Month: April 2025

Game Designer: ‘Airdrops Have Been a Double-Edged Sword for Blockchain Gaming’

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Steve Hassenpflug says successful airdrop strategies reward skill-based contributions, include vesting periods, and distribute assets with functional value. These approaches aim to foster long-term loyalty while avoiding inflation and exploitation. Airdrops: Double-Edged Sword for Blockchain Gaming Airdrops have become a staple in the blockchain industry, particularly within the burgeoning gaming sector. Initially hailed as a … Read more

Bitcoin hashrate tops 1 Zetahash in historic first, trackers show

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The Bitcoin network hashrate has topped 1 Zetahash per second (ZH/s) for the first time in Bitcoin’s 16-year history, according to several blockchain data sources. Bitcoin’s hashrate crossed the milestone on April 5 at a peak of 1.025 ZH/s, according to mempool.space data, while BTC Frame data said it hit 1.02 ZH/s a day earlier. … Read more

Memecoin platform Pump.fun brings livestream feature back to 5% of users

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Alon Cohen, co-founder of the Solana-based memecoin launchpad Pump.fun, is set to bring back live streaming on the platform — five months after suspending the feature after several incidents involving harmful content.  Posting on X on April 4, Cohen said the feature has returned with “industry standard moderation systems in place and transparent guidelines.” He … Read more

Tron Founder: First Digital Trust Situation ‘Significantly Worse’ Than FTX

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Tron founder Justin Sun has compared the controversy surrounding First Digital Trust to that of FTX before its collapse but insists the former’s case is “significantly worse.” The FTX Comparison Tron blockchain founder Justin Sun has compared First Digital Trust’s (FDT) situation, following its reported “unauthorized” transfer of $456 million from TUSD’s custodial funds, to … Read more

Bitcoin Drops 7% as Wall Street Futures Slide Before Monday’s Open

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Bitcoin dipped to an intraday low of $77,098, mirroring the downturn in futures markets as the Dow Jones Industrial average plunged more than 1,500 points. Dow Tanks 1,500 Points; Bitcoin Sinks as Economic Anxiety Spreads Between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Sunday, Apr. 6, the digital asset economy contracted by another $50 billion, falling … Read more

Realized Cap vs. Market Cap: Cryptoquant CEO Points to Bitcoin Bear Phase

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Ki Young Ju, the CEO of Cryptoquant, stated this weekend that bitcoin’s bull cycle has concluded, citing a growing divergence between realized cap and market cap as evidence of a bear market. Cryptoquant CEO and Data Suggests Bitcoin’s Bull Cycle Concludes Realized cap, an onchain metric tracking the average cost basis of BTC holdings, reflects … Read more

Latam Insights: Largest Latam Bank Mulls Stablecoin, Brazil Bans Retirement Funds From Investing in Crypto

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Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of the most relevant crypto and economic news from Latin America over the past week. In this week’s edition, Itau reveals it is considering launching its own stablecoin, Brazil bans retirement funds from investing in crypto, and also champions local currency payments as a BRICS member. Largest Bank in … Read more

MyCryptoParadise Crypto Signals Team Called the $19K Bottom and $109K Top – Here’s Their Next Target

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This content is provided by a sponsor. PRESS RELEASE. In a space flooded with thousands of crypto signals groups, finding one that actually gets it right — not once, but twice — feels almost mythical. Yet that’s exactly what the little-known team behind MyCryptoParadise has done. In February 2023, in their Telegram Free Alerts channel, … Read more