Last week, crypto educational gaming startup PiP World announced acquired a Roblox stock-trading game called StockRise, which raised some eyebrows. Why would a crypto company buy a user-created game on a platform largely populated by kids and teens? Roblox allows users to create their own games and worlds that anyone can explore and play in. Within the curated “learn and explore” section of the game, StockRise sits as the only financial educational experience. As such, the world has garnered ove...
This Week in Coins: Bitcoin Dips, Ethereum Sits Still as Trump Family Settles In
Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt. It was a quiet week in the crypto sphere. Even so, "quiet" in crypto is still not for the faint of heart. Bitcoin was at one point trading for above $60,000 again on Monday, but things took a turn for the worse and by Thursday it had—seemingly unexplainedly—crashed to as low as $57,787. It rolled into the weekend at $59,131 per coin, a seven-day dip of 2% and more than 8% below this time last month. It still has a long way to go before it gets as hi...
Fed Faces New Risks as It Navigates Both Inflation and Jobs
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The Bored Ape Yacht Club collection topped the NFT market with significant sales.
Bitcoin's Programmability Draws Closer to Reality as Robin Linus Delivers 'BitVM2'
Last October's publication of the "BitVM" paradigm inspired a wave of projects aiming to build layer-2 networks and protocols secured by the largest and oldest blockchain. The...