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Coinbase launched its own Layer-2 blockchain yesterday, built in collaboration with Optimism in its OP stack. The new Layer-2 blockchain, named Base, will host many of Coinbase’s on-chain products and offer EVMs at low costs to developers. Piggybacking on Recent News Unfortunately, opportunistic bad actors are once again trying to make a quick buck off of the success of other firms. Not even a day after Base was launched, Solidus Labs announced via their Token Sniffer website...

The reality TV star – Kim Kardashian, the boxing legend – Floyd Mayweather, and other celebrities filed a motion to a California federal judge, asking their renewed EMAX lawsuit to be removed.  The magistrates dropped a similar indictment against the defendants in December last year. Urging for a Dismissal Kim Kardashian, Floyd Mayweather, Paul Pierce, Jona Rechnitz, and Giovanni Perone requested the California Central District Court to drop the amended charges, alleging that...

Bitcoin wallet service provider BlueWallet has decided to shut down Lndhub.io, a Lightning Network node on the Bitcoin Network used to store and trade satoshis (sats) – the smallest denomination of the primary cryptocurrency. The Lightning Network is a layer-2 protocol layered on the Bitcoin protocol, used to process micropayments among participating nodes to facilitate faster transactions. BlueWallet is one of the most popular Bitcoin Lightning-enabled wallets on the...

Following the most recent crackdown by the US Securities and Exchange Commission against several crypto companies, Jeremy Allaire opined that the agency is not the best fit to oversee stablecoins in particular. He believes these assets are part of the banking sector, thus, they need to be regulated by another watchdog in the States. The past several weeks saw the US securities regulator going after several locally based crypto firms, starting with Kraken and its staking...

STX – the native token of the Stacks network – has soared by a whopping 160% in the past seven days.  One possible reason behind the significant surge could be the connection between the asset and one of the recent trends in the cryptocurrency space – the Bitcoin NFTs through the Ordinals protocol. The financial services platform – Matrixport – predicted that STX could rally even more in the near future. The primary reason is the rapidly increasing number of newly-minted...

Major Australian gaming firm Immutable slashed 11% of the company’s headcount, stating that the job cut happened in order to ensure cash reserves last for a long time. This is the second time Immutable is reducing its workers after the firm axed the number of its employees in July 2022. Immutable Incurred Losses Worth $56 Million According to the Sydney Morning Herald on Wednesday (Feb. 22, 2023), Immutable co-founder and CEO James Ferguson announced the layoffs in a note...

Tencent Cloud announced strategic collaborations with prominent companies in the crypto industry namely – Ankr, Avalanche, Scroll, and Sui – to support the development of the Web3 ecosystem. According to the official statement by the subsidiary of the Chinese tech giant, the latest move aims to establish close relationships with industry partners to assist developers to accelerate the adoption of Web3. Tencent Fortifying Presence in Web3 Tencent Cloud International’s Senior...

Calls for more transparency in the process of crypto regulation in the U.S. are mounting. The latest to join the trend is the Blockchain Association, with the spate of enforcement action continuing as the Securities and Exchange Commission ramps up its war on crypto. On Feb. 22, Blockchain Association CEO Kristin Smith told Bloomberg that the crackdown has been a “behind closed doors” operation targeting specific companies for certain circumstances. “What we really need is a...

Arbitrum has already been leading the pack in the layer 2 roll-up. However, the daily transactions on the protocol hit 1.14 million on February 21st, surpassing Ethereum mainnet, which recorded 1.05 million. According to the on-chain data on Dune Analytics, this is a new record high for the scaling solution. Since the beginning of the year, daily transactions on the blockchain have been on an uptrend surging by over 273% in less than two months. In comparison, the same metric...

Alex Gladstein – CSO of the Human Rights Foundation – thinks bitcoin symbolizes some of the USA’s values based on the Declaration of Independence: free speech, property rights, and open capital markets. He argued that the primary cryptocurrency could thrive in democracies and struggle in totalitarian countries. ‘It’s Financial Privilege’  In a recent episode of Simply Bitcoin, Alex Gladstein presented himself as a keen advocate of the leading digital asset and pointed out its...