Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin would like to see a zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zk-EVM) built on Ethereum’s first layer to speed up the verification process on the underlying blockchain.
Italy's data protection regulator has temporarily blocked the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT and launched an investigation into alleged violations of data privacy rules.
Cryptocurrency hackers and scammers stole $452 million in the first quarter of 2023, according to a report published by antivirus and app provider De.Fi. But that's both good news and bad news, as losses are down from $1.3 billion in the first quarter of 2022.
The National Futures Association (NFA) the self-regulatory organization for the U.S. derivatives markets has issued a new compliance rule to address member conduct.
The dramatic collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX in November 2022 has not moved Bermuda away from accommodating cryptocurrency companies, the head of the government of the British Islands said in an interview with Bloomberg News.
Contradicting the Growing Global Bitcoin, Adoption, physical ATMs dedicated to fiat-to-crypto conversions is declining. In March alone, 3,627 cryptocurrency ATMs were removed from the network, reducing the total number of ATMs to 33,727.
Funding for decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) is growing rapidly and just passed a major milestone, according to DeepDAO. According to data from The DAO Data Platform, the total assets of all decentralized autonomous organizations hit a record $25.1 billion on March 31.
Developers can now fork the Uniswap v3 protocol, as its Business Source License (BSL) expired on April 1, shows protocol documentation. Expiration is a highly anticipated event in the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, enabling developers to deploy their own decentralized exchanges (DEX).
In a March 30 blog post, the Avalanche Foundation announced the launch of Avaissance, a program to support digital artists and foster the growth of Avalanche's non-fungible token (NFT) ecosystem.
U.S. regulators have a new target: Binance. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has sued the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume for regulatory violations.
A South Korean district court has rejected prosecutors' request for an arrest warrant for Terraform Labs co-founder Shin Hyun-Seong, also known as Daniel Shin.
The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) officially announced the launch of its Office of Financial Technology on March 30. The new office will broaden the OCC's technology focus and help it keep pace with rapid developments in the banking industry, it said.
Investment bank Citi is betting that blockchain-based tokenization of real-world assets will be the next "killer use case" in crypto, predicting a market size of $4 trillion to $5 trillion by 2030.
According to Japanese news outlet NHK, the Japanese Ministry of Finance plans to form an expert group in April to explore the feasibility of introducing a digital yen.
