Blockchain

MODA DAO is the kind of project that has the potential to change our fundamental assumptions about how the music industry (or any content-based industry) functions. Continue Reading →

Here's a headline from today's tech news: "Ethereum Game Axie Infinity Launches Ronin DEX, SLP Token Spikes 74% -- The Ethereum-based crypto game just added utility to its sidechain with the Katana DEX—and now its tokens are pumping." If you work in brand marketing, technology, media, or finance and you do not understand every word of the announcement above, it's time to level up. Continue Reading →

Apple has been awarded a patent for inventing a way to use AR or VR headsets (glasses) to project images directly onto your retina. Continue Reading →

The metaverse is all the rage right now. Facebook believes so heavily in the metaverse that it plans to rename itself to tie into its metaverse-based future. Shelly Palmer talks with Bianca Peters and Raegan Medgie about what the metaverse is -- and why you should care. Continue Reading →

The interviewer asked, "Is that image real"? There's no way to tell. "What about this video?" It's hard to say. "You can't tell if that's real or fake either." No. Not without analyzing it. "Well, what about the prose? Did a human write this sentence?" It's possible, but it would not surprise me to learn that it was machine generated. "What about the voice in the video?" It's sonically perfect. I'd say 60/40 it's a machine, but I'd need to hear a few more sentences to be sure. "So, what you're saying is that I can't trust my eyes or my ears?" Yes. That's what I'm saying. "Is this the end of truth?" Continue Reading →

Facebook is proposing a new cryptocurrency called Diem. Backed by U.S. Dollars, Euros, and other hard currencies, Diem will be a stablecoin tied to a permissioned blockchain (that one day may become permissionless). Continue Reading →

During an upgrade to the Compound platform, a bug caused the system to transfer close to $90 million in COMP (their cryptocurrency) to random users. In a desperate tweet, Compound’s CEO begged the users to give the money back. He threatened to dox the users. (That’s a slang term for making user identities public or, in this case, reporting them to the IRS.) Then offered a 10 percent reward for “doing the right thing.” Continue Reading →

Zero Contact, a new thriller starring Anthony Hopkins, is set to become the first NFT feature film released on Vuele, which calls itself "the premier direct-to-consumer, feature-length film viewing and distribution platform delivering feature-length films and digital collectible entertainment content as NFTs." Continue Reading →

SparkPool, the second largest Ethereum mining pool, will close its doors by September 30. At this writing, PoolWatch.io says Hangzhou-based SparkPool is responsible for ~122.5 TH/s (roughly 18.5%) of all Ethereum mining. Continue Reading →

China has declared all financial transactions involving cryptocurrencies illegal and is issuing a nationwide ban on cryptocurrency mining. Does this make crypto illegal in China? Not exactly. What does this mean for the crypto markets worldwide? What about the US? How will US crypto be regulated? Are cryptocurrencies considered securities? What about other digital assets? Welcome to the crazy, confused world of crypto regulation. Continue Reading →