Fri, February 21

Security Breach Hits Fantom Foundation; Resulting in $657,000 Theft

The Fantom Foundation is dealing with the fallout of a security breach that affected its blockchain infrastructure. The operation of the organization was disrupted because hackers used a zero-day flaw in Google Chrome. This is just one of several security incidents this month that has shaken confidence in the blockchain

October 17, 2023 1 min read

Flare Teams Up With Web3Auth to Redefine Web3 Apps Login Experience

A new cooperation between Web3Auth, the top wallet-as-a-service (WaaS) infrastructure provider, and blockchain for data, Flare, has been revealed. This will make it easier for users to access Web3 applications and services using their email and social media login credentials. The dependency on seed phrases for establishing or using a

October 17, 2023 1 min read

Staked Bone ShibaSwap (BONE) Records an All-Time High (ATH)

Bone ShibaSwap (BONE), has hit an ATH on the Shibarium layer-2 scaling solution, signaling the cryptocurrency’s promising future. Shibarium’s validator tracker shows that the number of staked BONE tokens has reached 26,020,173.6431. This remarkable staking number was fueled by the increasing number of validators that have signed up for the

October 15, 2023 1 min read

Sega’s Co-COO Expresses Optimism in Blockchain Gaming and NFTs

Shuji Utsumi, Sega’s Co-COO, recently expressed optimism in blockchain gaming and the potential role NFTs may play in the future of video games, despite having told Bloomberg a few months before that he finds play-to-earn games to be “boring.” Utsumi made the remarks in an interview that was first published

October 15, 2023 1 min read

MetaMask App Briefly Removed; Then Reinstated on Apple App Store

Self-custodial wallet MetaMask seems to have been removed from the Apple App Store and reinstated shortly after. The app could not be downloaded directly from anywhere, including the MetaMask download website for a brief while. No one has provided a reason why the cryptocurrency wallet was taken down from the

October 14, 2023 1 min read

Flare All Set To Burn 2.1 Billion FLR Tokens To Boost Ecosystem Health

Flare, a data-focused blockchain, has said that it would burn 2.1 billion FLR tokens to promote ecosystem health. A permanent removal of more than 2% of FLR’s whole supply would prevent the dilution of community token holdings and boost the incentives for new users to join the network.  Early supporters of Flare

October 13, 2023 2 mins read

io.net Unveils Pioneering Decentralized GPU Network Empowering AI

Building the world’s largest Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network (DePIN) for AI is what Decentralized cloud service io.net has declared as its ultimate objective. Io.net seeks to address the lack of GPUs for AI processing by obtaining one million GPUs from independent suppliers of computing resources. In the process, it will create the first

October 11, 2023 2 mins read

Web3 Gaming Gets Major Boost as Immutable Teams Up With AWS

With the growth of Amazon Web Services’ startup accelerator programs, the Web3 gaming platform Immutable has teamed with AWS to increase its choices for game makers. In a blog post published on October 10th, Immutable announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has accepted the company into its ISV (independent software

October 11, 2023 2 mins read

Flare Integrates With Subsquid to Boost Open-source Accessibility to Blockchain Data

Today, Flare, a blockchain for data, revealed that Subsquid, a worldwide network that offers free, quick, and decentralized data access to developers and the apps they create, has incorporated Flare. Developers using the Subsquid network may now access historical data on the Flare blockchain thanks to the integration. With an

October 10, 2023 2 mins read