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Crypto clicker games need real token use cases to be sustainable

As Notcoin and Hamster Kombat continue to amass millions of users, experts question the long-term viability of crypto clicker games.

Web3 clicker games are the newest phenomenon to appear in the crypto world, but their purported ability to generate fast returns has called their sustainability into question.

Also known as crypto idle games, these simple yet addictive games have witnessed monumental financial growth over the past month alone, attracting tens of millions of users while generating substantial buzz worldwide.

Notcoin, a play-to-earn (P2E) game integrated into the Telegram messaging app, has been at the forefront of this revolution, boasting an impressive 40+ million players. Moreover, since May 26, the game’s native Notcoin (NOT) token has seen a staggering 240% increase in its value, with its market capitalization soaring past $2.75 billion at its peak.

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Ripple faces securities suit in Cali over ‘misleading’ statements from 2017

MicroStrategy upsizes latest stock sale to $700M to buy more Bitcoin

MicroStrategy upsizes its convertible senior notes offering to $700 million, earmarking proceeds for Bitcoin purchases and corporate purposes.

American software technology firm MicroStrategy has announced the pricing of a new $700-million debt offering due in 2032, which it will use to purchase more Bitcoin. 

According to an official press release, the notes will be sold in a private offering to qualified institutional buyers under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. The offering has been upsized from the previously announced $500-million aggregate principal amount.

The company will use a portion of the proceeds to continue adding more Bitcoin (BTC) to its corporate treasury. MicroStrategy has acquired 214,400 BTC, with an estimated value of $14 billion to date, according to the latest data submitted in its Q1 2024 financial results.

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Ripple faces securities suit in Cali over ‘misleading’ statements from 2017

Andrew Tate Burns Over $10 Million Received in Meme Coin TOPG

Andrew Tate Burns Over  Million Received in Meme Coin TOPGKnown lifestyle influencer and former kickboxer Andrew Tate has burned TOPG tokens valued at over $10 million after announcing it on social media. Tate received over 580 million TOPG tokens as a donation from an unnamed party, and announced that he would burn it so “everyone else makes money.” After burning the tokens, Tate celebrated […]

Ripple faces securities suit in Cali over ‘misleading’ statements from 2017

Dapper Labs’ $4M settlement reaffirms NBA NFTs aren’t securities: CEO

Dapper Labs has entered a $4 million agreement to settle an investor lawsuit that claimed it sold NBA Top Shot Moments NFTs as unregistered securities.

Dapper Labs’ $4 million settlement agreement to end a class-action lawsuit against the firm reaffirms NBA Top Shot nonfungible tokens (NFTs) are not securities, according to CEO Roham Gharegozlou.

The June 3 New York District Court filing shows Dapper Labs reached a settlement agreement with a class group of investors who had sued the firm in 2021, alleging it sold unregistered securities through its NBA Top Shot Moments NFTs.

In a June 4 X post, Gharegozlou claimed the case’s legal discovery found the NFTs were on “a decentralized public network,” which meant they “are not securities in the same way trading cards are not securities.”

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Ripple faces securities suit in Cali over ‘misleading’ statements from 2017

EOS Network approves new tokenomics, promises ‘new era’

EOS is shifting to a fixed supply of 2.1 billion tokens and introducing halving cycles amid ongoing community skepticism and past regulatory challenges.

The EOS ecosystem has reached a consensus to approve a new tokenomics model, promising a “new era” for EOS tokenholders and developers.

According to an announcement on May 31, EOS will transition from an inflationary token supply with a maximum of 10 billion EOS (EOS) tokens to a fixed supply of 2.1 billion tokens. According to the EOS Network Foundation (ENF), the move would help curb inflation.

In addition, EOS’ fully Diluted Value (FDV) was reduced by 80%, and four-year halving cycles were implemented. Another change is the addition of “high-yield staking rewards” with lockup, although yields were not disclosed.

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Ripple faces securities suit in Cali over ‘misleading’ statements from 2017

Tensions in DeFi industry exposed by LayerZero’s anti-Sybil strategy

LayerZero has identified 800,000 potential Sybil addresses so far, but the process has antagonized some community members.

LayerZero, a cross-chain interoperability protocol, is gearing up for its first token airdrop, but its strategy against token farmers is causing division.

The main concern surrounds LayzerZero’s “anti-Sybil strategy.”

Sybil activity occurs when a group or individual creates multiple wallets to interact with a protocol in the hopes of qualifying for its airdrop multiple times.

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Ripple faces securities suit in Cali over ‘misleading’ statements from 2017

YouTube co-founder backs memecoin based on ‘first cat’ on platform

A cat video filmed 20 years ago by former YouTube chief technology officer Steve Chen is now the basis for a memecoin with a market capitalization of more than $20 million.

Steve Chen, co-founder and former chief technology officer of video-sharing platform YouTube, has been supporting a memecoin project based on one of the first cat videos uploaded to the website in 2005. 

Speaking to Cointelegraph from Taiwan on May 27, Chen, who has an estimated net worth of more than $1 billion, said he had been devoting 80 to 100 hours a week to backing the memecoin Pajamas (PAJAMAS). Based on Chen’s “first-ever cat video uploaded to YouTube” in 2005, the project is available on the Solana blockchain.

“This is my cat, Pajamas, playing and dancing to the tune of Nick Drake,” said the video description, uploaded to YouTube on May 22, 2005.

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Ripple faces securities suit in Cali over ‘misleading’ statements from 2017

Hashing It Out: Navigating the next wave of Web3 with Avail’s Anurag Arjun

On the latest episode of Hashing It Out, Avail’s co-founder explains the need to unify multiple networks in the Web3 space, not just ideologically but through innovation.

In this week’s episode, Hashing It Out dives into the evolving landscape of Web3 and blockchain technology with Anurag Arjun, co-founder of Avail. The discussion covers the unification of the Web3 ecosystem, the rise of rollups, the challenges of fragmentation and the innovations paving the way for mass adoption. 

Arjun discusses the fragmentation of the Web3 ecosystem and Avail’s role in unifying it. He explains that the increasing number of layer-1 and layer-2 blockchains offering innovation can be detrimental to the space due to fragmentation and user confusion. He emphasizes the importance of a modular architecture, where multiple blockchains can operate on top of a secure base layer, sharing the same economic security.

Avail aims to address this fragmentation by providing a scalable and reliable base layer for rollups, enabling the creation of numerous blockchains with different execution environments. Arjun also highlights the significance of data availability and zero-knowledge-proof technology in achieving scalability and solving fragmentation issues. He envisions a future where rollups become the dominant model for blockchains, offering flexibility and reducing the friction for developers to build decentralized applications.

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Ripple faces securities suit in Cali over ‘misleading’ statements from 2017

Pre-token markets can revolutionize interactions with financial instruments: Keyrock report

Keyrock analysts dwelve into the pre-token trading platforms to understand their impact on post-TGE market trends and investor outcomes.

The post Pre-token markets can revolutionize interactions with financial instruments: Keyrock report appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Ripple faces securities suit in Cali over ‘misleading’ statements from 2017

Deutsche Bank joins Singapore’s asset tokenization project

Deutsche Bank joined Singapore’s tokenization project soon after reiterating skepticism about transparency about the world’s largest stablecoin, Tether.

Update May 14, 12:35 UTC: This article has been updated to include quotes from Interop Labs CEO Sergey Gorbunov

Deutsche Bank, a German multinational investment bank, is collaborating with Singapore's central bank on asset tokenization.

Deutsche Bank has joined the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) Project Guardian, which focuses on asset tokenization in wholesale funding markets and decentralized finance (DeFi) applications.

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Ripple faces securities suit in Cali over ‘misleading’ statements from 2017