Ethereum, along with on-chain minting for both networks.

• 2023-06-30
• NFT generative art Ethereum upgrade