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Moody’s Senior Director Yiannis Giokas said adoption accelerated this year, despite many destabilizing trends.

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Beyond BONK: Solana Saga owners can now claim multiple token airdrops and other perks, with more in the works.

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Coinbase is now registered as a Virtual Assets Service Provider in France, while Circle has obtained a conditional registration in the country.

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The new model promises better enhancers, upscalers, prompt following, and text generation capabilities. Stricter censorship, too.

The group didn’t say what it would do with its DAO but emphasized its potential to facilitate decision-making.

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The Ethereum “Dencun’" upgrade will be implemented on Goerli testnet on Jan. 17, followed by Sepolia and Holesky testnets in the following weeks.

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The freeze stops 3AC co-founders Su Zhu and Kyle Davies, along with Davies’ wife, Kelly Chen, from accessing the funds in question.

The third-largest crypto exchange has said it wants to become regulated in countries with clear policies for the industry while it argues with the Securities and Exchange Commission for bespoke rules in the U.S.

Diana Mondino announced the news on X (formerly Twitter) on Dec. 21 following a decree by the Argentinian government.

The pace of real world asset tokenization picked up steadily in 2023. That’s likely to increase next year, with Ethereum well placed to benefit, says Cristiano Ventricelli, of Moody’s.

Frenzied trading on meme coins like BONK and Dogwifhat have helped push activity on Solana’s decentralized exchanges to the top

Advisors now have a better – but still nascent – array of investment options to help avoid the pitfalls of early-adopter risk and exploit a generational opportunity in 2024.

Bitcoin and Ethereum are mostly flat today but, Solana (SOL) and tokens that run on its network continue to rise in price.

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The SEC charged Terraform Labs and its co-founder Do Kwon with allegedly “orchestrating a multi-billion dollar crypto asset securities fraud” in February.

"The global settlement removes key hurdles to our anticipated emergence from Chapter 11 in January," wrote Core Scientific CEO Adam Sullivan.

Interoperablility between in-game NFTs would enable new titles to create a user acquisition funnel from established games, said Robby Yung.

Developers also penciled in the end of February as a soft target for the upgrade to hit the main Ethereum blockchain.

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France has been encouraging crypto companies to set up shop within its borders and take advantage of the clearer industry regulation than in the U.S.

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Prometheum Inc., with the latest regulatory notch on its belt, is about to finally test whether a viable crypto platform can operate entirely within U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations.

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The decision to launch Wallet Wars, a Web3 iteration of the 1970s arcade game Space Invaders, was taken by a vote of Balthazar DAO, not a management committe.

The MoonPay Checkout widget enables quick and easy NFT buying with credit and debit cards, along with multi-mint support and more.

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Ethan Sun, CEO of MyShell, is bullish on the growing artificial intelligence creator economy and believes it will be a major driver of Web3 and AI collaborations in the future.

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The latest price moves in bitcoin [BTC] and crypto markets in context for Dec. 21, 2023. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

UAE’s Financial Services Regulatory Authority has updated its AML and sanctions rules with new elements related to digital assets.

A BTC price correction is "less likely" going into the ETF decision, but such an event would be healthy for Bitcoin overall, analysis says.

Cathie Wood's investment firm also sold GBTC stock while increasing its holdings of Block.

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According to the survey, over 50% of federal agencies currently use blockchain analytics tools, but only 11% of state agencies do.

Out of 35 countries analyzed by PwC, only six jurisdictions had stablecoin regulations in place in 2023, including Switzerland and Japan.

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What to watch for in 2024, according to market analysts.