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El Salvador’s National Bitcoin Office says it's already received “many dozens of applications” for the country’s new Freedom visa.

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Binance, Binance.US and Changpeng Zhao argued that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission did not meet the requirements of the "Howey Test" in its suit against the two companies and their founder in a new filing Tuesday.

The suit was served via an alternate method, as process servers were unsuccessful in contacting Richard Heart in person for months.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump has embraced a popular digital fashion trend in his latest NFT collection. What's next?

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Size isn’t everything in artificial intelligence language models, as Redmond’s latest release stands up to challengers 25 times its size.

BlackRock said the new ETF model offers "superior resistance” to market manipulation — something the SEC has long used as a reason to reject spot Bitcoin ETFs.

Web3 gaming has remained unfazed by the bear season. But how does the expected bull run impact interest in blockchain-based games?

The FIFA+ Collect platform will continue to launch NFTs on Algorand, but the soccer giant is also expanding to Polygon via drops on OpenSea.

Fresh from a fundraising round at a $2 billion valuation, the French startup tout its LLM's strengths against established rival OpenAI.

After raising millions from crypto investors, the Immortal Game chess platform will no longer support its token or "play-to-earn" elements.

Bitcoin bulls expectations of $50,000 and higher remain feasible according to BTC futures and options markets.

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Bitcoin remained steady around $41,000 after Monday's dramatic flush.

In Europe, the environmental footprint of banknotes is minuscule compared to crypto’s, but crypto has advantages of its own.

Decrypt is merging with Rug Radio with plans to change the way “crypto media” is done. You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers.

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Sony has said it's investigating the breach after a hacking group reportedly stole data about employees and the upcoming Wolverine game.

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Avalanche’s market cap has grown by 340% since October, and AVAX price has followed.

Two words: Cyborg Trump. Former U.S. President Donald Trump goes back to the well on NFTs, and prices are falling yet again.

"Never surrender!" the former U.S. President wrote.

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The cases included investigations into the Silk Road marketplace, OneCoin, Oyster Protocol founder “Bruno Block,” and a money laundering scheme using Bitcoin kiosks.

Democratic lawmakers signed on to sponsor the Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act. The bill is bad for crypto in the U.S., even if it never gets through Congress.

The man who had the most infamous firing and re-hiring in corporate history shaped a juggernaut of a new global industry.

An SEC memo shares new details of a late November meeting the Commission held with BlackRock to discuss the asset manager's pending Bitcoin ETF application.

The producer of the S&P 500 assessed eight stablecoins. Tether received the second-lowest rating.

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Crypto exchange KuCoin will offer users $16.7 million in refunds, and will owe a further $5.3 million to the Office of the Attorney General.

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Defendants David Gilbert Saffron and Vincent Anthony Mazzotta Jr. allegedly solicited users’ deposits for investment and used them for lavish personal expenditures.

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Conic Finance was hacked in July draining roughly $3.6 million worth of ether from the protocol.

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Celestia's native TIA token jumped to a record high of $12.35 on Tuesday as holders attempt to farm a series of Celestia-based token airdrops.

The Terraform Labs co-founder had been awaiting extradition to either the U.S. or South Korea after serving a prison sentence in Montenegro for using falsified travel documents.

Celestia will become an option for data availability within the Polygon CDK software.